A beautiful holiday gift from Pakistani star Salman Ahmad and Melissa Etheridge- a free download of their new holdia song Ring the Bells.
When Melissa Etheridge and Junoon performed last December at the Nobel Peace prize ceremony in Oslo, we were doing soundchecks before the show at the Oslo Spectrum in Norway. Listening to her sing just from a few feet away, I was blown away by the power of Melissa’s voice and the Unity of vibrations contained in it. She gave me goosebumps. Later that evening Al Gore and the Nobel peace prize gathering of Hollywood stars and moguls, rock stars, King, Queen, Prince, Princess of Norway, politicians, business leaders and environmentalists all agreed with my observation. Melissa and I became friends and musical admirers and in January, this year, she invited me to her home to spend a couple of days in Los Angeles where we talked about many things. Among them, Love and Unity and how they are universal themes running from Rumi to the Beatles.In both East and West it’s poetry and music which unites humanity rather than politics which aims to divide and demonize ‘the other’. Melissa and I also talked about the children of Abraham: Jesus, Moses and Muhammad and their common spirit of brotherhood and sacrifice. We sat with acoustic guitars and out of that intense talking and jamming came RING THE BELLS. Ring The Bells is a cry for Peace and change in a world of war and chaos….
More on the story, and hear and download the song for free at http://www.intent.com/podcasts/2008/12/15/salman-ahmad-and-melissa-etheridge-ring-bells
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