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Rane from Kings of Jupiter
Title: ~be love~
Location: Los Angeles, CA
About Me:
Those salty waters will never heal you
A new sun has risen on this uncreated mystery
Lift your breast to its light; let its dazzle reveal you…
~ kings of jupiter ~
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Member Since: Wednesday, September 13 2006 Last Visit: 464 days ago. Profile Viewed: 10571 times (last viewed less than a minute ago)
Los Angeles-based Kings of Jupiter weaves mystical magic, with sitar virtuoso Rane Sevin on sitar and vocals. The fusion of ancient Indian instruments and rock rhythms creates a transcendent, haunting sound.
-Noah Strong, The Beat
Kings of Jupiter's unique blend of east-meets-west makes the music popular worldwide. They've performed in India, Thailand, Tibet, Mexico and Costa Rica. This year, Kings of Jupiter will perform in Annan, Jordan and Tunis, Morocco.
Rane is committed to spreading love with her music, and some of her CD sales go to IHRF, a nonprofit foundation devoted to Indian and Tibetan orphans and tsumani survivors. IHRF is headed by H.H. Pujya Swamiji Chidanand Saraswati Maharaj, who is India's acting spiritual representative to the United Nations.
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Cuts from Kings of Jupiter's first album “Flying Dreams” in the upcoming motion picture “WARM.” Rane also performs on-camera in the film. The cuts are “Cloud of Life,” written to a soldier on the front lines and “Questions,” a finalist in this year's John Lennon Songwriting Contest. For music and upcoming shows by Kings of Jupiter, please go to http://www.myspace.com/kingsofjupiter
Rane's primary instrument is a Vilayat Khan styled sitar, which she has electrified and modified to fit her sound. She studied in India, and is the only sitar player who sings original music while playing. Kings of Jupiter's sound is evocative of Massive Attack, Dead Can Dance, and the Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's collaborations with Eddie Vedder.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
Q: What is that thing?
A: It's called a sitar! Pretty cute, huh?
Q: Is it hard to play?
A: Well, it has 18 strings, with two bridges stacked on top of each other. You have to reach under the top set of strings to play the bottom set. If you want to change keys, you have to move the frets and retune all the strings, and if it's even a little bit out of tune, it sounds like a moose in heat! Also, the only notation for the sitar is in Sanskrit. Other than that, it's pretty much a snap!
Q: Why do you play such a thing?
A: The same reason salmon swim upstream, leap up a waterfall to mate, and then die at the end of the party. God has a bizarre sense of humor, and I'm one of his cosmic chuckles.
Q: Do you sound like Ravi Shankar?
A: Ummm….Ravi Shankar is probably the finest musician in the WORLD. He plays classical Indian ragas in stadiums across the globe. I play rock music in sweaty Hollywood nightclubs. Other than that, we sound identical!
Q: Have you ever met Ravi Shankar?
A: Er…not yet. For some reason, we never get invited to the same parties.
Q: Did you ever meet George Harrison?
A: See my Myspace blog: “My Lunch With George.” My favorite place to write music is on the roof of the house the Beatles built when they were in India. It's in an abandoned ashram in an overgrown jungle, right on the banks of the Ganges. I sit on the roof and play sitar while the mist floats over the river and the monkeys swing in from the jungle. It's heaven. The last time I was there, though, it had been raining for a couple of months, and the vegetation was really high. A girl warned me not to go in, because a jaguar had killed a local goat and was hiding out in there. Of course, I desperately wanted to see a jaguar, but a rare moment of common sense came over me, and I went down to the riverbank instead.
Q: Will you play at my music festival/club/fundraiser?
A: I am so there! Especially if your festival is in some exotic place with semi-dangerous animals and vines to swing from.
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“88SLIDE.” (episode with Rane)
CLICK HERE TO HEAR THE I-TUNES INTERVIEW WITH RANE
For music and upcoming shows by Kings of Jupiter, please go to http://www.myspace.com/kingsofjupiter.
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What makes the beautiful sun…Spill so free from your eyes?
What makes you turn and run…Trade the cure for the fight?
Oh, I remember the feeling…Of having you inside.
What makes a beautiful girl…Fall to her knees and cry?
When does the beautiful child…Cast off his smile in shame?
He takes to the mud like a duck to the water, And who is really to blame?
How could my beautiful father…Push me out in the rain?
He gave me his suitcase and left me to founder…On the shores of the west USA.
Oh, big beautiful baby…You are so dear to me.
Just crawl in my heart like it is your cradle…I'll rock the noise to sleep.
Oh, deep beautiful mystery…The whole world calls your name
The thief, the saint, the unbeliever…We are all the same.
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LIMBO
He shuddered and said,
Let me go home.
I am waste and weary and old.
He shuddered and said,
Let me go home.
The dark sun has seen me and reached out her arms.
A new sun will rise, I swear it will glow
when you send me back to limbo
I stood on the shore when she called from on high
reached out her long arms…from beyond the sky
cradled his fury in shimmering light
his cries tore the oceans and ripped out the night
I ran in confusion, my blood cold with fear
the echoes of fusion ringing my ears
Weep no more, child of the day. The dark sun took him away.
Weep no more, child of the day. The dark sun took him away.
The dark sun laughed at me from on high
Fear not, I shook the death rattle from his bones
Run to the pure waters of true understanding
uncreated worlds are in your hands
A new sun has risen on this lake of tears that feeds history
Those salty waters will never heal you
A new sun has risen on this uncreated mystery
Lift your breast to its light…
Let its dazzle reveal you
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CLOUD OF LIFE
6:06 AM…dark morning rain
taking the next rocket ship…straight outta my brain
pierce the ozone to the other side
look back upon this mess weve made
cloud of life…cloud of strife
all evil is sadness wrapped in disguise
evil is sorrow searching for eyes
life is short, but it's also too long
to run from each other, to stifle the song
And I think it's time…To look into you
Yeah I think it's time…To reach one hand into my heart, hold the other out to you
Wise man once told me the future is known
destiny etched in that great book of stone
if this is so, then what should I do?
do I surrender, what if I refuse?
And I think it's time…to try something new
Yeah I think it's time…To reach one hand into my heart, hold the other out to you
there's a door in the fog…if only we can find it
fear is the parent of cruelty…it's madness now to spawn it
Now that you've made me learn your name…what can I do about it?
Both losers in this bloody game…so look into me
I'll look into you and its all the we can do.
And I think it's time…stanzas of madmen burst into flame
And I think it's time…vengeance grows wings of hope
And I think it's time…that scarred angel lifts these thoughts from our minds
I'll hijack that day & take it on a ride forever
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ANGEL MAN
The diamond delta's rising on…this jailhouse on the run
Tonight I stayed up listening…to the voices in the sun
Oh, come, Angel Man
Come and before me stand
Bear me away on your strong, white horse
Take me to Vrindaban
This paradox I call a heart…I'll never understand
How could I fail to see your love? How could I close my hand?
Oh, come, Angel Man
Come and before me stand
Bear me away on your strong, white horse
Take me to Vrindaban
The sand and flood beneath my feet…to high ground we must hold
The killing floor awaits the deeds…where our love ran cold
The diamond delta's rising on…this jailhouse on the run
Tonight we'll stay up listening…to the voices in the sun 
WISDOM FROM SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR (the saint, not the sitar player!):
LOVE:
-Love is not an emotion, it is your very existence.
-Here are the signs of love. When you love someone, you see nothing wrong with them.
SEVA:
-If you are not having good experiences in meditation, then do more seva you will gain merit and your meditation will be deeper. When you bring some relief or freedom to someone through seva, good vibrations and blessings come to you. 
Seva brings merit; merit allows you to go deep in meditation; meditation brings back your smile.
-When you make service the sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind, and gives you meaning. Be grateful for any opportunity to do seva.
MEDITATION:
-Root out boredom through deep and continued meditation.
-If you are unable to meditate because your mind is chattering too much, just feel that you are a little stupid, and then you will be able to sink deep into meditation.

KARMA:
-When you praise someone, you take on their good karma. When you blame someone, you take on their bad karma
-Whatever you want for others will happen to you.
GRACE:
-Only through grace can the bondage of karma be burnt.
-A devotee will never fall. He cannot fall. There is no chance for it.
-The best…form of worship, is to be happy, to be grateful.
-See a mistake as a mistake, not as “my” or “his” mistake. “My” means guilt; “his” means anger.

DESIRE:
-As long as some desires linger in your mind, your mind cannot be at total rest
-Your concept in the mind that things should be a certain way causes pain in the mind.
-When we are joyful, we don't look for perfection. If you are looking for perfection then you are not at the source of joy.
For more wisdom from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, go to
http://www.artofliving.org/
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“Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received”
- Albert Einstein
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Fun YouTube finds…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nNyXCU3yWc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2v-AkSj260
(The last one is offensive. Don't say I didn't warn you!)

Things Rane Loves
Goals
- to live each moment in love. (a.k.a. -- total enlightment)
- barring that, i wouldn't mind having a baby lemur that never grows up and never has to go to the bathroom.
- Meditate Daily.
- write a book
- help others help themselves
- be here now
