A wonderfully colorful composition. Fabulously lively! ✨👍

Really wonderful track, with the best possible message. I really enjoy it so much! Very soothing excellent playing, and mixed beautifully as well.

Beautifuk indeed! Wgat an interesting guy you are, i read your bio piece. Cery interesting having travelled socextebsicely and played music in so many ensembles. What part of the world are you in? Would love to play together one day!

Nice. I like this Earl Klugh guitar like sound

Man, this is very powerful and beautiful at the same time. Fantastic guitar and trumpet!

Unique and engaging polyphonic dialogue with a really interesting and captivating harmonic background!!!

Ordinary Feelings

Please watch the video... it ties it all together. https://youtu.be/xYGT4UcOuts

While the world is focused on so many geo-political and health concerns, half of humanity is at risk from impacts of climate change. Any further delay will miss a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all. Where to start?

The Amazon is home to three million species of plants and animals, and one million indigenous people. The Amazon basin contains 20 percent of the world’s flowing fresh water.

Today, we stand in a moment of destiny. The tipping point is now.
The Amazon is under threat from deforestation and burning. Soon, half of the forest could give way to savanna, all in the name of economic development and greed. Fires are visible from space.

The moisture of the Amazon is critical for the world’s climate.
If the Amazon is destroyed, it will be impossible to control global warming.

Together, we need the will and imagination to save the fragile Amazon.

Composed and Performed by Kluane Takhini
Featuring James Hill (trumpet)

Lungs of Mother Earth

Lungs Of Mother Earth

We live in a mountainous area where people go skiing. The winters are getting warmer with less snow. This song is about the use of "snow canons" to make artificial snow.

Snow For Cash

Crossing The Divide is the lead off track from 8000 Miles second album, Crystal Confetti. It sets the tone of the album — hard hitting and pretty much non-stop — so, buckle up and enjoy the ride.

As you may notice, the cover art harkens back to a familiar cover from 1973 and that is intentional, because Andrea and Rebecca are strongly influenced by music from that time period. Many fans of 8000 Miles’ first album, Aggregate, have remarked on that influence. The title Crystal Confetti represents the clarity 8000 Miles is honing in their duo’s style and the contrast of weighted moods and flying inspirations.

The entire album, Crystal Confetti, has been released on Bandcamp. Go to https://8000miles.bandcamp.com to check it out and follow 8000 Miles on Bandcamp to get first notices of new releases.

\m/ Love Music and Stay Safe <3

Credits:
Rebecca Williams - bass, percussion, synths, production.
Andrea Pierantoni - guitars, production.
Mixing and mastering by Andrea at Never Enough Cowbell Studios.
Cover by Rebecca. 
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Crystal Confetti

Crossing The Divide

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+ the euphony of imminent screams, chaotic with agony through that which we cannot fully bear, but it is of the heart tearing, weeping, longing for the moments of love stolen

//  you sold your soul when you drank the morning dew //

When your fear becomes the engine of your mind and your anxiety and agitation pound in the brain like a jack hammer...... you just want to shut down and reset.
This is an electronic tension track with pulsating basses, heartbeats, tense percussion and a haunting melody.

Agitation

My new orchestral music piece Lamento is inspired by the current circumstances in this world. With this piece I would like to commemorate the people who have to suffer from war and the fight for their freedom and human rights. This composition should remind us that every human being has the right of freedom and a safe life. 

Link to video:
https://youtu.be/GRvyhHxoVMA

Lamento

Funky With You Part 2

I hope this song helps you get through challenges. I love you.

End of the Line

End Of The Line

Hybrid Symphony Nr°3 : Music For a Game

Beautiful Darkness

I Don't Care

I have played and recorded in international settings, a multitude of percussion instruments, guitar, bass, harmonica, some flutes, keyboard, and if you push me - a very fine jaw harp.

In fact, if I break it down.... I just love to offer-up music, in a living room, a bar, a concert hall or an intercontinental, interactive satellite coordinated concert. 
  
I became fascinated with percussive sounds from around the world… especially African and Latin American rhythms. I fanatically traveled the world collecting anything that you could bang, scrape or hit.
What I learned? Border customs people really don’t appreciate the true value of handmade African caxixi shakers or a Brazilian berimbau. They just want the serial number.
More importantly, a single clicking or ringing sound in a song can make or break that song.
  
I toured Canada, USA and Europe and recorded many “world music” albums (before it was called that), with my late, musical soul mate, Dario Domingues. We played in grand churches, the water reservoirs under Munich, on an island where 100,000 doves were released at the climax of our performance, the first-ever “simulcast”, live satellite, intercontinental concert and then, the humbling experience of being involved in Berlin, in front of 500,000 people, for a series of anti-apartheid concerts featuring ‘Sting’.  For our 'world music' efforts, we were awarded the Deutscher Schallplattenpreisan (1983) accolade by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie, an association of recording companies of Germany that recognizes outstanding achievement in the music industry.  
What I learned? Music is truly a universal language. Around the world people are drawn to music. Of course, different strokes for different folks! 
Whether you play in front of a half-million people in a field, or 10 people in a bar, your role as a musician never changes.  
 
“Dream of the Drum” – I was commissioned to compose and conduct a score for 40+ percussionists from all corners of the world... Jamaican fire dancers, Trinidadian steel drummers, Japanese kodo drummers, African djembe players, military drummers,... the list goes on.
What I learned? The language of music respects no geographic borders. 
Also, never start your outdoor concert, with a lone Native Elder's rain drum song. The drum's magic works!
 
I helped build three innovative recording studios plus, my current production studio. I academically taught musical acoustics and production for several years.
What I learned? All the mathematics and physics in the world can’t replace a good ear.
 
As a producer, I've had the wonderful opportunity to work in great studios in NYC and Nashville with amazing session musicians such as: Eric "Roscoe" Ambel - best known as lead guitarist of Steve Earle’s band the Dukes; Dan Baird of the chart-topping 'Georgia Satellites'; guitarist extraordinaire, Warner E. Hodges, founding member of 'Jason and the Scorchers'.
What I learned? Great musicians tend to be humble but they sure have opinions! In Nashville, I was bluntly told -"No, I won't raise the tom level - in country music, we use toms for holding our bourbon glass." I never did get the toms louder.
 
I spent many years as President of the Ottawa International Jazz Festival and met some of the greatest musical geniuses in the world.
What I learned? "Man, if you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
 
Music for jingles on radio and TV. Documentaries.
My personal favourite was coming up with suitable music for the mating rituals of pigs or, how to create 60 minutes of Arctic wind sounds for the movie 'Never Cry Wolf'.  
What I learned?  You can tell an entire story in a 29.5 second radio jingle and music is the glue that holds a great video together.

Lungs Of Mother Earth

Kluane Takhini

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