Groundbreaking diverse music that fuses acoustic, ambient, jazz, Indian, African, lounge, retro, funk, pop and ethereal art-rock. Songs about non-violence towards animals and how this intersects with the pursuit of peace. The album is a 14 song compilation from 11 different recordings over 18 years. ”Ahimsa” contains an amazing instrumental called ‘ahimsa the source of peace’ which is a 9 minute journey in three seguewayed movements and is an aural masterpiece. This disc also writes a musical foot note to the work of Jeff Buckley, stylistically, on four of the tracks. The record is a long player 78 minutes of music. It contains some of the authors early passionate abhorrence of animal abuse and specisism and makes the distinctive claim that we perpetuate violence in our own species, biologically, by imposing violence on other species, for food. It delivers its message without conjecture. A soothing recording with a powerful message.
- 3:36We are a new branch [4.5MB]
- 8:48Beautiful Girl
- 3:11Why Kill for food? [3.2MB]
- 3:31My month, my year
- 8:54The Journey
- 8:46Ahimsa the Source of Peace
- 2:59Opening
- 4:31Love never dies
- 4:59Creature [5.7MB]
- 5:36Evolve
- 4:07Jealousy
- 5:22Love Child
- 6:27In Bloom
- 6:35You know that you’ve got me
1:17:00Total playing time
The first Ahimsa studio album features an 11 minute version of ‘The hidden crime’ as it’s cresendo. The opening track ‘Ahimsa is Compassion’ is a powerful instrumental signifying a new dawning era. Then the gothic chiming chords of ‘Torn Lungs’ pierce the silence, telling us of the inner fight of the forest activist, boardering on relgiousity and sounding like Kate Bush meets Thom Yorke.
“Army of Me” wants industry out of the sea and to have reverance for every tree and everything that breaths. Once again unpredictable dark chord changes give these songs an unprecedented sound of meaningfulness. This coupled with double tracked 12-string guitars and bottleneck adds uniqueness to it’s influence of Led Zepelin 3.
“Release (a simple prayer)” is a studiofied lush garden of deep middle-eastern mallets and heavenly organic sounding samples with staccato processed noises forming a compelling rhythm bed.
The Source of Peace is primarily about how our own search for peace as humans is intertwined/held back by the commodification of animal life. (i.e. That we more readily morally undermine our own kind when we fail to acknowledge animal murder, than if we cease our personal connection to animal abuse by not depending on animal products.)
“Coming to the Party” is a live track with the original line up of Sue-Anne Stewart, Andrew Benthe, Mikale and Kirri. It talks of a day, like the Iraq war protests when “everyone who can feel’ will come out in protest against the abduction of our fellow mammals for food, leather, entertainment and research. The track is full of Penelope Swales style folk-pride and passion. ‘The Message’ has some of the most otherworldly sundrenched guitar sounds you’ll hear and the vocal is sedative and spacious like that of Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star. A great disc with a flowing angelic quality. Rare as hens teeth!more…
- 2:14Ahimsa is compassion
- 5:01Creature
- 4:06Torn lungs
- 3:54Army of me [4.6MB]
- 4:53Sentient beings
- 4:42Release (a simple prayer) [5.7MB]
- 4:51The Message
- 11:08The Hidden Crime [12.6MB]
- 4:00The innocent beast
- 4:51Starving child
- 4:05Open your heart
- 3:44Coming to the party
- 8:46The source of peace
1:06:00Total playing time
