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Sacred Sounds II

Despite the retrograde’s sky-high ability to thwart communications and frazzle creative efforts, I happily logged several sessions of  productive Motown studio time over the last few weeks in February, all towards the completion of my second audio recording, Sacred Sounds. Working with Detroit musician, producer and friend Stefan ‘Ku are You? Ku Ku’ Kukurugya, the Ku et tu arranged six songs of immersive, meditative recordings – Eastern chants and Ceremonial songs dubbed with working titles like Traveling Music 23, Devotion n’ Motion to the Mystical Law and the six-syllabled, six-stringed Om Mani Padme Hum-ming Bird – all set to guitar, piano, Eastern Diamondback rattles, and other instrumental arrangements.

Knowing expectations always kill experience, we didn’t derail our creative efforts by over thinking them, instead enacting a loose framework that opened up possibilities for intuitive improvisation. Given the goal of ushering listeners into the fullness of the present moment, the creative process surely leads the outcome of this creative product, as how we find ourselves traveling down the musical tracks on this melodic journey is how we’ll arrive. Original compilations already evoking rapturous emotions and sparking new creative ideas, I look forward to sharing this natural continuation of my first Ancient Mind instructional recording, to  be completed in the coming months.