Who We Are

Bhikkhu Schober, co-founder of New Earth Records, vegan, organic food addict, pacifist, meditator. Involved in anything green and sustainable since the seventies when he participated in one of the first health food stores in Amsterdam.

ADDICTIONS: India (has traveled there every year since 1973), herbal teas, acupuncture.

FAVORITE PERSON: Osho (who helped me to make sense out of myself.)

FAVORITE FOOD: Masala Dosa from Annapurna, Santa Fe and Soy Chai.

FAVORITE MOVIE: Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.

FAVORITE BOOK: Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard (of Patagonia).

FAVORITE HOBBY: Spending time with my beloved (aka Waduda).

FAVORITE NEW EARTH CD: Always the latest!

MISC: Grew up in Hamburg, Germany. Baby Boomer, Beatles, Student revolutions, new lifestyles. Left Germany for Amsterdam and greener pastures (aka India) in the seventies. Took the magic bus from Amsterdam through Iran, Afghanistan to Kathmandu and Goa twice and spent 10 years in India meditating and sharing quality time with friends at the Osho ashram in Pune (now Osho International Meditation Resort). Created the video films ‘The Rising Moon’ and ‘Socrates Poisoned Again’ and in 1990 co-started New Earth Records (originally Tao Music) from Munich. In 1995 moved the headquarters to Boulder, CO and in 2000 to Santa Fe, NM.

VISION: No Goal but the Path.

NEXT: Plans to build an eco house and install solar power at New Earth Records.

WHY AM I HERE: My participation in the healing of this planet and creating well-being to its people is to release and market music which in its core has the vibrational quality of healing, meditation and celebration.

Waduda claims to be biographically challenged, due to the fact that she's still trying to figure out the answer to the eternal question, who am I? Nevertheless, her "biographers" here at New Earth have managed to sniff out a few details about the life she's lived this time around. Here they are, in no particular order whatsoever:

As the co-founder of New Earth Records, Waduda's job is to take care of New Earth's highly talented and sensitive artists and make sure they're happy. She's also NER's art director and makes sure our album covers look pretty.

Waduda studied Psychology at the University of Rome, where she became a regular contributor to the hugely popular Radio Donna, Italy's first and only feminist radio station.

She's voting for Lao Tzu for president.

She claims to have learned to hear the sound of one hand clapping from the great Hariprasad Chaurasia, whom she's also had the honor of accompanying on tambura.

At an early age, Waduda began her quest for the "truth." When she met Osho in the mid-70s, she found what she'd been looking for all along. She was spontaneously initiated into the inner revolution and began the never-ending journey from knowledge to knowing.

Waduda gives regular seminars and lectures on the subject of hypnosis and meditation for trasformazione, and contributes regularly to various Italian magazines on the subject of wellness, music and Eastern philosophy.

She lives in the wilderness of Northern New Mexico with her beloved Bhikkhu, and travels regularly to India, around the earth and beyond the "bleep that we know," always together with il suo amore grande.

Favorite CD: all of them.

Recently moving here from New York City, you would think I don’t have much to say about a small town like Santa Fe, but it is quite the contrary.  Santa Fe is such a beautiful city and I have enjoyed every single day that I have been here. Although I do miss the beaches, but it is a small sacrifice.  Living outside of New York, I have realized that I have an option to not deal with the stress that the city brings, but instead enjoy a peaceful and calm environment.  

Here at New Earth I am serving as a personal assistant to both Bhikkhu and Waduda along with tending to various other tasks such as social media, licensing, contracts and special projects.  If I was to give myself a title, I guess I would call myself an Office Wizard.

I am thrilled to have joined the New Earth Records crew and working with some very talented people. I am always looking for creative outlets and being here definitely fuels my creativity.

I'm a New Mexico native and proud. I grew up in a professional photography studio (my very first job was proofing transparencies and detailing sets, I was a bad sweeper), I was inundated with the world of image creation & I have been nearly obsessed with image ever since.

I have been working & playing in Adobe's wonderful digital world since the first time I saw it 15 years ago. I have worked with many forms of visual media and have worked as a photographer, videographer, video editor & dvd producer, graphic designer and painter.

Favorite color: Blue

Favorite food: Curry

Favorite Photoshop tool: Clone stamp

Favorite New Earth album: How could one decide with so many great titles to choose from!

I am the Solver of problems, dreamer of dreams, and fixer of broken things. Spatial perception and organization fill my thoughts daily. Solving one problem a day keeps the doctor away.

I can't decide if my favorite part of working at New Earth Records is: the half-pipe, the dirt bike track or the owner's classic car collection.

Have fun!

Tara is new to New Earth Records, and Santa Fe after many years of living in New York City.  After studying the potentialities of voice through many outlets including Overtone Chanting, and the Entertainment and Advertising Industries, Tara is thrilled to be working in a company that utilizes the power of sound for healing.  She loves meditation, good food, great books, stimulating conversation and the New Mexico desert.

Colin is an artist and a writer who has moved between New York, South Florida and now Northern New Mexico. He’s previously worked in marketing and sales at ESP-disk’ in Brooklyn, co-managing their retail space. He has studied visual art at Pratt Institute and tablas at the Taalim School for Indian Music. An enthusiast in the fields of education and gardening, he is a dedicated, lifelong transdisciplinarian.

Nikesha Breeze is a woman of many talents. Graphic designer, web developer, photographer, performance artist, vocalist, acrobat, aerialist, dancer, Qigong practitioner, and more. Not to mention a single mother of two amazing boys and collector of old books and sacred treasures. Nikesha has lived in the New Mexican desert for over 10 years and has traveled extensively throughout Latin America doing social circus work. Her passions include, fractal geometry, making sushi, speculating on the fourth dimension and cherishing every moment to its' fullest.