SomehowArt is a Greek triphop DJ. 'Flat Reality’ is "a sharp glance into his world, filled with DJ-centric rhythms and mind-blowing tones harking back to the ’90s golden age of the Mo’Wax and Cup Of Tea labels."
A Space for Sound is a project of Rena Anakwe, "an interdisciplinary artist, performer, poet and healer working primarily with sound, visuals, and scent. Exploring intersections between traditional healing practices, spirituality and performance, she creates works focused on sensory-based, experiential interactions using creative technology. She is based in Brooklyn, New York by way of Nigeria and Canada."
The first episode of eQ Sessions: "Wellness resources to support artists and music industry professionals on the path to holistic health and career sustainability. ... A playful approach to relaxation and inner meditation."
“Songs from the Bardo is a transporting experience, meant to draw the listener into the present moment and provide a framework for inner exploration. Anderson, Choegyal, and Smith fuse modern compositional techniques with the mystique of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy to make these visionary traditions more accessible to a new generation of listeners and to reveal the ancient wisdoms contained within.” – from the Smithsonian Folkways liner notes
Shiny Objects (a.k.a. Christopher Smith) is the founder of San Francisco’s Om Records. "A seasoned purveyor of deep and techy grooves, he’s produced and released over 100 tracks and remixes under the Shiny Objects moniker and other aliases."
Dubiterian (born Marc Brehmer) is a dub music producer and melodica specialist from São Paulo, Brazil. Scientist (born Hopeton Overton Brown) is a recording engineer and producer from Kingston, Jamaica. Augustus Pablo (born Horace Michael Swaby), who wrote the song, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer and multi-instrumentalist who is not played enough on the radio anymore.
"Physically spanning national & international borders to create an album that musically spans deep spiritual jazz meditations, pulsing post-bop grooves & straight-ahead boom-bap ... Universal Beings projects an all-encompassing message of unity, peace & power by embracing transcendence in all its expressions."
Laraaji says: “Laughter is a way of emptying and releasing and softening and opening and dropping boundaries and coming out of our allegiance to future and past and just being. If you laugh inwardly you get the whole body involved.”
The recording is thought to have been made in Los Angeles in February 1969. According to Wikipedia, "Morrison took these Los Angeles recordings with him to Paris, where they were found among his belongings after his death."
