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HEART OF THE DEEP TIME - Byron Metcalf & Dashmesh - feat: Frore (Paul Casper)
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With the steady pulse of shaman drums, aboriginal percussion and masterful multi-layered didgeridoos, Byron and Dashmesh create a psychoactive sonic dreamscape that beckons the listener to explore the depths of the Primordial Source.

Heart-centered waves provided by synthesizer wizard Frore (Paul Casper) help the explorer to summon the courage and curiosity for deep exploration into the known and unknown – the seen and unseen. Healing happens here. Transformation happens here. Ultimately it is the cellular impulse of pure awareness that calls us here – infinite possibilities – unfolding into the Great Mystery and Beyond. This is the essence of the journey – Heart of the Deep Time serves as the ideal musical support and companion for truly Diving Deep.

Heart of the Deep Time is comprised of 9 parts, seamlessly working together and designed for uninterrupted listening. This music is ideal for journey-work, various forms of deep meditation, inspired movement, and entheogenic exploration.

Bonus items available ONLY on Bandcamp! 

 

Available on all streaming services on July 15, 2022

ADVENTURES IN SYNAPTIC EXPLORATIONS - Byron Metcalf (Featuring Frore (Paul Casper), Dashmesh, Joel Olive', Sherry Finzer)
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In this highly anticipated sequel to ‘The Precipice of Choice’, Byron Metcalf gathers a tribe of visionary musicians to create an intensely pulsating homage to our primal origins through the cellular memory of rhythm and sound.

Driving percussion and powerful, mind-bending soundscapes activate and awaken the dynamism of your innate life-force. Breathe, dance and move! Journey deep to explore ancient sources of intelligence, guidance and inspiration, and allow the tribal-trance rhythms to dissolve any blocks or barriers to your receiving the direct transmission from the wisdom of the living earth and your own soul.

 

Music for journeying, breathwork, trance dance and inspired movement,,

dynamic meditation and entheogenic exploration

 

Digital album available on Byron's Bandcamp page and all other digital retailers. 

Streaming on all major services beginning Feb 18, 2022

RHYTHMS OF REMEMBERING - Byron Metcalf (feat: Erik Wollo, Sherry Finzer & Frore)
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RHYTHMS OF REMEMBERING - Byron Metcalf (feat: Erik Wollo, Sherry Finzer & Frore)

Credits
Recorded and mixed by Byron Metcalf at The Lair, Prescott Valley, AZ
Mastered by Cass Anawaty at Sonoran Mastering, Scottsdale, AZ

Byron Metcalf – Various frame drums, Buffalo drums, clay pots and udu


Erik Wøllo – Synthesizers, Electric Guitars, Field Recordings (trks 2, 4, & 6)


Sherry Finzer - Flutes (trks 3 & 7)


Frore (Paul Casper) - Synthesizers (trks 1, 3, 5, 7)

 

Credits

Available Worldwide Sept 17th! Go here to listen to tracks and for more details.

Rhythms of Remembering is a luminously-woven contemplative soundscape journey combining ecstatic drumming, sweeping vignettes of synthesizer and ambient guitar, and wind-riding flights of drifting flute, all of which simultaneously relax and transport the listener beyond ordinary reality. Through this potent tonic of pulsing beats, meticulous fractal synth tapestries, billowing guitar riffs, and heart-opening flute transmissions, a sonic alchemy activates a combined visionary and somatic experience that will put you in an enlivened-yet-relaxed state of deep unity of body, heart-mind, Earth, and Cosmos. With simmering percussion from frame drum wizard Byron Metcalf, vista-conjuring guitar and synthesizer sequences from soundscape maestros Erik Wøllo and Frore (Paul Casper), and wafting, sky-borne flute pieces by Sherry Finzer, Rhythms of Remembering will support you in slowing down to your natural rhythm, yielding to the needs of your feathered-soul, and remembering your cherished place in the larger web of life.

 

THE WINDS OF SPIRIT - Byron Metcalf / Mark Seelig
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THE WINDS OF SPIRIT - Byron Metcalf / Mark Seelig

Recorded and mixed by Byron Metcalf with Mark Seelig at “The Lair”, Prescott Valley, AZ

Mastered by Cass Anawaty, Sonoran Mastering, Scottsdale, AZ

Byron Metcalf – Frame drums, udu, synth drones and pads

Mark Seelig – Bansuri flutes

Dashmesh – Tabla, synth pads, soundworlds

Frore (Paul Casper) – Synth textures

Brenda Molloy – Design images

Credits

Byron and Mark have gathered again to create a deeply meditative album inspired by their critically acclaimed 2019 release ‘Persistent Visions’. During the initial recording phase of ‘The Winds of Spirit’, an increasing intuition emerged for these long-time collaborators to penetrate even deeper into the dimensions of silence and space between the musical notes and each breath. Byron’s easy and steady percussive magic, holding space for Mark’s hauntingly mesmerizing exploration of Bansuri flutes, conveys a sense of the Winds of Spirit gently blowing through the flutes and the entire sonic landscape – in much the same way it does through our lives. The listener is invited into this arising metaphor – immersed in the flow of existence with a calm sense of trust that carries us home.

With additional musical support from Dashmesh and Paul Casper, ‘The Winds of Spirit’, provides heart-centered sonic support for extended meditation practices, massage and body work, entheogenic and empathogenic exploration.

Designed for continuous, uninterrupted listening.

 

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THE PRECIPICE OF CHOICE
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1. The Precipice of Choice
2. Hope Is Not A Plan
3. Interior Excavation
4. Requiem For The Decaying Remains Of Hubris
5. Calling Huachuma's Medicine Spirit
6. A Final Warning
7. At The End, It’s Only You

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The Precipice of Choice

Byron Metcalf

 

Now, more than at any time in our planetary history, we have become a global civilization inextricably intertwined within a living tapestry of interconnectedness, and all of our choices affect the whole.

A timely sequel to the high-powered 2007 release “A Warning From the Elders,” The Precipice of Choice is simultaneously a polyrhythmic requiem for a planet in trouble and an initiatory gateway for people willing to answer the call-to-action in a time of unparalleled change. We are, indeed, on a precipice – economically and ecologically –, and the choices we make now may determine the literal survival of our species.

Weaving a potent line-up of featured musicians and guests, The Precipice of Choice is an empowered, highly-auspicious sonic signature for the gauntlet of time through which our global civilization is passing. Driven by deep concern about the immense societal and planetary challenges we face, Byron Metcalf’s embodied vision for this album will usher the listener through an experience of activating and mobilizing the conscious Heart-Warrior within. All choices, ultimately, begin at the level of the heart.

 

SACRAMENT - Byron Metcalf / Jennifer Grais
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1. SACRAMENT
2. COMMUNION
3. ON HALLOWED GROUND
4. ANCESTOR'S BLESSING
5. OF WHALES AND WOLVES
6. CONSECRATION
7. RETURNING TO HER (THE MOTHER SONG)
8. THE AIR WE BREATHE

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Sacrament:

Ceremony or Ritual, Imparting Divine Grace

In modern culture there are many ways to do sacred ceremony and to experience Sacrament. For those who pursue deep self-exploration, healing and transformation, this album can be used in a variety of ceremonial styles – from those that are explicitly shamanic in nature, to those which are contemplative, and to those which are plant based and entheogenic. The partaking of this sacrament invites the listener to experience Earth as the Mother of us all – to become whole.

Byron Metcalf and Jennifer Grais have delivered into our hands a stunning support for the sacramental. This music was birthed from the ground of sacred ceremony and is structured in a way that helps guide the listener to a higher frequency where wisdom and healing energies can be accessed.

The album’s musical themes and prayers move in sync with the stages of ritual process. The sensuous power of the percussion, musical instrumentation and extraordinary vocals create a multilayered space in which one can see through the surface appearances of things­ – into the mysterious world of Spirit moving through the vast sonic landscapes.

The rich layering of indigenous instruments and percussive textures with Jennifer’s spirit-driven voice opened my heart and mind to multiple dimensions, a vaster space than my everyday mind. The “Spirit Wind” soundworld created a sense of spaciousness, as if I were out in the desert, like Castaneda, hearing the wind bounce echoes off the canyon walls, sitting by a sacred fire with the maestro don Juan Matus.

– C. Michael Smith, Ph.D. (aka Mikkal), author of Psychotherapy and the Sacred, and Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue. 

 

 

INNER RHYTHM MEDITATIONS Vol II
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INNER RHYTHM MEDITATIONS Vol II

Recorded and mixed by Byron Metcalf at The Lair, Prescott Valley, AZ

Erik recorded at Wintergarden Studio, Hvaler, Norway

 

Mastered by Cass Anawaty at Sunbreak Music, Scottsdale, AZ

 

Tracks 1, 2, 3 & 6 composed by Byron Metcalf and Erik Wøllo

Tracks 4, 5 & 7 composed by Byron Metcalf and Peter Phippen

 

Byron Metcalf: Frame drums, bass drums, talking drum, udu, various percussion

 

Erik Wøllo: Electric and acoustic guitars, guitar synthesizers, E-bow/sustained guitars, electric bass guitar, keyboards, electric violin, various sound effects and treatments

 

Peter Phippen: Edo period, Meiji era, and Taisho period shakuhachi flutes, vintage bansuri bamboo flute, early 19th century C Peublet boxwood flute, Coyote Oldman desert flute, Ellis wooden folk flute, Olwell bamboo flute

 

Dashmesh Khalsa: Handpan (track 3)

 

Michal Karcz: Image & image manipulation

Sam Rosenthal: Graphic design

Richard Blum: Artist photography

Credits
1. A Naturally Occurring Heart
2. Visions From The Sixth Sense
3. A Steadfast Path
4. Embrace of Uncertainty
5. Mirrors of Perception
6. At Play With All That Matters
7. A Benevolent Spirit

Legendary percussionist Byron Metcalf's Inner Rhythm Meditations Vol II continues the immersive journey into hypnotic rhythms and haunting melodic textures which he began on the critically acclaimed, award-nominated 2016 album Inner Rhythm Meditations – Music for Expanded Awareness and Inspired Movement. Once again joined by noted sound sculptor Erik Wøllo & world-class flutist Peter Phippen, Metcalf explores a haunting landscape that gravitates between pulsing sensuality and drifting contemplation. Inner Rhythm Meditations Vol II is a deeper exploration of the dynamic interplay between the energetic and the subtle— sometimes vibrant, sometimes spacious. The seven tracks perfectly portray the exquisite dance that can occur between stillness and motion, each trait coalescing into the other at times, but also each venturing into their own unique sonic landscape. A profoundly meditative listening experience, this album presents an opportunity to journey inward while also providing a backdrop for movement through space. In this way, Inner Rhythm Meditations Vol II is the best of both worlds in the genre of music for reflection and contemplation.

 

VOLUSPA - Ralph Metzner & Byron Metcalf
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Völuspa is a fascinating creation myth – a powerful journey of creation, destruction and renewal. Narrated by Ralph Metzner and supported by a dramatic and potent soundtrack by Byron Metcalf (feat. Dashmesh Khalsa), this unique album is designed to take the listener on a personal exploration of the cycles and mysteries of death and rebirth that are ever present in the human psyche.

Ralph Metzner is a living legend – a true icon in the field of Transpersonal Psychology, shamanism and so much more. For more than 30 years I’ve regarded Ralph as one of my most important teachers and mentors even though we’ve never formally worked together as such. So I felt incredibly honored when Ralph approached me about collaborating on this project. Having Ralph visit my studio and home and share some professional and personal time together will remain one of the most treasured events of my life.

I’ve never composed a ‘soundtrack’ before but once I found myself immersed in this project and the story, it became clear that I needed to approach the music production from that perspective. My long-time collaborator and friend Dashmesh Khalsa contributed lots of sonic textures and sound worlds that helped take the soundtrack to a much higher level. If fact, it turned out so well that we decided to create a remix of the soundtrack (music only) as an additional track that can support many kinds of journey work, breathwork, inspired dance and movement and entheogenic exploration.

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THEY WERE HERE - Byron Metcalf & Jennifer Grais
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THEY WERE HERE - Byron Metcalf & Jennifer Grais

Produced by Byron Metcalf & Jennifer Grais

Executive Producer – Pam Yandell

Recorded, mixed and mastered at “The Lair”, Prescott Valley, AZ

Additional vocals recorded at Studio D, Sausalito, CA by Joel Jaffe

Wild horses recorded by James Anaquad Kleinert

 

Byron Metcalf – Frame Drums, Rattles, Udu, Ceremonial Drums, Synthesizer

Jennifer Grais – Voice

 

Ron Oates – Keyboard, Synthesizers, Orchestral Arrangements

Dashmesh Khalsa – Didgeridoo (Tracks 1 & 5), Hybrid Electro Groove (Track 6)

 

Sam Rosenthal – Graphic Design

James Anaquad Kleinert - Wild Horse Photography

Richard Blum - Artist Photograph

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Credits
1. They Were Here
2. Opening to Freedom
3. Soul of Mestengo
4. Near And Far Away
5. Womb Of The Serpent
6. Run
7. Song For Solo

Like the majesty and magic of America’s wild horses that informed the creation of this project, the music on this album is highly evocative and emotional – a mystical infusion of beauty and tenderness - of power and potency.  The impeccable blend of Jennifer Grais’s beautiful and haunting vocals with Byron Metcalf’s renowned tribal-trance drumming and production style creates an astounding listening experience of numinous depth and sonic ecstasy. Horse as ‘Spirit Animal’ represents and mirrors the innate life-force, power, wildness, and the instinctual impulse for freedom within all of us. They Were Here takes the listener on a unique shamanic adventure – a freedom ride of soaring potential and along the way they are held gently and safely in the arms of Mother Earth.

 

Purchase the digital album on Byron’s Bandcamp page

 

 

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INNER RHYTHM MEDITATIONS - Byron Metcalf (feat: Erik Wøllo & Peter Phippen)
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INNER RHYTHM MEDITATIONS - Byron Metcalf (feat: Erik Wøllo & Peter Phippen)

* Recorded and mixed by Byron Metcalf in “The Lair”, Prescott Valley, AZ

* Erik's parts recorded at Wintergarden Studio, Hvaler, Norway

Mastered by Liv Khalsa – Invincible Recording, Phoenix, AZ

 

Instrumentation

Byron Metcalf: Frame Drums, Bass Drums, Talking Drum, Udu, Clay Pot

Erik Wøllo: Electric Guitars, Guitar Synthesizers, E-bow Guitars, Electric bass guitar, Keyboards (erikwollo.com)

Peter Phippen: Shakuhachi and Bansuri Flutes (peterphippen.com)

Credits
1. Garden of the Peaceful Warrior
2. As Clouds Dance
3. Patterns of Awareness
4. A Perfect Place
5. The Awakened Heart
6. Presence of Longing

An immersive journey into the rhythms and music

of spaciousness and movement

In many indigenous traditions, we learn to “tune into the sacred rhythms of the earth.” With Inner Rhythm Meditations, master percussionist Byron Metcalf presents an album of music created to help listeners connect to the pulse of the cosmos. Byron takes listeners on a seamless, hour-long voyage—balancing stretches of spacious relaxation with sections of vibrant, energetic composition. Featuring a subtle blend of percussion and gentle instrumentation, including guitar synthesizers and bamboo flutes, here is an album that evokes the dance between stillness and motion—ideal for body work; movement practices such as walking meditation and qigong; and promoting a state of relaxed, alert creativity.

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Free streaming of the entire album on Bandcamp

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"The Making of Inner Rhythm Meditations"

SHAMANIC TRANCE DANCE - Byron Metcalf
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SHAMANIC TRANCE DANCE - Byron Metcalf

A Note from Byron:

SHAMANIC TRANCE DANCE – my first solo album with Sounds True – became the perfect opportunity to explore new sounds, rhythms and sonic landscapes, and to push beyond the boundaries of my own playing and studio skills. It also was an ideal time to work with some new supporting musicians whose extraordinary contributions to this album help bring everything to a dynamic new level of contemporary shamanic trance music.

My intention in making this album was to employ two of my long-time favorite collaborating musicians (Dashmesh Khalsa & Mark Seelig) with some musicians I have not yet worked with. I wanted to exclusively use artists with sensibilities and playing styles that are informed and inspired by shamanic experience and expanded states of consciousness and in this regard, I am thrilled with the outcome!

Credits:

Byron – Frame drums, rattles, clay pots, ceremonial toms and bass drums, breath grooves, keyboard drones & atmospheres

Dashmesh Khalsa – Didgeridoos, hybrid electro-grooves, synthesizers, various shamanic sounds & atmospheres (all tracks)

Mark Seelig – Overtone vocals (tracks 1, 5 & 6

Fred Clarke (Pacha Paqariy) – Synthesizer, Icaro & medicine chant (track 1)

Don Peyote – Synthesizers, atmospheric drones & ambient textures (tracks 2 & 4)

Chris O’Brien – Synthesizers, medicine chant, ocarina (track 6)

Will Merkle - Hybrid electro-grooves (track 3) 

Recorded in AZ, CO & Australia. Mixed & mastered by Byron at “The Lair” (Prescott Valley, AZ). 

Mitchell Clute – Sounds True Producer

Deep gratitude to Mark, Fred, Don Peyote, Chris & Will for your amazing contributions.

 Special thanks to Dashmesh Khalsa who played a foundational role in Shamanic Trance Dance from start to finish.

 

Credits
1. True Ground
2. Portals of Power
3. Remember to Breathe
4. Spirits of the Roadman
5. Serpent Weaver
6. Breaking Through

When indigenous shamans connect to the spirit world, they don’t sit still and let their mind wander—they dance with the spirits and let their power animals dance through them. Today, ecstatic dancers and shamanic practitioners speak of being “transported” by music, carried away in body and soul to an expanded state of being. On Shamanic Trance Dance, world-class trance percussionist and shamanic practitioner Byron Metcalf masterfully blends timeless indigenous sounds of drums, percussion and didgeridoo with driving trance rhythms and foundational electro grooves. The result is an organic sound tapestry that impels you to move—freeing the mind, energizing the body, and opening your spirit to inspiration.

Byron is joined by supporting musicians from Australia, Peru, Germany, Arizona and Colorado. The result is a truly unique synthesis of the primordial and contemporary rhythms and sounds of trance, ritual dance and transformation – authentically informed with shamanic wisdom and practice by all of those involved in Shamanic Trance Dance.

The six tracks on Shamanic Trance Dance invite the listener and the dancer to explore the various landscapes of the shamanic world in a personal and experiential way. Dance and merge with your own inner-wisdom and animal spirits; travel through your inner and outer realities from a totally embodied perspective; play with the rhythms of your breath and body; confront and transcend blocks and barriers that inhibit and stifle your growth and creative energies.

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MEDICINE WORK - Byron Metcalf & Rob Thomas
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MEDICINE WORK - Byron Metcalf & Rob Thomas

Composed and Recorded:

Byron Metcalf & Rob Thomas

 

Final mix, arrangement and mastering: 

Byron Metcalf & Rob Thomas at The Lair, Prescott Valley, AZ

 

Cover Image by Kati Astraeir

Layout & Design by Sam Rosenthal

 

Byron Metcalf – Frame drums, buffalo drum, bass & ceremonial drums, hybrid toms, udu & clay pots, rattles & shakers 

Rob Thomas – Didgeridoos, rattles & shakers, vocal chants & shamanic soundworlds 

©2013 Dr Bam’s Music, BMI & Inlakesh Music, BMI

 

Credits
1. This Way
2. A Deeper Descent
3. Medicine Work
4. Gates of Initiation
5. Servants of the Mystery

Award-winning shamanic-trance drummer Byron Metcalf and master didgeridoo artist Rob Thomas of Inlakesh combine their musical and personal medicines to create an extremely potent sonic brew. MEDICINE WORK is a psychoactive offering ­­– synergistically forged in the timeless hearth of shamanic intent and ceremony and is designed to guide and support intrepid travelers into deeper territories of their inner worlds ­– far beyond the known and familiar.

MEDICINE WORK is a call to the deep journey. An invitation to explore vast mysteries of Initiation & Rites of Passage; Alchemy & Transmutation; Transformation & Transcendence; Cycles of Death & Rebirth; realms of the primordial, archetypal & mythological filtering through layers of the individual self and the boundless dimensions of transpersonal consciousness. ­The journey concludes with the safe return Home to the harmonic resonance of the traveler’s Heart and True Nature.

"MEDICINE WORK could have been created a thousand years ago, hidden from the world and used only for the highest degree of altering consciousness with instruments that have remained unchanged over the Eons; hand drums, rattles and didgeridoo. Thankfully for us, trance percussion alchemist Byron Metcalf and didgeridoo maven Rob Thomas (Inlakesh) are not hidden away in another era doing their medicine work for a forgotten tribe obscured by time. This recording puts the listener directly ‘inside’ the experience though high resolution recording skills and searing performances aimed at one thing: blowing away all the residue of the day-to-day with these ancient tools, presented in almost 3D clarity and preservation of tone. Rob’s didgeridoo is presented in such detail that it feels cellular and the interlocking patterns of Byron's percussion work invoke an involuntary trance state that just simply feels as if you never want it to stop – and it will not once you hit play." – Steve Roach

INTENTION - Byron Metcalf & Mark Seelig
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INTENTION - Byron Metcalf & Mark Seelig

Composed by Byron Metcalf & Mark Seelig

(Dr Bam’s Music, BMI, Devotional Flute and Chant, BMI)

 

Recorded & mixed by Byron 

Final mixes & mastering by Byron & Mark at The Lair, Prescott Valley, AZ

 

Byron: Frame drums, ceremonial drums, hybrid toms, udu & rattles

Mark: Bansuri flutes, overtone vocals

 

Guest Musicians

Rob Thomas: Didgeridoo (tracks 2, 4 & 5)

Dashmesh Khalsa: Didgeridoo (tracks 1 & 4)

Daniel Hirtz: Tabla (track 5)

Max Link: Water Pot Udu (track 5)

 

Cover art: Kancano (kancano.deviantart.com)

Graphic Design: Sam Rosenthal

 

 

Deep appreciation to Sandra Ingerman & Richard Gürtler for creative support 

 

Credits
1. INTENTION
2. SURRENDER
3. ENCOUNTER
4. FOCUS
5. VISION

 

Byron Metcalf and Mark Seelig join forces again to focus and intensify the transformative power of their musical collaboration. 

Intention is a totally acoustic, transcultural tour de force of multi-layered tribal-ambient rhythms, indigenous instruments, and mesmerizing soundscapes – expertly crafted to induce and support expanded states of consciousness. Byron’s potent and spellbinding drumming and percussion merge with Mark’s haunting and beautiful bansuri flutes and Tuvan-style throat singing to create a bold, larger-than-life journey into infinite possibilities. Rob Thomas (Inlakesh) and Dashmesh Khalsa contribute aboriginal didgeridoo textures to further deepen and expand the sonic field.

Neuroscience has confirmed what shamanic and ancient spiritual traditions have known for thousands of years: Intention plays a fundamental role in manifesting inner and outer reality. This is especially important for those involved in deep inner-work, visionary rituals, ceremonies and practices.

Intention is infused with steadfast power and authority while the listener is held and supported by the tempered and refined sensitivity and compassion of Byron and Mark’s unparalleled understanding of expanded states of consciousness. Over 3 decades of self-exploration, professional therapeutic and academic work serves as foundational substrate for these artists’ uniquely innovative musical approach. Byron and Mark have recorded 3 previous CDs: Wachuma’s Wave (2003), Mantram (2004) and Nada Terma (2008) - all of which were created in collaboration with tribal ambient-electronic pioneer Steve Roach.

For this album, the listener is invited to set an Intention before the journey begins, and surrender into an incomparable audio-initiated encounter with the primordial and the ecstatic: the vision of authentic communion within the source of all reality. Explore and experience the breadth and depth of Intention in this ground-breaking, utterly original sonic synthesis of tribal/ambient/world music!

 

TRACKS

1 Intention (22:33)

2 Surrender (9:47)

3 Encounter (15:59)

4 Focus (11:11)

5 Vision (9:51)

To listen to entire tracks and purchase digital downloads go here.

 

A WARNING FROM THE ELDERS - Byron Metcalf
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A WARNING FROM THE ELDERS - Byron Metcalf
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Byron Metcalf at The Lair, Prescott, AZ
Composed by Byron Metcalf © 2007 Dr. Bam’s Music (BMI)

Byron Metcalf: Drums & Percussion (various frame drums, toms, rattles & shakers, bass drums, gong, Tibetan bowls), overtone singing & vocal harmonic drones

Jesse Pursley: Didgeridoo (Tracks 1, 4 & 5)
John Dumas: Didgeridoo (Track 3)

Gail Chasin: Vocals (toning & harmonic drones on all tracks)
Ted Usatynski: Vocals (low throat singing on tracks 1, 2 & 5)

Oms on track 5 – Byron, Gail Chasin, Shawn Cardinal, Jamie Keehan, Richard Blum, Carleen Blum, Betsy Lindsey, Daniel Wiggins, Ted Usatynski
Soprano: Jamie Keehan

Cover Photo: Kati Astraeir
Layout & Design: Richard Blum



Credits
1. Facing The Truth
2. A Warning From The Elders
3. Heart Warriors
4. Fire Passage
5. Earth Om – Sacred Resonance

(From 2007) In this latest solo project, Byron expands his sonic explorations of the shamanic path of soul-based and heart-centered living that is the foundation of his work. Inspired and driven by his increasing frustration related to our current global and planetary challenges, A Warning From The Elders invites the listener to whole-heartedly embrace the urgency facing the planet, while also birthing the dormant seeds of hope and vision that lie within each of us. In essence, Byron’s CD is a healing prayer for a radical global awakening. Motivated by a deep and purposeful commitment to make his “voice” fully heard, A Warning From The Elders is the first project where Byron has used his overtone singing to create harmonic drones and soundscapes. With this potent emphasis on the raw, organic sounds of wood, skin, metal, clay, stone, and the human voice, Byron’s masterful production results in a delicious blend of fierce percussion, heart-opening textural voices and overtone singing – a bold sonic expression of power, purpose, presence and compassion for the Earth – the Mother of us all.

THE SHAMAN'S HEART (Original Version) 2010 Edition - Byron Metcalf (with Steve Roach)
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THE SHAMAN'S HEART (Original Version) 2010 Edition - Byron Metcalf (with Steve Roach)
BYRON METCALF with Steve Roach

Byron Metcalf – Buffalo drums, bear & peyote rattles, udu & clay pot, frame drums, hybrid toms, various shamanic percussion (seed pods, beads, shells, pottery & stone), spirit winds, hoasca sounds.

Steve Roach – Analog and digital soundworlds, didgeridoo, ocarinas. (additional shamanic percussion on track 5)

Produced, Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Byron Metcalf at The Lair, Prescott, AZ
Steve’s parts recorded at The Raven’s Nest, Tucson, AZ
Credits
1. Preparation Pulse
Preparation Pulse
Notes
Preparation Pulse mp3 clip is 60 sec. Full track is 8:02
2. Threshold of Intention
Threshold of Intention
Notes
Threshold of Intention – mp3 clip is 60 sec – full CD track is 8:53
3. Decision Point
Decision Point
Notes
Decision Point – mp3 clip is 60 sec – full CD track is 7:58
4. The Call for Total Surrender
The Call for Total Surrender
Notes
The Call for Total Surrender – mp3 clip is 60 sec. – full CD track is (20:09)
5. Raven Medicine
Raven Medicine
Notes
Raven Medicine – mp3 clip is 60 sec. – full CD track is 10:19
6. Wisdom Work
Wisdom Work
Notes
Wisdom Work – mp3 clip is 60 sec. – full CD track is 11:51
7. Unfolding Clarity
Unfolding Clarity
Notes
Unfolding Clarity – mp3 clip is 60 sec – full CD track is 5:51

After being out of print for over 2 years, by popular request the original is now available in a new eco-friendly digipak. The heart is like an alchemical chamber – possessing the power to transform and transmute, fears, wounds, and patterns that block us from always traveling on what Don Juan called “the path with heart.” The ability to remain “heart centered” – to stay connected to one’s compassionate core in the face of adversity and personal challenge is a hallmark of spiritual and psychological maturity. Shamanism is an ancient spiritual system that helps develop the capacity to live fully in the world of the heart. Using ancient and contemporary rhythmic techniques, the intention of THE SHAMAN’S HEART is an invitation to journey into the infinite regions of this heart-space dimension. . . and beyond.

 

THE SHAMAN’S HEART is a continuous 73 minute journey using varying rhythmic subdivisons of the classic 220 beats per minute journey tempo. The uninterrupted experience is created from a collection of buffalo drums, frame drums and rattles. This time and space altering ceremony is supported with an evolving, breathing atmosphere of subtle contrasting harmonic embraces. Adding to the experience is the sense that it is all occurring in a grounded, environmental space through the use of sounds from the natural world. This potent offering of “music as medicine” can guide and support even the most intrepid of inner travelers.

WACHUMA'S WAVE - Byron Metcalf & Mark Seelig - OUT OF STOCK
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WACHUMA'S WAVE - Byron Metcalf & Mark Seelig - OUT OF STOCK
Byron Metcalf and Mark Seelig

Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Byron Metcalf at The Lair (Prescott, AZ).
Steve's parts recorded at The Timeroom (Tucson, AZ).
Mastered by Roger King (Tucson, AZ).

Original Cover Art: Erez Sitzer
Credits
1. Wachuma's Wave
2. Gone... Beyond
3. Deep Time Dreaming
4. Last Remnants of Reality
5. Dance of the Heart Voyagers
6. Across the Waters

OUT OF STOCK

Seeking the Unknown Within, the voyage begins - Wachuma, Spirit of the four winds, the night-blooming king of night, ushers us on a voyage of soulful remembrance; a remembrance of what we are, and what we may be. Wachuma's Wave is sacred music in the truest sense. It is a portal of travel, a soul retrieval, a ritual of deep time dreaming. Veteran trance percussionist Byron Metcalf teams up with German-based musician and shamanic practitioner Mark Seelig to bring forth a multi-textural blend of bansuri flutes, sacred chants and overtone singing, simmering percussion and other hybrid grooves, augmented by rich offerings of deep drift ambient synthesizer and didgeridoo from soundscape maestro Steve Roach. Fans of The Serpent's Lair (Roach-Metcalf) will be thrilled by this innovative and heart-stirring alchemy. - Frank MacEowen

TALES FROM THE ULTRA TRIBE - Steve Roach & Byron Metcalf
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TALES FROM THE ULTRA TRIBE - Steve Roach & Byron Metcalf

Composed and Recorded:

Steve Roach and Byron Metcalf

 

Final mix, arrangement and mastering: Steve Roach 

 

Cover Image by Ralph Prata

 

Layout by Sam Rosenthal

 

© 2013 Soundquest Music BMI & Dr Bam's Music BMI

 

Steve Roach - Analog and digital hardware synths, sequencers and drum machines, didgeridoo, Eurorack analog modular, hybrid grooves, ocarina & mega waterphone

 

Byron Metcalf - Frame drums, buffalo drum, bass & ceremonial drums, hybrid toms, udu & clay pots, rattles & shakers

 

Credits
1. Setting Forth
2. A Noble Direction
3. Midnight Migration
4. The Magma Clan
5. Road From Here
6. Fire Sky Portal
7. Return of the Dragon Bone Tribe
8. In the Safety of Travel

 

“Tales From the Ultra Tribe”

Steve Roach & Byron Metcalf

 

 

After two years pushing the creative edges, Tales From the Ultra Tribe emerges as a fire-breathing life form. The deep trance-shamanic-atmospheric collaboration between Steve Roach and Byron Metcalf evokes the primordial caverns and aeon-blasted landscapes of their groundbreaking The Serpent's Lair (Projekt, 2000).

And yet on Tales From the Ultra Tribe, a new sound emerges.

It's a lucid trance-groove experience, a searing combination of acoustic percussion and hyper-dimensional electronic rhythms. The Ultra Tribe are the future primitives: the future-tech foundation wrapped by the organic. It's no longer clear where the human ends and the machine begins.

The elements of this sound are Steve's complex hybrid-grooves overlaid by Byron's primal, fluid and organic - yet precise - frame drums and percussion. It's an atmosphere of shifting soundworlds in which the forms of the Ultra Tribe exist. An alchemy of electronic sequencers, drum machines and percussion locks in the groove, while the human element jumps in and out of the steady pulse, giving the music a passionate intensity. The elements are deftly shaped to a point of complete integration where the final result is transformed into a living breathing body with an electro-organic soul.

As one the original architects of the tribal-ambient genre, Steve Roach's innovations are mapped out on the landmark albums Origins, Artifacts, and Dreamtime Return, along with releases from the Suspended Memories trio and the more recent Fever Dreams series. Similarly, Byron Metcalf’s tribal-shamanic albums Helpers, Guides & Allies, Not Without Risk, The Shaman’s Heart, and A Warning From the Elders, serve as a benchmark for deep journey exploration. In the late 90's, Steve teamed up with Byron, and over the span of a dozen years they've created an array of releases that explore and push the outer edges of shamanic-electronic tribalism.

The eight pieces on Tales From the Ultra Tribe are built into a seamless 74-minute deep-journey experience. Adding to the overall impact is a high resolution sound achieved through masterful recording and mixing techniques. With a multi-dimensional trance-groove trajectory, the sound is a tribal-electronic well of experience. A continuous kaleidoscope of visionary power, mystery and visceral awe envelops the listener. The synergistic alchemy of Steve’s and Byron’s work fuses to new levels of audio-induced, mind-expanding music.

EARTH OM - SACRED RESONANCE - INVENTORY SALE!!
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EARTH OM - SACRED RESONANCE - INVENTORY SALE!!

Byron Metcalf, Ph.D.

Credits
1. Earth Om - Sacred Resonance - Verbal Guidance clip
2. Earth Om - Sacred Resonance - Music Track clip

INVENTORY SALE!!

Earth Om - Sacred Resonance

Exploring Your Relationship with the Earth

with

Byron Metcalf, Ph.D.

As we face the truth about our global crisis and the devastating impact of climate change, it is clear that we, as human inhabitants of this planet, now find ourselves at a critical point where our survival depends on our ability and willingness to develop a healthy, balanced and sustainable relationship with the Earth – the Mother of Us All.

The intention of the Earth Om – Sacred Resonance exercise is to help you explore your relationship with the Earth in a very personal way – and to cultivate a deeper and more personal connection with Her. This exercise is highly experiential and interactive, and will provide you with an opportunity to closely examine the unique qualities, characteristics, beliefs and other dynamics that form your relationship with the Earth and all that this relationship means to you.

Combining shamanic rhythm & sounds, verbal guidance, chanting and Field Effect Audio Technology™, Earth Om – Sacred Resonance provides a gentle and powerful heart-centered journey of self-discovery into your relationship with Mother Earth.

Designed to be used as a stand-alone exercise or as an advanced exercise with

The Shaman’s Heart Program (Monroe Products, 2007)

Please click on the following links for more information on Earth Om – Sacred Resonance and Field Effect Audio Technology™

Earth Om

Field Effect Audio Technology

 

EARTH LUMINOUS - Erik Wøllo & Byron Metcalf
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1. Days of Magic
2. Light and Ground
3. Far Wandered
4. Valley of Spheres
5. Distant Future
6. Diomedea
7. Earth Luminous
8. Linked Stars

Electronic musician Erik Wøllo joins tribal-trance percussionist Byron Metcalf for an elegant album weaving melodic, vibrant soundscapes with subtle, grounding rhythms.

Earth Luminous stirs the memory on an outing through luminescent electronic ambient music where the ethereal is anchored and activated by steady, tactile frame drums and percussive patterns. Byron’s tight-to-the-grid substratum pulse serves as a conduit to Erik’s lush, emotive and expansive atmospheres. Together, the two sonic explorers find a meeting place where vapor trails and glowing man-made cityscapes reveal that we, the modern humans, are the ones who bring into existence the enlightened earth: our explorations illuminate to bring cascading insight.

The dramatic images of the album cover reflect the music’s contemplative and timeless perception of our planet. Seeing the world from above from an airplane’s cockpit (in photos taken by pilot Ian Dutton) reveals reflective perspectives of the earth below: a magnificent visual confluence of the sky and the glittering nighttime urban city lights.

 Earth Luminous’ lustrous soaring themes, moving electronic drones, and bedrock ​rhythmic patterns drift and unfold in a lush electronic treatment of modern instrumental music. Cycles of layered synthesizers, harmonies, introspective slow-motion soundscaping, vibrant acoustic percussion, and illuminated electric guitar produce expansive and fluid tracks. The results are deeply​ thoughtful, seductive musings upon a radiant​ earth.

Digital downloads available here.

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MEDICINE WORK w/Hemi-Sync® - Byron Metcalf & Rob Thomas
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MEDICINE WORK w/Hemi-Sync® - Byron Metcalf & Rob Thomas

Featuring Byron Metcalf on frame drums, buffalo drum, bass & ceremonial drums, hybrid toms, udu & clay pots, rattles & shakers, and Rob Thomas on didgeridoos, rattles and shakers, vocal chants and shamanic soundworlds.

Cover Art: Michel Mastriani 

Credits

This psychoactive composition is designed to guide and support you into deeper territories of your own inner worlds – far beyond the known and familiar. Award-winning shamanic-trance drummer Byron Metcalf and master didgeridoo artist Rob Thomas of Inlakesh combine their musical and personal medicines to create this powerful sonic experience, heightened by the addition of Hemi-Sync®. Synergistically forged in the timeless hearth of shamanic intent and ceremony, this music is designed to guide and support intrepid travelers into deeper territories of their inner worlds ­– far beyond the known and familiar.

 Medicine Work with Hemi-Sync® is a call to the deep journey. An invitation to explore vast mysteries of Initiation & Rites of Passage; Alchemy & Transmutation; Transformation & Transcendence; Cycles of Death & Rebirth; realms of the primordial, archetypal & mythological filtering through layers of the individual self and the boundless dimensions of transpersonal consciousness. The journey concludes with the safe return home to the harmonic resonance of the traveler’s heart and true nature. 

 For those of you who have heard the original Medicine Work, this new “Metamusic” version is even more potent as a shamanic tool. I personally found the depth of the trance state achieved to be amazing! Many thanks to Monroe Products studio engineer Kevin Cowan for helping to create such an incredible psychoactive sonic brew!

Digital Download available here and soon on itunes, Amazon and other major online retailers.

(Note: This Metamusic version is a single continuous track designed for uninterrupted listening - preferrably on headphones. Scroll up to the original Medicine Work album to hear clips of the various sections.)

THE SHAMAN'S HEART II w/Hemi-Sync
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1. Shaman's Heart II w/Hemi-Sync 5 min clip
Shaman's Heart II w/Hemi-Sync 5 min clip
Notes
Listen to other clips from the original mix - scroll down to The Shaman's Heart II

The Shaman’s Heart II with Hemi-Sync®

Byron Metcalf

Featuring Steve Roach

 

This powerful and potent shamanic journey invites the listener to make full contact with their heart, their own inner wisdom, and non-physical helpers and guides to reveal, heal and transform the habitual patterns and blocks that inhibit and stifle growth and creativity. Byron Metcalf’s continuous heartbeat rhythm, medicine rattles, heart and soul activating trance drumming combines with Hemi-Sync® and Steve Roach’s sonic mastery for a rewarding and memorable shamanic journey. Repeated use of this music in a personal ritual or ceremonial context will enhance the heart’s capacities for love, compassion, courage, power, and strength.

For this new collaboration with Monroe Products, Byron remixed the original version of The Shaman’s Heart II to bring the drums and percussion more up front in the mix, which amplifies the sonic driving and entrainment effectiveness. Specially created Hemi-Sync® mixes are added making The Shaman’s Heart II with Hemi-Sync® a uniquely efficient tool for developing the various capacities of the heart. This is also the ideal album for extended shamanic journeys, breathwork, dynamic meditation, and other deep inner-work practices.

 

Byron discusses the background and creation of The Shaman’s Heart II in an interview with Monroe Products. Check it out here: 

 

 

THE SHAMAN'S HEART II - The Healing Journey
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THE SHAMAN'S HEART II - The Healing Journey

Produced, recorded, mixed & mastered by Byron at “The Lair”, Prescott, Arizona 

Steve’s elements recorded at The Timeroom, Southern Arizona 

Byron – Buffalo drums, ceremonial toms, frame drums, clay pot, medicine rattles, ambient percussion, voice, spirit wind, huasca breaths.

Steve Roach – Didgeridoo, ocarinas, analog and digital hardware synths, analog modular system, looping.

 

Composed by Byron Metcalf & Steve Roach

Dr Bam’s Music (BMI) & SoundQuest Music (BMI)

© 2011 All Rights Reserved

Cover art “The Gathering” – Maud Wirström

Graphic Design – Sam Rosenthal 

 

Credits
1. The Shaman's Heart II Excerpt 1
2. The Shaman's Heart II Excerpt 2
3. The Shaman's Heart II Excerpt 3
4. The Shaman's Heart II Excerpt 4
5. The Shaman's Heart II Excerpt 5
6. The Shaman's Heart II Excerpt 6
7. The Shaman's Heart II Excerpt 7

The Shaman's Heart II – The Healing Journey is an entrancing 70-minute shamanic journey of uninterrupted, evolving tribal-trance drumming and percussion that continuously builds in rhythmic complexity and dynamic intensity. Byron is joined by Steve Roach who provides the harmonic and textural psychotropic stew created from a rich, organic and analog blend. The alchemy with the percussion results in an ecstasy that helps hold the space for the listener to journey far and deep into powerful and sustained shamanic states of consciousness. The journey culminates in a bursting forth through the full spectrum portal of pure existence – returning safely home to the heart-centered presence and potential of the true self.

The continuous heartbeat rhythm, medicine rattles, heart and soul activating trance drumming, combines with Steve’s sonic mastery and deep didgeridoo to firmly anchor the entire journey to the listener’s own sonically-driven trajectory. Repeated use of this music in a personal ritual or ceremonial context will enhance the heart’s capacities for love, compassion, courage, power, and strength.

With focused and clear intention, this sonic call to adventure draws on the traditional shamanic model that is proven over the eons to open the primal mind to access all levels of human experience including the upper, middle, and lower worlds of the shamanic landscape and various transpersonal realms of reality. The Shaman's Heart II is a powerful and potent shamanic journey that invites the listener to make full contact with their heart – their own inner wisdom and various non-physical helpers, guides and allies, to reveal, release, heal and transform the habitual patterns and blocks that inhibit and stifle their growth and creative energies.

Live at SoundQuest Fest 2010
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Steve's pinnacle performance from 2010's SoundQuest Fest proved to be a real moment in time, and fortunately it was documented with a high resolution recording that places the listener front and center on that special night. Presented as a single CD, the first 74 minutes of the concert are experienced as it unfolded. Three distinct realms are seamlessly mapped out in this inspired set. The opening starts with a 25-minute piece of perpetual forward motion in the mode of DESTINATION BEYOND created specially for the concert, carved from pure analog synths and sequencers. From here we experience an amazing interplay between didgeridoo players Dashmesh Khalsa, Brian Parnham, percussionist Byron Metcalf and Steve performing real-time looping, processing and mixing along with soundworlds, ocarina and voice. This passage is an all-out expression of shamanic ecstasy that boils over into the engulfing tribal trance state of "Thunder Walk" from the recent release DREAM TRACKER. The last portion of the set settles into an ultra drifting electro-organic zone. This evocative space, which premiered at the Fest, would soon evolve into the opening of IMMERSION FIVE–CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS.

DREAM TRACKER - Byron Metcalf - Dashmesh Khalsa - Steve Roach
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DREAM TRACKER - Byron Metcalf - Dashmesh Khalsa - Steve Roach

: center;">Byron Metcalf ~ Dashmesh Khalsa ~ Steve Roach

Byron Metcalf: Frame drums, djembes, doumbek, udu, clay pot, bass drums, various ethnic percussion,voice

Dashmesh Khalsa: Didgeridoo, tabla, hapi drum

Steve Roach: Analog and digital soundworlds, loops, processing, eurorack analog modular system, bullroarer, and Australian field recordings

Guest Musicans: Becca Barbanell: Didgeridoo, Daniel Hirtz: Tabla

 

Produced by Byron Metcalf, Dashmesh Khalsa & Steve Roach

Recorded & Mixed by Byron at The Lair, Prescott, AZ, except;

Steve’s elements recorded by Steve at The Timeroom

From The Inside, Dreamtime Alchemy & Realms of the Sacred Seed final mixes by Steve

Mastered by Steve

 

Cover art: Ralph Prada, “Inside The Outside” (sculptural concrete carving)

www.ralphprata.com

Rock textures by Byron

Cover design and Layout: Sam Rosenthal

 

All tracks composed by Byron, Dash & Steve except,

Realms of the Sacred Seed composed by Dash & Steve

ã 2010 Dr Bam’s Music (BMI), Soundquest Music (BMI)

 

Credits
Play all
1. Dream Tracker
2. Dreamtime Alchemy
3. From The Inside
4. Thunder Walk
5. Roo Runner
6. Realms of the Sacred Seed

The essential ingredients of ancient and contemporary shamanic trance states are fully activated in this highly potent new release. Byron carved out a collection of incredible trance grooves for nearly a year, eventually bringing in the prana-infused didgeridoo of Dashmesh Khalsa on every track. Steve joined on in early January 2010 and poured his heart and soul-drenched soundworlds into the six pieces, covering a full range of ecstatic dreamtime flow: rhythm, breath and expansion.

The end result is a full-blown dreamtime alchemy of all the elements. The living, breathing percussion, didgeridoo and soundworlds are unified in a single purpose: to open to the door out of the ordinary world – initiating the listener into an empowered journey of infinite possibilities for spiritual rebirth, illumination, and transcendence.

To listen to entire tracks and purchase digital downloads go here

INDUCTION: Breathe ~ Surrender ~ Repeat - Byron Metcalf
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INDUCTION: Breathe ~ Surrender ~ Repeat

CDs back in print - Available Now - Digital downloads available here

By request I have edited and optimized some of my personal favorite tracks for breathwork, trance-dance and other forms of dynamic inner-exploration into a compilation CD. This special production CD contains nine up-tempo compositions designed to induce and support expanded states of awareness and the journey toward wholeness.

Featuring drums & percussion, didgeridoo, voice, drones, atmospheres & soundworlds

Guest Musicians: Steve Roach, Ron Oates, Jack Coddington, Rian McGonigal, Gail Chasin, Ted Usatynski, John Dumas, Jesse Pursley

Tracks compiled from Byron’s solo CDs:

"Helpers, Guides & Allies"

"Not Without Risk"

"A Warning From The Elders"

NADA TERMA - Byron Metcalf - Mark Seelig - Steve Roach
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NADA TERMA - Byron Metcalf - Mark Seelig - Steve Roach
Produced by Byron Metcalf & Steve Roach
Recorded and mixed by Byron at The Lair, Prescott, AZ
Final mix processing & mastering by Steve at The Timeroom, Sonita, AZ

Mark Seelig: Bansuri Flute, Dilruba, Harmonic Overtone Voice
Byron Metcalf: Frame Drums, Earth Drum, Udu, Clay Pot, Seed Pods, Harmonic Overtone Voice
Steve Roach: Drones, Zones & Atmospheres

Cover Image by Michel Noel, Art Direction by Steve, Graphic Design by Sam Rosenthal

© 2008 (Dr Bam’s Music, BMI & Soundquest Music, BMI)

Credits
1. NADA TERMA - Part 1
2. NADA TERMA - Part 2
3. NADA TERMA - Part 3
4. NADA TERMA - Part 4
5. NADA TERMA - Part 5
6. NADA TERMA - Part 6
7. NADA TERMA - Part 7
NADA TERMA

Byron Metcalf - Mark Seelig - Steve Roach

a continuous flow in seven parts . . .

NADA TERMA merges the boundaries of ambient, world music and sacred-meditative styles. On Nada Terma (translated as “discovering spiritual treasures through the world of sound”) East Indian tonalities blend with Sufi-like trance percussion immersed in atmospheres, drifts and drones, arriving at a state of relaxed, focused awareness. The continuously-woven 73-minute piece is sequenced into seven discrete segments – perfect for yoga, contemplation and bodywork.

Following upon the groundbreaking work of 2006’s Mantram, Nada Terma is the second Projekt collaboration between Arizona’s Byron Metcalf and Steve Roach with Germany’s Mark Seelig. Byron, Mark & Steve initially collaborated on the critically acclaimed Wachuma’s Wave. (Check Out "THE TRILOGY" Combo-Pak Sale below).

On NADA TERMA, Byron, Mark & Steve reach deeper into the mystical / spiritual realm, presenting a blend of diverse worlds skillfully combined in an organic fashion. Deep-trance frame drums, clay pots and percussion meet with harmonic overtone vocals (akin to Tuvan throat singers) and the yearning sounds of the stringed Indian Dilruba, and East Indian bansuri flute, bringing a melodic and spiritual-contemplative highlight to the release. All of this exists within an enigmatic world of shadow and shifting light developed by way of artful enhancements and processing of the acoustic instruments. These complements are part of a constant, slowly breathing subtext of drones and atmospheres in which the entire experience lives.

Nada Terma will appeal to any listener looking for extended states of awareness, creative enhancement, yoga, bodywork, and deep listening.

"DEEP TIME DREAMING" -Byron Metcalf & Mark Seelig w-Steve Roach
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Explore unknown spiritual realms with the ancient shamanic soundworlds of Byron Metcalf, Mark Seelig and Hemi-Sync®. A portal for shamanic travel and divine communion, laced with mysticism, Deep Time Dreaming is sacred music in the truest sense. German-based flutist Mark Seelig accompanies Metcalf’s trancing, organic percussion in this awe-inspiring otherworldly sojourn with support from dreamtime maestro Steve Roach. Originally released as Wachuma’s Wave, this multi-textured shamanic masterpiece was recognized by Backroads Music as the No. 1 release of 2003 across all genres. Instruments featured: frame drums, bass drums, clay pots, overtone singing, sacred chants and various soundworlds. Length: 73 minutes. Other Metamusic® titles by Byron are The Shaman’s Heart and Spirit Gathering.

Scroll down to "Wachuma's Wave" to listen to clips
SPIRIT GATHERING
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SPIRIT GATHERING
Produced, Recorded & Mixed: Byron Metcalf at The Lair, Prescott, Arizona
Guest Artists: Steve Roach, Ron Oates, Lena Stevens, Rian McGonigal, Richard Blum, Jack Coddington, Jamie Keehan
Ritual Sounds: Shawn Cardinal & Michael Keehan
Original Cover Art: V. Shane
Monroe Products
Credits
1. Spirit Gathering
Spirit Gathering
Credits
Featuring Richard Blum - Native Flutes
2. Primordial Recognition
3. Not Without Risk
4. Fields of Intention
5. Medicine Story
Medicine Story
Credits
Lena Stevens - shamanic chant
6. Clan Travelers
7. Dark Brew
8. Light From a Burning Bridge
Light From a Burning Bridge
Credits
Featuring Ron Oates - keyboards, and Jamie Keehan - soprano vocal
Following the chart-topping success of Byron Metcalf’s award-winning, The Shaman’s Heart, Monroe Products® pursued another collaboration. SPIRIT GATHERING (formerly titled Not Without Risk) is an undisputed classic among shamanic practitioners who recognize Metcalf and company’s shamanic stylings as the real deal. Good shamanic music doesn’t invite your participation, it literally draws you into the experience. Spirit Gathering is not “meditative” in the traditional sense, it’s shamanic “traveling” music—primordial, tribal percussion that’s intended to evoke transcendent inner journeys to push the boundaries of your own reality. Strap yourself in with a good audio system, or headphones, and let the consciousness-altering trance rhythms begin. Your immersive journey concludes with a soft landing afforded by track 8, Light From a Burning Bridge—an integrative “communion with Spirit” to complete your powerful experience of Spirit Gathering.

The original tracks of Not Without Risk have been re-sequenced and remastered to enhance the flow of this collaboration for its release as SPIRIT GATHERING and Monroe Products has embedded a custom mix of Hemi-Sync audio-guidance frequencies to deepen its immersive and transcendent effects. For optimal results, listen to this experiential composition in one session, preferably in a darkened, meditative environment.

Total Time: 73 min.
THE SHAMAN'S HEART (with Hemi-Sync) - Winner of the 2006 Visionary Award for "Best Innerspace/Mediational/Healing CD"
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THE SHAMAN'S HEART (with Hemi-Sync) - Winner of the 2006 Visionary Award for "Best Innerspace/Mediational/Healing CD"
Byron Metcalf – Buffalo drums, bear & peyote rattles, udu & clay pot, frame drums, hybrid toms, various shamanic percussion (seed pods, beads, shells, pottery & stone), spirit winds, hoasca sounds.

Steve Roach – Analog and digital soundworlds, didgeridoo, ocarinas, additional shamanic percussion.

Credits
“My mind boggles at the idea this was created in a studio, as it almost feels like it emerged newborn from the very heart of the jungle itself. There’s little else to say except, WOW!”
– Bill Binkleman, Editor, Wind and Wire

THE SHAMAN’S HEART with Hemi-Sync

Monroe Products (The Monroe Institute) pursued a collaboration with Byron to release THE SHAMAN’S HEART “with Hemi-Sync” to deepen the immersive and transcendent qualities of this masterful shamanic recording. This CD features the entire, original recording of THE SHAMAN’S HEART (Byron Metcalf with guest artist Steve Roach) and combines Hemi-Sync technology embedded within the tracks. Monroe Products refers to this process as “Metamusic” – music that incorporates specially blended Hemi-Sync frequencies to guide you into focused, whole-brain states of consciousness. Hemi-Sync helps you to achieve and sustain synchronized brain-wave activity in both hemispheres of your brain – an optimal condition for improving human performance.

For optimal results, listen to this experiential composition in one session – preferably with headphones, in a darkened, meditative environment.

For those who have the original version of THE SHAMAN’S HEART, this new Metamusic version not only adds the Hemi-Sync technology but also has new cover art, and a beautiful insert booklet containing Bill Binkleman’s stellar review. This is a “must have” for all deep journeying headphone listeners!

NOTE: To hear the tracks, please play the clips for THE SHAMAN'S HEART (Original Version) directly below.
MANTRAM - Steve Roach, Byron Metcalf, Mark Seelig
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MANTRAM - Steve Roach, Byron Metcalf, Mark Seelig
Steve Roach, Byron Metcalf, Mark Seelig
Credits
1. Mantram Part One
2. Mantram Part Two
3. Mantram Part Three
4. Mantram Part Four
5. Mantram Part Five (1st section)
5. Mantram Part Five (2nd section)
6. Mantram Part Six
7. Mantram Part Seven
8. Mantram Part Eight
Like the living, breathing, meditative movement of the Sufi trance dance, MANTRAM is grounded in a reverence for the slowing of time which allows the natural reflective process to emerge. Slow heartbeat-like acoustic frame drums and percussion, overtone voice, Didgeridoo, Bansuri flute, and Tamboura drones mix with a majestic tapestry of organic electronic textures, offering the sonic equivalent of the power found when gazing into timeless Mandala images found in classic sacred art. The entire CD holds a consistent interconnected feeling that seems to spiral outwards when experienced in repeat playback.
NOT WITHOUT RISK - Byron Metcalf
NOT WITHOUT RISK - Byron Metcalf
Produced, Recorded & Mixed: Byron Metcalf at The Lair, Prescott, Arizona
Guest Artists: Steve Roach, Ron Oates, Lena Stevens, Rian McGonigal, Richard Blum, Jack Coddington, Jamie Keehan
Original Cover Art: Daniel Wiggins
Credits
1. Not Without Risk
2. Fields Of Intention
3. Primordial Recognition
4. Medicine Story
5. Spirit Gathering
6. Dark Brew
7. Clan Travelers
8. Light From A Burning Bridge

NOTE: "Not Without Risk" is out of print. All of the tracks are available on "Spirit Gathering" - a Metamusic version (with Hemi Sync) of Not Without Risk (please scroll up).

Following The Serpent's Lair (Projekt Records, 2000), the critically acclaimed collaboration with award winning recording artist and sonic innovator Steve Roach, NOT WITHOUT RISK is Byron Metcalf's second solo release. Byron's ability to combine his unique proficiency as a drummer/percussionist with his background as a psychologist and shamanic practitioner has been attracting fans and fellow voyagers worldwide since his 1998 debut release of Helpers, Guides & Allies. Byron's music is being used in a wide spectrum of contexts including experiential shamanism and journey work, various meditation practices, breathwork, trance dance, bodywork and other healing arts. Fusing layers of organic drums and percussion, didgeridoo, soundworlds and sonic atmospheres, various indigenous instruments and voice, NOT WITHOUT RISK invites and challenges the listener to push the boundaries of their own reality... to risk venturing into new levels and depths of one's self...

THE SERPENT'S LAIR - Steve Roach & Byron Metcalf
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THE SERPENT'S LAIR - Steve Roach & Byron Metcalf
Project Producer Steve Roach.

Music Produced by Steve Roach and Byron Metcalf

Guests on THE SERPENT'S LAIR include Vicki Richards, Lena Stevens, Vidna Obmana, Jeffrey Fayman, Momodou "Mohammad" Kah, Jorge Reyes, Jim Cole, and Vir Unis.
Credits
1. The Lair
2. Rite of Passage
3. Shedding the Skin
4. Big Medicine
5. Future Tribe
6. Birthright
7. Osmosis
8. Egg Chamber Dreaming
9. Offering in Waves
10. Impending Sense of Calm
11. Cave Dwellers
12. Primalo Passage
13. Serpent Clan Gathering
14. Beating Heart of The Dragon Mother
15. Ochua
Beginning as a collaboration between Roach and Metcalf, the music on THE SERPENT'S LAIR evolved over the past year into an epic 2-CD set, augmented with a myriad of guests. For those familiar with Roach's work, this release has it all. Steve's ultra-soundworlds, hybrid grooves and magical production combined with Byron's acoustic-organic tribal trance patterns set Disc One in motion (in all directions). Aligning with themes of shamanic initiation found throughout the world, this disc is rooted in the organic... the earth... the ancestors... and the initiatory energy of focused transformational ritual practice which is integrated into the alchemical fire of psycho-spiritual death and rebirth. It is here that one is confronted with all the essential elements of danger and possibility.

Disc Two - subtitled "Offerings From The Underworld" - is built around musical elements from disc one, yet forges a sonic alchemy as it dives deeper. Though at times rhythmic, the overall feeling is a floating, pulsing, breathing adventure through a system of underground rivers and caves, inspiring fantastic episodes along the way.
HELPERS, GUIDES & ALLIES. . . - Byron Metcalf
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HELPERS, GUIDES & ALLIES. . . - Byron Metcalf
"Helpers, Gudies & Allies. . .Navigating the Shamanic Landscape"
All songs (c) 1998 - Composed by Byron Metcalf, (Dr. BAM's Music, BMI) unless otherwise specified.
Credits
1. Facing the Answers
2. Seeking Guidance I
Seeking Guidance I
Credits
Jack Coddington, Byron Metcalf, Ron Oates
3. Danger... Opportunity
4. Seeking Guidance II
Seeking Guidance II
Credits
Jack Coddington, Byron Metcalf, Ron Oates
5. A Question of Courage
6. In the Center of the Circle
6. Seeking Guidance III
Seeking Guidance III
Credits
Jack Coddington, Byron Metcalf, Ron Oates
8. Helpers, Guides & Allies
9. O-Daiko's Dream
10. Shadow's Allure
11. Cave of the Heart
Cave of the Heart
Credits
Ron Oates (Rong Songs Pub. ASCAP)

Originally released in 1998, Byron's 1st solo album is considered a classic in shamanic communities. The album is still selling well and is almost out of stock in its 4th pressing.

 

For over 40,000 years shamanic societies throughout the world have used various musical strategies to achieve altered states of consciousness. These states, which are believed to be essential components to most of their sacred rituals and ceremonies, offer infinite varieties of inner landscapes which the shaman must navigate in order to retrieve insight and wisdom, and bring healing to the community. Drums and percussion, played in a continuous, driving manner are the basic instruments used for these purposes. With this in mind, Helpers, Guides & Allies...was inspired by Byron's passionate interest and involvement in the healing potential of non-ordinary (altered states) of consciousness.

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