Skills: Composer, music producer, multi-instrumentalist and Jazz aficionado.

A multi-instrumentalist and worldly in his influences and roamings, Kit Cotters sound is smooth and measured. He plays keyboards, guitar, percussion, programming and vocals.

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• Jai Larkan – Piano, keyboards, programming and beats. Jai is also a qualified Yoga teacher.
• Chris Lane – Classical and Indian flutes.
• Herrin – Keyboards, programming, acoustic guitar and vocals. He also recorded, produced, mixed and mastered the album.

Want to contact one of them to say hello? Email us at support@astronomyrecords.com

Embrace The Moment

80 minutes of lush instrumental world music designed to guide you from gentle building warmups, through the inner fire of sun salutes and spinal twists and ending with peace inducing savasana and meditation.

Any serious Yoga Practitioner or Massage Therapist will find this album an invaluable addition to their music collection.

Atmospheric instrumental world music, designed to enhance your yoga or relaxation practice. Piano and Keyboards, Slide Acoustic Guitar and Wonderful Flutes by Chris from OKA make this album a unique journey.

The Review

This is ambient yoga 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.

While the album was created to enhance any yogic or therapeutic practice, you don’t have to be into yoga for it to appeal. It works equally well as an album of super chilled-out sounds that bring a relaxed vibe to any activity.

Play it while you write, create a work of art, hang out in the garden, cook dinner, do your tax or have a luscious massage — whatever the experience, it will definitely be enriched with this music as an accompaniment.

The masterminds behind the music are multi-talented Australian brothers Herrin and Jai Larkan, both successful musicians in their own right, who teamed up to write, perform and produce the album. They invited Chris Lane from Aussie band OKA to add gorgeous flute solos, a smart move, as the flute really adds a certain magic to Herrin’s and Jai’s subtle vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion, piano, keyboards and programming.

The interesting thing about this music is that it feels completely timeless and is highly accessible without sounding commercial. It transcends culture, sub-culture, language and age, so you could safely buy it for your partner, mum, grandma or second cousin twice removed and be guaranteed they’ll love it, because there’s simply nothing not to love about it.

Embrace the Moment has a kind of poetic beauty about it that seeps into your being without you noticing. Before you know it, 80 minutes is up and you’re pressing the play button again. And again…

Overall, it’s a nurturing sound journey grown out of a wonderful synergy between three highly accomplished musicians who obviously have a deep understanding of how to use light, shade and space to bring an enduring and captivating quality to their stunning musical arrangements.

Review 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.

These guys are masters of mood creation, able to conjure up dreamlike worlds within worlds amidst swirls of effervescent sound with just the two of them and their swag of instruments. Dave Johnson plays didgeridoo, sax, midi sax, percussion and keyboards, and Zane Savage plays keyboards and didgeridoo. Together they’ve got the whole world music, chillout sound well and truly sorted.

While it’s the Australian landscape that provides the prime inspiration here, we also get spicy little sound bites from Africa, the Middle East and the Orient thrown into the mix, making for a truly soul-nourishing global musical feast.

The album comprises seven tracks totaling 64 minutes, a few of them hovering around the 12-minute mark. Relaxing and hypnotic, upbeat and energetic, Didgera’s music will float and spark around you like a multicoloured aura, enhancing any space with vibrant, mesmerising sound.

Website: http://www.didgera.net
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/didgera

“Performer , teacher, composer and recording artist, Dave Johnson is a multi-instrumentalist since age 10, bringing his passion for music alive on the street or stage in a versatile performance.”

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Meet Kit Cotter.

Jazz aficionado, keyboard player, guitarist, percussionist, vocalist and drummer. Oh and he writes songs and composes soundtracks! Have we missed anything out??

We first met Kit when he did some keyboards on Blossomheads album, Dream Beautiful. We were blown away.

His musicianship was fantastic and he had an inherent feeling for the part that would complement the song. He even created the main parts for a song called “We Were Friends”. He played the Keyboards, Guitar and brought the song into focus in one session.

Since then we have started working with him and not surprisingly he has an album in the works. Its called “Koan Of Silence – Chillorado #1″ . You will find some audio teasers below. He has also created a new sound called Chillorado. Its his own special brand of Jazz, Chill-Out and Soundtrack music inspired by a lifetime of listening and appreciating great composition and musicianship. Look out for Chillorado.com soon! We’ll keep you posted.

Song by Jai Larkan – El Centro – 5:03. From the album “Where to Land” released on Astronomy Records. Download the music right here.

Footage by Mike Middleton at On-Cam.net