During the height of the first year of the Pandemic, my circle of creative friends experienced cabin fever, loneliness, and a deep hunger for collaboration. This musical soundscape was inspired by my friend, Jarish, and the stories he shared with us of his visits to Kerala and Karnataka, the year previous. Jarish is a masterful sound artist!! Everywhere he goes, he is recording the ambient sounds, documenting the livingness of spaces, of environments. He has inspired me to take up this same practice. We both love incorporating those audible signatures into music. It is our way of inviting others into our way of sensing, experiencing, and being.

Jarish offered up his samples and together, with our friends, we manifested "Anticipated Monsoon". 

Temple songs and chants, rainfall, marketplace carts, people talking, monkeys, bells and gongs... the flavors of India saturating our senses. 

Credits: 

Jarish Majarhalal ~ original composition, live recorded ambient sound samples (2018/2019), tabla 

Adam Auron Lodestone ~ original composition, supplemental percussion

Brida Burdose ~ Flute 

Gregory Nunes ~ Strings, Harmonium, Piano, Akai Prophet  

Copyright: The Awetist, Adam Auron Lodestone, 2022 

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