Touch Of Class Records is proud to bring you Episode 003. Mixed and arranged by our very own Aquarius Heaven.

Aquarius Heaven might be new to the electronic music world, but he is no newcomer to the music scene as such: Aquarius Heaven, born Brian Brewster, is an ex reggae dance-hall and hip hop singer. It was pure chance that Brian became involved with the electronic music scene after he moved to Paris in 2005, where he meet the Parisian electronic music trio dOP. After spending hours in the studio with the three musicians, Brian's musical sound was profoundly changed. Yet, we can still hear the colors of the Caribbean in his vocals, and since he is new to the genre, his music is unbound by the old rehashed sounds and limitations of the electronic music scene. All of this creates for a very interesting musical ride.

It was during the Summer of 2010 when Aquarius Heaven was truly born: while recording the track "Universe," Brian realized that he and Clement (of dOP) had the same birthday in February, so Brian created the name "Aquarius Heaven" under which to make electronic music. This new chapter of his life was made official with the release of his track "Before U Go" on the Watergate 06 album, mixed by dOP. With the release of his first EP, titled "7 Days" (on Circus Company), Aquarius Heaven started generating buzz in the music world. Aquarius Heaven just recently released his "Can't Buy Love" EP (on Wolf + Lamb), the single of which - paired with a dark-and-sexy music video - catapulted him into the world of music-blog buzz, before the EP was even officially released. Aquarius Heaven has only begun the journey that continues to accelerate day by day.

"Like dance-hall, the electronic world has no boundaries. That's one of the factors that I love about it, you can actually mix almost everything into it... a lot of people don't, but I like breaking rules!" – Aquarius Heaven

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TOC Podcast Episode 003 - Aquarius Heaven

From French father and Minahasan mother, Onyx Tikal was born and raised in capital city of Jakarta. An adept of spiritual food, soulful connections Onyx is deeply moved by ancestral, folk and ceremonial entrancing music. She finds that the right music can be great medicine for the soul. With a multi cultural upbringing, Onyx DMT has developed an ear, and from a rich repertoire of world music spanning from India, the Middle East and South East Asia - she has cultivated listening, to remember sounds, scales or harmonies and sing the song lines of emotion. Continuously nourished by the music of the peoples of Mongolia, Persia, Afrika, and by rare and strange sonic signatures coming from very remote parts of the world, Onyx continues to explore with percussive instruments, mouth harps to name a few. Intuitive singing and drumming are her mediums to practice devotion to the Self, the Other and The One.  

Through inspirational philosophies found in Sufism, Buddhism, and Animism, Tikal feels into the space and energies around intentionally. In "Sabda", now called L.I.V.E. in Prayer circles she invites us to offer our gifts in collaborative sound creation through the medium of our vocal chords and our heart where songlines are channeled in alignment with where the body sits like an anchor, we open the instrument to make an offering with only what we have in infinity, our spirit or consciousness - to remember our "power" and to gift in elation to Source, to Creation - residing in each of us. Let us celebrate raw beauty in WHAT IS by purely experiencing life moment to moment.

Outside of Sabda meditations or LIVE circles, with immense pleasure in working alongside Travis Jekks on the Tar - another string player and soul brother, and Duke Autret, guitarist and intuitive player, Tikal will sing to the deep sorrows, to the heart aches and the profound joys. She will open aspects of the heart to guide into an elating musical journey that inspires and allows for one to face emotions as they come, as they are. In honoring them, Tikal feels it is a way of flowing with grace, of relating to oneself, of riding the wave of personal acceptance.
 
Tikal gives weekly intuitive singing circles now called Liberate Intuitive Voice Expression, and events once a month called L.I.V.E. in Prayer & Meditation.
Events of sound meditations are also not to be missed. She finds them to be excellent ways for exploring the aspects of the constantly manifested self, the vastness of the mind, the profound intelligence of the body and the driving mysteries of the soul. 
The intutive singing circles are more for inspiring RADICAL CHANGE, to support great inner transformation, and she finds this "medium" being one of her favourite ways of cultivating our inner power.

Share a circle with Tikal in Melbourne, she brings appreciation to instinctual music. 
Weekly singing meditations at the JING healthcare clinic in Lilydale.
Massage meditation sessions in Melbourne, Belgrave, Olinda.
House visits for individuals and groups.

www.anantaboga.com
tikal.bandcamp.com
www.sovereignvoice.com
www.urbanmysticsTV.com

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