bhakti jazz has been originally founded by piano player gotz tangerding in the late 1970s. born in a small town in bavaria in 1951, tangerding made the move to the new england conservatory of music in boston in 1976 to study composition and piano. before studying in the USA though, he travelled throughout the east with drummer tudolf roth. the west may have satisfied his question of "how?", but the east as the mother of spirituality knows the answer to his "why?". to really know the effect that afghanistan and india had on tangerding and roth, simply listen to glimpses of truth and eastern moods and you get the perfect answer. this is, by the way, bhakti jazz's first 45rpm single release, simply because they have never released anything on this format during their existence. another joyous reason to celebrate this wonderful release.