This year, piano and coffee turns five, and to celebrate, we are releasing our first compilation: Realismo Mágico — a conceptual project featuring unconventional works by new and old friends we have made along the way.

Inspired by magical realism, an artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy, this special release presents unheard material by twelve exceptional musicians — from experimental sound artist Martyna Basta to award-winning film composer Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, and from poly-instrumental duo Brueder Selke to prolific pianist and producer John Hayes.

Each artist has contributed with a new track that invites the listeners to submerge into their very own musical universes, which, at the same time, have been re-shaped by their interpretation of magical realism. We start off on our journey with the delicate nostalgia of Tim Linghaus, passing through Jakob Lindhagen and Vargkvint’s modern take on the story of a Norse mythological creature, followed by the harmonic ambiguity in Simeon Walker’s pleasingly strong dialogue between felted piano and drums. Later on, John Hayes shares with us a chaotic composition born out of samples from an old clock in his parents’ garage and saturated voices, which precedes Lucy Claire’s processed hydrophone recordings of seaweeds and starfishes in Australian waters. Ondes Martenot, pump organ, zither, analogue synthesizers, vocal processing, musical saw, and bowed gongs are some of the unusual elements to be found on this eclectic yet coherently unified record.

Realismo Mágico has been conceptually crafted and musically curated by Peruvian composer Sergio Díaz De Rojas, and beautifully depicted by illustrator Jordan Amy Lee and graphic designer Celia Fernández González.

Simeon Walker - Saturnine

Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/04/02/rumi-love-gold

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

"Let's Love Each Other" by Rumi (translated and read by Haleh Liza Gafori)

Here you can listen to Derek Walcott's poem recited by Kabat-Zinn, saying a prose statement was "bound to be inadequate" in communicating his point.

Read the full poem at http://www.onbeing.org/program/opening-our-lives/138

"Love After Love" by Derek Walcott (Read by Jon Kabat-Zinn)

Sounds tuned to 528hz with Brainwave attunement harmonal Binauronics and Isochronic beats. Wonderful with headphones but works in every space that shall resonate in this Love Miracle frequency lifting the energies.

GROWING WINGS

MIRACLE WINGS - MARIO - HEMISYNC WITH 528HZ

Ambient Piano

I've been recording this piano record in my living room with a lovely American made Charles Walter upright piano that I found on Craigslist - or maybe it found me - but this record captures three weeks in June when I create some compositions with it and added a few string parts as well.  Enjoy.

Music by East Forest
Recorded in Portland Oregon in my living room.

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Doorway

For the Summer Olympics, we explore a topic our listeners have called out as a passionate force and a connector across all kinds of boundaries in American culture: running. Not just as exercise, or as a merely physical pursuit, but running as a source of bonding between parents and children and friends; running as an interplay between competition and contemplation; running and body image and survival and healing.

On Being with Krista Tippett

Billy Mills, Christina Torres, Ashley Hicks, et al. — Running as Spiritual Practice

Night Ambience at Lake Yarina [Peruvian Amazon]

Performed by Chris Green-Armytage
Composed and produced by Jim Perkins
Artwork by Jim Perkins

Drifting Upward

An exclusive track of John O'Donohue reading his poem "Beannacht" during his interview with Krista Tippett on October 1, 2007 in the studios of APM in St. Paul, Minnesota. This poem is included in the On Being show "The Inner Landscape of Beauty." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.

"Beannacht" by John O'Donohue [bonus track]

A FREE Theta Waves Yoga Nidra Guided Sleep Meditation.

Headphones are needed to experience the binaural beats/theta waves!

We must state as a disclaimer, because binaural beats/theta waves are so relaxing, please, don’t listen to this Yoga Nidra Guided Sleep Meditation whilst driving or operating machinery, enjoy this meditation in a safe and comfortable environment. 

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Theta Waves Yoga Nidra Guided Sleep Meditation

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

Billy Mills, Christina Torres, Ashley Hicks, et al. — Running as Spiritual Practice

On Being Studios

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