"Rasa Bhava" --originally released in 1996 on the late, un-lamented Silent Records-- was the debut album by MAKYO, a stunning concoction of eastern motifs and ambient dub. "Rasa Bhava" was a seminal release in the marriage of meditative Indian sounds such as veena, tabla, and tamboura, with the hypnotic possibilities of tape loops, dub trickery, and ambient soundscapes.

Recorded between 1994-1995, "Rasa Bhava" sat in SILENT's offices for a year as a buzz grew over the few MAKYO releases that had popped up, like the powerful Hindustani hip-hop groove of "dakini" on Planet Dog's Feed Your Head. At the last minute, a track was dropped to make room for Bill Laswell's powerful re-mix of "devabhanda", a 12-minute ode to a tantric sexual position. All things come full circle: it was Laswell, with Material and their track "Mantra", which had inspired the MAKYO project in the early days --now Laswell was re-sampling that track in his remix of MAKYO.

"Rasa Bhava", has been praised by Raygun, Lotus, BPM, Muzik, Mixmag, XLR8R, Keyboard, and CMJ. As Lotus reviewer DJ Eli Star called it; "non-stop exotic bliss."

The album was finally re-released on UK ambient-dub label Entropica in late '99, where despite the passage of three years, two pressings quickly sold out.