⛵🌿🌴🏔 The Odyssey-Ep.20
Alfredo Botta (https://soundcloud.com/fruityalfred)
Welcome to the spiritual realm. This week, we head from St. Petersburg, Russia, to Moers, Germany, and visit our very dear friend and brother, Alfredo Botta. He is a healer and musical master. A cosmic traveler. A tribal seeker of the path. An intuitive multi-instrumentalist and producer, he thinks nothing of the superficial temptations of the music industry and instead dives very deep into the soul, to heal and empower the heart. We must awaken! Alfredo is on an authentic vision quest to find himself...and you. Get ready for an INCREDIBLE two-part episode, including a long conversation with @desertravenmusic and also a VERY special home-grown music journey to follow. We say this a lot, but it is true - DO NOT MISS THIS EPISODE! 🎶🌌⛵🌌🎶

The Odyssey - Ep.20 - Alfredo Botta - Pt.2 (Musical Journey)

Speed composition using strictly homemade instruments:

Film canister dobro-oud, Cookie tin tambora, Cigitar cigar box sitar, Fatman analogue kit synth, Homemade tambourine, Trash can and dust broom, Pill bottle filled with cous-cous, Jingle bell tree, Christmas cookie thunderstick

Dancing In Kozyrev's Mirror

ŠIROM - I.

Release date:
- Europe: 12.01.2016, ZARŠ Rec. / KLOPOTEC Rec. (CD / DL)
- Japan: 17.07.2016, AMORFON Rec. (CD / DL)

Download:
https://zars.bandcamp.com/album/i
https://amorfon.bandcamp.com/album/i

I. is the debut album of the Širom trio, comprised of Ana Kravanja, Samo Kutin and Iztok Koren, who stem from the Slovenian regions of Kras, Tolminsko and Prekmurje and are members of various other groups, such as Najoua or ŠKM banda. 

Their form of expression is original, stylistically homogeneous, incorporating a wide array of folk sounds on one side and contemporary acoustic rock style meditations on the other. The end result is grounded yet still mystical minimalism. 

Širom's music is contemplative, but can get harder when necessary, it is closer to being band- than chamber-like, to being street as opposed to urban in nature. It is mostly instrumental and features miniature combinations of folk, classical and improvisational elements to make for an original and very moving experience. It is already interesting enough to look at the building blocs of Širom's sound, since the musicians use a wide range of instruments from around the world, including the banjo, ukulele and balafon, as well as homemade instruments and bells. It is unbelievable what a world of sound they conjure up, how many nuances of sound, how quickly this penetrates the ears and cuts into the subconscious. 

The creating of patterns and entwining of delicate musical pastels calls for a focused listener, since there is a feeling that the fragile edifice can be blown away in any moment. The lyrical and sophisticated album reveals an unfathomable beauty of dichotomies – it is sophisticated but at the same time never finished, unobtrusive but still principled, improvisational and collective, curious and simultaneously fatigued, restless and ethereal. 

Širom have released a record which unveils the personal while discovering new worlds and which deserves to be celebrated as a gem of the Slovenian music scene, notwithstanding or maybe precisely because of all the misguided attempts at defining “slovenianhood”. 

Tracklist:
1. Samotni mora dehteti / The Lonesome Has to Scent 05:32 
2. Svetlobni prelaz čez vrnitev / A Passage of Light on Return 15:31 3. Trilogija / Trilogy 17:44 
4. Mehki koraki rjovenja / Roar's Soft Steps 07:27 
5. Vsak dan je jutri nov dan / Tomorrow, Each Day is a New Day 02:12 

Iztok Koren - banjo, bass drum, chimes, balafon 
Ana Kravanja - violin, viola, ribab, kalimba, bendir, balafon 
Samo Kutin - ukulele, kalimba, homemade harps and steel drum, balafon 

Painting Marko Jakše 
Photo Nada Žgank, Noemi De Pas, Tit Brecelj
Cover design Eva Kosel, Yoshio Machida
Recording, mixing and mastering Iztok Zupan 
Recorded without overdubbing in Posavec, Slovenia 2015

05 Vsak Dan Je Jutri Nov Dan

04 Mehki Koraki Rjovenja

03 Trilogija

02 Svetlobni Prelaz Cez Vrnitev

01 Samotni Mora Dehteti

This is a song I wrote and recorded in the summer of 2011. I used two of several  homemade diddley bow like instruments I have been experimenting making.  This song was recorded using a Marshall MXL 2001 Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphone and Ableton Live 8.

Story About the Bird

Live recording of our performance at Niagara Falls Night of Art. Unfortunately it is only a recording of what went through the speaker, so the recording did not catch much of the accordion, which I played while lurching around the area away from the microphone. I may add a new accordion track to this where it's needed.

Harmonic Shadow Circus - sunseethe live recording (Niagara Falls Night of Art 2019)

Another demented version of a blues classic, King Snake, played on washtub bass, three string canjo, two string cigar box guitar, and one string diddley bow...

King Snake

experimental roots music, sound art, electronica



ŠIROM

Ana Kravanja:violin, viola, ribab, qeychak, balafon, bendir, flutes, various objects, voice

Samo Kutin: ikitelia, hurdy gurdy, tampura brač, lyre, melodica, chimes, percussion, objects, voice

Iztok Koren: banjo, three-string banjo, balafon, gamelan, tank drum, percussion, various objects


The intertwining of diverse musical approaches, tools, histories of sounds and unbridled musical imagination and craftsmanship; these are the expansive guiding principles behind the Slovenian trio Širom. 

More than a dozen instruments can be found in the repertoire of Širom and at least as many musical forms can be perceived as inspirations for this new ensemble. However, despite these diverse influences and strategies, Širom remain anchored in a highly individual creative process, that keeps them from merely reflecting pre-existing musical patterns. They create an original, stylistically homogeneous form of expression that oscillates between a wide array of folk sounds and contemporary acoustic rock-style meditations.
 
Širom music is contemplative, but can be sharp when necessary, it is closer to being band- than a chamber group.

Band contact: sirom.band@gmail.com

Website: http://siromband.si/

Store: https://zars.bandcamp.com/album/i
https://sirom.bandcamp.com/

Label: https://glitterbeat.com/

An eclectic musician who plays accordion and makes flutes. Most of what I put here is made with VCV Rack. Influences include krautrock, ritual ambient, minimalism, doom metal. Also, I try to avoid 12-equal temperament--I play around with just intonation and 22-edo, mostly.

🎶❤️‍🔥 MYSTICAL 👁️ VISION ❤️‍🔥🎶

Mystical Vision is a spiritually focused music community founded by https://soundcloud.com/desertravenmusic, who also co-founded Primordial Grooves music collective/podcast, and The Odyssey Music Podcast with his spiritual brother https://soundcloud.com/dirlasion.  The focus of Mystical Vision is to bring back and bring forward the power of the mystical path, mysticism to modern music, particular modern electronic music.  The essence of mysticism is the search for God and encountering God.

We will also sponsor Desert Raven's mystical Ancient Hearts Podcast and all related events from Ancient Hearts.

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Would you like to create a mystical journey for Mystical Vision?

This is a spiritual journey, a deeper approach than usual mixes. Serious storytelling. Not just art, not just sounds. Power in the music and message. We want a deeper focus, with a deeper journey, deeper sounds, and and energy that brings us to a place where we sense the spirit of God around and in us.  We want these DJ sets created with serious storytelling, with a sacred message and the power of the ecstatic vision, whereby the storyteller enters a deep emotional state of peace, vision, revelation, and emotional unity in the heart with the eternal and life-giving love of God. The storyteller should include mystical sounds throughout, from great ethno-organic, organic house, slowtech, psychill, psydub, psybient, ambient, downtempo, progressive, dubtech, melodic techno, and whatever else encapsulates the otherworldly found in this world. :)

Taking from the mission and success of the Primordial Grooves project, this will take us back to the beginning energies of mankind, thus "primordial" energy. A exploration of the heart and soul and mind and body to find what makes us connected since the very beginning of mankind. What do we share as human beings and various tribes? This energy empowers and also heals us to the core. It is the life force, so the mix will have that original life force and be share in the way of all stories of the ancient storytelling oral tradition, which make up true history that is passed down from generation to generation.  This brings us to our innermost sanctums of our hearts. This brings us to God!

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