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Lovingly: A Soundtrack For The Psychedelic Practitioner, vol. III

The first track out now -- the title track "Possible". The full album will release July 23, 2021 with 11 tracks in total.

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released April 9, 2021

East Forest: Piano, Vocals, Synthesizers, Drum Programming, Additional String Arrangements

Bayo Akomolafe: Voice (3)
Lorraine Weiss: Voice (9), Soprano Saxophone (2)
Sheela Bringi: Bansuri Flute (7)
Owen Hoffman-Smith: Cello (6), Bass Guitar (1, 2, 9), ContraBass (4, 10)
Geoffrey Hill: Violin (1, 4, 8, 9)
Emily Jones: Viola (1, 4, 8, 9)
Jake Saunders: Cello (1, 4, 8, 9)
Thacher Schmid: Violin (10)

Lorna Dune - String Arrangements (1, 4, 6, 8)

Mastered by Taylor Deupree

Artwork by Evan Lorenzen

Possible  

We are held
My God
And when I say “God” I’m just going to say all that is

We choose what we let go of from moment to moment
And as we choose, we step into the new reality forming in front of us
Of infinite possibility

And whatever you choice you make
You can’t fall out of it
Let’s call it Love
You can’t fall out of Love

You can’t fall out of Love

You will always be held

But you can never lose your way completely
And how the suffering is just not giving in

Endless choices
Endless choices
And yet there’s one choice.
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from Possible, released April 9, 2021
East Forest: Piano, Voice, Synthesizers, Drum Programming

Lorraine Weiss: Soprano Saxophone

Mastered by Taylor Deupree

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Can't Fall Out Of Love

Prana was recorded and improvised live in an underground former silo in the deep southern Utah desert over the winter solstice. The temperature outside was at about 10 degrees below zero, inside a giant wood stove burned away, and all around were about twenty or so sonic journeyers forming a meditative circle on the slate floor. 

The album contains vocals - but no English - rather the vocalizations you hear are more channeled sounds intended keep our language centers quiet and our hearts open. 

5 extended tracks - running time 48 minutes. 
This is a gapless playback continuous listening experience.

Music by Trevor Oswalt
Mastered by Chris Vita at Vita Mastering
Artwork by Ross Bleckner

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Apana

Samana

The Barren Burren

Journey To The Holy Well

Landscape

Duet On Ocean Floor

Reunited

From the East Forest album, "Orbits".  A sampling of the organic ethereal electro-acoustic experimental dreampop of East Forest.  eastforest.org

Limitation

Toad Lick

Cosmic Dance (w/ Marieme)

Patience

Comeback (w/ Marieme)

Clay Steps

Legacy

A Walk-In

Official Documentary Soundtrack - Music For Mushrooms

I Am Loving Awareness - Live (Boone Ceremony)

Ancestral

An Invitation

See You Now

Will Know

Open Wide

Natural State

Corridor

Cascade

Highest Truth

Flight

Just This

Long Path

Verity

Aural Remedy

I Can Die

Be sure to listen to the twin record, "MUSIC TO DIE TO" for the complete listening experience : http://soundcloud.com/eastforest

Trevor Oswalt's near-death experiences catalyzed a search for answers. After two violent bicycle accidents – the second of which causing almost identical injuries to the first incident – he began searching for understanding; his path eventually lead him to volunteer in a hospice, until Oswalt, aka East Forest, felt comfortable facing his fears. 

"Everyone copes with loss and trauma in different ways," he says.  "I was searching for a way that could help me and others at the same time." 

That search birthed the idea for his next album, Music To Die To, out February 26, 2016 on Aquilo Records.  "People think that nearly everything in life stems from the fact that we know we're going to die, and that real creative freedom comes from accepting our mortality," Oswalt says. "Part of this album is literally music for people to die to, but it's also the soundtrack of my own journey toward acceptance."

Inspired by one of his idols, Keith Jarrett, and his The Köln Concert, Oswalt knew he'd improvise most of the recordings by live looping a combination of vintage pianos, his voice, and original field recordings, all with the theme of life's finite nature in mind.  Recording on an organic farm in upstate New York and a remote ranch in the southern Utah high desert, he bunkered in until he had more than enough for one album. 
"Once you get out into nature and get the ball rolling, the improvisation starts to flow through you," he says. "I love the idea of giving birth to music on the spot, to record something in the moment that won't be made again."

Armed with a surplus of material, East Forest realized the perfect bookend: Music To Be Born To, the sister album to Music To Die To. To me, birth comes from the space created by the destruction of something, not the other way around. Out of death comes birth.” 

Together, the twin releases form a perfect pair, complementing the other in not only theme, but in musical substance. The former is an optimistic glow bathed in waves of his "blissful" (NPR), ethereal sound; the latter is more direct, more organic, and more focused - embodying an increasingly-mature sound and aesthetic.  but provides a fresher start with a newer beginning.

In 2016, he's back in Portland, but is now armed with a live show that is continually evolving; sometimes performing solo, sometimes with a string section, and often with cinematic projections. With experience as a performing pianist for a dance troupe, in a hospice volunteering as well as in the Amazonian jungle searching for answers, his music is a connected journey that's been dubbed "a revelatory excursion in sound" (Under The Gun Review) that invites listeners to "go on a journey of self discovery" (Earmilk).  He's been featured on NPR's Second Stage and Tiny Desk Contest, and shared the stage with Moby. 

"We forget that we are nature. We feel so much separation in our modern life, inundated with so much information; I believe our solutions will come from the inside out. They're already here, we're just uncovering them." 

"It’s all a process of discovery.  We need to give space for that which wants to emerge  -- something needs to die for something else to be born.  Making these albums was my way of creating some space, and inside I hope to hear an answer.

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Trevor Oswalt - live looped music, field recordings, vocals
Taylor Deupree - mastering
Michael Robinson - art direction

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BE SURE TO LISTEN TO THE TWIN RECORD, "MUSIC TO BE BORN TO" FOR THE COMPLETE LISTENING EXPERIENCE : 



Let Go

Soul Speak

Grounded

Inside

"Ritual Mystical" by MC Yogi and East Forest.  

Music by MC Yogi & East Forest
Mixed by East Forest
Mastered by Kris Krumett
Bass Guitar by Jonathan Downer on "Vibes Galore", "Edge Walker", and "Breath Deep".

Beginnings

The title track from the East Forest LP "Held".  Download for free and pre-order the album on Vinyl (limited edition) or Digital at http://music.eastforest.org.  

The full LP will be released on 11/11/16 on Aquilo Records and available from your favorite online music source, as well as eastforest.org.

“Held” chronicles a challenging personal period when I needed to return to something simple. With the artistic limitation of a single piano, I composed and recorded music with the aim of feeling held, heard, and connected. The result is a minimalistic instrumental album, with vulnerability, warmth, and intimacy that sounds almost like you’re sitting inside the piano in my living room. While listening to the music you are experiencing the soft brushing of the hammers, shuffling wood keys, and delicate incidental noises and textures that give a sense of space and detail allowing the piano to sing in a physical and tactile way.

Held

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"I Am Loving Awareness (feat. Krishna Das) - by East Forest, Ram Dass

In June 2018, East Forest was invited to Ram Dass’ home in Maui to join in conversation and record brand new teachings from the legendary teacher. After capturing these words of wisdom, East Forest returned to his studio in the high desert of Southern Utah to compose the soundtrack to beautifully support each songs’ subject. In these new recordings, Ram Dass’ words speak masterfully to the modern challenges that so many face with technology, dark thoughts, the nature of soul and so much more. The new East Forest record also features guest appearances from the likes of Trevor Hall and Grammy nominated artist, Krishna Das, all framing Ram Dass’ teachings with contemporary voices and cementing the 87 year old spiritual teacher into an echelon of relevancy and immediacy — offering a direct antidote for a highly polarized nation that is deeply in need of a universal voice of wisdom, connection and unconditional love.

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CREDITS:

from "Ram Dass : Chapter I", releases January 25, 2019 

Written, Produced, Arranged, Mixed and Engineered by East Forest	
Ram Dass - Spoken Word	
Trevor Oswalt (aka East Forest) - Piano, Shruti, Field Recordings
Krishna Das - Vocals, Ectara
Thacher Schmid - Viola, Violin

Huntley Miller - Mastering	
Daniel F. Birch - Graphic Design	
Tim Cook - Executive Producer	
Raghu Markus - LSR Executive Director	

Recorded at Boulder Rock Studios (Boulder, UT), The Map Room (Portland, OR) and Ram Dass' study (Maui, HI)	
All field recordings captured around Ram Dass' home on the island of Maui, Hawaii

LYRICS:

we have to get out of our minds 
our thinking minds 

i’ll tell you how i do it 
by using a mantra or phrase 

i 
am 
loving 
awareness 

loving awareness is a name, for soul ,which you really are 
leads you to love everything you are aware of 
the sky, the room, your body, other people 
and then i ride the mantra into my heart 
and in my heart i see a doorway, or a veil 
to the next plane 
soul land 

i am loving awareness

Ram Dass : Chapter I

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I Am Loving Awareness (Feat. Krishna Das)w/Ram Dass

In June 2018, East Forest was invited to Ram Dass’ home in Maui to join in conversation and record brand new teachings from the legendary teacher. After capturing these words of wisdom, East Forest returned to his studio in the high desert of Southern Utah to compose the soundtrack to beautifully support each songs’ subject. In these new recordings, Ram Dass’ words speak masterfully to the modern challenges that so many face with technology, dark thoughts, the nature of soul and so much more. The new East Forest record also features guest appearances from the likes of Trevor Hall and Grammy nominated artist, Krishna Das, all framing Ram Dass’ teachings with contemporary voices and cementing the 87 year old spiritual teacher into an echelon of relevancy and immediacy — offering a direct antidote for a highly polarized nation that is deeply in need of a universal voice of wisdom, connection and unconditional love. The album will release in four parts throughout 2019, with Chapter II debuting on March 22nd.

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EAST FOREST has been the leader of underground ‘sound healing’ ceremonies around the world since 2008. Using music as a tool, he has trailblazed the field of organic tech, building bridges between the digital and natural world. East Forest’s has performed in a diverse range of settings from SXSW, Google, Mysteryland, to Grace Cathedral, Summit at Sea, as well as his own TEDx talk. 
More than a dozen albums later, East Forest continues to explore a path of emotionally driven music that pulls from ambient, classical, electronic and indie pop genres.

"East Forest doesn’t just create sound, he creates narrative,” (HuffingtonPost); His "blissful" (NPR)music invites listeners to "go on a journey of self discovery" (Earmilk). His 2016 collaboration with MC YOGI, Ritual Mystical, went #1 iTunes Electronic, #8 Billboard Dance and #2 Billboard New Age.

RAM DASS is one of the most important cultural figures from the 1960s and 70s. He is a psychedelic pioneer, author of Be Here Now, beloved spiritual teacher, and outspoken advocate for death-and-dying awareness. Ram Dass first went to India in 1967. He was still Dr. Richard Alpert, a prominent Harvard psychologist and psychedelic pioneer with Dr. Timothy Leary. He continued his psychedelic research until that fateful Eastern trip in 1967, when he traveled to India. In India, he met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, affectionately known as Maharajji, who gave Ram Dass his name, which means “servant of God.” Everything changed then – his intense dharmic life started, and he became a pivotal influence on a culture that has reverberated with the words “Be Here Now” ever since. Ram Dass’ spirit has been a guiding light for three generations, carrying along millions on the journey, helping to free them from their bonds as he works through his own. His unique skill in getting people to cut through and feel divine love without dogma is still a positive influence on many people from all over the planet.

Be Here Now, Ram Dass’s monumentally influential and seminal work, still stands as the highly readable centerpiece of Western articulation of Eastern philosophy, and how to live joyously a hundred percent of the time in the present, luminous or mundane. Forty years later, it’s still part of the timeless present. Being here now is still being here now.

On February 19th 1997, Ram Dass suffered a near-fatal stroke, which left him paralyzed on the right side of his body and expressive aphasia limiting his ability to speak, along with other challenging ailments.

Ram Dass now resides on Maui. His work continues to be a path of inspiration to his old students and friends as well as young people who are just discovering the path of Being Here Now. His most recent books include Be Love Now (2011), Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart (2013), Cookbook for Awakening (2017), and Walking Each Other Home (2018).

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We Are Truth

If you enjoy this release, please considering supporting East Forest in proportion to your gratitude at http://eastforest.org or via gift with paypal "info@eastforest.org" or "trevor-oswalt" on Venmo.  Also visit http://JourneySpace.com, which features new and exclusive psychedelic guidance music by East Forest designed specifically to guide journeys. Access the regularly updating music guidance library and also join one of our online facilitated groups to support your journey.

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https://eastforest.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-mushrooms-a-soundtrack-for-the-psychedelic-practitioner-2019

"Music For Mushrooms: A Soundtrack For The Psychedelic Practitioner" is a five hour, fully connected journey designed to musically guide a group or individual through an entire psilocybin experience, start to finish. 

This album aims to forge a new shamanic path — one that is birthed of our musical tools and the technology of our time while also honoring and inspired by the rich history of our human relationship to psychedelic plants and fungi. 

My album's compositional shape guides the arch of the ceremony experience. The music of the current psilocybin public research therapy playlists (like those offered by Johns Hopkins and Imperial College) is an amalgamation of tracks by different composers - none of the songs were originally intended for psilocybin. Further, most of these songs are comparatively short. The songs of "Music For Mushrooms: A Soundtrack For The Psychedelic Practitioner" have a slow and gentle growth, an organic progression that aligns with the waves of feeling and experience in the psychedelic journey. This progressive unfolding allows the journeyer to enter into sonic and emotional worlds gradually, to explore the psychic depths with peaceful transitions that allow for time to integrate the experience before moving into the following song or space. 

Additionally, "Music For Mushrooms" integrates original nature field recordings throughout the composition. Field recordings of “that which is still wild”, provides a soothing synthesis of nature into what might otherwise be a staid and sterile therapeutic setting. Sounds of nature can unlock memories, calm our senses, and contain a texture that welcomes our most ancient self home — whether a chorus of crickets or a gentle mountain breeze. 

As mentioned, "Music For Mushrooms: A Soundtrack For The Psychedelic Practitioner" was recorded and improvised live, inside ceremony.  In this way, it contains the ‘energy of the medicine’.  

The new album is intentionally conducive to the psychedelic experience in a variety of additional ways, like avoiding lyrical content so as not to spark the language centers of brain. The record employs falsetto vocalizations throughout, utilizing a non-lyrical language composed primarily of improvised vowels. This allows for the benefits of vocals without the potential language triggers of lyrics. With the live looping technology I employ harmonies and a full choir can develop. 

I’ve always intuitively felt that the solutions our world needs will not come from the top down. Rather, the answers we’ve been looking for will come from the inside out. By exploring our interior landscape to heal our traumas, to root out shame, to learn to love ourselves, we empower our ability to make positive changes that echo out into our lives and the world around us. 
-East Forest 

The album reached #1 on iTunes charts in May 2019. 
All music written, mixed & performed live by East Forest 

Mastered by Taylor Deupree 
Artwork by Daniel F. Birch 

Recorded live in upstate New York 

Disclaimer: The composer and author of this album do not condone the use of any substances illegal in your jurisdiction. The author expressly disclaim any liability, loss, or risk, personal or otherwise, that is incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the contents of the album.

Music For Mushrooms: A Soundtrack For The Psychedelic Practitioner

Ram Dass

01 Nature

02 Dark Thoughts

03 I Am Loving Awareness (feat. Krishna Das)

04 Mind Karma (feat. Trevor Hall)

05 We Are Truth

06 Home

08 Perfect, Perfect

Grandmothersphere

Nick Mulvey Rework from the album "Ram Dass" by East Forest x Ram Dass.

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LYRICS:
The soul
Takes birth
Takes incarnation

To learn

Our perception
Of the soul
Is love love love love love

You love fellow souls
I love things
I love my pain
My wheelchair
I love you all
I love the whole universe

We love everyone
By inhabiting the soul

-Ram Dass

Reworks

Please Pass The Bliss (Nick Mulvey Rework)

Vyana

The hunter gathers code of ten as lived and pronounced by the legendary elder VCJ of the Santa Barbara hills.  Track 1 from The Education Of The Individual Soul by East Forest, entire album (including this track) available as a downloadable gift at http://music.eastforest.org.

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East Forest plays electro-acoustic music coined "blissful" (NPR) and "immersive" (Wired). His work has appeared on Bright Antenna, Domino, Mercury KX, 1631 Recordings, Aquilo Records, as well as Tender Loving Empire & Universal/Decca.

He has three #1 albums that charted on iTunes as well as multiple top ten Billboard releases. He tours internationally.

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