This is calming and thoughtful. I agree, music heals. Music is a wonderful way to share being human.  ⁓Rebecca

Nice voice! And I like the repetitive pattern of the guitar, it makes a special flow

Wonderful folk song and vocals with guitar. I enjoy it ❤️🎶

Your vocal style suits the instrumental very well! Keep it up! It‘s a unique style

This is a very lovely and intimate piece, very well done João!

Awesome guitar intro - super Jose Gonzalez vibes, awesome! Great vocal delivery

This is a cool section, has a System Of A Down vibe

𝐓𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐚 is probably the first song that I wrote that made me understand that I didn't only wanted to play instrumental music for meditation and relaxation sessions. I realized that working on music for healing I was healing myself, and needed to express all the doubts, fears, insecurities I felt towards my self, my identity, my choices and my life with others. It's from 2019 it was written on a family caravan near the beach.
Also  this is my first recording 100% made on 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐔𝐩 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐝𝐚 𝐝𝐨𝐬 𝐕𝐢𝐧𝐡𝐨𝐬, the place where I rehearse, study and record where I live, in Portugal.

João Svayam: composition, lyrics, guitar, adufe (percussion), bass, vocals, mix and master.
May 2023


lyrics 


𝐓𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐚

Sento-me incerto, caneta na mão
Tanto pensamento, tanta indecisão.
Quanto mais eu tento, menos eu consigo.
Algo em mim relembra, é só estar comigo.
*
Vejo uma semente que encontro no chão
e falo com ela, responde-me então:
olha bem para mim, sou universal,
lê nas minhas curvas um olhar igual.
Enquanto um sorriso surge nos meus lábios,
suspiram cá dentro ensinamentos sábios.
Nunca uma semente disse tanta coisa,
nunca a mim mesmo eu disse tanta coisa.
*
Cresce um girassol, nesse mesmo chão,
O seu brilho intenso beija a minha mão.
Sol que nele brilhas, brilha no meu ser
Lê nas minhas linhas o que eu não sei ler.
Pétalas e folhas envolvem-me assim
Somos o começo, o meio e o fim
Nunca uma flor mostrou tanta coisa
Nunca o meu sol disse tanta coisa
*
E agora que sinto que encontrei o centro
Limpei o que havia no meu pensamento
Lembro que inspirando calma e lentamente
Vejo tudo o que sou além da minha mente
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Tanta Coisa

João 𝗦𝘃𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗺, is a multi instrumentalist, music producer and yoga student / teacher. Connected with the term singer-songwriter but also diverse genres, such as music for meditation, electronic, trip-hop, ambient, free form music, and others.
Lover of nature, passionate world observer, into spiritual questioning and meditation practices.

☼ 
 Music is one of multiple ways of living fully, being whole and complete, immersed on the vastness of the world. At each music note we can redeem something more from our essence, spread it, echo it, give, receive and be. Svayam is a moment of meditation guided by sound, and it’s offered as an opportunity to be who we really are, to take from the inside what escapes our instant and automatic sensibility. João Sousa guides this voyage - personal, but collective - with a guitar, voice and bowls.
Each body touched by sound is a moment of unique love,
an inexhaustible source of energy. To create with sound is to open doors to the earth, to touch the water, feel the air and transform with fire… For a moment we understand the act of creation, we are that moment, undulating in the ethereal, taking off from matter. Each time Svayam happens, we connect profoundly with humankind, with life, with the cosmos. Let us be all and nothing, here and now, everyone and none.

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