Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Sri Aurobindo Ashram



A friend of mine introduced me to these strange but inspiring musical pieces hosted on a rather web 2.0 website. The music it seems is written by a man named Sunil, who hosts a sort of new age retreat, education, community, and yoga center founded by Sri Aurobindo in the early 1900s.


"This section hosts music played by the Mother and Sunil. The Mother used to improvise on the reed organ and later switched to an electric organ. She played on New Year's Day and on some other occasions. These were recorded from the 1950s."

From 1965, the Mother entrusted the composition and recording of New Year Music to Sunil, and later also asked him to make music for passages she read from Savitri.
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Its very difficult to describe but these pieces are almost within theyre own universe of improvisational, cinematic and eerie sounds. And theres just tons of this stuff, all like hidden gems.

Sunil's New Year Music ¨ 1967 
Mothers organ music ¨ 16th May 1954 
Mystic Solitude 
Mothers organ music ¨ Perseus  
You can explore the entirety of the 50+ years of music all uploaded to their website here: øsørøiøaøuørøoøbøiønødøo

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