I would like to tell you a story of a young promising shipibo shaman who tragically passed away, his struggling family in need of support and a song collaboration that we made between the spirit and physical realms. 

When I came to Peru I experienced 4 powerful ceremony with Shipibos. I really connected energetically with one of the shamans, the youngest and most energetic one - Felipe Segundo. He had a great stamina and his Icaros were really powerful, at the same time he was a very gentle soul. I still remember when the big dose of Ayahuasca totally blew me into the fractal womb and I didn't want to come back to reality, but when I finally hearda voice telling me that he wants to sing for me and if I want to sit up and receive it. Just because of my respect for him I knew I need to be reborn into my body and so, all covered in my purge, barely seeing with one eye up and holding my self up into balance I got up and received his Icaro. Those ceremonies became the main reason why I continue to live in Peru and work with plant medicine and sound. 

After the ceremonies we promised to make a song together but I've never felt ready. Almost a year later he died tragically in a moto caro accident... I've felt I forever lost the chance to honor him with our promised song. Recently I was having a solo mushroom journey in the music studio of the Sacred Valley in Peru, I listened to some track and when it finished the next song that came on with shuffle was the recording of his Icaro from the ceremonies we shared. I wasn't aware I had it on my macbook among gigabytes of music. I understood this is no coincidence so I started working on my sound promise. 2 days ago the beother of Felipe Segundo wrote me that the family is struggling because of the COVID, they're sick and need financial support. They offer their handicrafts and need help. I understood again that these synchronicities are not an coincidence.

I am sharing the finished song to reach more people, a collaboration between the spirit and physical world, the jungle and the Sacred Valley, between me and a beautiful soul that won't sing again in the ceremony but his voice will always stay in the energetic body and DNA of the people he helped. Our promise is now complete brother. 
This is his last Icaro...

RAQ - The Last Icaro (feat. Maestro Felipe II)

Lux Familiar i ja - Dla wszystkich palaczy! 

RAQ & LUX - Liście Palę

This is the live recording from Dreamersland Festival 2023, an improvised Ecstatic Dance dj set made up of my favorite dance tracks from the last 4 years of djing in Ecstatic Dance events in Peru, Mexico, Costa Rica, Poland, Germany, UK, Romania, Greece, Norway, Japan. Normally in E Dance I would also play a slower ending to ground people back to meditative state but since it was a short set in a festival setting it was way more difficult to do it the traditional way. Hope you still enjoy! 

Artwork by @willtoulan (IG)

RAQ - Ecstatic Dance set at Dreamersland 2023

Full Ecstatic Dance Journey at Sacred Soul Fest 2023 in Portugal.

RAQ - Full Ecstatic Dance Journey at Sacred Soul Fest 2023

"STOP WARS"
EP by Dawid „raq” Rakowski

video:

Long time ago in a galaxy far far away, on the planet Earth, a conceptual EP with a message of peace, was created. And although it won't be a smash hit of the radio and a dancefloor killer in the disco, it may still make a few people turn to the light side of the force...

cover art by FINK ART
video by snorbes
mastering by February Studio

The Illusion Of Separateness

It’s been a while since I posted here anything worth your attention, after years of promoting events, music and spreading consciousness I finally needed to log out and focus on here & now, in order to engage more in working with sacred plants, sound, nature and myself. The right time has finally come to break the silence.

  This Saturday 13.04.19 I will be performing for the first time in Peru. Supporting a noble cause, a SOS AMAZôNIA Benefit Festival organized in order to collect money for planting trees in the amazon forest of Brazil. New president of Brazil threatened to take away a big part of it’s land from the natives and cut its forests to the ground. In order to defend the lungs of our planet we are uniting in art. I contribute my performance and some new tracks I made during my journey here. If you would also like to support the cause you can do it by joining us this Saturday or buying the tracks on my bandcamp (if you can’t support, they’re free to download anyway).

  I am inviting you on this amazing journey that made me fall in love with Peru. All of the beauty I encountered is difficult to describe with few words so I leave you with the sounds and views I collected on my way. The music I made contains samples of the jungle ambience, Shipibo tribe’s icaros, medicine songs and the sounds of some some instruments I got my hands on. The views are photos taken by me and my close friends capturing the beauty of this mystical land.  I would also like to invite you to join us in this amazing place. Psychedelic plants are getting more and more recognition thanks to new scientific research, it is being proven that they treat depression, PTSD, help getting over old traumas, bring people out of addiction, connect them to their creativity and also cure different physical conditions. Countries like United States, Izrael, Switzerland, Czech Republic, UK are opening up to the possibility they might have been wrong by reintroducing the plants as medicine. We already know they were wrong so my close friends from Psychonauta Foundation and myself, are planning different types of retreats to work with Sacred Plants like Ayahuasca and Huachuma, plant dieting, sound healing, yoga, meditation, Wim Hoff breathing techniques, music jamming, dancing and hiking in these beautiful surroundings of the Peruvian nature. We get deep inside ourselves to reconnect with the source in order to heal and bring out our full potential, tune in and realign to the cosmic balance in the ancient ruins of the Incas. Everything under the eye and voice of the experienced local families of Shipibo and Quechua. This exchange of energy is also and important part of the balance here. We can use the beauty of this land and it’s wonders to heal our minds and bodies, as long as we support the local communities with hard work, good intentions and open hearts. So as for the retreats - my first group is already forming, You can also be a part of it! :)   

As for the future, we are planning to build a next level sound temple in the Sacred Valley of Peru, where we will combine different shamanistic traditions with sound and quantum technology. Thanks to the liberal law of Peru, we can do groundbreaking research here safely and share the results with different parts of the world in order to grow together and evolve as humanity.   

See You in Peru!

Raq - Ceremonia de Equinoccio

RAQ - Kai Kai Kai

RAQ - Quechua

Ecstatic Dance Sacred Valley/Festival

RAQ (pronounced RAKU 楽 jap. Comfort & Music)
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Creator, dj/producer & host of the Ecstatic Dance sessions in the Sacred Valley of Peru.

Tour:
19.06.22 Hedone Seminar, Leipzig, Germany🇩🇪
25.06.22 Dreamersland.eu, Warsaw, Poland🇵🇱
30.06.22 Ecstatic Dance, Berlin, Germany🇩🇪
03.07.22 Ecstatic Dance, London, UK🇬🇧
07.07.22 Bagienko, Wrocław, Poland🇵🇱
08.07.22 Podróż, Wrocław, Poland🇵🇱
09.07.22 Projekt Lab, Poznań, Poland🇵🇱
22.07.22 Retreat, Athens, Greece🇬🇷
23.07.22 Retreat, Mykonos, Greece🇬🇷
26.07.22 TBA, Karphatos, Greece🇬🇷
30.07.22 Ecstatic Dance, Constanta, Romania🇷🇴
25-26.02.23 Sacred Valley, Peru w/ Mose & Rodrigo Gallardo
14.03.23 Zunya, Costa Rica
17.03.23 Holos, Costa Rica
19.03.23 Awake, Costa Rica
02.04.23 Mazunte, Mexico
06.04.23 Ikal, Tulum, Mexico
09.04.23 Playa Del Carmen, Mexico
14.04.23 Sacred Valley, Peru
09.07.23 Ecstatic Dance Sacred Valley, Peru w/ Miki Gonzales
18.07.23 Summer Contrast Festival, Poland w/ Mose ∞
23.07.23 Stacja Wolimierz, Poland 
29.07.23 TOTEM Amigos, Gdansk, Poland
05.08.23 Dreamersland, Poland w/ Poranguí, Ape Chimba, Liquid Bloom
06.08.23 WIR, Warszawa, Poland w/ Dengue Dengue Dengue 
17.08.23 E Dance Festival, Poland
21.08.23 Ecstatic Dance 3city Beach Edition
27.08.23 Kocham Cię Festival Closing Ceremony 
07.09.23 Sacred Soul Music Festival, Portugal w/ Mose ∞, Sam Garret, Mushina

During over 13 years of his musical involvement, from the Norwegian Fjord Rave, underground Tokyo venues, through the legendary Berlin Tresor, best polish clubs, to finally the Amazon Jungle and the Sacred Valley of Peru, as one of the very few in the world, he managed to avoid genre labeling and shared the line up with different artists like MOSE, Ape Chimba, Rodrigo Gallardo, Janax Pacha, Laboratorium Pieśni, Dengue Dengue Dengue, Flume, Teebs, Lapalux, Low Leaf and many more. He brought his plant medicine music selection to Ecstatic Dance Sessions in London, Berlin, Romania, Greece, Poland, Peru, Costa Rica and Mexico.  

Nowadays he focuses on rising collective consciousness, producing ritualistic sounds, djing and designing mystical experiences in Peru. In the Amazon Jungle he created an online educational donation based course called 'The Alchemy of Self' and evolved it into a spiritual retreat design agency. He was invited to co-create the McKenna Academy, a modern mystery school of natural philosophy carrying the work and legacy of Terence and Dennis McKenna.

RAQ

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