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(AFORA) Inspiration

Joakin Lopez : Bells
Hakan Tuğrul : Santur
Achilleas Tigas : Ney

Zinkocisthan

There's been a while since me and Milan worked together, and I can't imagine a better way to start 2022. I've release an album inspired by planets and the cosmic energy, while Milan was releasing songs also inspired by the planets and the Universe, creating his album Wanderer through space.

So here is our first Cosmic inspirational track together.
 
Original Compostion by Night Note @mmastalka
Vocals, percussion, isochronic and binaural touch, extra pads, master by João Svayam

Check our works here:

𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲 https://soundcloud.com/mmastalka/sets/wanderer-through-space

𝗦𝘃𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗺 https://soundcloud.com/joaomsousa/sets/cosmic-movements

Jupiter Spins

Jupiter Spins | 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘃𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗺

One of the first songs of the Svayam project, normally sang with just a guitar and a couple of tibetan bowls. The past year I felt like doing a version with drums and all I could :) 
Hope you enjoy

João Svayam - guitars, drums, vocals, synths, edit and master

Raiz

𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 (𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟭)
for the album 𝘼𝙇𝙂𝙐𝙈𝘼𝙎 𝙑𝙄𝙎Õ𝙀𝙎 (𝙑𝙊𝙇.𝟭) (tba soon)

The first release for Algumas Visões (some visions) is a collab track with João Svayam (drums, percussion, mix) and Jörg S. (dan moi)
/ see more of Jörg S. at @joerxworx

The track calls the energy of the forest! See where you can go to!

Forest Feelings | 𝗝𝗼ã𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝ö𝗿𝗴

𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗼
for the album 𝘼𝙇𝙂𝙐𝙈𝘼𝙎 𝙑𝙄𝙎Õ𝙀𝙎 (𝙑𝙊𝙇.𝟭) (tba soon)

The second release for Algumas Visões (some visions) has again the collaboration of Jörg S. (flutes and saxophone)
Composed by João Svayam (midi, guitars, some percussions, mxi master) and / see more of Jörg S. at @joerxworx

The title (translated roughly to parties in the bush) is inspired by some wild psy trance parties I've been to a long time ago :D

Festas De Mato | 𝗝𝗼ã𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝ö𝗿𝗴

𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 (𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 2)
for the album 𝘼𝙇𝙂𝙐𝙈𝘼𝙎 𝙑𝙄𝙎Õ𝙀𝙎 (𝙑𝙊𝙇.𝟭) (tba soon)

Third release for Algumas Visões (some visions)is the first version of Forest Feelings (in PT the original title is «O Que Eu Na Floresta Via» (What i saw on the forest, in ENG).
The track calls the energy of the forest, with tons of different shakers, a bambu flute and some drums. 
Strongly influenced by contact with medicine forests <3

O Que Eu Na Floresta Via | 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 (𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟮)

from scratch done in two hours. it's about spontaneity: programmed drums, arp, piano - vocals, flute, percussion, each improvisation in one go. original track- afro inpired .... Enjoy my flow :-)

visitor

𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗢𝗳 𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁
for the album 𝘼𝙇𝙂𝙐𝙈𝘼𝙎 𝙑𝙄𝙎Õ𝙀𝙎 (𝙑𝙊𝙇.𝟭) (tba soon)

A new collaboration for the first volume of Alumas Visões. This time I had the pleasure to work with Steve Coombes and his amazing improvisational language with his soprano saxophone. 
The track started as a take of Handpan. I was recording a track for meditation programs, and eventually this came up: Steve liked the draft and recorded the sax. I listened to it and added sitar. And here it goes - an infinite point of light
Check Steve's work here @stevesoundcoombes

cover credit: https://www.freeimages.com/pt/photo/light-explosion-1171387

Infinite Point Of Light | 𝗝𝗼ã𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗲𝘀

7 months ago I started posting songs for 𝘼𝙇𝙂𝙐𝙈𝘼𝙎 𝙑𝙄𝙎Õ𝙀𝙎 (𝙑𝙊𝙇.𝟭)
A collaborative project that kicked out in the beggining of the year, when I was pretty much feeling very high on the energy of having a child soon! Now that my baby girl's born so is the final edition of the first volume of SOME VISIONS!

This is the last track! Released on the day the album came on @particula-records and @a-besta-label , on  CDr and Cassette editon!

Bass, Cajon, Mix and Master by João Svayam
Guitara by Tiago Eira @subasement
Poem and Vocals by Nuno Mangas Viegas @opeomaacorda

@joerxworkx suggested we shared the text in English, so here's the portuguese version (the original text) and the translation by the author
<3 Much Love Nuno!

𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘'𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗧𝗘𝗫𝗧 𝗕𝗬 𝗡𝗨𝗡𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗔𝗦 𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗚𝗔𝗦

Rasgo a casca, visto a pele
Salto pra fora do covil,
Nasci no mato, animal esquivo
Da terra filho e nativo

Atrás da rocha algo me espia
Passos cercando em meu redor
O medo sobe de fasquia
P’ra cada presa o seu predador

Mas logo escapo da emboscada
E fujo sem deixar pegada
Nariz erguido farejo o vento
Por companhia ou alimento

Os dias fogo, as noites gelo
E a fome turva-me a visão
Não é nem sonho, nem pesadelo
É só da espécie a condição

Uns dias festa, outros tristeza,
Sorriso, canto ou cicatriz
De tudo tenho uma certeza
Da selva eterno aprendiz

E já velhinho deito os ossos
No mesmo pasto que os viu nascer
Lembro os outros e lembro os nossos
Todos sangue do mesmo ser.

Sou animal, sentimental
SOU ANIMAL
Sou animal, universal.
SOU ANIMAL.

NM-V


𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘'𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗛 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡

I tear the shell, I put on the skin
I jump out of the lair,
I was born in the bush, an elusive animal
Of the land, son and native

Behind the rock something spies on me
Footsteps encircling me
Fear rises to the top
For each prey, its predator

But quickly I escape the ambush
And flee without a trace
Nose up, sniffing the wind
For company or food

Days are fire, nights: ice
And hunger blurs my vision
It's neither dream nor nightmare
It's just the species' condition

Some days a feast, others: sadness,
A smile, a song, or a scar,
Of everything I am certain
Of the jungle I'm an eternal apprentice

And as an old man I lay my bones
In the same pasture that saw them born
I remember the others and remember ours
All blood of the same being.

I'm an animal, sentimental
I AM AN ANIMAL
I am an animal, universal.
I AM AN ANIMAL.

Persistencia Animal (𝗧𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗼 𝗘𝗶𝗿𝗮 & 𝗡𝘂𝗻𝗼 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘀)

Anahata foi uma das primeiras canções de Svayam, num momento em que os meus concertos meditativos começaram a incorporar cantigas, com letra e voz a cada concerto menos tímida e mais presente. É da era de 2018, mas quis ser fechada em 2022. Gravada na Start Up Cultural de Arruda dos Vinhos, em Dezembro de 2022.

João Svayam: guitarra, baixo, voz, bateria, mix e master.

Letra:

O meu coração não é só em mim
bate com outros que batem assim
Como um tambor que nunca tem fim
arde no peito e transforma-me aqui

O meu coração não é só em mim
brilha com outros que cantam assim
Soltam no vento um canto sem fim
abro o meu peito e transformo-me aqui

Volto ao meu peito agora e aqui
Abro o meu peito transformo-me aqui
Grato ao meu peito agora e aqui
Amor no peito bate um coração

(english)
Anahata was one of Svayam's first songs, at a time when my meditative concerts began to incorporate songs, with lyrics and voice at each concert less shy and more present. It's from the 2018 era, but I wanted to finish her process in 2022. Recorded at Start Up Cultural de Arruda dos Vinhos, in December 2022.

João Svayam: guitar, bass, vocals, drums, mix and master.

Lyrics

My heart doesn't live inside of me alone
beats with others who beat like it
Like a drum that never ends
it burns in my chest and transforms me here and now

My heart doesn't live inside of me alone
shines with others who sing like this
They release an endless song in the wind
I open my chest and become here and now

I return to my chest here and now
I open my chest, I transform myself here and now
Grateful to my heart here and now
My love, inside my chest beats a heart

Anahata

𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗶𝗺𝗮 𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗴𝗼 𝗮 𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮 nasce do contacto revisitado entre a minha música e a poesia do Nuno Mangas-Viegas, com quem tenho partilhado esta sincronia entre som e palavra de tantas formas e há tanto tempo.
Musicalmente este tema é uma expressão muito autêntica de "onde eu estou agora", no que toca à forma como oiço música, componho e toco.

O poema "Queima o fogo a lenha" faz parte do livro de poesia e fotografia "Súbito Silente" e pode ser comprado aqui: https://particularec.bandcamp.com/merch/s-bito-silente-poesia-e-fotografia 

João Svayam : percussão (darbuka, tadu, cajon, djembe)cordas (guitar, bass), voz cantada
Nuno Mangas-Viegas : poema e voz declamada

𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗶𝗺𝗮 𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗴𝗼 𝗮 𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮 is born from the revisited contact between my music and the poetry of Nuno Mangas-Viegas, with whom I have shared this synchrony between sound and word in so many ways and for so long.
Musically this theme is a very authentic expression of "where I am now", in terms of how I listen to music, compose and play.

The poem "Queima o fogo a lenha" is part of the poetry and photography book "Súbito Silente" and can be purchased here: https://particularec.bandcamp.com/merch/s-bito-silente-poesia-e-fotografia

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Elif'in Hecesi'nde Yarden Cohen, Piyut / İbrani İlahi ve Doğu'nun kadim sazı ¨Ud¨ ile...

© Esra Gültekin | Van Gogh Museum

Yarden Cohen - Shaar Asher Nisgar

track for the Podcast series "Queer Frequency Modulation"
https://soundcloud.com/queerfrequencymodulation/qfm01-looking-after-the-future-with-kara-keeling

Unknown Frequencies

From the EP "The Time is Stretching"
https://zuunzug.bandcamp.com/album/the-time-is-stretching

In this musical piece, there are seven field recordings, three of them are extracts from the work of others artists, and four are from my personal recordings : 
- In a ger(yurt)in Mongolia (Ulziit Sum), 05/19/2017
- At the Mongolian New Year's Eve in Paris, 02/08/2018
- In Le Mans during a thunderstorm, 05/26/2018
- In Le Mans too, an ambiance before a concert... 09/22/2018

Ce morceau contient sept enregistrements de terrain, trois sont des samples, les quatre autres proviennent de mes propres enregistrements: 
- Dans une yourte en Mongolie (province d'Ulziit), 19/05/2017
- Au Nouvel An Mongol à Paris, 08/02/2018
- Au Mans durant un orage, 26/05/2018
- Toujours au Mans, une ambiance d'avant concert... 22/09/2017

The Time Is Stretching

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Amesha Spenta ile birlikte prova arasi takilmaca....

Santur - Hakan Tugrul 
Gitar - Selcuk B. Yalcin 
Perkusyon - Burak Inerman & Zinar Yilmaz
Bas - Mesut Almali

Free Improvisation

HERNÂNI FAUSTINO | Contrabaixo, Violoncelo e Som ambiente| Bass, Cello and Soundscape
JOÃO SOUSA | Bansuri, Sitar, Djembe, Chime, Som ambiente, Pulse Tube, Shruti, Shanti, Taças e Voz | Bansuri, Sitar, Djembe, Chime, Soundscape, Pulse Tube, Shruti, Shanti, Bowls and Voice
JORGE NUNO | Guitarra eléctrica | Electric Guitar
JOSÉ LENCASTRE | Saxofones Alto e Tenor, Som ambiente | Tenor and Alto Saxophones, Soundscape

DERDEBA [prtcl 014] 1st MAY 2020

Mistura e Master | Mixed and Masterdon April 2020 by João Sousa, Arruda dos Vinhos
Instrumentos gravados pelos músicos | Instruments recorded by the musicians March 2020
Capa, foto de | Cover photo from Nuno Mangas Viegas www.facebook.com/oparaquedasdeicaro/

If in the last album we did together we looked for the space between each of us, we now find a (almost) continuous wave that holds us in a trance, in a deep search for what exists when that space is reached by sound, by the infinite combination of sounds, of waves that circulate from our body into our instrument. 

The title of this work is inspired by a gnawa ritual, Lila or Derdeba, an ecstasy and trance ritual achieved through music, dance and sacred precepts involved in this ancestral tradition. From sunset until dawn, the drums start the trance, the women clap their hands and summon deities, the sound of the krakabas that were fused in the fire evoking transformation.

Hernâni Faustino, João Sousa, Jorge Nuno, José Lencastre - Zen Burst

Partícula began as a Podcast on webradio Stress.fm, curate by João Sousa & Tiago Eira. At the sime time both musicians started improvising with electronic music, using their live sets and computers to create live jams. Soon those jams need to be released on a label format. Partícula was born because of that by 2017.
These 3 years saw all kinds of editions, trip hop from Subasement, electronic beats by Kid, meditation music by João Sousa, harsh noise from Strigoi, electroacustic improvisation from VRILnoise.
2020 is the return of Partícula and it brings new releases, new music, free from genre, free from style. 


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@subasement
@hernani-faustino | https://hernanifaustino.bandcamp.com/
@sotsart | https://jorgenuno1.bandcamp.com/
@joaoaclopesms | https://joaosousa.bandcamp.com/
@ze-lencastre | https://joselencastre.bandcamp.com/
@a-besta-label | http://abesta.bandcamp.com/

João 𝗦𝘃𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗺, is a multi instrumentalist, music producer and yoga student / teacher. Connected with the term singer-songwriter but also diverse genres, such as music for meditation, electronic, trip-hop, ambient, free form music, and others.
Lover of nature, passionate world observer, into spiritual questioning and meditation practices.

☼ 
 Music is one of multiple ways of living fully, being whole and complete, immersed on the vastness of the world. At each music note we can redeem something more from our essence, spread it, echo it, give, receive and be. Svayam is a moment of meditation guided by sound, and it’s offered as an opportunity to be who we really are, to take from the inside what escapes our instant and automatic sensibility. João Sousa guides this voyage - personal, but collective - with a guitar, voice and bowls.
Each body touched by sound is a moment of unique love,
an inexhaustible source of energy. To create with sound is to open doors to the earth, to touch the water, feel the air and transform with fire… For a moment we understand the act of creation, we are that moment, undulating in the ethereal, taking off from matter. Each time Svayam happens, we connect profoundly with humankind, with life, with the cosmos. Let us be all and nothing, here and now, everyone and none.

Hernâni Faustino, João Sousa, Jorge Nuno, José Lencastre - Zen Burst

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