We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The Way To Be Free

by Mike Tamburo

/
1.
Old Gypsy Way Of Calling Upon Spirit 14:49
buy track
2.
Evil Spirits Be Damned/Clan Of The Kukeri 11:30
buy track
3.
The Way To Be Free 02:17
buy track
4.
The Unknowing 12:10
buy track

about

Mike Tamburo - The Way To Be Free

Old Gypsy Way of Calling Upon Spirit
Evil Spirits Be Damned/Clan of the Kukeri
The Way To Be Free
The Unknowing

Mike Tamburo - Hammered Dulcimer, Electric Guitar, Bass VI, Wavedrum, Percussion, Harmonium

Gallina Tamburo - Harmonium on Old Gypsy Way of Calling Upon Spirit

Michael Dodin - Tabla on The Way To Be Free
Anthony Molina - Mellotron on The Way To Be Free

Track 1 recorded by Eric Carbonara at Nada Sound/Forge Recording
Tracks 2,3,4 Recorded By Mike Tamburo at Sounds Eternal
Tracks 1,3,4 Mixed By Anthony Molina At White Light Recording Studio
Mastered By Eric Carbonara

credits

released March 30, 2015

Expansive inner-journeys into world-opening passages as told by Mike Tamburo through hammered dulcimer, drones and tones, and other instrumentation
-------
Mike Tamburo, also known as Brother Ong and one part of Crown of Eternity, has returned to his renowned practice of hammered dulcimer in his latest release composed between 2010 and 2015, The Way to Be Free. Travelled upon, dissipated, and re-worked through multi-layered wanderings, Tamburo’s The Way to Be Free treads old practices and phases through the complicated inter-workings of his most expansive string works to date. The Way to Be Free is a comprehensive exploration of an artist’s massive perceptual shifts as told through compositions that travel memories of past performance, the stripped bare return to disappeared collaborations, and the complexities found in the relationship between musician and instrument.

Culling informative listenings of Dorothy Carter, Alice Coltrane, Shivkumar Sharma, Robbie Basho, Sandy Bull and John Fahey, Mike Tamburo’s explorations of hammered dulcimer are positioned in deep wanderings to understand American identity through folk music. As a veteran of the DIY avant- garde and improvisation circuit, as well as his more recent work with meditation music and formless sound, Tamburo’s extensive touring has culminated in a multiplicative approach to the engagements experienced through his road-traversed interpretations of anywhere USA. How this manifests in Tamburo’s work is applicable in the sounds of The Way to Be Free: the music evokes a sense of experienced external travel defiant of a permanent destination, allowing the listener to act as a dislocated traveler repeatedly embarking on the recording’s voyages for contemplative discovery.

Tamburo’s The Way to Be Free offers the listener an intricate sincerity evoked in the album’s most tender renderings. As a companion to soft considerations, Tamburo doesn’t hesitate to present the listener with challenging confrontations. The most intimate moments meander into controlled manias, hard-tinged hammered dulcimer drumbeat regions, and controlled corridor-like repetition. Ascent comes at a cost in The Way to Be Free, and it is reflective of Tamburo’s journeys and exploratory phasing(s) necessary for artists to expand and grow beyond their foundations.
- Ed Steck
-----------------

Sounds Eternal 11

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Sounds Eternal image

Sounds Eternal Santa Cruz, California

Sounds Eternal is a new collaborative label started in 2012 and run by Mike and Gallina Tamburo with Brother Ong and Mata Agni and Harnek Singh and Kaur.

We believe that listening is one of the highest forms of meditation. The music that we release will mirror that philosophy.

We release ecstatic sounds (instrumental, drone, ambient, composed, mantra, gong, space, freak out, minimal) ... more

contact / help

Contact Sounds Eternal

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like The Way To Be Free, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now