An intriguing journey through a beautiful forest.  This is the first collaboration that VictorYbril (Spain - soundscape) and MATJAMI (the Netherlands - percussion and gong drones) have produced via Soundcloud and We Transfer. Play not so loud over big speakers or a good headphone, otherwise you'll miss the heart beat...
Please also check our prelude "Sleeping Sun - VMM-Style"
 
Victor first created the soothing and mysterious sounds , and also painted the cover illustration after we finished the recordings. MATJAMI brought in the high-toned metal beacon sound, and then added the heart beat on the deep bass drum and the rythm on the Balinese kempli. Finally, we added the fast clicking sounds of the bat in the background (courtesy and permission of Fintan O'Brien, a brilliant and inspiring field recording specialist also on Soundcloud).
Enjoy, relax, meander with the flow of the river. 

MATJAMI and VictorYibril - Victor Meets MATJAMI

MATJAMI: Acoustic-electronic soundscapes, deep beats, slow trance, empty space: meditation by listening and playing. 
Tip: Use good speakers or headphones to enjoy the rich, deep sounds and binaural recordings.

We three at MATJAMI (Marcel Bode, Tjalling de Leeuw, Mike de Leeuw) develop our sounds and grooves as we interact live, using our bronze, wooden and stringed instruments, (Balinese gamelan & gongs, bowls, Tibetan horns, Chinese guxing & gongs, Javanese kendang drums, timpani, beer bottles) with Native electronics, samples and live loops. The quality and the texture of our sounds are at least as important as the composition. 
We play our sessions 'on the fly', where one of us starts and the rest comes in at leisure... All you hear here was recorded live, with only some simple stereo and eq mixing afterwards.
We love to perform in open areas, theaters, level stage, and spaces with a special feel to them; a small audience is just as nice.
Recently we started collaborating with other audio-artists like VictorYibril, Fintan O'Brien and Phlip Smith (G.A.), Miraela, and Augenmerk, combining their very different music styles, field recordings and soundscapes with our beats and sounds. 
Connect at mike@branchingtree.com

"...En calma, algo que no se entera.
En la gran serenidad.
Con inmensa indiferencia
planea silenciosamente en lo alto.
Es la inmovilidad
que se mueve obediente a la luz.
Abandonada a la divina voluntad.
Ensimismada y ofreciendose a la par.
Un movimiento que no es de traslación ni alteración
y que es calma profunda, quietud..."
(Maria Zambrano)

To hear more of my music
https://soundcloud.com/victoryibril
https://soundcloud.com/victoryibril2

Sometimes I do the music that I would have liked to listen to, other times the music emerges alone and it surprises me.
I feel closer to the sound than to the music
My music is not meant to be heard only with the ears but with the whole full body.

To hear more of my music
https://soundcloud.com/victoryibril
https://soundcloud.com/victoryibril-homemusic