"It's arriving, it's arriving, the new time is arriving
It's being born, it's being born, the new world is being born
Sing, with Joy, Dance, with Joy."
This was the last collaboration Daniel and I did together and today it is seeing the light of day, just as his body has left this beautiful earth.
Today, he left this world, but his Spirit is flying free and since the title of the song is called "Arriving", I feel it makes sence to welcome him into the spiritual realm in this way, so that we remember his magic, his musical genius, his childlike joy and innocence, and his spontaneous crazy self which brought me to ecstatic laughter many times. I will miss you Daniel. I am happy we got to create this before you left. May your Spirit live on in the Ecstatic Joy of your Music.

TeresaGabriel & Kraut - "Chegando (Arriving)"

Lazy River Being

David Parsons revisits gterma with a new album which was completed in 2015. Although perhaps mainly known for his panoramic and almost cinematic Himalayan soundworlds, on Puja he continues his more recent tradition of travelling the inner horizon. And in so doing, he also invites us listeners to undertake similar journeys of our own. Puja is a mysterious and magic constellation, fuelled by the spirit and discipline of the age old Asian cultures and philosophies.

Tracklist

Offerings 1 (8:35)
Offerings 2 (8:57)

Offerings 3 (8:57)
Offerings 4 (8:57)
Offerings 5 (16:24)

Offerings 6 (9:42)
Offerings 7 (12:00)

[gterma048] : David Parsons - Offerings 4 / Offerings 5

Wise Fire

Mantrica ~ Mantras in the Key of Life
Hang - James Winstanley 
Guitar & Vocals - Adam Divine
Vocals - Viriam Kaur

Recorded in India 2015

Infinity

Wahe Guru

Prahlad Tipanya Sings 'Saahib Ne Bhaang Pilaayi' - Luniyakhedi, Malwa, 2006

Firm steps

Ocean's Floor

Essência (Revisions)

Naynaeo (Binder & Steffen Ki Revision)

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.

Lazy River Being

Mukti & Siddhartha

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