Not available on Spotify or similar rip-off platforms. Only on Bandcamp and Soundcloud. Hopefully on vinyl one day. 

Now on Bandcamp for €3 or 'pay what you like' digital download:
https://chifactory.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-the-body-of-earth

Recorded on a farm in Rotterdam (Kralingseweg 393). Released on limited cassette in 1987 (100, sold out). Solo recordings by Hanyo van Oosterom (Chi Factory, Son Of Chi) on 4-track cassette (Tascam 234 Syncaset). Originally recorded as sketches for a new CHI album.

All instruments by Hanyo van Oosterom: Roland Juno 60, Ensoniq Mirage sampler, Roland SVC-350 vocoder, damped piano, bells, bass, guitar, bamboo flutes, percussion, field recordings. 

Original final mix by Jurgen Brouwer. Remastered and remixed by Hanyo van Oosterom in 2025. All rights reserved. 

Inspired by the novel 'By The Body Of The Earth' by Satprem. A book of the voyage of the soul, which others call reincarnation, a perpetual story which unfolds itself in three cycles or three lives, three islands which are situated in "this land here or any other", apparently in India, Egypt and the frozen lakes of Norway. 

The main charcter - Nil - always in quest of "something else". A new state upon earth for man, free from mechanism and the laws of the mind, who had cast away all for this, given up the world for that of a mendicant Sannyasin. 

After a long and sometimes hard journey he finally discovers a vaster, cosmic consciousness and new perceptions, but finally he realises that he had perhaps gained the freedom of the heights, but lost the earth. 

Find out more: 
chifactory.bandcamp.com 
www.instagram.com/hanyo_sonofchi 

Satprem 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satprem

Artwork: collage by Hanyo van Oosterom, sampled from photos on pexels by: 
征宇 郑, Ahmedadly, Lucastranimages, Mati, Mingche-lee, Shkrabaanthony, Mikhailnilov and Manhpham. 
www.pexels.com

Music From The Body Of Earth

Founder of CHI (1984) and the Chi Factory (2016). Member of Soundcloud since August 2023. Performing, recording, producing 
as Son Of Chi since 2020.

Find out more on future Son Of Chi releases on instagram and Astral Industries.

The Chi Factory has performed live at festivals like Signal Russia, Rewire The Hague, Intrinsic France, Berlin Atonal, Astral Industries Weekender, Off Sonar, La Nature, Mostra Barcelona and more. Hope to see you soon live.

For special Chi Factory live events, licensing, remixes etc you can contact: hanyo@ziggo.nl

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