Who We Are

BHIKKHU SCHOBER
Co-founder, President

Favorite Quotation(s):

"Life is a mystery which cannot be solved." -Osho

"Despite near-universal consensus among scientists that we are on the brink of an environmental collapse, our society lacks the will to take action. We're collectively paralyzed by apathy, inertia or lack of imagination." -Yvon Chouinard

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 PARADISO
Co-founder, Art Director, A&R

Other Stuff she's into:

Music, painting, dance, theater, architecture, life as an creative artist, An Inconvient Truth, movies, chic black pants, nature, hiking, tantric yoga, opera, veganism, cooking and eating organic food.

Waduda claims to be biographically challenged, due to the fact that she¹s 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 she¹s lived this time around. Here they are, in no particular order whatsoever:

As the co-founder of New Earth Records, Waduda¹s job is to take care of New Earth's highly talented and sensitive artists and make sure they¹re 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.

Other stuff she's into: Music, painting, dance, theater, architecture, life as a creative artist, An Inconvenient Truth, movies, chic black pants, nature, hiking, tantric yoga, opera, veganism, cooking and eating organic food.

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.

JORDAN REED
Sales and Marketing

As Jordan finished up her undergraduate studies at Scripps College, she set off for Costa Rica and then to Fiji where she spent several months on island time. Back in the States, she danced her way through Los Angeles before securing a job in Mexico and moving there.

Upon leaving Mexico she first came home to New Mexico and Denver before heading back to the South Pacific, but this time to New Zealand. After tromping through the mountains and hills, she returned to Denver where she accepted a temporary position teaching Spanish at a local school while preparing for her most recent journey through Japan and South East Asia.

After spending the holidays with family in Denver, Jordan has finally come home to New Mexico. She is thrilled have joined New Earth and continues on her journey, because it's all part of the adventure!

Coffee or tea? Tea
Night or day? Both
Music or silence? Depends
Book or television? Book!
Past or future? Now
Mind or matter? Mind
Here or there? Everywhere

STACIA SYNNESTVEDT
Graphic Designer

Stacia Synnestvedt has been working in the world of graphics and marketing for nearly 10 years, 5 of which were spent running her own firm in Denver, CO. Last year, she decided to once again set-out on her own and found herself in Santa Fe, NM.

In addition to working at New Earth Records she works with children in an after-school program and is in a ministerial training program to become a teacher of self-healing and meditation. And somehow, she manages to stay grounded through all of that!

Her next big challenge is coming in March 2008 when she is expecting a child of the New Earth - a baby boy!

RYONE VISSCHER
Digital Media Coordinator

An artist in his own right, Ryone is a digital pioneer hellbent on bringing to Earth a cosmic message of unity with a good beat:

stardate 12.21.12!!!!!

Favorite New Earth CD: Deuter, Koyasan

SETH WILCOX
Web Developer

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!

TANYA SAVKO
Administrator and Editor

Born in Los Angeles county, Tanya was glad to move to a less-populated area to attend college and to raise her two sons.

Tanya's other job is homeschooling her autistic son. In her spare time, she writes her blog, www.teenautism.com, as a resource for other parents of autistic teens and for general information about autism. She loves to write, and her first novel is scheduled for publication in 2008.

Favorite book: The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Favorite movie: Best in Show
Favorite sport: snowboarding
Favorite color: green
Favorite animal: tiger
Favorite New Earth CD: Celtic Ragas by Chinmaya Dunster
Plans for 2008: build a front porch on her house, climb Mt. Shasta, and write her next book!