love the use of metallic sounds and the nice deep sound foundation

Extraordinary! About your question in the description: "Still don't known if you should play this first and then Under the Surface, or the other way around... what do you think?" I prefer the calm and so beautiful panorama of "Under the Surface" first and then this... Maybe "Under the Surface" could be played again after this one, something like "returning home" sensation to the base, driven by the Tjalling's drone. Awesome production, Matjami!  :-)

Ambient Poetry, new thing in our repetoire... listen to 'Soul Fury' as well.
A bit dark starting point, but ulimately it is about love, tenderness and the strength to be true. Snippets of a speech by Pema Chödrön which she held in Sept 1999 titled: "What are we afraid of?". 

Music created and played by Marcel, Tjalling's drone was transplanted entirely from our track "Under the Surface", and the whole thing was  re-mixed and 'spiced' by Mike (finally, he did not use that bass drum!).
Still don't know if you should play this first and then Under the Surface, or the other way around... what do you think?

What are we afraid of? (feat. quotes by Pema Chödrön)

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

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