❤️‍🔥 ANCIENT HEARTS ❤️‍🔥
EPISODE 2 of BALKANIKA
CHAPTER 3 - SPITI MAS
A story of mourning and newfound joy, as told by @desertravenmusic

Welcome to my special storytellers' mix series, called "Ancient Hearts", which tells stories from many cultures, invoking the heart and soul of our ancestors, which are rooted in the ancient melancholic sound, which speak of the great suffering in life, BUT also arrive, in the end, at a home full of love and life and joy.

Through exploring the sound of various cultures, we begin to see the same spirit, message, and meaning among the people. We must travel through our sorrow to truly find joy. We must move in relationship with our ancestors' victory in suffering or lose our entire future and hope.

📜 STORY 📜
In Greek, "Spiti Mas" means "Our Home". I named this chapter of the Balkanika story because this energy will be even warmer and a great midtempo journey, getting us more freed up in our body, moving from deep in the heart outwardly through the body into community and family, thus why this is OUR HOME, not just my home...and home is where the heart is. Lets celebrate the miracle of love and life and family together!

❤️‍🔥 Enjoy this powerful journey of the Ancient Hearts! ❤️‍🔥

SETLIST
Live instrumental intro by Desert Raven
1.   Ayasofya (Saint Sophia) - Brian Keane
2.   Kalamata (Original Mix) - Desert Raven
3.   Dub Terratory (Kaya Project Remix) - Terra Nine
4.   You Played Me (Original Mix) - Gabriel Balky
5.   Zora (Elias Fassos & Risk (GR) Remix) - Darko De Jan
6.   Aigaio (Original Mix) - Valeron
7.   Muscat feat. Bassam Rady (A X L Remix) - Elias Fassos, RisK (Gr)
8.   The Dream Of Odysseus - feat. Dirlasion (Original Mix) - Desert Raven
9.   Hearth of Anatolia (Original Mix) - Bahri Bekil
10.   TBA [Cafe De Anatolia Upcoming Release] - Desert Raven
11.   Tanë (Original Mix) - RBØR
12.   Eagea (Original Mix) - Billy Esteban
13.   Scorpios (Original Mix) - Valeron
14.   Mira feat. Anestis Triandafillidis (Original Mix) - Ed Mortel
15.   Ton Po Ton (Original Mix) - Tebra
16.   Mladost (Original Mix) - Tebra
17.   Cretan Heart (Original Mix) - Valeron
18.   Aladdin's Wish (ThroDef Remix) - Billy Esteban, Dreamers inc
19.   Gora (Original Mix) - Tebra
20.   Jamboree (Original Mix) - Elias Fassos, RisK (Gr)
21.   Fluff Ball feat. Chen Shalev (Original Mix) - Dragon House
22.   The Light in My Way (Original Mix) - Gabriel Balky
23.   Bay Nikola (Original Mix) - Billy Esteban, Gabriela Novevska
24.   Zov (Original Mix) - Tebra
25.   Delos (Original Mix) - Valeron
26.   Rebirth (Valeron Remix) - Bakean, Adassiya
27.   Hana (Original Mix) - Rialians on Earth
28.   Resha (Tebra Remix) - Valeron
29.   El Cavo (Original Mix) - DiMO (BG), Mr.K (BG), Venda Live Violin
30.   Put (Original Mix) - Tebra

ANCIENT HEARTS - Ep.2 - BALKANIKA - Spiti Mas - Midtempo Story By Desert Raven

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Desert Raven, a multi-instrumentalist DJ-Producer based in Denver, Colorado, is the founder of the Mystical Vision music collective (https://soundcloud.com/mystical-vision-podcast), which grew out of the Primordial Grooves music collective, which itself grew out of the Odyssey Music Podcast, which he co-founded with Dirlasion (https://soundcloud.com/dirlasion).

Desert Raven is a musical artist who, for his whole life, has had a deep affinity to dance, to the harmonic and melodic nature of sound, and to the healing and inspiring power of music.  He believes in the power of storytelling as well.  A good song should have a powerful message and journey, with a spirit that moves the listener's soul.  

Desert Raven has grown up and lived around the world, and uses his life experiences in many cultures as the foundation and root of his sound and worldview.

He seeks to create soundscapes with depth and layering of emotion, with extended build-ups and climaxes. He works with music that is primarily longer form and believes that, like our own deeper feelings, good, deep music takes time to surface.  As a storyteller, he embraces the epic storytelling tradition, so his music feels epic in scope and very much like a story.

He seeks the mystical groove in all sounds.  His signature style has grown and matured into an organic, ethnic, psychedelic, trippy sound, with an ancient feel, evoking a mystical vision experience.  He still seeks to explore new soundscapes where possible.  He is a versatile artist.  He has released songs in several genres, from organic house to downtempo to slowtech to psybient to progressive house to melodic techno.  Overall, he seeks to bring the audience close, making even larger events feel like an intimate party among close friends and family, where trust, love, and freedom of spirit are paramount.

His personal approach to composition and production is to infuse deeper, more ambient sounds into all he does, to evoke nature and dreams. He believes ethnic, traditional instruments should be used as much as possible and that they can work beautifully with well-crafted electronic sounds. A bass player at heart, he seeks to create rhythm and harmony that penetrates to the heart and brings the heart of the listener and dancer to a level of energy in sync with, as mentioned earlier, deep feelings. He seeks to find and bring the listener to a place of natural, spiritual illumination, where the listener encounters healing, encouragement, and divine purpose.

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