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!  :-)

Pena Chodron

https://youtu.be/ZH5feXnjZoU - music video

Lightforms

Port Mone do not trying to be avantgarde. They are. They reached excellent instrumental compositions that connects the whole palette of modern classical music from rock, ambient, psychedelic and extraavantgarde experimental music to pop-music. With only three instruments this band could unite the essence of all modern musical culture legacy into brand-new stylistic form. They brings something new big and geniusly performed to the basement of known cultural legacy. And it can't be boring.

Horvi Tehac (terapija.net)

Port Mone - Crossing

Why Should We Meditate?

Beloved teacher Pema Chödrön has been at the forefront of spreading awareness of Buddhist practice in the West for nearly four decades. In this excerpt drawn from Ani Pema’s audio program Pure Meditation, she considers why it is that we are drawn to meditation and what we gain from its practice. In the words of Sounds True producer Matt Licata, “Pema has a real gift of reaching beyond tradition and into the heart of the modern person who is yearning for true spiritual awakening. Pema’s description of the radical act of meditation is both inspiring and clarifying.”

Why Should We Meditate - by Pema Chodron

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)

Zlatni rez / Ovozemaljske stvari

Iv/An - Zlatni Rez

Fully Alive

Fully Alive by Pema Chodron - Sample

Planetarium 12" EP out now on Smalltown Supersound w/Remixes by Gigi Masin.
smarturl.it/sts31612-retail

Safe

from 'Sanctuary' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den284
available on all formats from [http://denovali.com/mariodiazdeleon]

Performed by the brilliant TAK Ensemble, “Sanctuary” is a ritualistic masterwork of modern classical music, combining acoustic and electronic elements with visionary intensity.

For the third full length document of his classical works, Mario Diaz de Leon presents his most unified offering to date, distilling the modernistic hellfire of his previous releases to a crystalline essence. “Sanctuary” is an album length piece created in collaboration with TAK Ensemble, a brilliant NYC based quintet devoted to energetic and virtuosic performances of contemporary music. Featuring soprano voice, flute, violin, bass clarinet, marimba, and the composer’s own synthesizer work, the album is a hypnotic and ritualistic journey through realms of angelic and demonic experience.

Since 2002, Mario Diaz de Leon has created a significant body of new works for acoustic instruments and electronics. Following his teenage years playing hardcore punk, metal, and electronic music, Diaz de Leon was inspired by the mystically oriented modernisms of Stockhausen, Scelsi, Messiaen, and Dumitrescu, and soon after developed his signature style while a student at Oberlin Conservatory. His debut album as composer, "Enter Houses Of" was released in 2009 on John Zorn's Tzadik label, and praised by the New York Times for its "hallucinatory intensity". A second album, entitled "The Soul is the Arena", was released in 2015 on Denovali, and was named a notable recording of the year by New Yorker Magazine. Pitchfork wrote that the album "combines his interests seamlessly into music that throbs with snarling exuberance." Both releases were performed by his longtime collaborators in the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).

He currently leads the metal band Luminous Vault as vocalist and guitarist, whose “Charismata” EP was released on Profound Lore Records in spring 2017. From 2012-2016, his solo electronic project Oneirogen (o-NI-ro-jen) toured internationally and released three full length albums on Denovali. He collaborated with director Zev Deans to create the score for Alien: Biotic, a short film commissioned by Fox as part of the official Alien: Covenant campaign. In 2016, the Los Angeles Philharmonic commissioned and premiered his “Lightmass” for their “Noon to Midnight” festival of contemporary music. He has also collaborated with Nate Young of Wolf Eyes on “Standard Deviance One”, which they recently performed at Tectonics Festival Glasgow with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Born in Minnesota, he has lived in in New York City since 2004, and received a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University in 2013, where he currently teaches.

“21st century chamber music that combines crystalline clarity with the disorienting turbulence of a sonic vortex.” - WIRE Magazine

“Plenty of people can write a one-off ‘amplified’ piece for chamber musicians, but few artists have built a language as stable and rewarding as Diaz de Leon’s.” - Pitchfork

TAK ENSEMBLE
Laura Cocks - flute
Liam Kinson - bass clarinet, clarinet
Charlotte Mundy - voice
Marina Kifferstein - violin
Ellery Trafford - marimba, percussion
with Mario Diaz de Leon - synthesizer

Sanctuary

Mario Diaz de Leon - Sanctuary

Pema Ch&ouml;dr&ouml;n's perennially best-selling classic on overcoming life's difficulties cuts to the heart of spirituality and personal growth--now in a newly designed 20th-anniversary edition with a new afterword by Pema--makes for a perfect gift and addition to one's spiritual library. How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apart&mdash;when we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Ch&ouml;dr&ouml;n suggests, might be just the opposite of what you expect. Here, in her most beloved and acclaimed work, Pema shows that moving toward painful situations and becoming intimate with them can open up our hearts in ways we never before imagined. Drawing from traditional Buddhist wisdom, she offers life-changing tools for transforming suffering and negative patterns into habitual ease and boundless joy.

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön, read by Cassandra Campbell

Start Where You Are&#160;is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Ch&ouml;dr&ouml;n presents down-to-earth guidance on how we can "start where we are"&mdash;embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives. Pema Ch&ouml;dr&ouml;n frames her teachings on compassion around fifty-nine traditional Tibetan Buddhist maxims, or slogans, such as: "Always apply only a joyful state of mind," "Don't seek others' pain as the limbs of your own happiness," and "Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment."&#160; Working with these slogans and through the practice of meditation,&#160;Start Where You Are&#160;shows how we can all develop the courage to work with our inner pain and discover joy, well-being, and confidence.

Start Where You Are by Pema Chödrön, read by Joanna Rotte

One of the best ways to bring meditation off the cushion and into everyday life is to practice lojong (or mind training). For centuries, Tibetans have used fifty-nine powerful mind-training slogans as a way to transform life&rsquo;s ordinary situations into opportunities for awakening. In this audiobook program, Pema Ch&ouml;dr&ouml;n presents her definitive teachings on lojong. She offers an overview of the practice and goes on to provide inspiring commentary on the slogans while paying special attention to how to apply them on the spot in our daily lives. This program include: &#160;&#160;&#160;&bull;&#160;Practical commentary to enhance our understanding of the lojong slogans &#160;&#160;&#160;&bull;&#160;Seven writing and reflection exercises to help us engage deeply with the slogans &#160;&#160;&#160;&bull;&#160;Meditation instructions to help us relax, let go, and uncover our uncaught-up mind &#160;&#160;&#160;&bull;&#160;On-the-spot methods to deepen our bodhichitta, our compassion for all beings &#160;&#160;&#160;&bull;&#160;Question-and-answer sessions that address some of the most common issues that arise in lojong practice &#160;&#160;&#160;&bull;&#160;Two guided meditations on tonglen&mdash;a compassion practice based on the understanding that the very thing that triggers suffering can become the foundation of happiness

Be Grateful to Everyone by Pema Chödrön, read by Pema Chödrön

#♭

text by Emily Dickinson

Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love;
It is enough, the freight should be
Proportioned to the groove.

picture by Vaidas Jokubauskas Photography

SOFIIA - That Love

Unknown Album

どんな言葉も単なる言葉です

Premiered by self-titled: https://www.self-titledmag.com/heinali-new-album-madrigals/

Credits:
Igor Zavgorodnii: baroque viola, violin.
Oleg Shpudeiko: modular synthesizer, mixing.
Recorded by Vadyk Lazariev at LipkyZvukoZapys in Kyiv (December 2019)
Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering.
Cover art by Nastia Lopatiuk.

‘Madrigals’ is the result of a two-year-long exploration into generative counterpoint in modular synthesis. Inspired by Heinali’s love of the polyphonic compositional style of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, the album employs historical acoustic instruments such as the theorbo lute and the baroque alto viola alongside Heinali’s mastery of notoriously complex generative synth systems.

Heinali - Beatrice

The long-awaited compilation of "Si us plau" by Chilean label @iranwymorganizacion

The collection consists of 12 tracks, which includes artists from Chile, Tunisia, Spain, Russia, the United States and Denmark.

The compilation also includes my new track Dalila Delarosa - Don't fade away. This track is associated with the most pleasant feelings and memories. This is the first time I've used my voice in music.

I am madly glad and grateful to everyone involved. Listen and dive

Don't Fade Away

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

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

MATJAMI

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