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Sonic Nomad Project - Vol. 1

by Astro Hawk

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Gecko 05:38
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Banaban 05:46
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Ram Jai Ram 05:15
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Ganga Flow 05:43
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Khmer Funk 03:28
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Varanasi 09:20

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Dance Music > Travel > Community
"Soulsonic Transportation for Global Consciousness"

Supporting community efforts around the world through electrifying music that's woven around culturally and environmentally inspiring field recordings taken from global travel adventures.

1.Circumnavigate the globe on a 6 month travel adventure
2.Collect environmentally and culturally relevant recordings/samples
3.Where these recordings are taken, connect with an organization that is helping there community
4.Make the music and give back by raising awareness and proceeds for the community projects when distributing it

The Sonic Nomad Project is an experiment in creative travel using sound and music to engage the travel experience and to give back to the communities that were experienced on the journey as a natural repercussion.

Sounds were recorded from interesting, environmental, and culturally relevant atmospheres from all around the world on the travels to be used in, inspire, and in some cases to actually create, music.

The feeling and tonality of the samples were, in most cases, the inspiration for where the music went and what kind of rhythmic and melodic elements manifested. In most cases the samples are showcased in the songs’ introductions just as they were recorded so you can feel the realness and power of these places, events, and people (from construction following a hurricane in Fiji, to a Gecko in Thailand, to a Singing Bowl in India, to musicians who are land mine victims in Cambodia, along with several more). The album courses through multiple moods and genres on this journey through driving progressive and tech house to world beat fusion and ambient soundscapes to experimental rhythmic compositions built entirely, or almost entirely, on the creative manipulation of the field recordings.

The reason this Album is entitled “Volume 1” is because the plan is to be an ongoing project to continue bringing together my three loves of dance music, travel, and building a healthy global community. And I hope you’ll join me for the ride! “One Beat, One Earth, One Tribe”


To Learn More about the project and the community organizations we are supporting go to sonicbridges.com

*Some of the tracks were mastered by Casey Nefcy from Counterw8 records in San Francisco and additional mastering support from Overground Digital Records in Budapest, Hungary.

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released September 11, 2011

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