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Amor Mundi


La vie comme flux infini

Amor Mundi | Re-enchanting Life2021-07-28T22:05:10+02:00

#Aimer la vie #Nature # âme

To love life. And to love the world. As if it were an extension of our body. And the mystery of our soul. Inspired by Spinoza’s notion of Nature

Amor Mundi Album

Cet album s’inspire de la philosophie de Spinoza (1632-1677). Et plus particulièrement de la façon dont il explore la notion d’Infini. Du comment la nature est considérée comme un pouvoir d’expression de cet Infini.

Une métaphysique aujourd’hui considérée comme très contemporaine

Vidéos de l’album

L’inspiration

Amor Mundi, s’inspire de la pensée de Spinoza. Pour qui la Nature est presque divinisée, puisque la réalité physique toute entière, y compris nos corps et nos pensées, équivalent à la substance (c’est-à-dire la totalité du réel-Dieu) unique et infinie.
C’est en quelque sorte la bande-son de mes rencontres avec le philosophe.

Il y est question de Nature, de flux, d’amour, de secrets, de puissance tectonique, de crêtes, de matrice, de dimensions. De l’indescriptible nostalgie des rythmes infinis.

Il y a des mélodies, du rythme, des nappes sonores, une grande variété de situations musicales qui sont des rencontres entre des instruments et des émotions.
Une rencontre où chaque partie garde sa part de mystère et gagne en saveur à être ensemble, mais distincts, unique.

Bref ce sont des calligraphies sonores..

Extraits [au casque de préférence]:

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Serenity Despite The Storm Video

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What if serenity is like walking? A state that, while maintaining verticality, transcends the imbalance imposed by the emptying of [...]

lydia

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Hi! I absolutely love your music!!!! The more I listen, the more I like it! Thank You for the music!

meisha

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Hi I'm really enjoying your stuff and looking forward to hearing the new songs. Can't wait to check em out..

Karen

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WOW! I fell in love with your music! ! Sorry, that's sorta corny, but it's how I feel. I'm ur [...]

barry

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hi i have to admit that VERTIGO is the best of your n1m musiclist as far as i can see [...]

will

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Thank you for sharing your talent... I feel blessed to know you in this life...Keep your music alive... It sounds [...]

T.

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i will tweet your music as often as i can means daily! im speechless ... absolutely amazing music

John

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Congratulations on awesome music, i'll be sending in my order soon. Keep up the great work and be safe.

Chris

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your "the high meets the low" is my favorite. I'm just absolutely speechless about it. please keep up the brilliant [...]

Marian

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Hi, I was actually sharing another artist on n1m and I recommended your song by mistake. Best mistake I ever [...]

Marian

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Hi, I was actually sharing another artist on n1m and I recommended your song by mistake. Best mistake I ever [...]

William

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hey I love the track Sister Moon, one you can hear over and over, so amazing! William

Ayla

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Hi! Found your site on here and glad I did! Listened to Alluvium, fantastic feeling - hope you go far [...]

fan: melissa

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I never get bored this tune Sister Moon. I love this tune so much and Thanks for producing this track.

kirk

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I really enjoyed listening to your music!

roshel

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ALLUVIUM you know I think all I can say is... wow.

Chroniques

Anantakara Releases New Ambient Album

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Anantakara, the ambient and experimental music artist, is thrilled to announce the release of their highly anticipated album “Unseen Patterns Of Light.” This captivating work is a poetic ode to light, exploring its physical, phenomenal, metaphysical, and spiritual dimensions.
The album’s intention, as described by the artist, is to delve into the tangible as a crystallization of the intangible. The various facets or degrees of light are seen as vibratory states, with their frequencies impacting our perception of reality. Light is also the illuminator, without which we cannot see. Metaphorically, it enlightens consciousness, illuminates souls, connects beings, and inspires ideals.
“Unseen Patterns Of Light” is a profound and immersive journey through the realms of light, inviting listeners to embark on a transformative experience. The album’s soundscapes seamlessly blend ambient textures, experimental elements, and ethereal melodies, creating a mesmerizing and introspective atmosphere.
This album is a reflection on the multifaceted nature of light and its profound impact on our existence,” says Anantakara. “Through the medium of sound, I aim to evoke a sense of wonder, contemplation, and connection with the luminous essence that permeates all of creation.”

I have to admit from the off that I am a bit of a fan of Anantakara, here is an electronic musician that always seems to knock it out of the park musically for me, and also in my view, I truly believe his releases have just got better and better as the years have rolled on. With his new album Unseen Patterns Of Light I was certainly to be proved right, this is an astonishingly brilliant album indeed.

Hidden Frequencies begins our voyage through the tones and vibrations of a simply breath taking EM styled release, but Anantakara goes further on this new album, as he does so on this opening offering, gifting us the listener a smooth yet ever onward journey of sight and sound to enjoy, a mixture of electronic mastery, mixed with subtitles of a delicate ambient to enjoy.

This is also a 9 track album of great quality, one that I urge you to try out, and contained within are gems like Echoes of the Cosmic Canopy, its mysterious opening foray seems to hover constantly around you, whilst pieces like Solar Winds Impulses are a horse of a totally different colour, mixing a little neo-classical nuanced tone into a bath of ambient electronics.

The longest creation from the album is the stunning Brighter Earths And Wider Heavens, a composition that seems to herald in a new era for the musician, a tapestry of musical colours and vibrational structures flow here in an ever impressive style, and with the overall time span allotted for this piece at well over 12 minutes this for me was heavenly and also reminding me at times of Germany’s own Al Gromer Khan.

I have constantly been impressed with the willingness of the artist to explore further, farther and deeper within his own music, and this for me was brought right to the fore with my personal favourite track, and the penultimate offering from the album called A Subtle Link Of Union. Here he takes rhythm, ambience and the tonal quivering delights of electronic genius to manifest something totally addictive.

This delicious menu of instrumental mastery is topped off with the final manifestation entitled Dare To Love Again, a fine concluding offering with an excellent and vast keyboard presentation.

This has to be said is the artist best work so far, I know that could be a somewhat clichéd or hackneyed writers comment, but I believe it to be true, Unseen Patterns Of Light by Anantakara is with doubt the artists most forward thinking work thus far, by far his most descriptive, and most certainly his most creative, this album is a musical modern art gallery of tone and timbre, and simply anyone who likes their music with a penchant for electronic and ambience combined, must avail themselves a copy of Unseen Patterns Of Light at all costs, it is superb. (Steve Sheppard)

Hidden Frequencies a symphony of interconnected vibrations, a new video clip

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## The Enigmatic World of Frequencies in Music

All around us, in us, through us, there are frequencies that have yet to be identified and touched by conventional senses. These frequencies, like elusive whispers in the wind, carry the essence of music in their unseen waves. In the realm of music, frequencies play a fundamental role, shaping the sounds we hear, feel, and resonate with on a profound level.

## Unveiling the Hidden Harmonies

Just as calligrams are intricately woven into the fabric of art, frequencies in music create a tapestry of harmonies that transcend the boundaries of the audible. These frequencies, often imperceptible to the naked ear, hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of sound and melody. They dance in intricate patterns, blending and merging to form the symphony of life itself.

## The Melodic Language of Frequencies

In the vast expanse of the cosmos, frequencies are like celestial equations written in the stars, guiding the movements of planets and shaping the cosmic symphony. In music, these frequencies manifest as the building blocks of melody, rhythm, and harmony, each contributing its unique voice to the grand composition of existence.

## Harmonizing with the Universe

Just as the fabric of reality is interwoven with hidden equations, music resonates with frequencies that harmonize with the very essence of the universe. When we listen deeply, we can attune ourselves to these subtle vibrations, allowing them to guide us on a journey of sonic exploration and self-discovery. Through music, we connect with the universal language of frequencies that transcends barriers and speaks to the soul.

## Exploring the Depths of Sound

As we delve deeper into the realm of frequencies in music, we uncover a rich tapestry of sonic possibilities waiting to be explored. Each note, each chord, each melody is a manifestation of these unseen vibrations, carrying with them the power to evoke emotions, stir memories, and transport us to realms beyond the ordinary. By embracing the diverse frequencies present in music, we open ourselves to a world of endless creativity and expression.

## Embracing the Symphony of Frequencies

In the symphony of frequenciesThe cosmic Soul a new official video clip that surrounds us, music serves as a gateway to understanding the interconnectedness of all things. Through the art of listening, we can tune into the subtle nuances of sound, allowing the vibrations to guide us on a journey of discovery and enlightenment. By immersing ourselves in the melodic language of frequencies, we open our hearts and minds to the beauty and complexity of the musical universe.

## Exploring the Depths of Existence Through Sound

Through his music, Anantakara invites us to explore the depths of existence, to venture into the uncharted territories of our own consciousness, and to embrace the beauty of the unseen frequencies that permeate our reality. In his sonic creations, we find a reflection of our own innermost thoughts and emotions, a mirror that reveals the interconnectedness of all things through the language of sound.

“Before Completion” ambient music album, a nice review

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“Like a breeze of amazement, it’s always beautiful and immensely poetic”

A nice review of my March 2023 ambient music album

Every time, it’s always the same! I’m intellectually lazy when it comes to listening to and dissecting an Anantakara album. And each time, I ask myself why? I always come to the same conclusion: hey, it’s beautiful! Admittedly, I’m a long way from the style of electronic music (EM) that I’m a little more fond of, in this universe nourished by a mesh of acoustics and electronics. A union between synthesizers and the various sources of flutes and other acoustic instruments that draw the harmonious arabesques of reveries that animate the 11 structures of BEFORE COMPLETION. Always poetically inspired by spiritual sources that transcend the usual genre, Philippe Wauman drew inspiration from hexagram 64 from Yi-King’s Book of Changes to compose the music for this album download offered by the American label Aural Film. True to his musical aestheticism, the Belgian musician weaves a musical panorama that embraces the curves of theatrical music driven by a choreography drawn from these stars and their fascinating constellations. Percussive acoustic chords and various sources of acoustic percussions are the main sources of the album’s ambient and driving rhythms, while at times the sequencer and drums take us into the world of Berlin School. Flute textures dominate the harmonies and breezes that make up the sources of bewitchment on an album that is quick to enchant ears and senses with some instantly seductive nuggets.

may be one of the best ambient albums 2023

In conformity with its title, Encounter of the Fifth Type opens with a cosmic essence. These elements gradually dissipate, leaving the nostalgic harmonies of synth waves to float between increasingly distant knocks. A slow ballet of light and shadow begins to dance softly. And an ambient rhythm takes shape as rubbery-textured percussive chords begin to gambol limply. This floating cadence finds its impetus in a form of echo born of these cadenced knockings, from which emerges a melody weeping like a flute seeking its metamorphosis into a saxophone. Suspended chords crumble into tender flute breaths at the opening of After the Rain. Tibetan-like tinkling chimes structure a rhythmic ritornello where the heaviness of a bass line hangs in the air. Its fluid shading resonates as keyboard riffs structure a curt rhythm.

a poetic ambient electronic album

A kind of astral procession whose firmament fills with flute tunes in a cinematic musical texture. This choreography of a spasmodic ballet is at the origin of Flowering up the Heart, from which the enchanting flute lulls our dreams and hopes. A slow, undulating rhythmic movement with a certain restraint loses itself in a long passage of cinematic ambiance, where drama and its shadows loom like an inevitable threat. The strings are quite striking at times, while the tender, melancholy piano takes us back to the gates of reverie. As the sonic hoops of Fulfil your Fate dissipate, the track takes a beautiful approach to a romanticized Berlin School. The back-and-forth movement of the sequencer and the shadow of its echo forge this elastic rhythm to which are grafted various keyboard chords and their echoes, and good percussion that solidify the base of this unexpected Berlin School. The rhythm continues to gather various musical ingredients that make the music utterly exquisite. This approach is echoed in the very good and more static Take Your Leap and its dance of thunders.

ambient music album with dreamy harmony

Feeling the Flow is one of the short titles in this collection of 11 musical pieces to grace the panoramas of BEFORE COMPLETION. Its opening is perfumed by the musical breezes of an alto flute that layers it with dreamy harmony. The rhythmic structure that emerges is of the shy, furtive kind, like the hesitant steps of a wolf watching a prey too nimble for him. The bass stretches out a vampiric cloak, tinkling with stars in formation, while the synth spreads a glowing, ochre-tinted layer. The fluty harmonies take the ascendancy over the rhythm which hatch with difficulty, guided mainly by the hesitant chords of the bass and its zigzagging arabesques. Another beautiful fluty ode is at the origin of In Her Open Eyes, which develops into a fascinating tribal rhythm in which the organic beats/croaks stretch out a seductively elastic gallop. Music for classic Western movies! Guided by the piano and its undulating melodic lines, Diving develops into a repetitive nursery rhyme where cadenced rattles tap-dance in a form of rhythmic canon sliced clear-cut by the orchestrations.

We’re not far from the world of Philip Glass here, as in other places on the album. In particular with its last title Culmination is Transient, which quietly develops into a seductive astral tribal dance. And if you like this genre, a track like Unveiling that Cosmic Love Wave has all the attributes to seduce you. An excellent track! Follow Me in the Rainbow Haze is a short track driven by acoustic chords that structure a jerky rhythm with zigzagging loops that are caressed by other beautiful fluty odes. A keyboard sows melodious chords that sparkle in a panorama of reveries.

Yes, it’s the same every time! And yet it’s always beautiful and immensely poetic.

Sylvain Lupari (June 25th, 2023) ****½*

A vibrant and uplifting music video clip

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A vibrant and uplifting music video

Follow Me In The Rainbow Haze is a vibrant and uplifting music video that is sure to capture the hearts and minds of music lovers all around the world. This amazing video is set to a backdrop of progressive ambient electronic music that will take you on a journey through the depths of your imagination.

The music in this video is a perfect blend of progressive and ambient electronic music, providing a captivating and energizing experience. The rhythmic beats and mesmerizing sounds of the electronic instruments create an atmosphere that is both futuristic and otherworldly, transporting the listener to a world of limitless possibilities.

a visual experience

One of the most striking features of this vibrant and uplifting music video is its use of visuals. The imagery in this video is nothing short of breathtaking, with stunning animations and psychedelic effects that will leave you mesmerized. The use of bright and bold colors creates a kaleidoscopic effect that perfectly complements the music, creating a visual experience that is as captivating as the music itself.

The title of this music video, “Follow Me In The Rainbow Haze”, perfectly encapsulates the mood and atmosphere of the piece. The rainbow haze represents a world of limitless possibilities, a place where anything is possible and the sky’s the limit. The music takes the listener on a journey through this world, exploring its many wonders and marvels.

At its core, this music video is about the power of music to transport us to places we have never been before. It is a celebration of the human spirit and our ability to create beauty and magic out of the most ordinary of things. The progressive and ambient electronic music that forms the backbone of this video is a perfect example of this, as it takes us on a journey through the depths of our imagination and shows us just how beautiful the world can be.

One of the most impressive things about this video is the way that it blends together different elements of music and visual art. The music is perfectly synchronized with the visuals, creating a seamless and immersive experience that is sure to leave a lasting impression on anyone who sees it. The use of different visual effects and animations creates a sense of depth and texture that is truly remarkable, adding an extra layer of complexity to the music.

If you are a fan of electronic music, then this video is an absolute must-see. It combines the best elements of progressive and ambient electronic music to create a sound that is both futuristic and classic at the same time. The beats and rhythms are infectious, drawing you in and making you want to dance along with the music.

a stunning music video

Overall, Follow Me In The Rainbow Haze is a stunning music video that is sure to capture the hearts and minds of music lovers everywhere. It is a celebration of the power of music and the human spirit, and it will leave you feeling uplifted and inspired. Whether you are a fan of electronic music or just appreciate beautiful art and music, this video is not to be missed. So why not sit back, relax, and let the music take you on a journey through the rainbow haze?

From the album :

In Her Open Eyes: A New Video Clip

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It is the story of a soul who, carried by a powerful and unstoppable breath, will gradually open up and become aware of herself. She goes through trials, confinements, and crises in her life, discovers her resources of resilience, and finally accomplishes the light that shines deep in her heart. It is as if the music carries us away in a flurry and at the same time invites us to stand and find our own dance step. At our own pace, according to our own reference points.

The Gift of Fire: 1 saga in sound and cinematic music by Anantakara and Jack Hertz

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Cinematic Music Album

The story behind this new cinematic music album

A series of drawings made with Indian ink and pen were imagined and drawn in 1976 by a young artist.

His ambition was to initiate a great story, both fantastic and philosophical, full of mysteries, frights, sensualities, and mysteries, alternating wanderings, and epiphanies. A tale that stages the friction of powerful opposing forces seeking to establish new balances.

Populated with creatures from forgotten mythology, each drawing sketched an episode of this saga. However, the work was not completed and was eventually reduced to a dozen somewhat enigmatic pictures. We, therefore, know little about what the complete story could have looked like.

Originally, it was planned that a soundtrack would accompany each drawing. The whole was to form the body of an opera. Without going that far, we selected the drawing which seemed to us to be the most significant to imagine in sound impressions and music the situation it tells.

The 8 tracks focus on a particular section of the drawing. The album brings an additional dimension, cinematic music, and emotions.

This album is a collaborative work between Anantakara and Jack hertz

released October 3, 2022, on Aural Films

Aural Films is an online record label (netlabel) that releases high-quality cinematic music soundtrack albums for movies that do not exist. We cover a wide range of music styles ranging from ambient to experimental to popular to soundtrack pieces of music. Often on the same albums. You can find our complete catalog of releases online at AuralFilms.com

Anantakara – VST by Native instruments, U-he, Soundpaint, Spitfire Audio Ableton live 11, Push

Jack Hertz – Artiphon Orba, Aturia Pigments, Eurorack, Teenage Engineering OP-Z

Anantakara, a Sanskrit word meaning “rendering boundless”, is a Belgium-based electro-acoustic project led by Philippe Wauman creating music since 2011. The music is wide-ranging, hybrid, and transversal, bringing together different genres (electronica, ambient, cinematic music, downtempo, ethnic, neo-classical, minimal, electro-acoustic, and jazzy) without belonging to any one of these styles in particular, but bringing them into dialogue. More info can be found at www.anantakara.com. More music anantakara.bandcamp.com

Jack Hertz is fascinated by all aspects of creating sound. From the earliest instruments to the present-day hardware and software innovations. More at JackHertz.com

Something Greater Than Us a magic music video

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There are moments in life when we feel that “something is happening”, something that escapes us, and that we feel as “greater than ourselves”. And we hesitate to name the thing for fear that this breath will fade away if we want to lock it in a concept. A magic music composition that vibrates with the wonder that comes from the recognition of these moments, moments that open space in the perception of what is.

There are moments in life when we feel that “something is happening”, something that escapes us, and that we feel as “greater than ourselves”. And we hesitate to name the thing for fear that this breath will fade away if we want to lock it in a concept. A magic music composition that vibrates with the wonder that comes from the recognition of these moments, moments that open space in the perception of what is.

Why is this Music Magic

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The intensité Project broascasted on local tv

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Bouké Media is pleased to broadcast the integral show “Intensities” the ANANTAKARA concert accompanied by the Performing Arts Ensemble “Son Corps Voice Sequences”. In the foreground the ambient/electronic concert of HYPERKUBE, followed by the video “intensities – chapter Mesnil” by Alain Kinet accompanied, for the first time, by the duo Anantakara and Hyperkube.

A very nice music album review

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the reviewer Sylvain Lupari has written a very complimentary review of 2nantakara’s latest album released on March 15, 2022 on the Aural films label

“This is a perfect album where each song is a journey in your inner mind” ( Review from Sylvain Lupari)

To feel being carried away by strong inner emotion, such is the basic idea behind THERE IS SOMETHING by the Brussels musician Philippe Wauman. This latest album-download from Anantakara on the San-Francisco-based label Aural Films is nothing less than a wonderful soundtrack to those moments in our lives when we felt that angel on our shoulder bringing us to a state of grace. Divided with elegance between its astral atmospheres and its semi-driving rhythms, its electronic side and the acoustic one, THERE IS SOMETHING is the most beautiful musical fable that I ever heard from the Belgian artist. A splendid album where the sensitivity and the mysticism exchange silent stanzas in an incomparable atmosphere of serenity with a magnificent musician who becomes, for our next 60 minutes, master of our emotions and of this thread that guides them towards our inner interior.

It is with the lapping of water that begins this new album-download of Anantakara. Shadows of sound become grey clouds, surrounding Orpheus Walk with one of its many sibylline veils. A sly rhythm makes its pulsations heard, whose aura of resonance meets these layers of seraphic voices which are part of the charms of THERE IS SOMETHING. Philippe Wauman adds threatening drone effects, drawing the listener into the surreal, while a tasty bass structures a wave of elastic rhythm. The beats dance with hoops that evaporate, along with the bass, into a world of esoteric atmospheres. This evanescent rhythm structure will come back with a more secret but also more accentuated form to shake the elven ambiances of You are not Alone, a track that mixes the acoustic and electronic parts of the album. With plucked string chords, Magnitudes takes us to a torrent of desynchronized and sequenced beats, whose violins’ bites and synthesized winds’ caresses take us to an astral level. A stunning seraphic voice drawn from the 8dio Forgotten Voices hums an interstellar hymn as That Inner Voice opens. Curtly plucked strings structure an ambient rhythm that echoes and switches into electronic chirps under the ominous shadows of the orchestrations, mostly oboes, giving a fantasy film texture to this track whose evolution takes us through a whole range of perceptions. Intense and dramatic! And especially very magnetizing with this artificial voice which succeeds the improbable bet to seduce and to soften us. Especially in a more acoustic finale. There are several passages where our emotions make the hairs on our arms dance in this THERE IS SOMETHING. And the sublime dance of the piano scattered in the pulsating and Mephistophelian ambiences of Temptation of Melancholy is part of these beautiful moments which blow in our ears without warning.

Tenebrous ambiences are the source of the black breezes that blow the opening of Toward Clarity. Isolated percussive chords add clarity that is far from obvious to grasp in the squalls and chthonian electronic waves that blanket this track until a seductive set of hand percussions change its direction a few seconds into its 4th minute. The rhythm obsesses the senses with well-felt strikes that synth layers cover with a veil of organ and the keyboard scatters an equally haunting procession. A vampiric ghost chant initiates the title track whose elastic bassline structures an equally sibylline procession under a bed of agitated percussions. Abandoning this rather bewitching rhythmic framework after the 4th minute, There is Something evolves in its universe of astral travels on the indolent movement of its bassline which has become the central element of the different sketches of this very beautiful album of Philippe Wauman. The surreal ambiences are next to the mysticism all along THERE IS SOMETHING and the slow piano/voice procession in the opening of A Grateful Soul does not escape to this rule. Nor from that of those rhythms that activate the neurons and the bone line of the back, without giving life to our feet, that make the second segment of this track dance that ends with the ambiences of its opening. Brilliant is this melody stuck on glass in Strange Feeling of Grace, another of those tracks whose evolution remains in close connection with a form of circular procession. It is with a beautiful enchanted flute, singing on a structure animated by a piano, that A Sense of Freedom ends this last album of Anantakara which is undoubtedly the most beautiful that I heard from the Belgian musician

new Anantakara’s “There is something” album reviewed by Steve Sheppard

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Anantakara’s new album “There is Something” released march 14 2022 has been reviewed by Steve Sheppard

I have been following and writing about the music of Anantakara for some 4 years now, it all started back with an album called Momentum Lapses, a release I simply adored, but now with this brand new offering I think I may have come across some of the finest work that the artist has thus far created, and entitled There is Something.

This journey of sight and sound begins with the very first moment of brilliance entitled Orpheus Walk, the natural sounds of water describe for me a cave like waterfall, and the gentle progression of electronic based music performed by the artist here is without doubt some of the most outstanding work created by him, and a piece on its own merits that also has a little crossover classical element entwined within too.

This moment of wonderment is followed up by the piece You Are Not Alone, a track with a slight meditative feel to it, an added sense of mystery and imagination also manifests a whole new level of intrigue and fascination into the mix as well. What is so very appealing about this album is that it forces you to sit and listen to each and every second shared by the artist, it is so incredibly inventive.

Magnitudes is our next track location and another piece that creates a sense of electronic craft and guile. Here is also an offering that due to its repetitive energies brings into reality a mood of movement and travel. The tones created here by the artist and the presentation contained within are sparkling, radiant, and brilliantly produced.

The longest piece off the album is a track entitled That Inner Voice; it contains some of the most haunting yet almost angelic vocals to begin its eventual and slow transformation, and onward and into a wonderfully classy electronic music offering. The build and progression here are smart, intelligent, and wonderfully arranged, this is a piece I thoroughly enjoyed and would like to call it my special moment of magical musical coalescence.

At the midway marker we come across a truly dark yet enticing composition called Temptation Of Melancholy, here is something heavy and incredibly moody, and I would suggest that the old maxim of it does what it says on the can comes into play here. One can feel the temptation through performance structure and how easy it is to allow oneself to fall into a pit of darkness, in what is a crafted and artistic presentation by the artist.

The meditative qualities of this next piece really shine brightly on the offering Toward Clarity; this would be another personal favourite of mine, much ambience can be felt here, but also the artist manifests a change occurring within his sublime creation. The listener will also be able to touch a sense of awareness here, one that will perhaps lead to moment of clarity from being very present and in the moment, as listeners, you will find yourself listening for each and every sound to come, which in some way proves my aforementioned postulation.

The title track is always a great opportunity to expand and explain the entire concept of the album, and on There Is Something the artist does just that, the energy is raised slightly, but the repeating motifs and slow builds and textures, bring to the seeker a mood of satisfaction and tranquillity, the presentation of electronic wizardry here is not simply clever, it is incredibly well thought out and intelligently performed, and at times reminded me a little of John Carpenter.

Grateful Soul is a wonderful respite of tone and inner realities to completely enjoy, the harmonic vocalisations and slow progressive ambience on keyboards are blissfully balanced. This I would dare to say is a specific arrangement that would be brilliantly placed into a fantasy segment of a movie, the vocals are ethereal and time seems to just drift by whilst in this moment of sublime oneness.

The penultimate offering of this quite superb album is now upon us and entitled Strange Feeling Of Grace, there is a slight elevation of energy here, and the construction of an electronic ambience and minimalism can also be felt in this expertly manifested last but one composition, I felt the electronic presence here of a multitude of directions, in a piece that would literally be ideal to leave on repeat for a circular journey of musical pleasure.

We now bring to conclusion the album with a relatively short arrangement entitled A Sense Of Freedom, and for the first time we sense an energy of a more New Age styled creation, and hovering within the weave of the piece is a mood of renewal and growth, one must applaud the musician for his inventive and creative intelligence to leave the release with a composition of rejuvenation and fresh perspective.

There Is Something by Anantakara is with ease the best work thus far by the artist, he has taken his thoughts and allowed them to grow and expand and create an album of music that is both very easy to listen to, but also brings such serenity and focus into the mix as well. There Is Something by Anantakara is an album that fans of expressive and artistic electronic music will utterly love, and for those who are unsure of the genre, the best place to start.

The cosmic Soul a new official video clip

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“We have all known moments of grace, where we felt uplifted by something greater than ourselves. Something powerful and vast that arises when you don’t expect it. Thus, in an intense and stimulating calm, one finds oneself transferred elsewhere while being totally present. This album outlines echoes of these moments, which are both very intimate and very cosmic.

I wanted to explore the bliss or vertigo that occurs when the depths (oceanic, galactic, archetypal, psychological, quantum) visit us through the flow of their magnificence.

this is how I present my new album to be released on Monday 14th march 2022.

a new video clip

this new official and original video give a taste of the new album.

A new composition for a compilation album on Aural films music label

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my recent contribution to a compilation album of 5 hours of music around the trance of the whirling dervishes.

The Whirling Dervish is a form of physically active meditation which originated among certain Sufi groups, and which is still practiced by the Sufi Dervishes of the Mevlevi order and others. Aural Films asked artists to create their own entrancing Whirling music slow or fast, minimal or busy, droning or percussive. We are happy to present more than 30 interpretations of these entrancing sonic meditations that you can hear now.

‘Right Time-Right Place’ ambient space music reviews

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new sonic meditation as tribute to Sri Aurobindo’s 149 birthday

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This long binaural sonic meditation created and played by sound calligrapher Anantakara is a tribute to the exceptional work of Sri Aurobindo, poet, yogi, and Indian philosopher. His powerful vision of a necessary transmutation of humanity is particularly inspiring in these troubled times.

This sonic contemplation is a tribute to the exceptional work of Sri Aurobindo, poet, yogi, and an Indian philosopher. His powerful vision of a necessary transmutation of humanity is particularly inspiring in these troubled times.

The music is deployed in 8 moments. Composed in D major. An unheard of spatialization, sound planes, dynamics, vertiginous gaps.

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Ashta, new electronic music album explores 7 valleys towards enlightenment

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electronic music new album released !

Ashta by Philippe Wauman & Frédéric Gerchambeau is an art form all of its own, it is a wonderfully symbiotic amalgamation of electronic music styles, one that to be honest I enjoyed immensely. Each track is a tale to be told on its own, and it is the perfect release for the listener who loves a musical adventure, taking ones as it goes, as the journey through Ashta is fascinating, intriguing, and enlightening. ( Steve Sheppard)

Two composers (Frédéric GERCHAMBEAU and Philippe WAUMAN aka ANANTAKARA) of electronic music with totally different styles and horizons wanted to create a common sound journey for the album ASHTA.

ASHTA means eight in Sanskrit. The sacred language of India. The album is composed of eight valleys to cross, associated with fine stones. Seven moments of a journey towards an eighth, the accomplishment, or enlightenment. It is the staggered progression found in all traditions that has been the common thread of this musical project.

We have asked a painter (Brigitte Schùermans) to accompany our creations with unpublished digital paintings, the original videos of which can be found alongside each title in the digital edition.

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The journey to enlightenment, an electronic music journey: new video

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Two electronic music composers Frederic Gerchambeau ( eurorack modular synth) & Philippe Wauman (Sound Calligraphy aka Anantakara) with totally different styles and backgrounds wanted to create a common sound journey for the album Ashta (to be released soon)

Ashta means eight in Sanskrit, the sacred language of India. The album is composed of eight valleys to be crossed, associated with fine stones.
Seven moments of a journey towards an eighth, the accomplishment, or enlightenment. It is the staggering progression found in all traditions that have been the common thread of this project.
We asked a very talented painter Brigitte Schùermans to create a dynamic artistic universe to support the music.

 

 

When A Goddess Loves New single

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This track is a continuation of my last album dedicated to the Goddess of the starry vault of Ancient Egypt. The myth tells that the goddess had a husband and children. So I wanted to imagine what would be a goddess who loves. How her power was combined with an incredible sweetness. I used instruments that allowed me to support both the grandiose side with a Cymbalon loop that crosses the whole as the expression of a sustained attention.

Live Ambient Music Video Concert

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Aerodyn (Alain Kinet – Jan Buytaert – Philippe Wauman) stands for more than just electronic music.
There is a dialogue physically, and at the moment, between Buytaert’s and Wauman’s synths with Kinet’s graphic art, in which his dark chants create a special atmosphere…how could this not sound in a monastery or a basement?

A captivating listening and viewing experience for fans of the more adventurous and experimental work.
This concert was streamed on May 28 as part of the Ambient Nation Live Series.

your music is so inspiring

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I suppose I should have come along here sooner, to let you know just how much I appreciate you and your music.
First of all, your music is so inspiring.
The kind of stuff that can help you get through those really rough days, (You’ve been there through some of mine recently, and I don’t know if I can tell you how much your music has helped.)
I hope to be able to be here to watch all of your future albums come out, and watch your fanbase grow.
All in all, thank you for being so amazing. =]
And here’s well wishes for everything you do in the future because you deserve only the best.

Jo

Serenity Despite The Storm Video

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What if serenity is like walking? A state that, while maintaining verticality, transcends the imbalance imposed by the emptying of opposite legs. And if anxiety and tranquility were the two times of serenity that in its dynamics welcomes the necessary coexistence of opposites so that at the moment of their coincidence emerges what is called standing. This music was created as a support to invite the emergence of a state where opposites meet without excluding each other. A state where one and the other are true. Serenity is a state of mind where duality is a game and no longer an issue.

Listen to The Album.

I appreciate the creativity you put into your music style

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Hey, I personally think that it shows that you are more musically gifted if you can bring us different kinds of music than just playing the same thing tune after tune. I like your music very much because of its diversity and you are not tryin’ to repeat yourself or any artist out there. I appreciate the creativity you put into your music style.
From a true fan of all your music.
L.

Inspiring Music To Listen To The Depths Of Your Body new music video clip

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#ambient #soundtrack #inspiration
This new music video clip from Anantakara  is the meeting between a musical project that works with hypnotic trance. the actors are also a singular state where they are their body, and can thus position themselves in a present outside the metronomic time. Music is taken from the Newt [At Whose Feet is Eternity] album. (December 2020)

 

Thanks to Alexandra Hershaft for the shootings, Jean Mastin for actors direction.

Trippy and introspective

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Finding myself between two albums, I wanted to make public some recent or older compositions that had not found their place on an album. They deserved to be gathered in a safe place: in a trippy and introspective interlude. Hence the name of this compilation of unreleased tracks.
The album is named Interlud

album reviews: Newt [At Whose Feet is Eternity] by Steve Sheppard

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Anantakara (Phillipe Wauman) the man behind the music, is a specialist in creating lush and fantastical art works of sound and tone, and I have been a follower of his ever since I came across Momentum Lapses in 2018, and have been hooked ever since.
Here on this brand new offering entitled NEWT (At Whose Feet is Eternity) exploring the realms of Nut the Egyptian goddess of the sky and the night, we have a glorious new release that is as far wide and reaching as you the listener will allow, but this splendid ambient soundscape is a truly amazing mood filled journey.
The careful and almost apprehensive opening offering is called She Holds A Thousand Souls, the atmospheric construct here is wonderfully artistic, it builds and creates a vast dimension of tone to wander through, whilst In Whose Hand is the Always, has a totally different energy and style, and is at times almost classical in its progression and manifestation, the repetitive but growing and expanding mantra on keyboards reminded me of the late but still great Darshan Ambient (Michael Allison) in style, the compositions progression is an art form all of its own, in what is an extremely addictive opus.
Lady of the Sycamore our third piece of creative genius is a much darker offering, there is a sense of movement within the weave of this offering I find particularly alluring, and the structure of the overall composition continuously and symbiotically uses its electronic mastery, to bring us one of those tracks that is difficult not to leave on repeat for hours.
The longest of the 5 musical offerings is She Who Bore the Gods at well over nine minutes long, and employs a crafted musical narrative that is inventive as it is artistically sublime. At around 3 minutes in, the energy of the composition picks up and drives us head long into an arrangement that is like a veritable beacon of sound, and then allows us to pull back and float in its utter ambience, this would be my personal favourite off the album and one that reminded me of another late but great musician in Harold Budd.
The last track off this simply superb album is called One Who Hears; the composition has a sense of finality about its construction, which of course makes it the perfect ending track off the release, the keyboards and the performance by the artist here is so moving and deeply creative, and one that I could with ease listen to many times over, and still it would creative an emotive backdrop to my day.
NEWT (At Whose Feet is Eternity) by Anantakara is and was one of the finest electronic ambient works of the year, a year we can’t wait to see the back of in 2020. Here is an album that has five creative and very classy arrangements contained within, and in my view his best work so far.
NEWT (At Whose Feet is Eternity) by Anantakara is an album of stylish electronic compositions, created by an artist who I rate up there with Al Gromer Khan and Darshan Ambient, it is creative colourful and descriptive, and the ambience it manifests is simply compelling.

radio: future Beautiful february 2021

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The latest edition of “Atmospheres” will be available from 8 pm (UK time), Sunday (February 7) from https://futurebeautifulradio.com/category/atmospheres featuring music by Cybernaum (Tero Liedes), Midibitch (Fritz Carraldo), Ron Boots & Synth.NL (Michel van Osenbruggen), Biome (Gregory Kyryluk), Ian Boddy, Time Traveller (Michael L. Rogers), Deep Imagination (Thorsten Sudler-Mainz), Kelly David, Lorenzo Montana, Anantakara (Philippe Wauman), Mutante (Jonathan Parkes & Alec Wood) and ToXyGeNeDK (Torben Friedrich).

radio: One World Music

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Jump into In the Stream with Steve Sheppard #46
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Reviews: She Who Bore the Gods ( from album Newt)

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Music To Stay Up Late At Night (Columbia):

Interesting sound! I enjoyed the way you constructed the whole sonic structure, the initial pattern and the change of sounds you added when including the piano, it was an interesting contrast of sounds.

The dynamics of the track were nice, the subtle growth in intensity was interesting, enforced by the chromatic scales that kept sounding in the background.

The concept of the track is very interesting as well, I don’t know much about the myth of Nut but it seems like a very interesting thematic material.

The strings in the background at the final section of the track were a nice touch, the harmony was expressive and climatic.

Sinusoidal Music (India):

Very interesting concept for an album here, I really liked the quality of the production and the good progression! Very good use of panning and volume automation to bring up the dynamics of the song; slowly bringing the track alive with very subtle elements, really great work, we loved the concept, overall a brilliant electronic piece here.

Hominis Canidae (Brazil):

Congratulations!

I will definitely spread it on our networks and if I can, I will write about it in our monthly newsletter for people who follow us here in Brazil.

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New music album releases

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On December 28th, 2020 Anantakara will release a new music album on the Aural Films label (California). The album is called: NWT [At Whose Feet is Eternity]

This album explores the myth of Nut the Egyptian goddess of the sky and the night. Each track has for title one of the epithets that the ancient Egyptians granted her. This goddess swallowed the sun every evening to give birth to it every morning.
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new single out now

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A song that celebrates new days and all the life that awakens and renews itself. A daily do-over. Fresh and playful. With Burkinabe musician Rasmadi singing.
This composition is the meeting of Africa with the benevolent electronica music of Europe. it is about life coming back, the simple impulse towards the light, the joy of being together, and inventing a new world

Review: a peaceful splendour

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The mix of electronic melodies and soundscapes underlines the duality of tranquility and restlessness in the psyche. Philippe Wauman uses his confinement as a catalyst to produce a peaceful splendor. The wide range of ambient, electronic, and ethnic sounds are caressed between the ears. The message on Serenity Despite The Storm is more than clear; Anantakara creates a salutary electronic work during the current tsunami of unrest.

Review of PATSKER OMAER BEGUIN on https://luminousdash.be/

Radio: brainvoyager episode 270

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3 songs from my album Amor Mundi will be included in this famous show and will be broadcast in various places around the world. A sound journey that promises to be passionate and exciting!

The weekly radio show ELECTRONIC FUSION is solely dedicated to electronic music of various styles and is hosted by

Brainvoyager

. The show took off with episode #1 on 18 September 2015.
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BROADCAST DATES (d-m-y) & SHOWTIMES of the NEW EPISODE #270:
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Saturday 07-11-2020 at 6 pm CET/CEST on

Modul303

from Germany.
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Sunday 08-11-2020 at 9 am PST/PDT on

Krypton Radio

from the USA.
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Sunday 08-11-2020 at 3 pm CET/CEST on

Radio Dark Tunnel

from Germany.
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Episode #270 will present music from: Chris May, Leaving Richmond, Ivan Black, Diane Marie Kloba, Anantakara, Jim Ottaway, Johan Tronestam and 1i2c.
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Listen to all the previous episodes of ELECTRONIC FUSION on Mixcloud. Go to: https://www.mixcloud.com/brainvoyager/

Review: Rythmes Croisés

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ANANTAKARA is now back with Amor Mundi, an exciting and compelling album, complex yet compelling, grandiose and varied, inspired by SPINOZA and his vision of the world. Amor Mundi is an album that seeks to integrate all the beauties of the universe, all its aspects, all its richness. But it is also and even more importantly an album that wants to be intimate because each one of us is a full and complete part of this universe. Therefore, Amor Mundi is for everyone, as a musical bridge between us and this vast world to which we are connected, and in fact, welded together in many ways. It is a journey, step by step, ever deeper into the thought of SPINOZA and nature. With Amor Mundi, ANANTAKARA gives us an astonishing opus in truth, rich in a beautiful harmonic and sonic aestheticism, to listen and listen again to savor its multiple facets.

(Chronicle and interview carried out by Frédéric Gerchambeau)

Review: Amor Mundi

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If my friend Bernard could see me! This brother of life who introduced me to the wonderful universe of music without borders would be proud to see the progress I make in my absolute discovery of music that flirts with the improbable while having this power of attraction that makes it so unique. But still, he is 10 years ahead of his time! These words are both for him and for Anantakara who album after album brings me into territories where the confusion of styles harmonizes to my great astonishment. Inspired by the philosopher Baruch Spinoza, AMOR MUNDI (Life As An Infinite Flow) is no exception. It’s a tough album with sharp twists in the 12 tracks that have this very intimate thread connecting them to each other. There are moments of pure madness, as there are moments of pure genius. These moments are more numerous, leading us little by little to the discovery of an album where even his music always transcends its logical borders a little more.

Acoustic notes plucked curtly initiate the rhythmic mess that grips our ears at the opening of Shimmering Times. The sequencer extends a Berlin School structure while the percussions aim at rock and the notes persist to play by winding up to beautiful fluty tunes. These first two fiery minutes are resolved in a disturbing atmospheric passage where the flute blows its loneliness in a final without agreements. A piano hammers the structure of Show Me Your Wonder with notes on a worn keyboard. The flow, like the harmony, sail in a sea of sounds in search of its musicality when a good and unexpected down-tempo ends up guiding it in an ambient Jazz texture. What the first listenings reveal is a general dissonance with notes that resonate in an arpeggio slaughterhouse. Like that acoustic six-string neck that Anantakara tortures in the opening of Chthonic Memories. Forgetting about these first seconds, our senses become obsessed with this short demonic melody which runs like a vampire fleeing mirrors. A brief moment which is lost in the ashes of the opening while the ambient airs begin to sparkle in a form of dance-music which evaporates in a flute and brings back to life this six-strings suffering of schizophrenia. This is how the 12 chapters of AMOR MUNDI (Life As An Infinite Flow) are built! Each title advances by dispossessing the previous moments to auction them for abstract art. These moments come back to haunt the title, which takes advantage of this theoretical confusion to implant bits of music on a structure that constantly loses its identity. Do we remember how started Sister Moon? However, we are talking about 5 minutes which constantly changes sonic skins with enchanting phrases that we want to hear again. This is the trap of this album!

Amo Ergo Sum is the kind of music where Sade would lay down lyrics. We have to wait for The Riddle of a Soul to have a first long homogeneous structure. And the result is a good track well sat on an evolutionary rhythm which reaches a point of frenzy dominated by acoustic instruments in a great post-rock style à la Picture Palace Music. If we like the genre, A Secret Might has some interesting attributes. But this is nothing compared to Riding The Flickering Crests that will make you hear of all colors. We are at the heart of this album that we rediscover from another ear since Amo Ergo Sum. The tribal drum pass in Riding The Flickering Crests simply saw off both calves. Creative, daring, and addicting! Deus Sive Natura brings us back to the rambling structures of the first titles of AMOR MUNDI (Life As An Infinite Flow). The title begins with a piano and a violin trying to seduce these harp riffs which are the masters of the musical disorders of the album. Dull pulses amplify an anti-music presence, going as far as to block an audio channel. And it’s with one ear that we follow the development of this title which offers particularly good passages that deserve a musical deepening. Mysterious and messy, The Matrix Time-Walk manages to trap us with its acoustic structure. I can’t help but glue Strata’s sonic disturbances to film music for the post-apocalyptic Western genre. Although just apocalyptic would suffice! The twists and turns in this title are as numerous as a female cat having kittens. And believe me, there are some really good parts in this Strata. Irresistible brings me closer to the atmospheres, more modernized here, of Bayou Moon. An album made by Tom Newman in the mid ’80s.

I don’t really know what my friend Philippe Wauman ate, but I would advise some musicians to eat it twice! No, AMOR MUNDI (Life As An Infinite Flow) is not for all ears. But creativity quickly resurfaces in the middle of this record that we learn to love with each new listening. There are awesome moments here and moments of tenderness unique to Anantakara. To discover and listen to it alone.

A nice review from Sylvain Lupari

https://www.synthsequences.com/post/anantakara-amor-mundi-life-as-an-infinite-flow-2020

 

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Radio Spiral Meander Getting To Know Show

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You know Philippe Wauman, the Belgian musical genius known as Anantakara… or you should. Tonight, we listen to selections from two of his new albums recently added to the RadioSpiral library — Amor Mundi (Life As An Infinite Flow) and Serenity Despite The Storm.

I’ll also close out the last night of our booth at the Second Life SciFi Expo for the American Cancer Society with a bit of Live Ambient Ranting if there’s time. Please join us at 9/8/7/6 PM E/C/M/PDT for a celebration of this amazing music.

lydia

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Hi! I absolutely love your music!!!! The more I listen, the more I like it! Thank You for the music!

meisha

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Hi I’m really enjoying your stuff and looking forward to hearing the new songs. Can’t wait to check em out..

6 Years B​-​Wave Festival

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Philippe wauman is an active member of the group Aerodyn

On the occasion of a compilation of the 6 years of the Bwave Festival where the band was featured in the 2018 edition

an unpublished piece was created on this occasion.

Karen

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WOW! I fell in love with your music! ! Sorry, that’s sorta corny, but it’s how I feel. I’m ur fan. I just forwarded your link to several friends. Will be buying your album. Keep it up, you have wonderful talent…good luck

video-clip; A Touch Of Nature

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A sensitive composition inviting us to see what grows and blooms in our lives. Nature with its abundant and varied flowers offers an immense field for contemplation, the one that allows us to associate ourselves with the movement of life that presents itself so simply. It is all in the way we look at events, seeing the beauty, and responding to it without expectations, which can open up new possibilities.
Music by Anantakara
original pictures Fiorella DC. ((https://www.flickr.com/photos/144656591@N05/)

barry

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hi i have to admit that VERTIGO is the best of your n1m musiclist as far as i can see you’ve got a lot of potential to make it really big one day!
I’ll support you ’till the end.

will

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Thank you for sharing your talent… I feel blessed to know you in this life…Keep your music alive… It sounds great and I feel your heart and soul in all that you do and share with the world….

T.

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i will tweet your music as often as i can means daily! im speechless … absolutely amazing music

John

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Congratulations on awesome music, i’ll be sending in my order soon. Keep up the great work and be safe.

Chris

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your “the high meets the low” is my favorite. I’m just absolutely speechless about it. please keep up the brilliant work, its people like yourself that keep the music alive!

Marian

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Hi, I was actually sharing another artist on n1m and I recommended your song by mistake. Best mistake I ever made. Thanks for your music, I love your work. And I think it’s real brave of you to put yourself out there and give so much of yourself to people without expecting anything.

Marian

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Hi, I was actually sharing another artist on n1m and I recommended your song by mistake. Best mistake I ever made. Thanks for your music, I love your work. And I think it’s real brave of you to put yourself out there and give so much of yourself to people without expecting anything.

William

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hey I love the track Sister Moon, one you can hear over and over,
so amazing! William

Ayla

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Hi! Found your site on here and glad I did! Listened to Alluvium, fantastic feeling – hope you go far – you deserve it! Don’t give up!

fan: melissa

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I never get bored this tune Sister Moon. I love this tune so much and Thanks for producing this track.

album reviews : serenity despite the storm by Sylvain Lupari

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“Serenity Despite The Storm is the most realistic album I’ve heard about emotions versus global containment”

SERENITY DESPITE THE STORM is the most realistic album I’ve heard about emotions versus global containment. I believe that its acoustic side has something to do with it, thus creating a sensation of promiscuity as tangible as that which ties us in from the first breaths of Manyfold Quiet Trances. No matter how much I dig, but I can’t find a dead moment there. A great album that I highly recommend, even if we are quite far from the Berlin School. Except that fans of Pink Floyd’s Ummagumma era will be delighted by this Anantakara.

Sylvain Lupari (28/06/20) *****

SynthSequences.com

 

 

Reviews: Amor Mundi by Steve Sheppard

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I have been fascinated by the musical journeys that Anantakara have taken me on over the last few years; these sojourns of electronic majesty have really been deeply artistic and utterly transfixing. The delight here is that I now have the good fortune to write about this latest release entitled Amor Mundi (Life as an Infinite Flow).



This journey of sight and sound starts with the track Shimmering Times,a piece so addictive to listen to, its ever expanding narrative draws the listener into a whole new realm of electronic magic.
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Show Me Your Wonder, has a delightful depth about its construction, listen intently to its tones and vast nature, then perhaps like me, you too will be pulled into a world of expressive and expansive brilliance, the staccato stringed elements and the percussive backdrop is all cleverly manipulated into a weave of musical genius which would become something truly special to behold.

Chthonic Memories contained a few effects that I have created on my own electric guitar to open with; this would lead us nicely to a portal of crafted and extremely artistic segments of music, which seemed to all have their own musical spheres to rotate within

As we move deeper into the album I would find one of my personal favourites, this gem is called Sister Moon.

There is something so tranquil and peace filled about this offering, its repeating energies also reminded me a little of an old style Eno offering called Discreet Music. The build here was also well worked, and its electronic nature and heart beat could be felt throughout the remainder of this truly superb offering.

As we nudge the musical envelope further across the table of tone, we come to a really fascinating track called Amo Ergo Sum.

Translated it means I love, therefore I am. This adds so much to its riveting ever onward movement; for me the underpinned fluency and explorative essence of this track made it another personal favourite.

The light textures of this next piece entitled The Riddle of a Soul,


were ones that brought us a fascinating insight into the compositional structure of the album, here we would find subtle and haunting flute sounds that created a wonderful new age feel, partnered with the stylish electronic motifs, it took the piece to a whole new level.

We are now in the second half of this fine collection of compositions, and as we constantly move forwards we find ourselves at a doorway marked Riding The Flickering Crests.

There was a tantalizing smoothness about this track that was deeply addictive, its subtleties altered ones perception in the middle half of the track, as a more percussive energy started to come to the fore, but always with the symbiotic partnership of the albums over all electronic nature.

Amor Mundi (Life As An Infinite Flow) is certainly one of those albums that you must not take your eye off, you may have to listen to it over and again to truly appreciate all the nuances contained within, like this next piece called Deus Sive Natura.

The keyboards manifest an imploring narrative within this piece, while the backdrop of string sounds and percussion do a blissful job of creating a sense of expectancy and tension, in what is the longest track off the album.

We have now entered a realm that is almost multi-fractal in nature; it is called The Matrix Time-Walk. Here is a piece that would be all too easy to get lost within, and in some ways reminds me in music, of the artistic endeavours of the Escher great work entitled Relativity. It is a track that is infinite and ever expanding in its surrealist nature.

The depths we have travelled now become apparent, as we now listen to a composition called A Secret Might.

Here the intensity of the offering is well hidden, allowing the natural order of the arrangement to come through on its own, and audibly grow; this is an amazingly crafted track that one could easily get carried away with, its beautiful sense of suspense and anticipation is a thing to revel in

L’avant-dernière offre s’appelle Strata.

La probabilité toujours présente de l’attente semble commencer à se réaliser ici, alors qu’un rythme percussif se joint à la mêlée et que l’artiste crée quelque chose de spectaculaire et presque cinématographique dans le style d’Isao Tomita.

The penultimate offering is called Irrésistible


and it truly is, and as an end composition one never really knows what is around the corner of this moment of musical cleverness, the bass work is perfect and the following electronic build and progression creates a dynamic and fluent end to what has been a captivating release.

Amor Mundi (Life As An Infinite Flow) is an album that all fans of electronic music, seekers of ambience and worshipers of truly artistic tones will adore, it’s a journey that never ends, but one that will create layer upon layer of expectation, intent and anticipation as you listen. If this appeals to your sense of musical perception, then you need to make this album a home in your musical world as soon as possible.

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Review: The Riddle Of A Soul by Steve Sheppard

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“Just when you think you have heard everything that is beautiful in the genre of electronic music, something always comes along to shake the tree; that just happened with the release of the quite stunning The Riddle Of A Soul by Anantakara.
This lush and at times quite moving opus of electronic brilliance is one of those singles you literally never want to end, the compositional structure, its ambiance and performance, all drew me into a realm as of yet untouched, and by its conclusion, one that would leave me wanting more.
The Riddle Of A Soul is nothing more than six minutes of musical magic by Anantakara and one that I truly believe could be quite popular with the listeners and fans alike. ( Steve Sheppard)
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Review: owann

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Another fine album by Anantakara who used the lockdown in this corona crisis to reflect on some of the emotions that this special period has triggered in people. By describing and perhaps reliving these emotions, he takes us to a state of mind of serenity. He does it the way we are used to with a palette of synthesizers with an emphasis on classical sounds. The album opens with an ethereal voice that initially takes us into a silent verbal trance to culminate after a while in a gently undulating sequencer river. In Alluvium we hear tinkling bells with an intriguing loop in the background that radiates a certain threat. Handsome in its simplicity. In Serenity, after about 3 minutes, the melancholy melody slowly but surely settles in our heads and never lets go. As the song unfolds further, hope slowly floats to the surface. Here is the state of mind that I love so much. The wise and reflecting lake reads and listens as a poetic visual description. Walking again is a nice rhythmic exercise seasoned with all kinds of mysterious sounds. The first sounds of Link to the mountain seems to take us to an oriental temple, but soon a disturbed rhythm takes over. It’s obvious that the mountain demands a steady effort from the listener. At the end of this beautiful album, we are further spoiled with a fantastic video where Anantakara visualizes his own state of mind through a revival of the beautiful track Serenity.
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johan de paepe

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Review: Transmuted By

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Transmuted By is indeed a masterwork of crafted genius by the artist Anantakara. For me personally its music I adore, it allows us as listener’s vast areas of the music room to explore and navigate. There can be no doubt that the minimalistic ambiance that this album bathes in, and also creates, would be a harmonious and atmospheric backdrop with which to manifest other works of art to, and an album that fans of long-form ambient music are going to literally lap up.” ( Steve Sheppard)

 

This long-form album resonates at a totally unique level for me, it has an ambiance that it seems to manifest all by itself and this quite artistic endeavor would work beautifully in a modern art gallery, like the Tate Modern in London for example, as one roams from one piece to another.
The opening portal to genius is called Incantations and is one of the finest examples of minimalistic ambient work you will find; at times its depth and vastness reminded me of the work of artist Scott Lawlor, and at other moments the volume of music that resides within the nothing that this composition creates, reminds of very early Eno, back to the days of Lizard Point.
I adore this style of musical interpretation, I could listen to it for days, and when we drift into the musical arms of the next piece called Incandescence, we arrive at a dimensional doorway of luminescence and fluorescence, an arrangement that utilizes keyboards in such a crafted artistic way, it’s hard to tell what’s going to happen next, it’s construction is held within a narrative of suspense, one that literally hums and glows musically around you. The natural quietness of this offering has a truly addictive quality about it that is utterly transfixing, and as the composition moves onwards it continues to grow a sense of energy that is undeniable, but incredibly spacious.

album reviews: Momentum Lapses by Sylvain Lupari

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In a year, I get a lot of requests to hear an album in order to write a review about it. The list is long and in this one, there is an incredible number of unknown artists to my ears who offer albums of all kinds, as long as synths and sequencers are used on it. No need to write that my ears hear of all the tonal colors! And there are good surprises. Nice discoveries like this one; Anantakara. A Philippe Wauman’s project, a Belgian musician who defines himself as a contemplative sound calligrapher, Anantakara, a Sanskrit adjective meaning to make infinite, proposes in MOMENTUM LAPSES a little jewel for the pleasure of the sounds and ambiances which flirt with a New Age rather progressive, even experimental.

Arpeggios whose limpidity is dancing with their sibylline shadows accompany the smothered knocks in the very theatrical opening of Momentum. Immediately, gurgles flutter in this setting embellished by waves with abrasive rays which come and go in a tonal envelope always growing. A synth wave perfumed of Mark Isham’s trumpet tones explores these ambiences, giving it a seraphic charm that adds to the dramatic power of this charming opening title. And that’s not all! Keyboard riffs take on an orchestral garb and sculpt a ballet choreography with a gentle staccato movement whose intensity is driven by percussions that are very limited but oh so well placed. The piano also sets its delicate notes in a finale that swaps its passive rhythm for a brief movement of sound oasis, just before resuming the rhythm of classical dance that brought Momentum to its emotional bloom. The tone is set and the music of MOMENTUM LAPSES is launched. The orchestrations are less jerky in The High meets the Low which, having left chords juggling in suspension, animates the ambiances with clanic tom-toms. Sound jewels gravitate suspended on this rhythm very close to the spiritual trance and the synth waves smear the horizons with rays which flirt with the doors of oblivion. Breath of an Unstained Desire does in music decomposition with a rather daring approach where everything seems to be played backwards. The result is amazing. Even if one recognizes small bits of structures that come and go in this 7th album of Anantakara, including a beautiful finale more musical, we are rather in the perfumes of Universe Zero here. Intuition’s Breeze takes us on the paths of an unarmed war with a bass line whose resonances found echo in the tears of the Martenot waves. The rhythm without bumps progresses beneath a sonic sky well adorned by multiple synth streaks full of strident weeping and by electric piano notes which sparkle in a contracted melodious approach. The percussions, which have been grafted in all subtlety around the 3 minutes, give a second rhythmic breath to this title that caught my attention from the first listening. Slow and very sinister in its development, The Great Chi in the Sky has nothing to do with this Rick Wright classic in Dark Side of the Moon! Its rhythm is slow, like a giant clock whose pendulum intimidates and orders submission. The chords and arrangements which sculpt it are king of its sneaky musicality, since they magnetize our attention while deploying a musical force that forms a din that still remains at the doors of a fascinating musicality. These sounds, these notes as well as these orchestrations on continuous evolutions in order to create musical layers on a bed of slow, almost hypnotic rhythms, are the strength of this album of which one never knows on which foot to dance … or on which neuron to meditate. Ditto for Doorways to Unnamed Power which, on the other hand, is more complex and more evasive in its melodious approach. The light rhythm, Spiral Bridge to Timelessness unfolds like a series of melodies chained in a music box. Percussions and percussive effects are just divine here. Those with blown glass tones tickle the ears, and start this chain of melodies, while others closer to the real offer a clever mix of Tibetan tribal and oriental tribal in a soundscape adorned with graffiti and fantasy which can possible only by the means of EM and its vast array of equipment. The final sprinkles our ears with a Steve Roach fragrance. An affirmation that is necessary considering the opening of The Meaning in Every Curves and Lines. The peculiarity of this title are these lassos of sounds that come and go like immense sound fronds whereas gradually a slow rhythm imposes its stability in a kind of esoteric Groove with another display of percussive effects high in colors.
The color and the calligraphy of the sounds is the goal aimed by Anantakara and force is to admit that MOMENTUM LAPSES reaches Philippe Wauman’s real intentions. All in all, it’s an amazing album that is musical enough for the genres imposed through a delightful palette of tones and a sound aesthetic that does justice to the ambitions of the Belgian multi-instrumentalist. Meditative music with a zest of creation that brings us into a world where few artists dare to venture!

kirk

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I really enjoyed listening to your music!

roshel

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ALLUVIUM you know I think all I can say is… wow.

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