We dedicate these recordings to Uncle Lewis Walker, Aboriginal elder of the Bundjalung nation of Byron Bay. Uncle Lewis is a Keeper of the Ancient Songlines of the Whales.

Sound has the power to heal.   As a musician I had always thought of music as art, and a way to entertain, but I have now started to look at music and sound in a new light. 

During an experience with extreme anxiety, I found music to be a valuable tool for helping me to work through it. Later, in order to understand more about what was going on with me (and to prove to myself that I wasn't completely insane), I started to read more about psychology and neuroscience and spirituality and anything that related to the "inner world" that I had re-discovered. Through this experience, I discovered the powerful value of music (frequency, sound and rhythm).  I was always attracted to the mysterious nature of music and sound, but now I see it's potential as a healing force and something that can be helpful for other people. In the process have also learned a lot about different mental states (states of consciousness) and how sound and frequency can help me to access and focus my mind in these states. 

Music is the study and artful use of frequencies, but in essence our whole world is frequency. Science acknowledges that everything is vibrating, from solid matter and our brainwaves down to the activity of the smallest particles we know of. The world we live in is a world of vibration. A world of music!

So, this is what has inspired me to start this SoundCloud page.  I have been working on music and sounds (mainly recording nature sounds, so far) not only for my own self therapy, but also to share with family and friends that had told me that they were dealing with similar issues (or just wanted music for meditation or for relaxing.) This is still an exploration for me and I hope you'll find this helpful in your life.

AGUACATÉ—
has, with great love and in prayer, been traveling and touring, sharing ecstatic dance medicine and cacao ceremony around his home base on Lake Atitlán in Guatemala, as well as through Holland, Germany, Belgium, Turkey, Czech Republic, Mexico, Costa Rica, Canada, as well as conscious festivals and gatherings around the world, among other sweet spaces. His musical, movement and ceremonial offerings feel like a homecoming, wishmaking, radical rejoicing, and a deep celebration and recalibration unto all of your beautiful cells. It is an honour for him to seed and weave safe and open spaces for conscious communities around the world to drop deep into themselves, their hearts, and their processes, on behalf of our highest blooming altogether as one family. He is grateful to see your spirit move and guide your perfect body and expansive heart, and witness you find your devotion in motion on the dance floor and beyond, through your gorgeous life. 
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andrew.avocados@gmail.com
www.paypal.com/burrows.a
@andrewavocados

next ::
canada & europe fall dates posted soon

past ::
5/16/24 ecstatic dance, toronto, on
5/12/24 dance temple, victoria, bc
5/11/24 cacao ecstatic dance, tofino, bc
5/7/24 synergy ecstatic dance, vancouver, bc
5/6/24 dance temple, salt spring island, bc
5/5/24 cacao dance temple, comox valley, bc
5/3/24 contact temple, victoria, bc
4/28/24 ecstatic dance, gaia dance temple, gt
4/23/24 touching fire, casa piegatto, gt
4/10/24 ecstatic dance, arco isis sanctuary, gt
3/26/24 cacao, breath + sound, sacha, gt
3/10/24 ecstatic dance, gaia dance temple, gt
2/27/24 cacao, breath + sound, sacha, gt
2/4/24 ecstatic dance, gaia dance temple, gt
2/2/24 kap (kundalini activation process), ix balam, gt
12/31/23 embodiment festival, gaia dance temple, gt
12/8-10/23 transcendance festival, playa del carmen, mx
12/17/23 ecstatic dance, gaia dance temple, gt
11/26/23 birthday cacao dance, prague, cz
11/9/23 ecstatic dance prague, cz
11/2/23 ecstatic dance hamburg, ge
10/11/23 cacao ecstatic dance, toronto, ca
7/7-9/23 sonic springs festival, paisley, ca
6/16/23 eustatic dance montreal, ca
6/11/23 ecstatic chocolate church, playa del carmen, mx
5/28/23 ecstatic church, playa del carmen, mx
4/30/23 ecstatic dance, gaia dance temple, gt
4/7/23 cacao dance, casa de liberacion, gt
4/2/23 ecstatic dance, gaia dance temple, gt
3/18/23 embodiment festival, gaia dance temple, gt
3/05/23 envision festival self marriage ceremony, uvita, cr 
2/12/23 ecstatic dance, gaia dance temple, gt
1/15/23 ecstatic dance, gaia dance temple, gt
1/12/23 mixology, café nuna, gt
12/31/22 new year’s eve, gaia dance temple, gt
12/21/22 solstice dance, casa naga, tulum, mx
12/11/22 ecstatic dance, gaia dance temple, gt
12/1/22 mixology, café nuna, gt
11/22/22 day lover sessions, ikal, tulum, mx
11/02/22 ecstatic dance istanbul, tr
08/11/22 xl cacao ecstatic dance ghent, be
07/30/22 ecstatic dance berlin, ge
07/23/22 ecstatic dance playground, nl
07/17/22 ecstatic dance odessa, nl
07/15/22 cacao ecstatic dance odessa, nl
07/10/22 ecstatic dance odessa, nl 
05/06/22 cacao dance, ikal, tulum, mx
04/21/22 an-tēk colectivo, radio tulum, tulum, mx
04/09/22 ecstatic dance, yoga forest, gt
03/31/22 sankirtan soundsystem, el taller, gt
03/23/22 secret garden party, casa noah, gt
03/22/22 water day dance, gaia dance temple, gt
03/13/22 ecstatic dance, gaia dance temple, gt
03/12/22 fungi academy, gt
03/10/22 sankirtan soundsystem, el taller, gt
03/05/22 ki casa, tulum, mx
03/04/22 cenotika, tulum, mx
02/19/22 dreamscape soundsystem, el taller, gt
02/16/22 reflections, casa ati, gt
01/29/22 sankirtan soundsystem, el taller, gt
01/11/22 la colmena, gt
12/22/21 sankirtan soundsystem, el taller, gt
12/10/21 naturaleza, casa swahé, gt
12/07/21 ecstatic dance, eagle’s nest, gt
12/03/21 ecstatic dance, arco isis, gt
11/26/21 birthday dance, the goddess temple, gt
11/11/21 taiji tao temple, gt
10/31/21 ecstatic dance, gaia dance temple, gt

The Official Diamanda Galás Soundcloud

Biography

Hailed as one of the most important singers of our time, Diamanda Galás has earned international acclaim for her highly original and politically charged performance works, as well as her memorable renditions of jazz and blues. A resident of New York City since 1989, she was born to Anatolian and Greek parents, who always encouraged her gift for piano. From early on she studied both classical and jazz, accompanying her father’s gospel choir before joining his New Orleans-style band, and performing as a piano soloist with the San Diego Symphony at 14.

In the 70s, Galás played piano in the improvisational scene around San Diego and Los Angeles with musicians such as Bobby Bradford, Mark Dresser, Roberto Miranda, Butch Morris, and David Murray. She made her performance debut at the Festival d’Avignon in 1979, where she sang the lead role in Vinko Globokar’s opera, Un jour comme un autre, based upon the Amnesty International documentation of the arrest and torture of a Turkish woman for alleged treason. While in France, she also performed Iannis Xenakis’ work N'Shima with l’Ensemble Intercontemporain and Musique Vivante.

Galás first rose to international prominence with her quadrophonic performances of Wild Women with Steak Knives (1980) and the album The Litanies of Satan (1982). Later she created the controversial Plague Mass, a requiem for those dead and dying of AIDS, which she performed at Saint John the Divine cathedral in New York City and released as a double CD in 1991. In 1994, Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and Diamanda Galás sought each other out for a collaboration that resulted in the visionary rock album, The Sporting Life.

Over the past two decades, Galás’ wide range of musical and theatrical works have included The Singer (1992), a compilation of blues and gospel standards; Vena Cana (1993), exploring AIDS dementia and clinical depression; Schrei 27 (1996), a radical solo piece for voice and ring modulators about torture in isolation; Malediction and Prayer (1998), a setting of jazz and blues as well as love and death poems by Charles Baudelaire, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Salvadoran guerrilla fighter and poet Miguel Huezo Mixco, occasionally fused with the virtuosic singing of the Amanes (improvised lamentation from Asia Minor); La Serpanta Canta (2004), a greatest-hits collection from Hank Williams to Ornette Coleman; and Defixiones, Will and Testament (2004), an 80-minute memorial tribute to the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian victims of the Turkish genocides from 1914-1923.

Galás has contributed her voice and music to Francis Ford Coppola’s film, Dracula, Oliver Stones’ Natural Born Killers, Spanish/Nicaraguan filmmaker Mercedes Moncada Rodriguez’s El Immortal (The Immortal), as well as films by Wes Craven, Clive Barker, Derek Jarman, Hideo Nakata, and many others. In 2005, Galas was awarded Italy’s first Demetrio Stratos International Career Award. Her much-anticipated CD, Guilty Guilty Guilty, a compilation of tragic and homicidal love songs, was released by Caroline in the U.S. and Mute UK worldwide on April 1, 2008.

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