Excerpt:The Kali Ensemble is a new project from the ever-increasingly more outwardly spiritually-minded Mike Page (Sky Burial, Fire in the Head) and the guerrilla-style sound manipulator Pentti Dassum (Umpio, Cosmo Jones Beat Machine [recording, mixing, guitar], Zerga label owner). If the theme behind this album isn’t immediately apparent from the very moment you see the cover art to this album, then you’re not even trying to pay attention. From the name of the project to the mock-Sanskrit font it’s written in and virtually every corner of the artwork, this project breathes Hinduism. Namely, on the subject of Kali, whom is the goddess of time, change/death and shakti (the ancient cosmic energy that represents the forces of the universe). She is a consort of the destroyer, Shiva, and is, in her own right, a deity of annihilation. Violent. Devastating. “The black one.” There are some very different views of Kali, especially in the Western world where feminists have been known to adopt her as a symbol of repressed sexuality and other related traits (which in itself poses many problems spawned by the lack of an educated interpretation), but it would seem that The Kali Ensemble is more interested in the traditional view of the deity.http://heathenharvest.org/2012/02/11/the-kali-ensemble-the-kali-ensemble/