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Having taken my shoes off and sipped some tea, I'm about to meditate at Anchor Meditation, a chic, compact new studio in San Francisco's Marina neighborhood, brought to mindfulness practice through the very unspiritual act of buying a Groupon. Instead of facing the teacher, or a serene wall, we sit in a circle, holding onto fuzzy blankets and leaning on little backrests. Our eyes are closed, but we're facing each and every other attendee. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Growing up in Estonia, the members of Ewert and the Two Dragons would trade bootleg tapes of Western music smuggled into the country under the Soviet-imposed cultural embargo. It provided quite a musical education for singer Ewert Sundja, guitarist Erki Parnoja, drummer Kristjan Kallas and bassist Ivo Etti, who channeled the sound of those well-worn Bob Dylan and Beatles cassettes into their own music. The group is touring in support of its third studio album, "Circles," which was recorded at Bear Creek Studio in Seattle - the first time the group worked outside its homeland. We talked to Sundja during rehearsals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]