Zeger Gabriel Vandenbussche : Ney, clarinet, kamanche, ukulele, double bass, frame drum
René van Veelen : shell shaker

Pampaneira


Winne Clement : Fujara flute 
Zeger : contrabas, soprano saxophone, guitar, voice

Also Sprach der Holunder

Zeger Vandenbussche : contrabass, clarinet, chimes, guitar, mouth harp, frame- drum, bassclarinet, soprano saxophone, voices
Eran Fakir : ney (persian flute)

Nzambe Mastallah

Zeger : mouthharp, voice, percussion
Francois Taillefer : percussion

Harpa De Boca

Logum Ede

Abelinha

Alpujarras

The Overflowing Now

n(((O)))w

Amanhecer

Into The Void

Zeger

Bird Bath

I’ve always been mesmerized by the sound of the Ney. The Ney is a reed flute often used in Middle Eastern music and one of the oldest musical instruments still in use in its original form. 
It’s a wonderful feeling to play such an ancient instrument, knowing that its sound has been touching the hearts and souls of human beings for thousands of years. Ney players are seen on wall paintings in the Egyptian pyramids and Neys have been found during the excavations at Ur in Iraq. It seems that the Ney has been continuously played for at least 4500-5000 years. 
The music never ends.

Ney Taksim Órgiva

Zeger Vandenbussche : ney, altosaxophone, doublebass, framedrum
Melody composed by John Zorn

Bith Aneth

The reed flute is fire, not wind. 
Be that empty.
Hear the love fire tangled
in the reed notes, as bewilderment
melts into joy. The reed flute is 
a friend to all who want the veil 
torn and drawn away. 

Rumi

Pájaro de Fuego

Raag Sharukeshi (with Etienne Bartholomew, Sitar)

Zeger Vandenbussche : Contrabass

Artwork : Dawid Planeta

Onderstroom

Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu

Behind the riddles of your mind
the answers tickle at your heart
the laughter from within
is never heard alone
you hear it when you fall
into the deep that carries all

And when you see the tree of life
was always hidden in plain sight
you wonder how you pulled
this trick upon your mind
but now you look again
and realize you’re free

When the gravity of past
is pulling on your mind
a tree will show you how
to come back to the now
the past sinks in the earth
and you branch out to the sky

With every single branch you grow
you’re reaching for the sun
knowing there’s no end
or beginning to be found
all is always now
innocent and free

You hear your calling
and now you’re on your way
to the origin of you
you’re calling yourself home
to the origin of you

Tree Of Life

Asato Ma Sadgamaya
Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya
Mrityor Ma Amritam Gamaya

Lead me from illusion to Reality 
From ignorance to Knowledge 
From time to Eternity

*The image is a picture by Robert Frank ca. 1958

Asato Ma Sadgamaya

The Vigeland Mausoleum in Oslo is known for it's incredible acoustics. It has a reverb tail of about 15 seconds, letting the music swirl around the arc ceiling and the walls covered with fresco paintings. The space became so much part of the music, molding and resounding the sound of the clarinet, that it almost felt as if we were sitting inside of a musical instrument.

Live at Vigeland Mausoleum Oslo

This recording was made in the Vigeland Mausoleum in Oslo, a place known for its incredible acoustics. Here I'm playing the Kamancheh, one of the predecessors of the violin, an ancient bowed string instrument from Persia. I feel that the discovery of that instrument brought me a bit closer to some of the more subtle frequencies I’m reaching for in music. 

While I was playing there was a strong rain shower coming down on the roof of the Mausoleum, and at first I thought that would make the recording useless, but it turned out that the soft rushing of the rain in the background actually added a beautiful high frequency continuo to the music.

Indre Reise (Live at Vigeland Mausoleum Oslo)

Zikr

Niko Meinhold : Mougongo
Zeger : ney, kamancheh, guitar, ukulele, clarinet


Image by Julliana Arbor

Indra´s Net

Welcome under the Aeon Tree.  

The Aeon Tree finds inspiration in the many ways people from all over the world have approached music as a doorway to transcendence. A sound garden where you can hear multi-instrumentalist Zeger Gabriel at play, exploring new sounds, reaching upwards and within, constantly reconfiguring his one-man orchestra with the sounds of instruments like the Ney, Kamanche, Clarinet, Double bass, Ukulele, Guitar, Indian harmonium...

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