Quentin Dujardin

With this beautiful recording we would like to thank everyone who attended our singing circles in Leipzig (Germany).

May your souls shine in peace and joy.

Lucas, Tina, Alexander, Lulu, Daniel & Miri

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Pachamamita (feat: Yopi & Lotta)

I'm excited to share with you my new single!

About half a year ago, I participated in a retreat with Andrew Holecek, dedicated to Amitabha Buddha. Throughout the retreat, we chanted Amitabha's mantra: Om Ami Dewa Hri, sacred mantra sounds believed to embody the very essence of Amitabha's presence.

One evening, as I stood before the magnificent Great Stupa of Dharmakaya in Colorado, near which the retreat was held, a melody emerged in my mind—as if it had been waiting for the perfect moment to surface. And of course, it fit the mantra seamlessly, almost as if the two were meant to be together. Maybe they have always been, and I was just there at the right time and right place, attentive enough to assist the melody in emerging. 

Fortunately, I had brought along to the meditation retreat some of my portable studio equipment, as I many times do. Inside the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya at Drala Mountain Center —one of the rare few in the world that has entrance—I recorded the guitar, vocals, and the resonant tones of a singing bowl. I believe the sacred space infused its energy into the song, something that I hope comes across in the recording.

A remarkable moment during the recording process left a lasting impression on me. The winds that night were really fierce. The trees around the Stupa were shaking while I was bringing my recording equipment inside at midnight (I did not want to disturb anyone meditating inside so I waited till nightfall). Yet, as soon as I began recording, the wind miraculously ceased—as if nature itself was listening and assisting. It was a moment of stillness and grace that I will never forget. The winds resumed as soon as I was done.

A dear friend of mine and a wonderful musician, Felissia Mae Cappelletti later recorded additional vocals to this Buddhist chant.

The chant opens with the morning prayers I say every morning as part of my morning practice, that comes from the Nyingma Lineage and and concludes with a dedication of merit, both from Mangala Shri Bhtuti's Sangha's liturgy. 

May it add to happiness and the reduction of suffering.

Amitabha Buddha Mantra

Riot in a Glass of Water

Holiday Reverence

Whale Meditation

Desiderata

Musical Meditations: Grace

Present Moment, Sacred Moment

All is Now Light

Wahe Guru Wahe Jio

La Luna

La luna se refleja
en el rio 
trato de tocarla - 

Ella brinca y vuelve a brincar
dejo de moverme -

La luna me abraza
lyrics from an ancient Zen poem

La Luna

Peter Jack Rainbird ~ Live Looping Solo guitarist. recorded the album Unravel in one-take, no multi - tracking. the layers you hear where created as one expanding landscape of sound. A British born musician having a nomadic childhood traveled the World Peter-Jack recorded Unravel on the West Coast of Canada to reflect his love of the land & Ocean. 

02 Ariel

Here comes Bottuneem, genre-bending flame
Space travel dreams calling your name
Vamos to epic beach battles on cosmic sand
Metal hearts united in this jazz band
***
Hello, all.  All the music you hear here (here hear?) was generated by artificial intelligence... hold on... based on human prompting by the human (not AI) writing this, namely: me.
There. 
Now. 
This whole thing that may come off as a disclaimer we would probably laugh about a few years from now when AI-generated music is so prevalent it’s actually the norm and it’s the other way around – actual, genuine, organic, human-and-the-less-you-rely-on-electricity-to-make-your-music-the-better music makers (yes, careful choice of words there) will be the ones proudly saying, “Hey, this is REAL over here!!” and AI music makers won’t be in the least inclined to have to clarify anything at all.  At least two acquaintances – an amateur musician as myself (well, if Tenet Bum does not credit me as a musician in your book due to AI use then check out my other 100% non-AI projects: Arcachata, Xitx and Loretti Shur) and a mastering engineer were not able to detect this was AI.  Maybe, and since I am a great believer in being genuine, this is what leads me to feel the need to clarify, since I prefer to be transparent, and don’t want to mislead or fool anyone.
All that said, I think AI is just another tool, and that it should be used wisely and responsibly.  Like, you know, you'd use any other tool. It’s extremely important to note that these songs were all the result of very creative prompting, and only the tip of the iceberg of what the AI generated, meaning most of its generations were discarded.  Some songs had to be twisted, cut, bent, folded, exploded, put together again; churned, sure, caressed, but then also beat up with a heck of a monster of a hammer -- in order to get the desired results.  So again, just another way of making music.  This is all too new, and thus all of this explanation which, again, might be laughable very soon, is necessary, as with any other game-changing, tenet-upturning technological revolution.
By the way, all the humans here portrayed are merely avatars, as you might have guessed.  All artwork, except certain edits and text placements, are also, as you might readily see, AI too.
Tenet Bum is here to prove that human-prompted, AI-generated music can still be creative, non-formulaic, diverse, and entertaining.  The albums, of course, had to be multigenre.
The thing Rick Beato said the other day that what AI generates is all what other people made before… WHAT isn’t what other people have made before, in any human endeavor?  We walk on the shoulders of giants, don’t we?  Didn’t Mustaine and Hetfield emulate Motorhead, even admittedly?  And Killing Joke?  And not to mention Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham emulating so many American blues artists that came before them?  Whenever making songs for Arcachata, Blades is on my mind, Korn is on my mind, Santa Sabina is on my mind, Bartok is on my mind, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult is on my mind no matter how much, by the way, that DAW programmed music may sound like Ruben Blades, Korn, Santa Sabina, Bartok or MLWTTKK.  But a little of that and hundreds of others is what drives the inspiration forward – whether that be playing, programming… or prompting.
But enough with the philosophy.  Hit play and crank it.  Cheers!
Adolfo

Riot in a Glass of Water

Tenet Bum

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