I'm excited to present to you my 2 new albums "Primordial" and "The Tide is Turning". These albums are in early release and can currently only be purchased as a pair. I hope you enjoy the albums!
About "Primordial":
In August 2019 I flew to Australia for a whirlwind 2 week tour of Queensland Australia. I was joined by my dear friend and long term Sound Healing partnerJoshua Tree. I always love playing with Joshua It is like we become one musician.
We did 5 sold out Sound Healing evenings in 6 days. Two on the Sunshine Coast, two in Brisbane and one on the Gold Coast.
The third night was the Gold Coast. Tallebudgera Community Centre. A beautiful big hall out in nature. I always loved playing that hall, it has a very special energy.
It was a spectacular evening Joshua and I were really on that night. It felt amazing and the energy that came through that night was from beyond us. It was true "Suntara" something bigger than us was channeled through.
I got a great recording of the session and when listening back to all of the recordings from the tour this one really stood out as having the best energy.
Another great thing that happened that night was that Braddon Gilbert a professional Sound Engineer from the Gold Coast was present. He was very moved by the session and after a few conversations I decided that it would be great for Braddon to mix and master the session. What a great synchronicity!
So after many delays, Covid, homeschooling my kids and working on other projects finally we present to you "Primordial". Thank you for your patience.
Primordial is raw and real and captures the essence of the Suntara Channel in full expression in the environment that we love the most - A live event at a venue with people present.
All of these tracks were channelled / improvised live with no rehearsal of any of the music. It is pure stream of consciousness.
We hope you enjoy listening and most of all feeling the Primordial vibration contained in these tracks.
About "The Tide in Turning"
In July 2021 I was having lunch at my friends cafe in Ubud, Bali and I met a lovely young man from Sweden called Joseph.
We got to talking and it turns out that Joseph is a drummer and his father is from Iraq, so not only a drummer, a drummer with the arab rhythms in his DNA.
We jammed a few times and had a great time. One day Joseph told me that he had met an AMAZING violin player who had been playing since she was 3 years old and her name was Maesyn.
Maesyn came for a jam and another jam. We had such an amazing time. The violin, the drums and Suntara so much magic.
We did a few live online events together and I recorded them I took the best of our jams and turned them into this album
The production of this album was a real adventure. Mixing and Mastering was nearly finished but I felt that the tracks didn't sound or feel like they did in the room when Maesyn, Joseph and I were performing.
It was a feeling that you couldn't know unless you were there at the recording sessions.
I took the tough decision to start from scratch and mix them myself. Thankfully I am a Sound Engineer. I just really wanted these recordings to be the best that they could be.
I am so very grateful to my dear friend James Gibson who is Mei-Lan Maurits's partner and producer who helped with the final mixes and mastered the recordings.
These tracks were spontaneously created live. Nothing was composed up front. Violin, Percussion and Suntara.
Raw, real and live. We hope you enjoy listening and most of all feeling this magical collaboration of synchronicity.
Thank you for supporting us and purchasing this album!
Big Love,
Suntara (Daniel), Maesyn and Joseph Wallin
