Mike Tamburo deepens his manifestation as Brother Ong with 2 discs of blissed out shahi baaja explorations."The year was 2011. It had been nearly a year since I had recorded something new that I enjoyed. For Metallica or Madonna this might not seem like a long time, but for me and the output of creativity that I had become accustomed to, this was forever. I had been practicing Kundalini Yoga exercises for creativity for some time (in hindsight I was storing potential energy) and nothing new was wanting to come out of me. It was as if I had fallen into some sort of role - (a Mike Tamburo pit) that I could not get myself out of. Everything I was trying was something I had already done. My wife, in her infinite understanding of me and my inner workings, gifted me a shahi baaja for my 34th birthday and permitted me to forget all I had done before and to recreate myself. Her words surged through me like an electrical current and immediately opened up a new path of creativity for me. I had no notions about the shahi baaja. It was a mystery to me. I returned once again to a space of experimentation, deep listening, focus, pure sound and pure creativity. I was practicing a daily bowing meditation during this recording session. I would bow in reverence to creation for half an hour and then pick up my instrument and the sound and creation just flowed throug