Sarasvati Frequencies by GUIGUISUISUI鬼鬼祟祟

Saraswati is female deity of creativity. She is venerated in both Hindu and Buddhist traditions. Artists, musicians, performers, composers, and singers across the Himalayan plateau worship her, invoke her magnetising powers, recite her resonating mantras, meditate on her all-attracting image, in seeking to awaken the creative processes within their subconscious and psychic platitudes that allow the creative artist or performer to tap into the pulse of social and natural transformation in harnessing the vibrational energies that will touch the hearts of audiences and inspired people to be in a sphere of peace. Sarswati is always depicted holding a sitar, the iconic South Asian stringed instrument known for its penetrating frequencies. In the Hindu tradition, Saraswati is the consort of Brahma, the God of Creation. In the Buddhist tradition she is the consort of Manjushuri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom. She is the second of the Twenty-one Tara, a Dakini or feminine awakening spirit, and in a western conceptual context could be considered the original Muse. This album offers her Sadhana or ritual for visualization practice, and her mantra sung by Tibetan vocal artist Jiayang Lhamu to the all encompassing deep psych rock of London based sonic voyager Dann Gaymer.

The track opens with a field recording of thunder echoing through the mountains of Fei Lai Si, Yunnan, during a tempest rolling over the Tibetan plateau, before giving way to swirling ethereal textures created from 90 second piece of chip tune music created on a vintage Nintendo Gameboy, slowed down 1000% and then fed through a modified tape machine to add glitchy time bending echos. From there we are led deeper into the cave by Tibetan vocalist Jiayang Lhamu, into the realms of epic guitars and sub drones before emerging into brightness at the other side.

Dann Gaymer is the founder of the music label Daftpop Sounds and Guiguisuisui a musical project inspired by Himalayan mysticism and magic. A British born artist, teacher, psychologist and anthropologist, Dann Gaymer has spent the past sixteen years traveling across our planet exploring some of the most remote regions of Mongolia and the Himalayan plateau, while experimenting with a vast range of underground music movements in urban landscapes. He has performed live in over twenty countries and has numerous album and EP releases.

Jiayang Lhamu is a young Tibetan vocalist graduated from the National Minorities University in China. She is the winner of the Singapore International Performing Artist competition and award. She frequently performs in multi-ethnic and world music concerts held in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and other countries, representing the unique sounds of the Tibetan plateau.

Guiguisuisui is a heavy psychedelic band which draws on Himalayan spirits to shake hearts and minds in order to awaken the senses. With its blus punk origins in Northeast China in 2012 the band has gone through numerous mythical manifestations, the project blends doom mental, psych rock, and dark ambience to create sonic tapestries inspired by Himalayan lore.

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