The sound that comes from Jami Sieber’s cello transcends time and space. The first time I paired her otherworldly creations with Gangaji’s voice for one of the earliest episodes of A Conversation with Gangaji it literally gave me chills.
When we–Gangaji, Barbara Denempont, and I–embarked upon the journey to create Finding Home over a year and a half ago, I knew there was likely no better music to weave throughout Gangaji’s descriptions of her most essential shifts.
Jami appears in Episode 3 when Gangaji experienced a plant medicine journey that changed her life. When Gangaji recounts coming across Ramana for the first time, Jami is there to carry her words. The sound of her cello is present throughout Gangaj’s first trip to India to meet Papaji in Episode 4. And in Episode 5, without giving too much away, you will recognize the soul-penetrating sound of Jami’s cello there as well when we hear about Gangaji’s remarkable ‘thunderclap’ moment after returning home from India.
It’s lucky and rare to be able to pursue a sacred project like telling someone’s life story, especially when that person is Gangaji. It’s equally humbling and thrilling to discover, one more time, that just the right people show up when you fully open your heart to what’s in front of you.
Here are a couple of samples of Jami's music from Episode 4:
More About Jami
Jami Sieber is an electric cellist and vocalist whose music reaches inside the soul with compositions that are contemporary, timeless, lush, and powerfully evocative. Sieber’s musical path has traveled from classical to folk to rock/pop. Within her popular band “Rumors of the Big Wave”, she won the Northwest Area Music Association (NAMA) Award for Best Rock Instrumentalist. Since launching her solo career in 1994, she has performed her original compositions around the world, diving into dynamic collaborations with a wide spectrum of dancers, actors, poets, visual artists, improvisers, vocalists, and instrumentalists that span the globe. She has been commissioned to compose for film, theatre, as well as a popular video game. Read More
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