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"Friend of the Heart" refers to Śrī Kalachandji, the big Kṛṣṇa Deity in the Dallas temple where David composed some of these Harinam Kirtan arrangements in 1997. The Holy Name of the Lord has special potency to lift us above the mundane cares of material life and situate us in our natural spiritual condition. This CD is an eclectic mix of traditional Indian devotional music, jazz, rock, blues, funk and symphonic styles. The common thread, though, is devotion to God in His form as Radha-Kṛṣṇa. These are original English songs by David Bruce Hughes. UPC 634479303326

Friend of the Heart	Pop-flavored song I wrote in South Miami Beach in 1999. It's about the many fashionable but foolish young people who thought they were cool but actually had no conception of who or what they really are. It's an upbeat, jazzy setting in the style of BS&T: lots of horns!
Hare Kṛṣṇa Baby	Latin-style maha-mantra tune with a surprise at the end: it turns into a full-on Brasilian street samba, recorded live, with a screaming rock kirtan!
Kalachandji	This is a very romantic Kṛṣṇa kirtan from the Holy Land of Vrndavan. I fell in love with the tune and the scale that it's in. I recorded it very early one morning when I was feeling especially ecstatic; you can hear this in my voice. The melody and countermelodies fit together perfectly. You can also hear Kṛṣṇa calling the gopis by playing His flute on the fifth note...
Mantra Bossa	Setting of the Maha-mantra to a jazzy Bossa Nova tune. I wrote this arrangement of a traditional mantra tune while playing at Kalachandji's Restaurant in Dallas. It was a joke at the time, but now it seems to have a kind of light charm.
Nanda Kumara	Traditional Hindi temple song (bhajan). Nanda kumar means 'the teenage Son of Nanda Maharaja'; in other words, Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupada Pranati	Traditional prayer of obeisance to the Spiritual Master, with an ecstatic, Latin-flavored kirtan at the end.
Rainy Day Mantra	his slow, soft jazz setting of Maha-mantra is exactly what it says. This was a cool, rainy autumn morning in Hilo. The song was a spontaneous jam that expresses my mood on a quiet, slow day. It was recorded in a single take with vocal and piano.
Where Are You Now?	Harinama mantra with full orchestration. This piece is a musical picture of the elephant procession every Wednesday evening in Mayapur. I lived in Mayapur for several years and the procession is one of my most vivid memories. I wrote and recorded the arrangement in Dallas in 1997. It is based on melodies and riffs by my dear friend Visnujana Swami, and is dedicated to him with love.

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