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Ecosystems Sound Collective
Sound Healing

 

Rachel created Ecosystems Sound Collective (Ee-Ess-See) in 2020, from Sri Lanka where she lives. Together with local and foreign friends (she's French), plus unknown musicians coincidently found online, she dived in her mission to co-create music with Nature (sounds) and other artists (musicians and beyond).

The main idea being to infuse the composition with Healing Vibrations - audible (sound healing instruments; she's also a sound healer) + inaudible (aka thoughts and intentions), while having fun jamming with others and combining genres and instruments.

The healing intention isn't only directed to humans by the way; but to the whole of Nature, as a way to creatively care for and connect with our host (Gaia as a whole interconnected living organism).

The first track, The Unicorn & The Black Rainbow, is an instrumental piece with Romain (France) on Flute and Keyboards, Ciro (Italy) on Tabla and Hania (Sri Lanka) on Trumpet. Rachel was on the Tongue Drum, then assembled all the samples in Ableton. The next track, Flying Smoke, combines Sound Healing Instruments (singing bowls, steel drum, gong, frame drum, voice) + guitar (Jesse, Sounds of Atticus - USA) + Didgeridoo (Narayani Ma - Sri Lanka).

Dimiyeh and Tumdiya are the only compositions that were made without any other musician. They were composed during the economic collapse in Sri Lanka (2023), and were accompanied by videos to raise awareness about the country's situation and the months of daily peaceful protests, where ethnies, generations, and socio-economic classes were all joined together - against politics and corruption.

Erosion is the only track that actually includes words (real English ones! though very few ;). The words are otherwise intuitive sounds that come out as they wish... Samuel (France) played the bouzouki. Some of the keyboards samples from Romain were recycled, and new ones from Wanni (Sri Lanka) were added.

Dancing In the Muddy Temple was created in order to co-create an intuitive dance with a French dance therapist. There are different Flutes from Romain again, some Didgeridoo and singing bowls from Tom (Sound and Soul Awakening - USA), and the usual sound healing instruments from Rachel (gong, shamanic drum, voice, singing bowls, vegan djembe...), sometimes looped with effects.

 

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