Music designed to transport your mind to a calm inner space of self-reflection and receptivity.

Composed by Herrin.

Pyrophone Pirate Ship

I have the good fortune of living in Maleny on the Sunshine Coast in Australia. On first glance it looks like Hippie land and I guess it kind of is, but it’s also host to some very creative and vibrant people.

One of which is the creator of this amazing Pirate Ship you see here. His name is Steve Langton and he is an inventor and musician.

More about him here: http://hubbubmusic.org

What the hell is this thing you ask? Imagine a church organ mounted on a ship (based on a flatbed truck!) that has LPG Gas that is lit, fired into the pipes making an ungodly note while crazy percussionists hit huge thundering drums.

See the Quicktime Panorama below for a more immersive picture. Continue Reading »

This 10 minute photographic artwork slideshow presents the vision and unique eye of photographer and father, Errol Larkan, set to music created by his two sons, Herrin and Jai. A true family collaboration.

Remember you can watch this video fullscreen and in HD If you have a fast enough broadband.

The soundtrack in this video is from the Yoga music album, “Embrace The Moment”. You can download the music right here.

All living things respond to and desire to be loved and feel connection with others, whether we admit it or not.

The song is called “Friends” by Murray Wall. To download his music click here.

This is ambient music at its best. Original and fresh with a world music flavour, there’s not a single hint of cheesy cliché or overdone production here, pitfalls that can be rampant in this genre of music.

Embrace the Moment comprises six instrumental tracks that ebb and flow to a full 80 minutes of blissed-out sound.

Its subtlety and seamlessness make it ideal for yoga and other practices that require a certain level of groundedness and concentration. It ambles along inconspicuously in the background, gentle, calming, and uplifting, without being distracting. Continue Reading »

By Leigh Robshaw

Didgera are a couple of groovers from the land Down Under who create awesome electronic and acoustic world music with a uniquely Australian flavour.

On this, their self-titled album, they’ve managed to capture the essence of the ‘wide brown land’ through a series of panoramic soundscapes that take you on a kaleidoscopic aural journey through stark landscapes, steamy jungles, expansive coastlines and deep into the ancient sacred earth.

Didgera’s deep grooves can at times sound as tribal and earthy as the expansive red Australian desert, rattling your bones with rhythmic intensity. Other times the music travels to a jazzier tune, with a dancey world music vibe that would be totally at home in a funky beach bar in Spain. If you love the Ibiza-born Cafe del Mar compilations, or the similarly chilled sounds of Buddha Bar and Trance Planet, you’ll have Didgera playing on high rotation after just one listen. Read the rest of this article

In this 17 minute talk, Carolyn Porco, leader of the Imaging Team on the NASA Cassini Mission, takes us on a beautiful visual journey to the great rings of Saturn and its moons. The talk is conducted at TED, March 2007.

This talk mainly focuses on Saturn, its largest moon, Titan, and on frozen Enceladus, and some of its peculiarities.

Jay over at RipFilms has been tinkering away on some new relaxing movies and here is the first of two we are collaborating on. Check out more at his YouTube Channel right here.

The scenes are from India and fit beautifully with the relaxing Piano music from the album Lunar Khandro. Download the album right here.