The band was founded in 2004 on a longer trip through India. Six years before, in 1998 Manuel Seidl (vox), Judy Sepan (guitar), Dominik Hofer (drums) and German Schwarz (drums/bass) had been playing together in the rockband Fur Balloon. After the inspirations of the Indian travel in 2004, the band was motivated to create an overcontinental musicgroup and a new orientalrock musicstyle, which arose very naturally in jams in India. In 2005 Ashram played their first concert tour in jails, this project was called Prisontour.
On that tour the band still played in a standardrockformation (vox: Manuel Seidl/ guitar: Judy Sepan/ bass: Sebastian Obermaier/ drums: German Schwarz) without their Indian friends (thakil: Ajaya Gopi/ tabla: Hari Kumar/ vox: Saju Nivas). In the meantime preparations for a together created album were made.
⇒ more pics of the Prisontour 2005
In 2006 Ashram got together again in Kerala for the recording of their first album in Thiruvananthapuram. After those visits in India the band realized the vision to bring all musicians on one stage in 2007.
In August and September 2007 the realization of this difficult bandproject took place and they presented their first album (title: Ashram/ year: 2007) and played more than 30 gigs across Germany and Austria in the following tour. On that first tour, the band played with Adrian Miller (alternate bassist for Sebastian Obermaier) and Jayaprakash (alternate singer for Saju Nivas). Like before most of the concerts were played in prisons.
⇒ more pics of the Prisontour 2007
After a six weeks long and tough, private organized musictour, our band disjoined again. So the Indians Ajaya Gopi, Hari Kumar and Jayprakasch went home to Southindia. Adrian Miller and German Schwarz joined in the band „Saint Lu“ and so moved from Linz (Austria) to Berlin (Germany) for nearly one year. At the same time Judy Sepan was triping through Los Angeles (US) where he was searching for a professional Ashram musicproducer.
In September 2008 Ashram performed their third Prisontour again in a standard rockband- formation without the indian bandmembers. The tour mainly took place in Austria and Germany, they also played some (illegal) concerts on pulblic places: in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Paris (France) and Brussels (Belgium, watch the illegal rock concert in Brussels) After this crazy and funny tour in 2008 the band was disposed to organize a second tour with their Indian musicians.
⇒ more pics of the Prisontour 2008
In May 2009 the band started with their second Austria meets India concerttour, after two years again in their intended bandformation. Ashram had some rough intern troubles and the Indian vocalist Anu Praveen came for Saju Nivas into the band. In this time (May 09) the musicians of Ashram were also recording their second Ashram album One in a little village in the highlands of Upperaustria. In June 2009 the Indian musicians went back, home to Kerala.
⇒ more pics of the Austria meets India Tour 2009
In September 2009 the band went on their fourth Prisontour with Bernhard Schopper on drums (alternate tour drummer for German Schwarz). The band performed their jailconcerts without the Indian bandmembers, because of some bad experiences in some of the jails on the Prisontour 2007. Altogether Ashram rocked in more than 60 jails.
⇒ more pics of the Prisontour 2009
Since 2009 the band is working on their second Ashram album. Fortunately they got an illustrious producer from L.A - Thom Russo. He worked with bands for example like: System of a Down, Audioslave, Johnny Cash, Michael Jackson... Ashram was sure that this new album will live up the expectations. And it did - it became a great album! We are now looking for distribution possibilities. In between you can listen to our album online.
⇒ Ashram Music
The band was founded in 2004 on a longer trip through India. Six years before, in 1998 Manuel Seidl (vox), Judy Sepan (guitar), Dominik Hofer (drums) and German Schwarz (drums/bass) had been playing together in the rockband Fur Balloon. After the inspirations of the Indian travel in 2004, the band was motivated to create an overcontinental musicgroup and a new orientalrock musicstyle, which arose very naturally in jams in India. In 2005 Ashram played their first concert tour in jails, this project was called Prisontour.
On that tour the band still played in a standardrockformation (vox: Manuel Seidl/ guitar: Judy Sepan/ bass: Sebastian Obermaier/ drums: German Schwarz) without their Indian friends (thakil: Ajaya Gopi/ tabla: Hari Kumar/ vox: Saju Nivas). In the meantime preparations for a together created album were made.
In August and September 2007 the realization of this difficult bandproject took place and they presented their first album (title: Ashram/ year: 2007) and played more than 30 gigs across Germany and Austria in the following tour. On that first tour, the band played with Adrian Miller (alternate bassist for Sebastian Obermaier) and Jayaprakash (alternate singer for Saju Nivas). Like before most of the concerts were played in prisons. 
In September 2008 Ashram performed their third Prisontour again in a standard rockband- formation without the indian bandmembers. The tour mainly took place in Austria and Germany, they also played some (illegal) concerts on pulblic places: in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Paris (France) and Brussels (Belgium, watch the 
In May 2009 the band started with their second Austria meets India concerttour, after two years again in their intended bandformation. Ashram had some rough intern troubles and the Indian vocalist Anu Praveen came for Saju Nivas into the band. In this time (May 09) the musicians of Ashram were also recording their second Ashram album One in a little village in the highlands of Upperaustria. In June 2009 the Indian musicians went back, home to Kerala. 
In September 2009 the band went on their fourth Prisontour with Bernhard Schopper on drums (alternate tour drummer for German Schwarz). The band performed their jailconcerts without the Indian bandmembers, because of some bad experiences in some of the jails on the Prisontour 2007. Altogether Ashram rocked in more than 60 jails.
Since 2009 the band is working on their second Ashram album. Fortunately they got an illustrious producer from L.A -