Tawny owls recorded just after midnight in the woods around the village of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire.
Equipment: Rode NGT-1 hypercardioid condenser microphone, Tascam DR-100mk3 wav recorder. Recording is in mono.
Recorded 21/November/2020
Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, TX 13/December/2020.

Night Owls, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, UK

Listen to the birds from "A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean”, the second Volume in the series following on from "A Guide to the Birdsong of South America", originally released on Robin's label Rhythm and Roots. Volume I raised nearly 15,000 USD for two birding organisations and featured artists like Nicola Cruz, Dengue Dengue Dengue and Chancha Via Circuito.

For this second edition we have shifted focus north of the equator and to the vulnerability of bird species like the Momoto Carenado (Nicaragua), Ferminia (Cuba) and the Jamaican Blackbird (Jamaica), birds who have dwindled in numbers as a result of the environmental repercussions of climate change, deforestation and trapping for the pet trade.

For the album we chose 10 endangered or threatened bird species and challenged 10 of our favourite producers or musicians from the region. Working with the Xeno Canto birdsong community and the Macaulay Library, we sourced a recording of each bird’s song. Each artist was then asked to create an original piece of music inspired by the bird and its song.

In line with out vision at Shika Shika the curation of artists is specifically geared towards those bridging connections between traditional music and modernity, or between organic and electronic sounds. There are contributions from artists in eight different countries, ranging from Jamaica’s organic dancehall trio Equiknoxx, to Dj Jigüe, one of the leaders of Cuba’s burgeoning electronic scene. Belize’s critically renowned Garifuna Collective have been bringing the unique Garifuna culture and language to a global audience for many years, while Tamara Montenegro has been one of the leaders of Nicaragua’s electronic music scene for the past decade.

The project would not have been possible without the support of an incredible Kickstarter community, helping us raise £12,599 in August 2019.

Once the costs of production have been covered, all of the proceeds from this album will be donated to Birds Caribbean, La Asociación Ornitológica de Costa Rica and Fundacion TXORI in Mexico. All profits from the sales of the record, music streaming, poster and t-shirt will be shared between these organisations who focus on engaging local communities to help improve and grow the bird tourism sector, create awareness of vulnerable birds with young people and crucially, provide rescue, rehabilitation and breeding programmes.

El Momoto Carenado (Electron carinatum)

Life

Parfum d'Enfance

Vessel Of Dreams

An online meeting with Dr. Eve Ekman, who explores the topic of burnout prevention and the foundations of emotional balance. This session is both a valuable introduction to the science of emotions for those new to it and an important reminder to experienced practitioners.

Dr. Eve Ekman is a contemplative social scientist and teacher in the field of emotional awareness and burnout prevention. She is the co-lead instructor for CEB, an evidence-based emotional awareness training created by Dr. Paul Ekman and Buddhist scholar & teacher Lama Alan Wallace. The CEB training invites participants to investigate their driving motivations, as well as the roots of their destructive emotional episodes through tools of meditative practice and in-depth analysis of emotional events. Her workbook on Cultivating Emotional Balance, co-authored with Ryan Redman, is coming out from Wisdom Publications in 2023.

VIDEO VERSION: https://youtu.be/LdQYs8YLqTs

Open Talks

Eve Ekman – Preventing Burnout and Cultivating Emotional Balance

Ram Dass takes us on a journey outside of time and space as he explores the trance-like state known as Samadhi and what it might be like to be the guru.

Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. 15 – Samadhi

For “Bugsy” Rest in Peace brother & friend.

Mashariel records all improv sound journeys live, they are unedited, each track is a unique expression of energy in motion. 

"Four Chambers" recorded live Live in Topanga CA December, 2023.

All Rights Reserved, Mashariel Eshi (2023)

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Four Chambers (Heart Meditation)

A Father's Grief * Instrumental

Prof. John Makransky's workshop was entitled : "We are Already Held in the Qualities We Seek: An Introduction to Innate Compassion Training."

Dr. Makransky will present the theory and practice of the Innate Compassion Training Model (ICT) that he has introduced to both Western Buddhists and to people in caring roles and professions. For Western Buddhists, these forms of practice can help energize and further inform their existing contemplative and ritual practices. Each session includes lecture, meditation exercises, and Q&A.

To generate inclusive and unconditional love and compassion and the wisdom that supports them, a secure base of trust and confidence in the source of those qualities is essential. In Buddhist traditions, such a base of trust is instilled in large part by devotional practices, where practitioners experience themselves and their world to be held by those who have actualized the same unconditioned compassion and wisdom that they themselves seek to realize, i.e., the Buddhas and bodhisattvas. This kind of practice comprises the “receptive mode” of ICT. This receptive mode of meditation can help strengthen the trust needed to settle more deeply into the source of compassion and wisdom found in the deep nature of our minds. Note that attendance at all four sessions is strongly encouraged, although participants may miss sessions if necessary.

John Makransky, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology at Boston College, senior advisor for Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche’s Centre of Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute, former president of the Society of Buddhist-Christian studies, and co-founder of the Foundation for Active Compassion and Courage of Care Coalition. For the past eleven years, in consultation with his Tibetan teachers, John has been teaching meditations of innate compassion and wisdom, adapted from Tibetan Buddhism for Western Dharma students and those in caring roles and professions. As part of this effort, John developed the Innate Compassion and Wisdom Training model (ICT) that he’ll explain in these lectures. He gave workshop to the students of RYI from 24 - 27th Sept. 2019

TASCAM DR-05

Prof. John Makransky - "We are Already Held in the Qualities We Seek" Day 1

Metcha Quito Vol2

Prehispanic Groove - Shamanic Catharsis, Ground

Kumea Sound releases new album "Real Music for Unreal Times: Vol. 2".

The fourth album by the Finnish composer and sound artist Lauri Wuolio is a follow up to his similarly titled album from 2015. Recorded during the spring of 2020, the album is a hopeful reflection on physical and psychological emptiness and distances the world has been experiencing during the coronavirus lockdown.

Handpans and various string instruments (such as jouhikko, viola da gamba, cello, double bass) blend seamlessly together with electronic ambiences, many of which were produced with the experimental Russian synthesizer Soma Lyra-8.

The album, which could be described as ambient chamber music from the future, may remind of the works from Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds and Arve Henriksen, but it follows its own musical language and logic. It is melancholic yet comforting ambient work for these troubled times.

Available now digitally. Preorder vinyl/cd now at Bandcamp.

The Mass of the Sun Caused a Tear in Time II

ARTIST // PRODUCER 
Aēsh Tsahareim (Fiery) Records

Mashariel Eshi מאשריאל ישי
Currently Sojourning : Los Angeles, California

"When people give me feedback on my music they often ask if I produce soundtracks, this is a tremendous compliment to me as theatrical music is crafted for strong emotional responses. 

My  music is my play, its my expression of beauty, the simplicity intertwined with the e complexity of body, heart, mind, and soil.

I love to cook and be hospitable, music is another form of soul cooking for me, I craft it to express myself in a pleasing way that I offer to share in hope of connecting and inspiring, sharing in the common ground of the sacred art of movement in sound & soul."

"Māsh" (מאש)

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Love & Respect, ALL-Ways 

שמע ישראל יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד

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Four Chambers (Heart Meditation)

Mashariel (מאש)

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