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Natura Sonora is both an album of imagined journeys and a homage to the immensity, beauty and mystery of the natural world.

The album was created during the first Covid-19 lockdown from my 40sqm flat in a Parisian suburb, dreaming of the beauty of the outside world.

The concept was to use music as a tool to go on an imagined journey to some of the world’s most beautiful natural places - an escape from the same view from my window of a grey, urban environment during lockdown. I chose nine stunningly beautiful, strange and mysterious corners of the world I have always dreamt of visiting but never have. I immersed myself in these places, watching video, photographs and seeking out recordings of how they sound.

These recordings became the foundation for each track, from creaking ice to underwater mangroves, goats and birds to rain and rivers, each sound has its own story to tell. I would place the ‘found sound’ recording into Ableton, hook up my Digitone synth or some drum kits and start to explore and experiment alongside the sound. I also took a lot of inspiration from sound ecologists like Bernie Kraus’ work on the musicality of nature and how sound can be a measure of an ecosystem’s health.

Natura Sonora is an ode to the majesty of nature and its power to inspire, a reminder that despite our attempts to control it, we remain in awe of its power, its beauty and its mystery. It is also an ode to the imagination, to travelling without moving and how, despite the hardship, the pandemic also pushed our creative boundaries.

I couldn’t imagine a better artwork to accompany this album than this incredible piece by Tomás Sánchez, one of Cuba’s most important living artists. His stunningly detailed landscapes explore the beauty and loss of our natural world, depicting a utopic, untouched, dreamlike scene which no longer exists and often placing a lone figure meditating before a lush, wild, green backdrop.

His work presents a paradox of mourning for what we have destroyed alongside hope and a vision of what we are trying to save - a symbol of hope within chaos.

Natura Sonora

El Búho - Altai Feat. Aeve Ribbons

*Recorded Live at Ecstatic Dance Hof Hacarmel 16.4.22*
When Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine unite as one sacred entity , the real soul essence can shine and find its way to manifest in form , true peace and harmony express their most vibrant light of the divine. 
this journey was created at a special ecstatic event dedicated to the feminine, however the real divine feminine will always empower and celebrate this sacred union of both polarities. 
hope this transmission will heal and transform your inner being to find unity within and out between each and every one of us until peace will be our natural state of being . 
love, Yonder 
*tracklist added soon*

The Sacred Union ⚭ Ecstatic For Peace ⚭ Spring 2022

Tara (Caricias Cosmicas),  is a Song or a place where some melodies and vibrational frequencies come together.
Meditation in to develop Ahimsa (Compassion for all living beings), Metta (unconditional love and kindness), shunyata (Emptiness). 
feeling like the universe give you cosmic Caresses.

"Tara (Caricias Cosmicas)" is the second song of this Winter Solstice Vibe.

Tara 
(Sanskrit: तारा, tārā; Standard Tibetan: སྒྲོལ་མ, dölma), Ārya Tārā, or śyāmatārā, also known as Jetsün Dölma (Tibetan: rje btsun sgrol ma), 
is an important figure in Buddhism, especially revered in Vajrayana Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism. 

She appears as a female bodhisattva in Buddhism, and as a female Buddha in Vajrayana Buddhism. She is known as the "mother of liberation", and represents the virtues of success in work and achievements.

Tārā is a meditation deity revered by practitioners of the Tibetan branch of Vajrayana Buddhism to develop certain inner qualities and to understand outer, inner and secret teachings such as karuṇā (compassion), mettā (loving-kindness), and shunyata (emptiness). Tārā may more properly be understood as different aspects of the same quality, as bodhisattvas are often considered personifications of Buddhist methods. Tara is one of the most important Buddhist goddesses in Tibetan Buddhism.

Within Tibetan Buddhism Tārā is regarded as a bodhisattva of compassion and action. She is the female aspect of Avalokiteśvara.
Tashi Delek

Composition, Production, Mixing By 
@Intiche
Organica Studios Berlin
Master by
@Tilmann Wasser

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Tārā (Caricias Cosmicas)

Tacking the Sand**

*Tacking the Sand* is a high-energy, psychedelic dance album built for endless nights on the floor. Inspired by the image of a sailboat racing so close to the limit that its keel touches the sand, the record captures the adrenaline rush of risk, the euphoria of speed, and the hypnotic power of music that never lets go.

With **driving beats, spiraling synths, and mind-bending layers of sound**, each track pushes higher and harder, like waves that refuse to break. The album is pure momentum: vibrant, trippy, and unstoppable — a soundtrack for those who love to dance at the edge of chaos.

*Tacking the Sand* is not just a record. It’s a ride beyond the limit.

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*Tacking the Sand* es un álbum de dance psicodélico y explosivo, creado para noches infinitas en la pista. Inspirado en la imagen de un velero en regata que vira tan al límite que su quilla toca la arena, el disco transmite la **adrenalina del riesgo, la euforia de la velocidad y la fuerza hipnótica de una música que no suelta nunca**.

Con **beats intensos, sintetizadores en espiral y capas sonoras alucinantes**, cada track sube más alto y más fuerte, como olas que nunca se detienen. El álbum es puro movimiento: vibrante, lisérgico e imparable — una banda sonora para quienes bailan al filo del caos.

*Tacking the Sand* no es solo un disco. Es un viaje más allá del límite.




Light Leak Groove-1

Bleeding Hours [Darkwave Sound Concept]

Recorded @ Sofar Sounds Sydney on 31/03/2016
https://www.sofarsounds.com/sydney

Recording Team: Jye Hannan, Steph Louise and Joe Sharratt
Mixing Engineer: Bryce Taylor


Flowers

@steffenkirchhoff

What a year! 

We met so many great artists, made a bunch of new friends and had one heck of a summer. 
Watching this community grow bigger made us want to create an appropriate picture of the things that already sprung from it and also of things to come. 

Trying to condense all the creativity that came to life during the past few months, we put together something that reflects our journey and features as many of the directions we're headed in as possible. 

♥ Thank you all for the love and support so far ♥ 

Teil 2 is coming soon!

Mastering by Gianni Competiello (@arutani) 

Artwork by Lucía Paz (www.luciapaz.com.ar) and Jannick Bahl

VAgabunden Teil 1

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Steffen Kirchhoff — Lunar Human

To celebrate the summer solstice we are incredibly excited to present Ñuka Shunku, the debut EP by Ecuadorian singer-songwriter Huaira. 

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Based in Quito, Huaira is one of the leading names in the emerging Ecuadorian scene of young musicians and producers seeking inspiration in the country’s folklore and reimagining what it could sound like in the 21st century. Huaira’s name first received global recognition for her collaboration with Nicola Cruz on his track Colibria, from his debut album Prender el alma but on this EP her own talent as a songwriter shines with four beautiful tracks inspired by the incredible nature around her and Ecuador’s rich ancestral roots.

On Ñuka Shunku, which means “I am pure heart” in quechua, Huaira shares a sound that seems to embody Ecuador’s incredible landscapes -  the lush rainforest, the soaring mountains and the stunning beauty of her country. She presents a new, deeper, more spiritual aspect to the organic-electronic scene, as if drawing her own voice and lyrics from the earth or madre tierra itself. In her own words:

“It is sharing a message that comes from the earth itself, from the ancestors. Tangible ideas that materialise in music to inspire, celebrate and share the roots of our untameable America, a continent that never stops to remind us of something we often forget: we live in a paradise.”

On this EP Huaira worked with three of the biggest talents from Ecuador’s new wave of folk musicians, brothers Pablo and Julio Vicencio (sons of legendary Ecuadorian folk musician Mauricio Vicencio), and guitarist Diego Illescas. An example of the collaborative nature of the global scene, Ñuka Shunku also features collaborations with fellow artists exploring the meeting of folk or roots music with electronica Rodrigo Gallardo, and El Búho alongside Alejandra Ortiz from the duo Minük.

Huaira and her band will be on tour in Europe this summer playing in seven cities and sharing their show in places like Fusion Festival in Germany, amongst others.

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Shika Shika is a collective without owners for music without borders and over its two years of existence has created a platform for artists all over the world to explore the versatility and richness of organic sounds or folkloric music through the lens of new technologies and electronic production.

Ñuka Shunku EP

Huaira - Semilla Solar

This playlist contains samples of our first TranceDance album - Forget Your Limitations. This album is full of tracks to take you on an inner journey, but is also great to just dance, listen, drive and workout

To buy the album, please go here:

https://rishiharshil.bandcamp.com/album/forget-your-limitations

Forget Your Limitations Excerpts

Time to go CrAzY excerpt hi

Sacred Heart is the debut album of electronic music producer/singer/songwriter Lux Moderna. It is her first body of all original music arising from her time living on the West Coast as an artist in The Sacred Heart Convent Collective in San Francisco. Through heart-infused vocals, simple, uplifting lyrics, and driving, experimental downtempo bass music, Lux connects to all through the vessel of her being and is deeply grateful for all beings who choose to listen and witness the alchemy of her light, sound and consciousness as she meets the dawn of her life as art.

Medicine

Deep in the subterranean worlds, the inaudible tones of deep cycles and cosmic movements emanate ancient languages that can only be felt. Chained by our own mind, in cages of our own creation we can only understand by setting our bodies free to move and dance, still chained, our voices to sing and speak, as we break the weight, that provides us with the strength to walk this path. The songs born of pure geometries, rise through chaos, imperfectly expressing integral aspects of creation, through us. These pulses, beyond thought - stemming from roots of purity and wholeness - guide us to our greatness.

Dance. Set yourself Free. Sing. Become that which you seek.

Mother Pulse

Happy to share this esctatic journey 
to ignite, uplift and harmonize  
the new energies all around
to release and awaken the body and spirit
created with love and devotion 
with prayer of balance and integrity to all beings
recorded live at morning ecstatic dance pardes hana on 23/6/2020
blessings to all
Yonder

Back To Harmonics ☼ Morning Glory Ecstatic Dance Journey

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Snatam kaur DAB (remix)

Help is a mix made to Help in difficult situations in e.g. plant medicine ceremonies, and are as such a supplement to my long 7h+ 3-part ceremony mixes such as "Everywhere the Magic", "This Journey We Take" and "The End of the Beginning". These long journey mixes use - for the peak - an alternation between deepening/pushing music and comforting/holding music. But occasionally this will be to much for a ceremony participant. And then this mix can hopefully help to ground and make the situation bearable again. Many of the tracks have simple repetitive lyrics or mantras, which it also can help to sing along on.

And of course you are also just welcome to listen and enjoy the music, without the need for any Help ;) 

The mix was first streamed live from the Danish Psychedelic Society's Thank You Plant Medicine event 20.Feb.2021

Artwork: Own photo from a magical ceremony place in Holland

If you like the individual tracks I have used, please support the artists. Link to their Soundcloud/Bandcamp/other sites are provided with the tracklist.

00:32 Maneesh de Moor - Grandfather's Icaro - https://maneeshdemoor.bandcamp.com/
07:56 Rainer Scheurenbrand - Madre - https://rainerscheurenbrand.bandcamp.com/
12:41 Tara Divina - Be Love - https://taradivina.bandcamp.com/
17:11 Miss GreenDream - Healing Song - https://missgreendream.bandcamp.com/
22:34 Nick Barber - Teacher in the Forest - https://nickbarber.bandcamp.com/
29:14 Majbritte Ulrikkeholm & Søren Frieboe - http://soerenfrieboe.dk/wp_new/udgivelser/songs-of-the-earth/
36:03 Suddha - Om Tara - https://malimba.com/album/183396/in-her-name-mp3
48:50 Alexa Sunshine Rose - I Release Control - https://alexasunshinerose.bandcamp.com/ 
55:07 Jenifer Berezan - Returning - https://jenniferberezan.com/
1:05:42 Shastro & Nanda Re - Body Flow - https://malimba.com/album/186286/bodyhealing
1:32:00 Adrian Freedman - Rainha Das Águas - https://adrianfreedman.bandcamp.com/
Small bits used of Jah Levi - Ayahuasca ambience - https://soundcloud.com/jah-levi

Help

www.luxmoderna.com

Performance Artist :: Producer

Lux Moderna is a being in service to ritual, performance and community. She is an artist that embodies and expresses her divine gifts in order to elevate others into their own embodiment of Truth. She specializes in electronic music production, singing, mantra, ceremony design and facilitation, neuroscience, mythology, and alchemical art. Lux Moderna dedicates her being to a conscious, heart-centered experiential approach to facilitating mass entrainment with the creative essence of the universe.

Medicine

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