This piece was intended to be a movement in "The Silver Chord", a suite in A minor for grand piano, violoncello and double bass.

Link:
http://soundcloud.com/thesilverchord/the-silver-chord-1

The piano part consists of a single note repeated in the fashion that sonar pulses are used for locating submarines.
The cello and violin are meant to represent engine rumble.
The double bass plays almost subsonic notes to resemble depth charges. It takes good speakers or headphones to hear these properly.
On top of this canvas a simple sequence of melodic phrases are played on the Armenian duduk.

Infra

I started writing this piece during the uprising in Egypt with my friends there in mind.
A very much unfinnished and sketchy structure.

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Kanon Kairo

This is a part of:

The Silver Chord - Suite for grand piano, violoncello and double bass

Check out the whole suite here:
http://soundcloud.com/thesilverchord project by Gopi

This is a version of part 1 in the suite arranged for choir and grand piano.
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The Silver Chord (Part 1 - Frozen Flowers) for choir

As the tears of a weeping fish is not seen in the creek
and the flight of a crane renders no footprints across the sky
thus the coming and going of the mystic is not known

Triad of Wise Men

A slight improvisation on theorb (Baroque lute), Fazioli grand piano, Armenian duduk and cello.
The scale is an old favorite of mine.
As old as the wide road of deception, heartlessness and "religious" hypocrisy.

एकम् सत्, विप्राः बहुधा वदन्ति

Ekam sat - vipraah bahudhaa vadanti (Rig Veda 1:164:46)

The truth is one - those (with) vibrant (hearts) speak of it in manifold ways

On the Road to Damascus Blues

New version.

This piece was first posted here in April 2010.

Thanks to the 150+ listeners to previous versions of this tune.


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Blue Orient

Third version of this sketch.

Thanks to all mates who listened to the previous versions.

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No More Words

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As the tears of a weeping fish is not seen in the creek
and the flight of a crane renders no footprints across the sky
thus the coming and going of the mystic is not known


* * *

My quest is the unspoken, the timeless tacit phrases, the inherent and the inherited.

I am collecting the eternal dust of passed days and the imprints of wayfarers, rambling through the age-old deserts of inner search.

Gathering the resounding tunes of the parched wadis, where the ancient creeks with their greenery are now latent, and the remote landscapes where the rivers were once filled with rejoicing swimmers.

Picking the archetypal sprouting nomadic tones like dormant blossoms beneath sand and rocks.

Seeking out the caves of the ascetic minimal, the simplistic modal, the vibrant and sober longing and ecstasy, still resonant with the songs of our spinal flute.

Pursuing the archaic value of every individual note, the microtonal fragments and the spaces of silence roaming in-between.


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I'm an autodidact, having no formal education or knowledge of music theory.

Born in Sweden, I've spent most of my life on the road throughout the orient and India.
As a hindu monk I hitchhiked between Sweden and India - crossing the Orient by all sorts of vehicles ranging from dromedary carts to lorries - whenever I needed to travel during those eleven years.
Though mainly I was rambling around India.
Anyhow, the Orient has made some impressions in my mind.

Never had a camera back then.
Never wrote any music.
All my impressions just piled up.
Now I'm tapping a few humble drops out of the barrel...

Gopi

Gopi

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