Ananda Xenia Shakti & Love Power the Band releases a new single “The Perfumed Garden”

Ananda Xenia Shakti and Love Power the Band release a single, "The Perfumed Garden," on a day full of meaning, revelation, illumination, and the divine made visible. The single feels less like a song and more like an initiation. "The Perfumed Garden" is a deeply immersive experience that takes the listener to a place where devotion, embodiment, and consciousness all come together.

Shakti's artistic journey has consistently been situated at the intersection of diverse worlds. She is a yogini, a singer, and a former founding member of the all-female punk band B Girls. She has a fearless creative spirit that won't let anyone box her in. With Love Power the Band, that spirit turns into music that heals, expands consciousness, and celebrates life itself. Her ecstatic dance rhythms, mantra-like repetition, and embodied devotion all flow together naturally, bringing the raw authenticity of her punk roots into a sacred, wide-open soundscape.

"The Perfumed Garden" came out of Shakti's time in India, when she was living with the Baul singers of Bengal. This lineage of wandering devotional troubadours, who were devoted to ecstatic expressions of the divine union of Krishna and Radha, has a big impact on the song's essence. Rather than conveying a linear narrative, the music gently guides the listener away from their typical mindset and towards a sense of unity.

"The Perfumed Garden" is about a powerful truth that is always there but is often missed. It reminds us that divine union is not a far-off goal or spiritual goal, but a living reality that is already a part of every moment. The song moves like a soft revelation, urging us to step away from the same old routines of daily life and back to what has always been here, alive, fragrant, and waiting to be remembered.