Culadasa (John Yates, Ph.D.) is a meditation master with over four decades of experience in the Tibetan and Theravadin Buddhist traditions. He taught physiology and neuroscience in college for many years. Later, he worked at the forefront of healthcare education and therapeutic massage, serving as the founding director of the West Coast College of Massage Therapy. Culadasa retired from academia in 1996, moving with his wife into an old Apache stronghold in the Arizona wilderness, where they deepened their spiritual practice together. He currently leads the Dharma Treasure Buddhist Sangha in Tucson, Arizona and holds retreats across the United States.
 
Culadasa’s book, The Mind Illuminated, is the first comprehensive guide to Buddhist meditation for a Western audience. It combines age-old teachings with the latest research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, providing meditators with step-by-step guidance for every stage of the path – from your very first sit, all the way to mastery of the deepest states of peace and insight. This is the clear, friendly, and in-depth meditation manual that people have been waiting for.

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DIONYSUS – The New Album, Out Now. 
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Saafi Brothers walk a deep line between trippy vibes and blissed out beats. The origins of Saafi Brothers are long and storied, their brand of smoky, world-weary ambientdub first arising from the Blue Room label. They are formed in the spirit of chillout & dub, and they have a mystical connection when placing with their audience into higher spheres.

Soul wrenching deep ambient tunes are layered gently into tranced and bassy beats. Saafi Brothers' debut 'Mystic Cigarettes' came out in 1997 on the british label Blue Room Released. With the today classic psydub album, the project consisting of Frankfurt/Germany based producers Gabriel Le Mar, Groovetitan and Michael Kohlbecker, immediately placed itself among the artists of the electronic ambient scene. 
 
The Saafis delivered their second longplayer on BlueRoom, 'Midnight’s Children'. The album represented a perfect demonstration of the Saafi-style made up of the will to experiment and get deep into low-down dub and beats, that get the tunes rocking.

Their third album 'Liquid Beach' followed that way even with more danceable elements and boasting a soundtrack of trance, dub, downtempo, dance and sun-kissed psychedelics.

They were part of the cultstatus titled german TV-show SpaceNight and are asked for remixes for other artists, among them are reggae legend Bob Marley, leading german hip hop group Die Fantastischen Vier or british new wave poetress Anne Clark. 

With their album 'Supernatural' the brothers made a strong musical relationship and combines electronic sounds from ambient to dub with lucid soundscapes and blissful themes.

Originally released digitally on Iboga Records/DK in 2014, 'Live on the Roadblog' is the 5th full-length by Saafi Brothers. Sleepless-faced on music Saafi Brothers digged deep into a series of "live recording sessions", rediscovering the emotional depth of "real-time created music" after a couple of live shows that fueled the idea of creating an entirely live recorded album. The CD includes a gorgeous 8-page "travelogue"-style booklet designed by Simon Ghahary, released on Carpe Sonum Novum/UK.


'The Quality of Being One' goes deep into soul turning ambient-dub and adds drum thrills that get the tunes rocking. The secret of their "danceable speed" in ambient tracks is a higher density of their unique ambient-electro sounds and rhythms to experience feelings through their deeply emotive music. Starting with deep intros and then merging atmospheric filterworks into dubbish beats for the floor that can be specially experienced in their live performances.

Saafi Brothers are delighted to present the remix album of Mystic Cigarettes on Youth's Liquid Sound Design label.
With remixes by Youth, Gabriel Le Mar, Ajja, Bluetech, Braincell, DM-Theory, Eternal Basement, Jam El Mar, The Irresistible Force, The Delta, Kalumet, Koan, Jammin Unit, Living Light, Cosmic Orient, Backstage Gurus, JOEY, Latin Soldier, Thunder & Lightning and PsyTechProject. 


Make Pictures With The Sound (CD)
Out on Liquid Sound Design/UK

The release title is inspired by a quote from legendary British music producer John Leckie, whose voice guides us into the album on opening track Beautiful Satellite. With Make Pictures With The Sound Saafi Brothers do just that; make pictures with the sound, taking us on a breathtaking journey through their universe of sound, spiralling out from their deep roots in the Psychedelic Dub genre.

Keeping alive Saafi Brothers reputation for chilled out eclecticism, the musical and emotional range for which they are renowned is very much in evidence here. From the rainforest tinged Dub Funk of Ritualized Space, through the epic deep Techno Sci-Fi soundscape of In Far Away Places to the wigged out Acid House of The Possibility of Change the album has much to offer for any connaisseur of contemporary Electronica.


A Reaxed Blur' (CD and Vinyl)
Out on Liquid Sound Design/UK

In these shaky times A Relaxed Blur invites you to take deep breath in and switch to positive vibes. Dive into a world of soundscapes, where deep space reverbs and expansive echoes float freely. Drawing from a blend of Dub, Psychill, and psychedelic electronic textures, the album guides you through atmospheric journeys. Each track drifts between the tranquil and the transcendental, blurring the line between relaxation and introspection. 

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Saafi Brothers played with deeply twisted vocals, percussion and dubby pumping rhythms at festivals like Ozora/HU, Hadra/FR, Sziget/HU, Tribal Gathering/UK, Mjaft/AL, Roskilde/DK, Arvika Festival/SW, Vision/CH, New Healing/G or Summer Jam/G and has been guest in many clubs.

https://www.le-mar.de/projects/saafi-brothers/

Originally from Dayton, Ohio, I started playing guitar by ear and making original music at a very young age. Then quickly got into keyboards/piano cause it was easier and more fun to write music with. Most of the music that inspires me comes from the 70s up to the 90s and it includes soul, funk, pop, jazz and of course hip hop. Hip Hop spoke directly to me and I immediately fell in love with it. I joined bands where most of my musical education was derived from but after I heard songs produced by Teddy Riley, Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis, that's all I wanted to do. Fast forward to a gig I had in Thailand which presented me with the opportunity to produce for artists there and my production helped to sell over 8 million units combined over a 3-4 year period and now I'm trying to bring my music to a wider audience and learn as much as I can from you guys and share my knowledge with you. Feel free to drop me a message anytime and if I can help you I will. I hope ya'll enjoy my music as much as I enjoyed making it.

After buying “Ghost Town” by The Specials at the age of 9 and being inspired by John Peel, became a rabid adolescent record collector. From Post-Punk and New Wave through to Hardcore Punk, Industrial and experimental, eventually started DJing at random parties and bedrooms in the South of England from 1993, eventually delving into the UK club scene after discovering Drum & Bass and Hardcore in the mid-90s. Disillusioned and unsatisfied, relocated to Kobe, Japan in 1999. Soon after became involved in organising events in the blossoming Japanese underground music scene, both in the established ‘noise’ of Kansai and the burgeoning new digital field of experimentalism, for over ten years. Started the record label APPLIANCE JAPAN with the debut release compilation LP “APPLIANCE 3” in 2004. Occasionally operates under the names LORAN C and THE NATIONAL GRID. Has a tendency to play deep, dark and dirty.

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