http://maharishi.bandcamp.com

After having first contact with the mystical sound of Goa trance from the middle 90s, the higher state of mind and deep spiritual messages it provides, increased a strong desire for expression of my own musical ideas. That led to my first experiments with music software. A decade later I graduated "Computer Systems in Music” major in New Bulgarian University after years of acquiring a variety of methods for audio synthesis and processing. The result is over a dozen albums in various projects such as Maharishi, ASOMA, Resonant Warrior, Cosmic Portal.

Maharishi is my experimental psychedelic project which I started back in 2001 - a fusion of electronic and authentic folklore music, tribal rhythms and deep meditative ambient soundscapes. In 2011 the album “Sense of Feather" got released and received high critical acclaim - it was included in the “Album of the Year” ranking of the virtual music platform Ektoplazm and aired on the waves of Bulgarian National Radio "Horizont" in 2014. In 2020 I released the album “Essence of Æther” in Bandcamp along with more works by Resonant Warrior, ASOMA and Cosmic Portal.

I have performed at festivals and events in Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Ukraine with artists such as Astral Projection, Cosmosis,  Laughing Buddha, Tripitale, Talpa, Atma, Ocelot, Tristan, Avalon, Saiko Pod, Banco de Gaia, Minilogue, Gabriel le Mar, Oliver Prime, Donato Dozzy, Brando Lupi, Monolake, Ishvara, Kliment, Vataff Project, Surbahar, Bluetech, Aes Dana, Irukanji, Dymons, Flooting Grooves, Samsara, Johny Blue, Atriohm, Ajja, Yudhisthira, Arjuna, Archaic, Lucid Mantra, Once Upon a Time, Djantrix etc.

Bookings: cosmosisosom (at) gmail (dot) com or PM here.

Keeping it real is a full-time job.

Pavel Stoychev – Surbahar is a musician and music producer from Sofia – Bulgaria. 

He started producing electronic music in 2002. Pavel was playing in different bands such as: Band of Mad Women, Bluba Lu, Mescalitto, Pumpal and more. He is also working in two other projects - Samodelia & TubeFx.

For himself and his music he says: “My inspiration is the nature and the science of the inner knowledge. 
Our consciousness has a lot of questions whose answers are forgotten. Creating music helps me to remember them.”

Surbahar live band:

Pavel Stoychev - programming, drums, percussions;

Georgi Gogov - piano, sinths, clarinet;
Desislava Petrova - vocal;
Orlin Cvetanov - violin;
Dimitar Bakardjiev - sax & flute;
Miroslav Cvetkov - gutar;
Daniel Eliseev - guitar;

Todor Kiurkchiev - live visuals


Some unforgettable gigs on festivals:

Sub fest 98'99
Music&Film fest'99
Sola Rama festival'99
XPO festival 2002
Ozora festival 2005
No Mans Land festival 2007
Transylvania Calling festival 2007
Gathering of the Tribe 2007
Sziget festival 1998/99/2001/05/06/07/09/11
Earthdance festival 2006/07
Surbahar India tour 2009
Artmospheric festival 2007/08/09/10/11/12/13/14
Poetics festival 2010/11
Melow Festival 2011
Tangra festival 2011/12/13
Alarma Punk Jazz fest 2012/13/14
In the Palace - Balchik film festival 2014


The idea of Artmospheric team was born in the beginning of 2006. This is our independent artist organization. More info: artmospheric.org

Upcoming:

- Electronica / Progressive album (TBA)

Discography

- Ambient album - The Om Remains the Same - Chill Om Rec 2011
- VA Sugar Gets Me Hi (Surbahar Remix) by Chill Om Records 2010
- Money YaY - VA (Brocoli compilation) 2009
- Swa-Raaj - VA (Chill Om Records 2008)
- AZAAD-E - VA (Chill Om Records 2007)
- Port 1 VA (Port 1 Records, BG, 2006)
- Artmospheric VA (Altera magazine, BG, 2006)

Online releases:

- Volume 10 VA (Blocksonic 2007)
- Kioto Hine VA (Controne Records 2006)
- Gopal (Ouim 2006)

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