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Rainbow Songbook Collection

The source library behind the songs on this site: 39 independent songbooks gathered from Rainbow Gatherings, singing circles, medicine ceremonies, kirtans and ashrams worldwide. The books passed hand to hand and camp to camp, each one somebody’s labor of love — typed, hand-copied or hand-notated, photocopied and carried on. Each entry below shows a book’s cover, its size, and a short review of what it holds; a few of them preserve the rarest thing of all, staff notation of the melodies. The books are ordered by their share of the Top 100 — the ones that print the most of the core repertoire come first.

Cover of Alli Ruhi - Songs of the Rainbow

Alli Ruhi- Songs of the Rainbow.pdf

69 of the Top 100Rainbow & circle282 pages3.2 MB

One of the largest and best-organized Rainbow collections in the archive: one song per page with lyrics, chord letters and rhythm-slash patterns beneath. It opens with Rumi's "Come, come, whoever you are" and ranges across circle standards, pagan chants (May the Circle Be Open), Andean and Spanish medicine songs (Cuñaq), and a long run of Hindu bhajans and aartis. The clean text layer makes it excellent for searching, and the chord-plus-rhythm format is unusually performance-ready. It appears to be the text twin of the illustrated scan filed as Rainbow songs and prays.pdf, which shares its cover art.

First page of Sound of The Heart

Sound of The Heart.pdf

62 of the Top 100Rainbow & circle330 pages5.8 MB

A 330-page "heart singing" anthology whose preface lays out the most ambitious sectioning in the archive: Rainbow; Tribal (Native American, African, Aborigine, Nyabinghi, European folk, Gypsy, Hebrew, Flower Power, Bhajans); Beija Flor (Portuguese songs of the Amazonas); and Baladi (songs of the Middle East). Chords are given as slash-grid patterns below each song — a system that encodes strum rhythm as well as harmony. The Gypsy and Middle-Eastern sections (Otchi Chyornie, Romani songs transliterated from film soundtracks) cover ground no other book here touches. A major, eclectic source.

Cover of Rainbowsongs 1+2, Ananda's Spiritual Songbook

Rainbow Songs - Mantras, Bahjans & Rainbow Songs (Lyrics, Chords, YT links) Ebook.pdf

59 of the Top 100Rainbow & circle543 pages5.7 MB

"Rainbowsongs 1+2 — Ananda's Spiritual Songbook", the combined ebook edition of Ananda's two rainbowsongs.org volumes and, at over 500 songs, one of the broadest collections on the shelf: Sikh and Sanskrit mantras, bhajans, Hebrew and Christian songs, Taizé chants and the Rainbow circle standards (Above and Below, Circle Around, Earth My Body, Fly Like an Eagle) side by side, with a bilingual English/German preface. Its signature feature is that every song carries a link to a recording through the compiler's own redirect shortlinks, maintained so that when YouTube deletes a video the link is re-pointed rather than left dead — the only book in the archive that solves the dead-link problem structurally. Chords use European spelling (Am written as "a") with //: :// repeat marks; melodies are not notated, but the guaranteed recording per song makes it a strong melody-verification source.

First page of Rainbow AU songs

Rainbow AU songs.pdf

57 of the Top 100Rainbow & circleStaff notationImage-only scan162 pages28.9 MB

The project's primary source. A 162-page scan of the two-volume French-compiled Rainbow songbook the whole melody-reconstruction effort is built on, with a handwritten index using "(p.) et (part)" partition markers and French titles like "Paix amour et lumière" alongside the international repertoire. Its greatest asset is the scarcest resource in the archive: hand-notated staff melodies for circle standards, page after page. It has no text layer, so it must be read by eye, and the booklet imposition clips some pages — but nearly every song page on this site traces back to this book. (A byte-identical copy, formerly filed as rainbow songbook (2).pdf, was consolidated 2026-09-18.)

First page of Rainbow Caravan

Rainbow Caravan.pdf

49 of the Top 100Rainbow & circle225 pages7.3 MB

Compiled by ChuCha Rucha, this is the songbook of the Nomadic Rainbow Caravans: 325+ numbered songs "sung at the countless Rainbow Gatherings around the world since 1972," indexed by language and theme, with chords and English translations for the Spanish material. It is one of the highest-value books for the Core 50 — She's Been Waiting, One Planet Is Turning, May the Circle Be Open and many more appear here — and its closing "Nomads" section (I'm a Nomad) is unique caravan culture found nowhere else. A generous, sprawling, essential collection.

Cover of Rainbow songs and prays

Rainbow songs and prays.pdf

49 of the Top 100Rainbow & circleImage-only scan340 pages34.0 MB

The largest file in the archive: a 340-page illustrated scan opening with the same psychedelic colored-pencil cover as Alli Ruhi- Songs of the Rainbow.pdf — this appears to be the full art-and-layout edition of that collection. Inside, songs are beautifully typeset with small chord letters floated above the syllables, organized into language sections marked by margin icons (the Hebrew section includes Im Betoch Ha'esh and Nuach with translations and singing notes). No text layer, so the searchable Alli Ruhi file is the working copy — but this is the definitive visual edition of the book, and the chord-over-syllable placement is more precise here.

First page of Canciones

Canciones.pdf

46 of the Top 100Medicine & icaros11 pages0.2 MB

An eleven-page cheat sheet that packs a remarkable amount in: alphabetized songs with inline chords, running from medicine standards (Ábrete Corazón, Above and Below) through Nick Barber's Celestial Heart to campfire reggae (Jammin') and What a Wonderful World. There is no title page, index or commentary — it reads like one guitarist's personal setlist compressed for printing. Useful precisely because it is a snapshot of what one circle actually sings, rather than an aspirational anthology. Its true identity surfaced in 2026: this is the "Family Songbook", version 1.1.3, compiled by "almoo" in December 2014 — two earlier revisions (v1.1.2 and an intermediate 1.1.3 draft, differing only in chord corrections) turned up and were consolidated 2026-09-18; this file is the compiler's final revision.

First page of Mantra Sammlung Rafael

Mantra_Sammlung_Rafael.pdf

39 of the Top 100Kirtan & mantra77 pages1.2 MB

Rafael's German mantra collection: 79 pages of chants with capo positions, chords, and — its distinguishing feature — a short German explanation of each mantra's meaning and deity beneath the text. Beyond the Sanskrit core it wanders pleasantly into Hawaiian (He Kehau), Arabic (Mash'Allah) and English territory, including Rainbow standards like Above and Below and the Nahko-style Great Spirit. A good example of the German singing-circle tradition of annotating rather than just transcribing.

Title page of Unilaiva songbook

unilaiva-songbook.pdf

38 of the Top 100Rainbow & circle292 pages9.7 MB

The Finnish "Unilaiva songbook — paths to higher knowledge, By: humankind" (2019 beta, unilaiva.aavalla.net): the most professionally engineered book on the shelf, typeset in LaTeX with a numbered song system, per-song tag metadata, chord symbols set inline at the exact syllable, translations, and a full tag index (fire, circle, Divine Mother, even "chords missing"). Already assessed by the project — chords only, no melodies — it remains the gold standard for structure: its data model is essentially what the songsite's per-song JSON is reinventing. Compiled from Finnish medicine and Rainbow circles.

First page of Rainbow Kirtan chant book

Rainbow Kirtan.pdf

33 of the Top 100Kirtan & mantra32 pages0.5 MB

The "Rainbow Kirtan Bhajan Mantra Heartsong Chant Book" (version 2014-01-12, compiler bkinsey), notable as one of the few explicitly licensed books in the archive — CC BY-NC-SA, stamped on every page. It is lyrics-only but cleverly indexed: an alphabetical contents plus thematic groupings (all the Krishna chants, all the Hanuman chants, Great Spirit songs) and even a word-level index at the back. Already mined by the project — a copy lives in notation-sources — it remains the best quick lookup for whether a chant belongs to the Rainbow kirtan canon.

Cover of Songs of Light, Love and Devotion

Songs-of-Light.pdf

33 of the Top 100Regional & other traditions169 pages5.0 MB

"Songs of Light, Love and Devotion," compiled by Frank Otto (singularica.com), a Berlin singing-circle facilitator, current to 2024 — the newest actively-maintained book on the shelf, complete with links to his Telegram circle-recording channels and an invitation to submit corrections. Songs carry composer credits and capo/chord headers (Lasst uns Erinnern by "Carb — Colourful Tribe"), mixing German originals with the international repertoire, and ending, in true songbook fashion, with a comic German number about Bodo and his digger. Valuable as a living, versioned document of the Berlin scene.

Title page of Spiritual Song Book

song.book.pdf

31 of the Top 100Rainbow & circle20 pages1.0 MB

"Spiritual Song Book — New Age Songs of Devotion" by Daniela Ferdová: a compact Czech-made collection of circle standards (Above and Below, We Are a Circle, We Are Circling, We Are Opening, We Shall Lift Each Other Up) with chords above the lyrics, plus Spanish and reggae-flavored numbers. Its colophon is the best license statement on the shelf: "No rights are reserved. Any spreading of this book is highly recommended," in English and Czech. Small, cheerful, and squarely aimed at the same core repertoire as the project's manifest.

First page of new song book

new song book.pdf

29 of the Top 100Rainbow & circle25 pages1.0 MB

A German-made Rainbow book with the most practical table of contents in the archive: songs are grouped "Good for Foodcircle" and "Good for Magic Hat" — organized by gathering ritual rather than by tradition. The Rainbow section (I Am Here to Release All of My Fears, How Could Anyone, Fire Sacred Fire) is followed by Sanskrit mantras sorted by deity energy with a short explanation of Hinduism, and it closes with the compiler's own songs, including a Chinese poem set to chords. (Its content-identical twin, formerly filed as rainbow medicine songboko.pdf, was removed 2026-09-17.)

Title page of Songbook Flora Spirit-Wind

Songbook Flora.pdf

29 of the Top 100Regional & other traditions110 pages1.4 MB

"Spirit-Wind: Spirit- & Herzenslieder, Medizin-Songs, Mantren" — a German circle book with a numbered index in three language sections. Its German section is the real treasure: twenty original German spirit songs (Frau Holle, Roter Mond überm Silbersee, Kranich-Lied) that exist in no other book on this shelf, alongside the international standards (Above and Below, Circle of Women) and Spanish medicine songs with German translations. A reminder that the European circles are generating their own repertoire, not just translating the American one.

Cover of Icaros

Icaros.pdf

28 of the Top 100Medicine & icaros227 pages5.1 MB

The revised edition (v15.02.07) of Diego Palma's Ayahuasca-Wasi collection, expanded by a dozen songs over the version filed as Ayahuasca-Wasi song book.pdf. Everything that makes the earlier book good is here and slightly better: language-sorted indexes with capo and key for each song, composer attributions, and clean one-song-per-page layout with chord letters beside each line. Between the two, this is the copy to consult; the earlier one is worth keeping only to track how the repertoire evolved.

Cover of Songs from the Heart booklet

Booklet Songs from the Heart - Canciones del Corazon.pdf

27 of the Top 100Rainbow & circle38 pages1.0 MB

A charming DIY booklet by the Finnish traveler-musician Se Misha, complete with printing-and-folding instructions so you can bind your own copy. This 2017 edition of "Las Canciones del Corazones" is the largest, with some 140 songs: circle standards (With These Hands, Kuate Leno Leno), Brazilian Yemanjá songs, Sanskrit chants and a few Finnish touches, with chords listed at line ends in the compiler's own idiosyncratic system. Warm, personal, and clearly assembled from songs actually carried around the road-family circuit. (The two 2014 versions of the book, Spanish Songs.pdf from November, with about a hundred songs, and Canciones del Corrazon - Our Heart Songs.pdf from December, which adds five more under an illustrated cover, were consolidated 2026-09-19 and kept aside with the superseded editions. They hold thirteen songs this edition dropped, among them Madre Ayahuasca, Ojos del Cielo, Suddhossi Buddhossi and covers of Bob Marley, Radiohead and Beirut.)

Cover of Cercles de chants

french song book.pdf

22 of the Top 100Rainbow & circle109 pages4.3 MB

"Cercles de chants, Volume 1" (cerclesdechants.weebly.com) in its "version pour instrumentiste" — a French singing-circle book of about 154 numbered songs with chords. The mix is a faithful picture of a francophone circle: Rainbow standards (The River Is Flowing, We Are Opening Up, We Are One in Harmony), Sikh and Hindu mantras, Yoruba chants (Idé Weré), and genuinely French material (A tous mes frères, Prière pour l'eau) that appears nowhere else in the archive. Well-typeset and fully searchable; one of the better European compilations.

First page of Mantras and rainbow songs by Iris

Mantra_s_rainbow_songs_iris-1.pdf

22 of the Top 100Rainbow & circle10 pages0.1 MB

A Dutch compiler's personal sheet titled "Mantra's – Rainbow – shaman songs – Hollandse Gouwe Ouwe" ("Dutch golden oldies"): 54 numbered items mixing Sanskrit mantras with Dutch glosses, Rainbow circle songs (We Are Opening Up, One in Harmony), Spanish gratitude songs, and a few purely Dutch originals like the hummingbird song "Kolibrie". The Gayatri mantra even gets a syllable-by-syllable esoteric exegesis in Dutch. Slight in size but a genuine document of how the repertoire is localized in the Netherlands.

First page of Rainbow Songbook With Notes

Rainbow Songbook With Notes.pdf

22 of the Top 100Rainbow & circleStaff notationImage-only scan53 pages6.9 MB

A notation goldmine. Internally titled "minirainbowsongs", this scan delivers exactly what its file name promises: hand-inked staff notation, with chord letters and lyrics under the notes, for some seventy Rainbow standards — Fly Like an Eagle, We Are the Power in Everyone, I Am a Gypsy, Dear Friend, the Russian peace round Mir Miro Mir and more, in a confident calligraphic hand, closing with a Sanskrit section (four notated Hare Krishna settings) and German translations by "Thilo" throughout. In an archive where 35 of 39 books are words-and-chords only, actual melodies are the scarce resource, and every song in this book has one. There is no text layer, so it must be read by eye; a page-by-page song index now stands in for search. (A second, independent scan of the same book, filed as songbook.pdf — PDF author Maarten Vandekeybus, lacking the cover, foreword and index pages — was consolidated 2026-09-19 and kept aside for comparison: where the calligraphy is faint in one scan, the other may be clearer.)

Title page of Sol Diamante

Sol-Diamante-chords.pdf

22 of the Top 100Medicine & icaros416 pages18.1 MB

The archive's biggest book by page count: "Sound of Light DIAMANTE — Prayers, Affirmations, Sacred Songs of Healing and Joy," 416 pages with chords, under the epigraph "Sing from your soul, we are transforming all into light." The repertoire is new-paradigm medicine and light-language material (the visionary "Awaken" — Son of Sky, Daughter of the Earth), generously laid out one song per page with illustration. Its sheer size makes it useful for census work, though its repertoire overlaps the Rainbow Core 50 less than the Sacred Valley or Caravan books do.

Title page of Zangboek 2023-2024

zangboekje 2023_2024.pdf

22 of the Top 100Kirtan & mantra44 pages0.3 MB

The 2023–2024 "Zangboek" of Dutch voice teacher Linnet van der Wal (linnetvanderwal.nl) — the newest dated book in the archive. Around ninety numbered chants with chords in clean uppercase layout: Sikh mantras (Aad Guray), the kirtan core (Durge Durge in Shantala's call-and-response setting, Jay Ambe), and contemporary circle songs like Sacred Space with its Yemaya coda. It closes with an Osho passage, in Dutch, on disappearing into the song — "you became like hollow bamboo, like a flute." A tidy snapshot of the current Dutch singing-circle repertoire.

First page of Metta Rainbow Chantbook

Metta-Rainbow-Chantbook.pdf

20 of the Top 100Rainbow & circle24 pages0.2 MB

"Metta/Rainbowgem Chants, Kirtans, Bhajans, Heartsongs" (version 2011-01-02), the direct ancestor of the 2014 Rainbow Kirtan.pdf — same CC BY-NC-SA license stamped on every page, same alphabetical layout, half the size. What earns it a place of its own is a feature the later edition dropped: many chants carry a direct MP3 link into "Mettaben's Rainbow Chant Collection" on archive.org — Air Moves Us, Ancient Mother, We Are Opening Up and dozens more, each tied to an actual free recording. For a corpus where the recording is the melody's only witness, that makes this little 2011 book a melody-verification source out of proportion to its 24 pages; the project's mettaben_matches.csv cross-reference comes from exactly this collection.

First page of Elf Songbook

Elf Songbook.pdf

19 of the Top 100Kirtan & mantra48 pages0.3 MB

The text edition of the ELF Spiritual Songbook: over ninety numbered chants, opening with the traditional Ganesha invocations and moving through Shiva, Devi and Sufi/Hebrew material (Ishq Allah, Od Yavo Shalom), each with chord letters and an English translation of the Sanskrit. A closing page explains the compiler's chord conventions (lowercase for minor, markers for repeated progressions). Dense and unglamorous, but one of the most complete kirtan references in the archive — and searchable, unlike its scanned sibling below.

Cover of Sacred Valley Tribe Songbook English v19

sacred valley2 song book english.pdf

19 of the Top 100Medicine & icaros152 pages6.5 MB

The newest English volume in the archive's Sacred Valley Tribe set (v19.09), superseding the v16.04 copy filed as medicine_songbook-english.pdf with about twenty added songs, marked by asterisks in the index (Ancient Mother II, Breath of Life, Give Praise to the Sun). Relevant to the Core 50 rights questions: it prints "Long Time Sun" credited as an original by Melita rather than the Incredible String Band lineage, an attribution worth noting in the provenance file. As throughout the series, chords, capo and rhythm patterns are exact; melodies are not notated.

Title page of Moondance Austria songbook

Songbook2020pdf.pdf

19 of the Top 100Regional & other traditions71 pages0.8 MB

The Atlachinolli Meztli Moondance Austria songbook (moondanceaustria.com), prepared for the four-night Moondance ceremony of August 2021. It is the most ceremonially structured book in the archive: each song is tagged with symbols for element (fire, earth, wind, water) and ritual function (sweatlodge, circle, moon, sacred-pipe song), and the introduction explains that during the ceremony only the huehuetl drum and rattles accompany the voices. The repertoire blends Lakota and Nahuatl traditional songs with English circle material like Lindsey Wise's Gathering the Flowers and the Triple Goddess Chant.

Cover of Ibiza Ciranda 2015

IBIZA_CIRANDA.pdf

17 of the Top 100Regional & other traditions380 pages5.7 MB

The 2015 Ibiza "Ciranda — Songs & Mantras with chords", at 380 pages the second-largest book in the archive. It gathers the international ciranda repertoire — Brazilian hymns, mantras with meter markings (a 2/4 "Om Shiva Om / Shiva Hear My Call" in Dm, for instance), and heart songs — with chords and time signatures noted per song. The sheer breadth makes it a strong census source: many songs from the top-100 manifest turn up here in variant forms. Its 2017 successor is filed as IBIZA_05_SAGRADA_2017_web.pdf.

First page of Songbook Dennis

Songbook Dennis 03 2021 chords.pdf

16 of the Top 100Medicine & icaros86 pages0.5 MB

Dennis Ruemping's March 2021 personal songbook: medicine songs with meticulous headers — capo, meter and key for every song ("Capo II, 4/4, F#m") — plus English or German prose translations after each Spanish or Portuguese text. Includes core-50 material (Mother I Feel You, complete with heya vocable verses) alongside Nessi Gomez's All Related and Brazilian pontos. The closing pages are actual ceremony setlists ("Os und Gäste 1: 01. Shue Shuar..."), a rare documentary record of what got sung in what order. One of the most precise chord sources in the archive.

Cover of Elf Spiritual Songbook Volume One

Elf_Spiritual_Songbook_Vol_One_Compiled_Arranged_by_Baba_Chris.pdf

15 of the Top 100Kirtan & mantraImage-only scan44 pages31.5 MB

The original photocopied zine behind Elf Songbook.pdf: a scan of the spiral-bound "Elf Spiritual Songbook, Volume One" compiled and arranged by Baba Chris, with a collaged deity-and-devotee cover straight from the ashram photocopier. Inside are the same numbered chants in typewritten pages decorated with calligraphy and Islamic and Hindu ornaments. There is no text layer, so it can't be searched, but as an artifact it preserves the look and feel of a real hand-assembled gathering songbook better than almost anything else on this shelf.

First page of MasterMantra

MasterMantra_v1.0.pdf

14 of the Top 100Kirtan & mantra128 pages2.1 MB

A large-print song-leader's book: one chant per page in big type with chords above the syllables and an "(all sing together)" cue under each title, clearly designed to be read across a circle or projected. Attributions are unusually consistent — Thai Circus, Yopi Jay, Deva Premal & Miten, Peia — which makes it handy for tracing who wrote the melodies the circles sing. The repertoire leans kirtan (Hey Ganga Ma, Jay Ma, Om Namo Narayanaya) with some English heart songs. Version 1.0 of what was evidently meant to be a living document.

First page of Rainbow Chants by Butterfly Bill

RainbowChants.pdf

13 of the Top 100Rainbow & circleStaff notation10 pages6.1 MB

Twenty core chants in clean engraved staff notation. "Rainbow Chants that you might hear by a campfire at a Rainbow Gathering," compiled by Butterfly Bill of bliss-fire.com (2014): each chant is professionally typeset with the melody on the staff, chord letters above and lyrics under the notes — The Earth Is Our Mother, Fly Like an Eagle, We All Come from the Goddess, We Are Opening and more, straight from the heart of the Core 50. The compiler's notes are a bonus in themselves: which songs alternate with which in circle practice, which keys the Rainbow Spirit video performs them in, and attributions (Mother I Feel You "is by a Rainbow sister named Windsong"). Small, but pound for pound one of the most melody-dense books on the shelf.

First page of songbook2005

songbook2005.pdf

13 of the Top 100Rainbow & circle20 pages3.0 MB

A rough scan of a photocopied gathering songbook from 2005 — handwritten and typewritten pages, with an OCR layer so garbled it is almost decorative ("Respect the Music" becomes scattered letters). Fifty-three numbered songs with a handwritten index: Hebrew songs (Mode Ani, Egel Tal), German ones (Alles verändert sich), reggae (Babylon Is Fallin'), and Rainbow items like Welcome Home and May the Circle Be Open. Historically the most "authentic" object in the archive — this is what a songbook passed hand-to-hand around a 2005 fire actually looked like — but for research it needs eyes, not search.

Cover of Rainbow Spirit From the Heart of the Fire songbook

RainbowSpirit Songbook.pdf

12 of the Top 100Rainbow & circleImage-only scan40 pages3.4 MB

The full illustrated songbook of "Rainbow Spirit: From the Heart of the Fire" — the 1998 Conscious Wave project whose bare lyric sheet is filed as Rainbow Spirit songs.pdf. This is the real thing: forty color pages with the earth-in-hands cover, an "RBI Warning" from the Rainbow Bureau of Inspiration ("You may duplicate and distribute this songbook freely. Failure to do so may result in the delay of the harmonizing of the planet"), photos of the musicians, and every song laid out with chords placed over the exact syllable of the change, with per-song writer credits ("Music is the Key — Music and Lyrics by Poni Brendan") that the lyric sheet lacks. No text layer, so it must be read by eye, but for the canonized 1998 repertoire this is the definitive edition — chords and attributions for the songs the recordings made standard.

First page of Rainbow Spirit songs

Rainbow Spirit songs.pdf

11 of the Top 100Rainbow & circle6 pages0.7 MB

The lyric sheet for "Rainbow Spirit: Twenty-Seven Songs and Chants Celebrating the Spirit of the Rainbow Family of Living Light" — the 1998 Conscious Wave video whose audio circulated free as MP3s, laid out for PDF by Allen Butcher of the Denver chant circles. Only six pages, but historically significant: these 27 songs were, in effect, a canonized 1998 snapshot of the core Rainbow repertoire, with recordings to match. (A pixel-identical duplicate, formerly filed as Rainbow songbook.pdf, was removed from the archive 2026-09-17.)

Index page of Songs of the Heart

songbookneu.pdf

8 of the Top 100Rainbow & circle9 pages0.06 MB

"Songs of the Heart" (May 2016): the smallest file in the archive at 60 KB, a nine-page LaTeX-clean sheet of about forty heart songs with chords, indexed alphabetically. Despite its size it holds several manifest songs — Long Time Sun, Evening Rise, How Can Anyone (sic), We Shall Lift Each Other Up — plus German items like Wanderer im Weltgetriebe. German-made ("Licht durchflutet", "songbookneu" = "new songbook"), it is the archive's best example of the minimal, no-frills chord sheet that actually travels to gatherings in backpacks.

Cover of Ibiza Sagrada 2017

IBIZA_05_SAGRADA_2017_web.pdf

4 of the Top 100Regional & other traditions248 pages2.0 MB

"Sagrada Ibiza — Songs & Mantras 2017", the later and more polished of the two Ibiza ciranda books, dedicated "to the family of eagle and condor... the medicine bearers & music makers." Nearly 250 pages of songs with chords spanning Portuguese cirandas, English heart songs, French rounds and mantras, professionally laid out one song per page. Together with IBIZA_CIRANDA.pdf it documents the Ibiza medicine-music scene; the 2017 volume has the cleaner typography of the pair.

Cover of Mahadevi Ashram booklet

Mahadevi-Ashram-Bhajans&Mantras-Booklet.pdf

4 of the Top 100Kirtan & mantra16 pages0.8 MB

A graceful sixteen-page booklet from Mahadevi Ashram ("Love · Evolve · Awaken"), containing about sixty numbered bhajans and mantras with lowercase-minor chord letters and unusually good English translations — the Sanskrit invocations are rendered with real care rather than boilerplate. It opens with a full Devi invocation and closes with the traditional Sanskrit peace prayers, translated. Small but dense, and the most elegant of the pure-kirtan booklets in the archive.

Cover of The Alternative Rainbow Songbook

Rainbow Parody songs.pdf

3 of the Top 100Rainbow & circle84 pages0.3 MB

"The Alternative Rainbow Songbook", 2nd edition, by the travel writer Tom Thumb — the archive's only comedy volume. The introduction is a small essay on learning to love the Rainbow by laughing at it ("God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh"), followed by affectionate parodies of the very songs the rest of this shelf takes seriously. Zero value for melody reconstruction, since the tunes are the originals, but real value as cultural commentary — and as proof that the standards were so universally known they could be parodied.

Title page of Shanti Salish Kirtan Chantbook

Shanti Salish Kirtan Chantbook - Full ©.pdf

3 of the Top 100Kirtan & mantraMelody letters97 pages0.7 MB

Natavar Knudsen's ©2020 chantbook, the master volume of the seven-file Shanti Salish set, and the archive's most unusual notation system: every chant is written as letter-name melody sequences aligned over the syllables, with the drone note specified and a link to the source recording (Krishna Das, Kripalu, Deva Premal, Jai Uttal) for each. It is, in effect, machine-readable melodic contour without staff notation — pitch classes but no rhythm. For any kirtan in the manifest, this book can seed a melody spec that the recording then confirms. Its six companion deity volumes, which split the same material by deity, were retired from the collection 2026-09-19.

Cover of Sacred Valley Tribe Songbook Espanol v18.02

Songbook-ESPANOL-v18.02.pdf

3 of the Top 100Medicine & icaros195 pages9.5 MB

The v18.02 edition of Diego Palma's Sacred Valley Tribe "Songbook ESPAÑOL & OTROS" — the current Spanish volume of the series, superseding the v17.07 copy now filed under superseded as Sacred valley1 spanish and other.pdf. Sixteen pages longer than its predecessor, with the newly added songs asterisked in the index (Cielo Ayahuasca, Lunita, Mi Negra Guitarrita, Taita Inti Padre Sol), and the house format intact throughout: capo position, syllable-aligned chords and phonetic rhythm patterns for the whole Andean and Amazonian repertoire. The archive holds the current ESPAÑOL (v18.02) and ENGLISH (v19.09) volumes; the MANTRAS v19.09 volume was retired from the collection 2026-09-19 as a kirtan book outside the Rainbow core.