Akasha is the third offering of the Kuya Sessions. Cura led us on a shamanic journey of body-centered awareness. Our journey continued in Samadhi, unifying individual and universal consciousness. We are now prepared to enter the exquisitely ethereal realm of Akasha. The gentle welcoming melody in “Path of Illumination” relaxes us in preparation for our journey. Vocalist Meagan Chandler sings four of the ninety-nine names of Allah as Poranguí sings four names of god in different African traditions. This invocation, joining male and female and diverse cultural traditions, serves as a prayer for protection as we gradually remove the veil and dissolve into the cosmic memory of divine consciousness. We are becoming formless, egoless, as we float in the liminal space between life and death. The cosmos slows down. Vulnerable and open to the benevolent pulse of the universe, we are drawn into the inner sanctum of the akashic womb. 

In “Eternal Horizons” a soothing female voice, accompanied by cello and piano, sings a sailor’s folk song, guiding us deeper into the sea of love and loss, encouraging us to surrender more, to shed that which no longer serves. We know that we must let go in order to move on, that we must metaphorically die in order to be reborn, the eternal return. As we sail towards the event horizon and pass the point of no return, we are greeted by a gentle male voice that embraces us in compassion as it slowly delivers us to a brand new world, where we are bathed in peace, love, and understanding. 

It is time to come home to the “Heart of the Mother,” where we can integrate our cosmic journey in the warm arms of our beloved Pachamama. From our experience of ethereal awareness, we have come to truly know in the deepest depths of souls that everything is being held as is meant to be, that we are safe and whole, that we are protected by the supreme love of energetic forces that lie beyond the beyond. We see that our own capacity for love, as fragile as our earthly bodies and yet as infinite as the akashic realm of which it is a part, makes an essential contribution to the unfolding divine plan.

Embedded within the sonic signature of the world’s oldest musical lineages and enhanced with field recordings and samples from across the globe, Kuya Sessions: Akasha is best experienced in its Journey Mix format, where the boundaries between the three movements are as ephemeral as the voyage itself. In preparation for embarking on this ritualistic path, one is invited to create an environment for inner-exploration with the help of a quiet and dark room, headphones, an eye mask, and an intention of healing and discovery. 

Akasha draws upon a grounding array of ancient instruments, field recordings, Celtic runes, and therapeutic musical stylings while showcasing Poranguí and Liquid Bloom’s magical, multi-dimensional sound. Distilled from the intention of providing listeners a path toward healing and a safe space from which to embark on that odyssey, Kuya Sessions: Akasha will continue to reveal itself with each subsequent visit for all who desire its therapeutic guidance. 

The Kuya Sessions were created by Poranguí and Liquid Bloom for Kuya, in support of paradigm-shifting medicine and therapeutics to help people transform their lives into lives they love. Akasha offers seekers a soundtrack for their journeys toward rebalancing, and is now lovingly shared with listeners everywhere on behalf of Kuya and the artists.


Album Credits:

Produced, Composed, Engineered, & Mixed by Poranguí & Amani Friend (Liquid Bloom) 

Guest Artists: 
Meagan Chandler (Female Vocals)
Andrew Tumason (Piano)
Michael Kott (Cello, Tracks 2 and 4)

Mastering: Gregor Zemljic 
Artwork: El Tripador
Liner Notes: Edhi Shanken

© Sol Creation Records 2022

Kuya Sessions Akasha - Journey Mix

Tracklist:
1. Carbon Based Lifeforms - Abiogenesis
2. Ambientium - Star Birthday 
3. Human Blue - Spectral
4. Solar Fields - Jeezlh
5. Ulrich Schnauss - Monday Paracetamol
6. Galaxy - Disidentification
7. Hol Baumann - Handwritten Notes
8. Hibernation - Reflected
9. Bluetech - Forgiveness
10. Ganja Beats - The Lost Forest
11.Omnimotion - Being
12. Lil Hirakawa - Waterward

My deepest gratitude goes to all the artists for the heart opening music <3

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Blossom

A live collaboration between myself and @Sarah Conner taken from a Boulder Ecstatic Dance Closing Sound Healing. Now that was one of those jams that just blows you away!

Sarah Conner Sound Healing Collaboration at Boulder Ecstatic Dance

Asudha Yoga Dub Grooves

Cave Dwellings

Recording of the Ecstatic Dance I played at Shivari - Koh Phangan during EQUINOX celebration right after Orka's magical show and performance!
Enjoy the Journey and Ride its Waves


EQUINOX Ecstatic Dance Shivari - 21_03_25

Movement is a live DJ set of ecstatic dance in the dark by Yaniv Tzadick
a place to be yourself with whatever rises.
This night session was all about lifting the inner energy in days it feels hard to lift up from the realty around 
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playlist by amazing creators down below

Nirvana - Something In The Way
Camila y Silvio  - Camino de vuelta
MD Pallavi, Andi Otto - Six (Center Of The Universe Remix)
Temple Step - Raio - Ven Gran Espiritu (Temple Step Remix)
Baja Frequencia, Blimes Brixton - Piranha
Mudimbi & The Clerk  - Supercalifrigida
1997 - Alegria 24
Akriza - Umoja
ATLAST - Jail Break
SOOHAN - Asyamo!
Bandali Family & TroyBoi - Do You Love Me
MORiLLO - The Bizarre Bazaar
Baiuca feat. Lilaina & Xosé Lois Romero - Lavandeira
Vinzoo - Zinzolin
Maugli - Wembo Wembo
Yemen Blues - Jat Mahibathi
808 Conglomerate - Zero Gravity
LADRAO - Ottoman (Original Mix)
Kadir & Burak - Catch
KR3TURE - TRUTH (feat. Truth Now)
Tikki Masala - Le Serpent rmx (Tikki Masala & Gowax)
Elias Fassos & Risk (GR) - Pandora
Majnoon/Aliye Mutlu/Erdi Arslan - Demedim mi ? (Avare Remix)
Cafe De Anatolia, Aksil - Yemen Blues 
KiT, Gregor Salto - Otro Dia (Dave Ruthwell & David MV Remix)
Tarante Groove Machine - Farha Farha
Zovah,NITESHADE - Bass Distortion
Fred Again, Four Tet, Skrillex - Baby Again..
Buraka Som Sistema - Hangover (BaBaBa) (Caspa Remix)
MORiLLO - MORiLLO x MonsterLuna x Adrian Johnson - Drop That
Symbolico (Iboga Records) - Recognition - 02 Bailedream
Indra's Garden - Mr. Moo - Da Doop
Psilosamples - Grupo Raizes - Desentoado (psilosamples remix)
Alex Serra - Sana Corazón (Acoustic) [feat. Sam Garrett]

Movement - THe Joy WithiN

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For bookings email bookings@desertdwellers.org

Hailing from the southwest region of the United States, AMANI has been a unique fixture in the underground electronic music scene, seasoned by over two decades of studio production and performance. From his early days at remote desert gatherings, to his constant touring of clubs and music festivals with world renowned downtempo sensation Desert Dwellers, his career has traversed many musical styles and genres. Blending world music with cutting-edge sound design, Amani Friend has amassed an enormous catalog between his projects Desert Dwellers, Liquid Bloom, and Variant Field. Traveling the international festival circuit and staying on the road with a jam-packed schedule, AMANI continues to bring his alchemy of ancient-future psychedelia to dance floors around the globe. Equally adept at sonically fueling the spirit of large yoga classes or high-energy dance floors, Amani’s sonic offerings provide a journey into the imaginative realms of movement and sound.


AMANI Dj Set @ Wanderlust - Lotus Dub Yoga Flow

Ousso guitars and engineering. 
Thank you, Prof. Laura Karpman, for teaching and introducing me to the song and Prof. Mitch Benoff, for the wonderful production session.
Lyrics translated by me.
More or less, done in an hour in one take. We suspect this to be the beginning of...something. 

Nithākam (Summertime)

MUSICIANS:
TABLA:Kumar Bose,
SITAR:Niladri Kumar,
BASS:Mohini Dey,


10 beat cycle.(KUMAR BOSE,NILADRI KUMAR AND MOHINI DEY)

Ground-breaking percussive ambient recordings to induce altered states of consciousness through ecstatic dance. Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors were a world unto themselves.

Despite featuring an extraordinary cast of musicians (with credits including Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Miles Davis, Santana, Stevie Wonder, Milton Nascimento and much more) and selling hundreds of thousands of albums, the music of Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors remains largely unheard beyond their sphere. Conceived as live, improvised soundtracks to Roth’s transcendental dance workshops, musical acclaim was never on the agenda.

Instead, for a passionate dancer and spiritual polyglot like Gabrielle Roth, movement was a means through which to channel a wide spectrum of teaching, from experimental psychology to psychedelic counter-culture. It was from this heady mix that she devised a movement meditation known as 5Rhythms, which came to define her life’s work.

As “guide and catalyst”, Roth would dance to inspire the percussion-led instrumentals that would in turn fuel her 5Rhythms workshops, stimulating a secular form of ecstatic dance with roots in Native American shamanic traditions, Afro-Brazilian Candomblé and Yoruba drumming.

Using anything from a Sioux pony drum to East African kihembe and Japanese Kabuki drums, Gabrielle’s lawyer-turned-drummer husband Robert Ansell set the foundational rhythms for The Mirrors’ recordings, each of which would then feature a rotating cast of friends and professional musicians.

“The secret of everything we’ve done is that we never told anybody what to play,” Robert shares. “Instead of our albums being a musical vision of one person like me or Gabrielle, they were the musical vision of a whole bunch of people.”

At times the recordings have a Middle Eastern flair, at others, West African and spiritual jazz modes come to the fore. Hints of kosmische musik, proto-house and electronic ambience are laced like LSD through the organic rhythmic structures. This was kaleidoscopic ambient music to stir the body and free the mind.

In practice, the task of synthesising these different elements fell to Scott Ansell, Robert’s son and a recording engineer whose credits now include Nile Rogers, Duran Duran, Grace Jones. With meticulous attention to detail he captured and translated the dynamic energy of each drum onto record. Their sessions became legendary, and with access to the best studios in the NYC, The Mirrors sparkled.

Despite being initially overlooked by the burgeoning ‘80s New Age market, which preferred pipes and gongs to The Mirrors’ heavy-grooving drums, Robert Ansell set up Raven Recording to self-release the music, creating a vast sonic archive of sixteen albums over almost forty years.

The breadth of Raven’s catalogue is such that curator Pol Valls had to cut an initial selection of sixty-six tracks down to the eleven featured here. What crystallises is a stunning, mind-altering collection which spans, in Pol’s words, “a variety of genres, styles, and vibes within their catalogue, whether it is emotional, esoteric, spiritual, melancholic, hypnotic, dark, or at times a combination of these elements together.”

Music for immersive and intimate environments, Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors were born from the dance. In the hands of the right DJ, at the right time, in the right place, they might just return there.

10 beat cycle.(KUMAR BOSE,NILADRI KUMAR AND MOHINI DEY)

Mohini Dey

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