The Best

I Will Not Be Sad This World

Little Flower Garden

A Cool Wind Is Blowing

From Azam Ali's new album: From Night To the Edge of Day

With a career spanning over a decade, Azam Ali is back with her third and latest solo release titled From Night to the Edge of Day, releasing April 12th. On this album, Azam performs unique and gorgeous renditions of various lullabies from the Middle East illustrating the power of life, nature, joy, pain, love and beauty.

To stream the entire From Night To the Edge of Day: 
 http://snd.sc/fJpOyO 

For more info on Azam Ali: 
 http://sixdegreesrecords.com/artists.php?artist=Azam_Ali

Azam Ali - Dandini

Jocelyn Pook - Upon This Rock (Untold Things)

Bier am Feuer

Beeren und Balladen

Blending ambient textures, world instrumentation, and deep emotional resonance, Major Mysteries is a 20-track instrumental journey inspired by the Major Arcana. Designed for meditation, ritual, and deep listening, it invites you to slow down, breathe deeper, and reconnect with the mystery that lives within.




Lanterns in the Stillness

Treetop Wind

Old Advice

Une rencontre poétique entre cordes et voix, des épopées du Royaume mandingue aux musiques de cours persanes.

A poetic encounter between strings and voice, from the epics of the Mandingo Kingdom to the music of Persian court.

CONSTANTINOPLE, avec | feat.
Ablaye Cissoko, kora (Senegal)
Kiya Tabassian, setar (Canada - Iran)

Poisson Au Fond De L'ocean

"..an exquisitely delicate work that unfolds like buds on the trees in spring."
THE INDEPENDENT,UK
Pre-order the LP, CD and Digital: https://aukai.bandcamp.com/album/aukai
itunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/aukaiitms  spotify: https://goo.gl/613Oq3
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aukaimusic 

Recorded and mixed by Martyn Heyne at Lichte Studio Berlin
Mastered by Mandy Parnell at Black Saloon Studios, London
Cover Photo: Dan Isaac Wallin
Written and produced by Markus Sieber

Markus Sieber - ronroco
Alexander Nickmann - fender rhodes, synthesizer, beats

In a lot of ways, Aukai’s self-titled debut is the sound of Markus Sieber bringing his career full circle. Having spent part of the ’90s playing rock music in East Germany, the composer/multi-instrumentalist then shifted his focus to acting, only to have music creep back into his life after a mind-altering move to Mexico.

“This album and project has a lot to do with memories from travel,” explains Sieber, “but also memories from childhood and nature. How did the river smell in summer? I wanted to create a sonic space where music guides the listener into some imaginative inner world.”

Which explains why he came up with the name Aukai in the first place; it’s the Hawaiian word for a seafaring traveler, the sort of person who seeks out the stillness in uncertain waters. In the case of Sieber’s new record, that meant spending a winter holed up in a mountainside cabin around Colorado’s La Plata Canyon. Basic tracks were then cut in a Berlin studio and brought into full relief alongside cellist Anne Muller (Agnes Obel Band, Nils Frahm), violinist Bogdan Djukic, pianist Angelika Baumbach, sound designer Alexander Nickmann, and longtime collaborator Jamshied Sharifi (Laurie Anderson, Sting, Dream Theater).

Here’s what Sieber had to say about its lead single, “Cachoeira,” along with a complete rundown of the record and its cover art:

“Cachoeira”, meaning waterfall in Portuguese, was inspired by my travels to northeastern Brazil, a region rich of rivers and waterfalls. It’s the track on the album which goes farthest into an electronic direction, merging the acoustic and natural sounding layers of the Ronroco, a Latin American string instrument, with Fender Rhodes, synthesizer, and beats. For each piece of the album, I had a particular vision for the instrumentation and musicians I wanted to collaborate with; for “Cachoeira”, I worked with my brother Alexander Nickmann, a Berlin-based sound designer and composer. " 

A Cool Wind Is Blowing

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