Name: Sonic Diary: From Lukla to Everest Base Camp & Kalapathar by Guillermo de Llera
Duration: 22 min 38 s
Description: A Soundscape composition using geo-located recordings chronologically depicting my hike up to Everest Base Camp during Sep./Oct. 2018.

way to go, hope you don't mind if I use a snippet of this in an upcoming Radio Karagastsu! on theme of travel

this is perfect- do you know of any other artists composing soundscapes like this?

quite differenrt but you may like my Shaman at 39 degrees

The 7th Beast is the 5th track from the Asthmosis Ep. 20 years after initial work had begun on Asthmosis, the follow up Album to "Up in Smoke" is finally released as One of the Asthmatics emerges renewed from his exploratory hiatus to dive once again into the Rap/Hip-Hop paradigm. One of the Asthmatics has reentered the studio to once again bend the rules that dictate musical genres as separate aesthetic cultures and form new mestizo identities and musical hybrids between tradition, style and form.

Asthmosis. 20 Years of OOTA

the 7th Beat

The 7th Beat as One of the Asthmatics for the Asthmosis EP

So Dry Your Eyes is the 4th track of the Asthmosic EP. 20 years after initial work had begun on Asthmosis, the follow up Album to "Up in Smoke" is finally released as One of the Asthmatics emerges renewed from his exploratory hiatus to dive once again into the Rap/Hip-Hop paradigm. One of the Asthmatics has reentered the studio to once again bend the rules that dictate musical genres as separate aesthetic cultures and form new mestizo identities and musical hybrids between tradition, style and form.

Asthmosis: 20 Years of OOTA

Dry Your Eyes

So Dry Your Eyes as One of the Asthmatics for the Asthmosis EP

O Que Eu Puder is the 3rd track of the Asthmosic EP. 20 years after initial work had begun on Asthmosis, the follow up Album to "Up in Smoke" is finally released as One of the Asthmatics emerges renewed from his exploratory hiatus to dive once again into the Rap/Hip-Hop paradigm. One of the Asthmatics has reentered the studio to once again bend the rules that dictate musical genres as separate aesthetic cultures and form new mestizo identities and musical hybrids between tradition, style and form.

O Que Eu Puder

O Que Eu Puder as One of the Asthmatics for the Asthmosis EP

Ey Chiquita is the 2nd track of the Asthmosic EP. 20 years after initial work had begun on Asthmosis, the follow up Album to "Up in Smoke" is finally released as One of the Asthmatics emerges renewed from his exploratory hiatus to dive once again into the Rap/Hip-Hop paradigm. One of the Asthmatics has reentered the studio to once again bend the rules that dictate musical genres as separate aesthetic cultures and form new mestizo identities and musical hybrids between tradition, style and form. The track also belong tho Phuni Fingahz's "Feeling Mean" EP

Ey Chiquita

Ey Chiquita as Phuni Fingahz & One of the Asthmatics

Smoking Ganges is the 1st track of the Asthmosic EP. 20 years after initial work had begun on Asthmosis, the follow up Album to "Up in Smoke" is finally released as One of the Asthmatics emerges renewed from his exploratory hiatus to dive once again into the Rap/Hip-Hop paradigm. One of the Asthmatics has reentered the studio to once again bend the rules that dictate musical genres as separate aesthetic cultures and form new mestizo identities and musical hybrids between tradition, style and form.

Smoking Ganges

Smoking Ganges as One of the Asthmatics for the Asthmosis EP

What happens when you join Keela (vocalsynthesis) on vocals, George Fludas playing a John Bonham beat and Guillermo de Llera on Bass? You get this!

Thor's Bladder

Thor's Bladder as UNKN0WN feat. Keela (emvoice)

"Domingos Dreda" is the fourth release for controllerist Phuni Fingahz' premiere "Feeling Mean" EP.

Domingos Dreda

A Soundscape composition using geo-located recordings chronologically depicting my hike up to Everest Base Camp during Sep./Oct. 2018.

2018

Sonic Diary: From Lukla to Everest Base Camp & Kalapathar

This track was composed as an audio description of the experience of crossing Lukla, with the sounds of mountain water flowing through it and the busy sounds of commerce and tourism that are continuous therein. The composition then describes the walk out of Lukla, passing by a bar playing music and then beginning the trek towards Phakding with the sounds of footsteps becoming more prevalent as the music slowly fades.

Movement 1 - 25th Of September, 2018 – Lukla To Phakding

As the trek progresses, footsteps become the principal rhythm to which all other patterns relate. As we pass Upper Namche we encounter stone masons working on erecting a few more hotels, which cuts into the group conversation. The different recorded sounds are manipulated into various concurrent and overlapping rhythmic forms, then all human noise is subdued as we enter the Rhododendron forests and climb towards Namche.

Movement 2 – 26th & 27th Of September, 2018 – Phakding To Namche

The sound of yaks, cows and bulls, donkeys and horses on the trail becomes a norm as we share the same path to and from Base Camp. As we pass the porters sometimes we are able to hear songs pouring out from their portable radios. The sounds of passing helicopters that are either taking high-paying tourists straight to the top, or are picking up trekkers that are suffering from altitude sickness becomes more frequent.

Movement 4 – 29th And 30th Of September, 2018 –Tengboche To Dingboche

Tripping balls with Music since Day 1, and loving every minute of it! I make music for the movies in my head.

Music Instructor at Berklee Online; Ethnomusicologist; Interdisciplinary Artist; Singer, Musician, Composer and Producer; Solo Artist (various projects);  DJ / Radio-Selector; Activist.

EMPLOYMENT: Instructor of the 'World Music Composition Styles' class at Berklee College of Music's Berklee Online
EMPLOYMENT: CEO of kaminari records
EMPLOYMENT: Custom Writer/Producer: Lusitanian Publishing
EMPLOYMENT: Board of Directors: AMAEI (The Portuguese Independent Music Association)

EDUCATION: Masters Degree in Ethnomusicology at the Faculdade Nova, Portugal
EDUCATION: Specialist Diploma of 'General Music Studies' from Berklee College of Music
EDUCATION: Specialist Diploma of 'Producing with Pro Tools' from Berklee College of Music
EDUCATION: Two Years of Indian Tabla studies with Misha Masud in NYC
EDUCATION: Certificate of West African Percussion with the Drummer's Collective NYC

Back in 1992 a great friend of mine convinced me to try playing the Bass so I could join a cover band he was starting. One year later I had pushed the notion to him that copying was far less rewarding than doing it yourself, and we founded Primitive Reason.

To this day I’m still going strong with Primitive Reason, although I try and ‘complete’ my need for a varied musical diet with other projects, of which most are solo experiments.

Although I started with the Bass Guitar, I quickly moved on to experiment with other rhythmic languages, particularly percussion. Although I am from Madrid, Spain and born of Spanish parents, my first few years were spent in Angola where according to what I am told I became ‘hooked’ early on percussive music. Still today this is the most important feature in musical construction for me, and so obviously all the music I write has a strong rhythmic component.

I’ve been recording albums since 1995, and there are 24 releases to date that I can call my own, not counting studio recordings for other bands and projects.

Staying true to my nature as a musician I have dedicated most of my earnings to musical instruments and studio gear, so I am fortunate to have a massive collection of ethnic and modern instruments, and professional gear with which to mix and master it.

My interests are everywhere, which is, well…everything, but I do aim to write only unique and characteristic material.

Guillermo de Llera

Sonic Diary: From Lukla to Everest Base Camp & Kalapathar

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