Name: Sacred Valley Soulfood Sessions @ UNITYHUB by Flying Tree
Duration: 1 h 21 min 39 s
Description: Global Groove Mix Recorded 27th April in the Sacred Valley of Peru for a UNITYHUB event.

Natura Sonora is both an album of imagined journeys and a homage to the immensity, beauty and mystery of the natural world.

The album was created during the first Covid-19 lockdown from my 40sqm flat in a Parisian suburb, dreaming of the beauty of the outside world.

The concept was to use music as a tool to go on an imagined journey to some of the world’s most beautiful natural places - an escape from the same view from my window of a grey, urban environment during lockdown. I chose nine stunningly beautiful, strange and mysterious corners of the world I have always dreamt of visiting but never have. I immersed myself in these places, watching video, photographs and seeking out recordings of how they sound.

These recordings became the foundation for each track, from creaking ice to underwater mangroves, goats and birds to rain and rivers, each sound has its own story to tell. I would place the ‘found sound’ recording into Ableton, hook up my Digitone synth or some drum kits and start to explore and experiment alongside the sound. I also took a lot of inspiration from sound ecologists like Bernie Kraus’ work on the musicality of nature and how sound can be a measure of an ecosystem’s health.

Natura Sonora is an ode to the majesty of nature and its power to inspire, a reminder that despite our attempts to control it, we remain in awe of its power, its beauty and its mystery. It is also an ode to the imagination, to travelling without moving and how, despite the hardship, the pandemic also pushed our creative boundaries.

I couldn’t imagine a better artwork to accompany this album than this incredible piece by Tomás Sánchez, one of Cuba’s most important living artists. His stunningly detailed landscapes explore the beauty and loss of our natural world, depicting a utopic, untouched, dreamlike scene which no longer exists and often placing a lone figure meditating before a lush, wild, green backdrop.

His work presents a paradox of mourning for what we have destroyed alongside hope and a vision of what we are trying to save - a symbol of hope within chaos.

Natura Sonora

El Búho - Altai Feat. Aeve Ribbons

From Linz, Austria, with peace & love, Evva is back with some 70s inspired Jazz-Funk and Soul grooves !

@evva_dj

*Tracklist:

Luis Reniu - Ambient
Messengers Incorporated - Soulful Proclamation
Johnny Guitar Watson - Superman Lover (The Reflex Revision)
The Invaders - Spacing Out
Sam Baker - Do Right Man
Thunder Lightning & Rain - Super Funky
Black Rite - Mandingo
Chuggin Edits - Kung Fu
Loshmi - On The Move
Milton Jones Rhythm Syndicate - Upstairs On Boston Road
Brother Williams - Cold Sweat
Bar-Kays - Soul Finger
The Joe Tex Band - Betwixt and Between (Dial)
Soopasoul - It's Just Begun
Booker T. Jones - '66 Impala (ft. Poncho Sanchez and Sheila E.)
Bill Doggett - Ko-Ko

Asymetrics Present: Evva - Soulful Move !

Greg Hunter remixes One God Dub by Kaya Project.  This track appears on the Arcana compilation which was put together by Naasko and released in 2006.  Cover art by Melbourne based Android.

Kaya Project - One God Dub (Dubsahara remix)

Winter (Taster 2015)

CALMA DUB ~ SPEECHLESS MESSAGES

Global Groove Mix Recorded 27th April in the Sacred Valley of Peru for a UNITYHUB event. 

Sacred Valley Soulfood Sessions @ UNITYHUB

From Forthcoming EP Гэрээ Санасан
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CREDITS:
Produced and mixed by Baq. 
Mastered at Fluido Studio (www.fluidostudio.com) 
Cover art by Stanislav Bendarjevsky

Гэрээ Санасан - Geree Sanasan

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Baq - Steppe Rider

Tierra Mojá (Cero39 Rmx)

An interest in ancestral Latin American cosmology has always run right through the music of Ecuadorian music producer Nicola Cruz. His creative process involves an attentive, careful search for the living roots and rituals that are part of South American identity—its Andean and African origins in particular—valuing its rhythms, its oral traditions, its instruments and the energy they transmit. His first record, Prender el Alma (2015) explored the development of the consciousness and spirituality, and how they connect with music. In Siku, his most recent production, Cruz continues this exploration, expanding his vision towards new stories and other cultures as sources of inspiration. A crucial aspect on this journey is his collaboration with other artists from around the world.

The siku is a wind instrument of Andean origin, highly symbolic in ancestral rituals, made up of two separate, complementary parts, the arca and the ira. It is a representation of duality, an essential element of the indigenous world view, associated with involvement and complementarity, far from the binary thinking typical of western societies. That duality is reflected on this record in the coming together of sounds, whether electronic or organic, past or present, local or global. On Siku, Nicola Cruz combines instruments with symbolic, spiritual connotations, such as the sitar, the siku, and the balafon with hints of electronica. Studies of the samba, cumbia and rhythms of African, Andean and Hindu origin are combined with Cruz’s characteristically unpredictable, mystical style.

Composición, Mezcla y Producción por Nicolá Cruz. 
Mastering: Mathieu Savenay

Percusión: Federico Estevez
Sh-101: Juan Diego Illescas

Dirección de Arte: Orly Anan 
Fotografia: Jesus Zabala 
Diseño: Ventral is Golden

Nicola Cruz - Siku

About the song:
'' Conejito or hare is an animal full of movement, emanating quickness but also stillness, its appearance reflecting seasonal rhythms. It transforms to protect itself from predators, going from dark to light as the climate changes. While the hare can be explosive and playful, it can also embody the quiet of winter, with the snow falling gently in the calm silence of the forest. Living in Montreal, we have to learn to embrace the differences of the seasons, living some of the coldest and snowiest winters of any large city in the world, punctuated by brief, wonderful, summers. We wanted to invoke these different energies in the song.''  @ungunga & Ansoara
https://www.facebook.com/ungunga/
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Cosmovision presents '' Animals of the Earth ''

The human race has lived and shared this space we call Earth with the animal kingdom for millions of years but today, most cultures have abandoned the idea that humans are animals like the others. Our modern societies have been treating Mother Earth as if it was their property, extracting resources, polluting constantly, changing the landscape, killing the other animals we and destroying its natural balance.

Since the Industrial Revolution, humanity has killed 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants of the Earth. Two hundred species of living beings are going extinct every single day. We collectively need to change so many things in areas such as the use of plastic, meat consumption, contaminating energies, day to day overconsumption and more. How can artists raise awareness regarding this?

Thinking on how to be simple but at the same time Universal, Cosmovision Records presents ¨Animals of the Earth¨. For this project we have gathered to co-create an ecosystem that lives in a music album. Producers from many places on Earth explored their connections with our animal cousins, remembering that the condor, the rabbit, the deer, the frog and all the others are our partners in the long trip that this green and lively planet takes in the Universe.

We invite you to come with us on this journey through the musical ecosystem of the ¨Animals of the Earth¨ to discover, respect and care for these beautiful beings that live with us.
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Full compilation will be released on 01/03/2020
Compiled by Don Mescal & El Extravagante
Artwork by Alexandra Gallagher
-> www.alexandragallagherart.com/
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