Grow Younger, Live Longer Deepak Chopra and Dave Stewart Windham Hill, 2001 Tracks 1: Everything Is Music 2: Great Rivers 3: Cloud Of Autumn 4: Where Children Meet 5: Grow Younger 6: Come To Me My Love 7: The Land Of Bliss 8: My Heart Beats In Waves 9: Falling In Love With God 10: Let Lovers 11: Who Is This? 12: This Time Of Parting 13: Grow Younger Buy it online Reviewed by Linda Richards	An exercise in practically inconceivable connections: What happens when you introduce the grandfather of modern Techno to the Martha Stewart of the New Age movement and instruct them to make music? If the dynamic duo in question is Dave Stewart and Deepak Chopra -- internationally known in their respective fields -- you end up with an album suitable for playing while getting Reiki or a massage; music that fills you with an almost irresistible urge to light incense, sit in the lotus position and chant a mantra. The album's premise is simple and, with a collective fan base that spans the globe and many walks of life, should prove successful. In Grow Younger, Live Longer -- a companion CD to the book of the same title by Chopra and David Simon -- Chopra recites his own modern English translations of verse by the mystical poets of Persia and India: Rumi, Hafiz, Tagore, Kabir and their ilk. In the liner notes, Chopra writes that these are not literal translations, but rather they express the "sentiments and yearnings in the great wisdom traditions of the world." In the nearly two decades since Stewart's techno-wizardry helped catapult him and Annie Lennox to international stardom as the Eurythmics, the always proficient and talented Stewart has honed his craft. Stewart is in extremely good form on Grow Younger, Live Longer. Chopra's voice is skillfully woven into a delicate webwork of music: percussion, strings, bells, gull calls, ocean undulations: the full orchestra of sound -- some indescribable but all appropriate -- that Stewart is capable of manufacturing. It's apparent from the first listen that, despite their very public and international collaborations, Grow Younger, Live Longer the CD is very much the result of Stewart's vision. That is to say that, though some of the poetry is lovely, without Stewart's extensive studio work, the album would be a poetic motivational tape. Stewart's contributions lift Grow Younger, Live Longer beyond, perhaps, what it actually is and creates it as an album that those with a meditational or relaxational bent will manage to get some mileage from. Take special note of a sensuous post-funk beat on the title track, "Grow Younger." There's a sultry rhythm here that invites movement, if not dance. "My Heart Beats In Waves" includes some very Hammond-like keyboards, some delightfully languishing percussion as well as a brief and beautiful guitar solo. The song concludes with big top-type organ music over Chopra's looped "I Love You"s. As manic as all of that sounds, it all works out very well. For me, the highlight of the album is "Great Rivers" although Chopra's gentle accent demanded I take a couple of passes to understand that he was saying: "We are all great rivers flowing to the end" and not "We are all great drillers flowing to the dead" though, from where I'm standing, it could just as easily have gone the other way. For me, the lyrics are secondary on most of the tracks on Grow Younger, Live Longer. The magic is in Stewart's loving manipulation of Chopra's spoken word lyrics. A satisfying combination to chill by. | November 2001   Linda Richards is the editor of Blue Coupe magazine.	It's apparent from the first listen that, despite their very public and international collaborations, Grow Younger, Live Longer the CD is very much the result of Stewart's vision. That is to say that, though some of the poetry is lovely, without Stewart's extensive studio work, the album would be a poetic motivational tape.