The Night Pharma

new loops on their way

Live recording from a street performance - aucustic didgeridoo, sythnesizers, dancing bells, Buddha Boxes and clap sticks.

Digeridoo, Samples, Drone, Bells.

Deep in the earth the dragon breathes and awakens the soldiers of the dream.

A field recording from the neighbourhood I live in, a north African wedding.

"Of the celestial Naga snakes I am Ananta; of the aquatic deities I am Varuna. Of departed ancestors I am Aryamaa and among the dispensers of law I am Yama, lord of death" - Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 10, Verse 29

A tone journey from my 2023 album Great Trance Divide

Drone based trance music. Didgeridoos, synthesizers, tanpura machine, two FM3 Buddha Machines along with samples. Recorded and produced in the summer of 2023 at Nadaville Studios in south Stockholm. I am most attracted to the ritualistic and consciousness changing elements of music. I know music can be used for pleasure and enjoyment, but both concepts lead to the questions, what is pleasant? How do we enjoy things and why? I believe reality is a projection of our mind. At the same time our mind works on making sense of reality. But there is no separation between the two. It is a constant cycle of adaption, recognition, and change. That which exists outside the mind is Nature. By encountering Nature, we can expand our mind and bypass reality, that which we live in. Music for me is a way to do this. Recording music is a way of passing on or sharing the essence of the musical ritual. Like providing a taste of something. When recorded music works it transports the listener to the site of ritual. At that point a form of transcendence can be experienced. The ritual does not have an audience. It only has participants. I want to be in a permanent state of ritual, making music for the realizing of higher consciousness for all.

Drone based trance music. Didgeridoos, synthesizers, tanpura machine, two FM3 Buddha Machines along with samples. Recorded and produced in the summer of 2023 at Nadaville Studios in south Stockholm. I am most attracted to the ritualistic and consciousness changing elements of music. I know music can be used for pleasure and enjoyment, but both concepts lead to the questions, what is pleasant? How do we enjoy things and why? I believe reality is a projection of our mind. At the same time our mind works on making sense of reality. But there is no separation between the two. It is a constant cycle of adaption, recognition, and change. That which exists outside the mind is Nature. By encountering Nature, we can expand our mind and bypass reality, that which we live in. Music for me is a way to do this. Recording music is a way of passing on or sharing the essence of the musical ritual. Like providing a taste of something. When recorded music works it transports the listener to the site of ritual. At that point a form of transcendence can be experienced. The ritual does not have an audience. It only has participants. I want to be in a permanent state of ritual, making music for the realizing of higher consciousness for all.

Drone based trance music. Didgeridoos, synthesizers, tanpura machine, two FM3 Buddha Machines along with samples. Recorded and produced in the summer of 2023 at Nadaville Studios in south Stockholm. I am most attracted to the ritualistic and consciousness changing elements of music. I know music can be used for pleasure and enjoyment, but both concepts lead to the questions, what is pleasant? How do we enjoy things and why? I believe reality is a projection of our mind. At the same time our mind works on making sense of reality. But there is no separation between the two. It is a constant cycle of adaption, recognition, and change. That which exists outside the mind is Nature. By encountering Nature, we can expand our mind and bypass reality, that which we live in. Music for me is a way to do this. Recording music is a way of passing on or sharing the essence of the musical ritual. Like providing a taste of something. When recorded music works it transports the listener to the site of ritual. At that point a form of transcendence can be experienced. The ritual does not have an audience. It only has participants. I want to be in a permanent state of ritual, making music for the realizing of higher consciousness for all.

Drone based trance music. Didgeridoos, synthesizers, tanpura machine, two FM3 Buddha Machines along with samples. Recorded and produced in the summer of 2023 at Nadaville Studios in south Stockholm. I am most attracted to the ritualistic and consciousness changing elements of music. I know music can be used for pleasure and enjoyment, but both concepts lead to the questions, what is pleasant? How do we enjoy things and why? I believe reality is a projection of our mind. At the same time our mind works on making sense of reality. But there is no separation between the two. It is a constant cycle of adaption, recognition, and change. That which exists outside the mind is Nature. By encountering Nature, we can expand our mind and bypass reality, that which we live in. Music for me is a way to do this. Recording music is a way of passing on or sharing the essence of the musical ritual. Like providing a taste of something. When recorded music works it transports the listener to the site of ritual. At that point a form of transcendence can be experienced. The ritual does not have an audience. It only has participants. I want to be in a permanent state of ritual, making music for the realizing of higher consciousness for all.

Drone based trance music. Didgeridoos, synthesizers, tanpura machine, two FM3 Buddha Machines along with samples. Recorded and produced in the summer of 2023 at Nadaville Studios in south Stockholm. I am most attracted to the ritualistic and consciousness changing elements of music. I know music can be used for pleasure and enjoyment, but both concepts lead to the questions, what is pleasant? How do we enjoy things and why? I believe reality is a projection of our mind. At the same time our mind works on making sense of reality. But there is no separation between the two. It is a constant cycle of adaption, recognition, and change. That which exists outside the mind is Nature. By encountering Nature, we can expand our mind and bypass reality, that which we live in. Music for me is a way to do this. Recording music is a way of passing on or sharing the essence of the musical ritual. Like providing a taste of something. When recorded music works it transports the listener to the site of ritual. At that point a form of transcendence can be experienced. The ritual does not have an audience. It only has participants. I want to be in a permanent state of ritual, making music for the realizing of higher consciousness for all.

Drone based trance music. Didgeridoos, synthesizers, tanpura machine, two FM3 Buddha Machines along with samples. Recorded and produced in the summer of 2023 at Nadaville Studios in south Stockholm. I am most attracted to the ritualistic and consciousness changing elements of music. I know music can be used for pleasure and enjoyment, but both concepts lead to the questions, what is pleasant? How do we enjoy things and why? I believe reality is a projection of our mind. At the same time our mind works on making sense of reality. But there is no separation between the two. It is a constant cycle of adaption, recognition, and change. That which exists outside the mind is Nature. By encountering Nature, we can expand our mind and bypass reality, that which we live in. Music for me is a way to do this. Recording music is a way of passing on or sharing the essence of the musical ritual. Like providing a taste of something. When recorded music works it transports the listener to the site of ritual. At that point a form of transcendence can be experienced. The ritual does not have an audience. It only has participants. I want to be in a permanent state of ritual, making music for the realizing of higher consciousness for all.

Drone based trance music. Didgeridoos, synthesizers, tanpura machine, two FM3 Buddha Machines along with samples. Recorded and produced in the summer of 2023 at Nadaville Studios in south Stockholm. I am most attracted to the ritualistic and consciousness changing elements of music. I know music can be used for pleasure and enjoyment, but both concepts lead to the questions, what is pleasant? How do we enjoy things and why? I believe reality is a projection of our mind. At the same time our mind works on making sense of reality. But there is no separation between the two. It is a constant cycle of adaption, recognition, and change. That which exists outside the mind is Nature. By encountering Nature, we can expand our mind and bypass reality, that which we live in. Music for me is a way to do this. Recording music is a way of passing on or sharing the essence of the musical ritual. Like providing a taste of something. When recorded music works it transports the listener to the site of ritual. At that point a form of transcendence can be experienced. The ritual does not have an audience. It only has participants. I want to be in a permanent state of ritual, making music for the realizing of higher consciousness for all.

Drone based trance music. Didgeridoos, synthesizers, tanpura machine, two FM3 Buddha Machines along with samples. Recorded and produced in the summer of 2023 at Nadaville Studios in south Stockholm. I am most attracted to the ritualistic and consciousness changing elements of music. I know music can be used for pleasure and enjoyment, but both concepts lead to the questions, what is pleasant? How do we enjoy things and why? I believe reality is a projection of our mind. At the same time our mind works on making sense of reality. But there is no separation between the two. It is a constant cycle of adaption, recognition, and change. That which exists outside the mind is Nature. By encountering Nature, we can expand our mind and bypass reality, that which we live in. Music for me is a way to do this. Recording music is a way of passing on or sharing the essence of the musical ritual. Like providing a taste of something. When recorded music works it transports the listener to the site of ritual. At that point a form of transcendence can be experienced. The ritual does not have an audience. It only has participants. I want to be in a permanent state of ritual, making music for the realizing of higher consciousness for all.

Drone based trance music. Didgeridoos, synthesizers, tanpura machine, two FM3 Buddha Machines along with samples. Recorded and produced in the summer of 2023 at Nadaville Studios in south Stockholm. I am most attracted to the ritualistic and consciousness changing elements of music. I know music can be used for pleasure and enjoyment, but both concepts lead to the questions, what is pleasant? How do we enjoy things and why? I believe reality is a projection of our mind. At the same time our mind works on making sense of reality. But there is no separation between the two. It is a constant cycle of adaption, recognition, and change. That which exists outside the mind is Nature. By encountering Nature, we can expand our mind and bypass reality, that which we live in. Music for me is a way to do this. Recording music is a way of passing on or sharing the essence of the musical ritual. Like providing a taste of something. When recorded music works it transports the listener to the site of ritual. At that point a form of transcendence can be experienced. The ritual does not have an audience. It only has participants. I want to be in a permanent state of ritual, making music for the realizing of higher consciousness for all.

Drone based trance music. Didgeridoos, synthesizers, tanpura machine, two FM3 Buddha Machines along with samples. Recorded and produced in the summer of 2023 at Nadaville Studios in south Stockholm. I am most attracted to the ritualistic and consciousness changing elements of music. I know music can be used for pleasure and enjoyment, but both concepts lead to the questions, what is pleasant? How do we enjoy things and why? I believe reality is a projection of our mind. At the same time our mind works on making sense of reality. But there is no separation between the two. It is a constant cycle of adaption, recognition, and change. That which exists outside the mind is Nature. By encountering Nature, we can expand our mind and bypass reality, that which we live in. Music for me is a way to do this. Recording music is a way of passing on or sharing the essence of the musical ritual. Like providing a taste of something. When recorded music works it transports the listener to the site of ritual. At that point a form of transcendence can be experienced. The ritual does not have an audience. It only has participants. I want to be in a permanent state of ritual, making music for the realizing of higher consciousness for all.

Drone based trance music. Didgeridoos, synthesizers, tanpura machine, two FM3 Buddha Machines along with samples. Recorded and produced in the summer of 2023 at Nadaville Studios in south Stockholm. I am most attracted to the ritualistic and consciousness changing elements of music. I know music can be used for pleasure and enjoyment, but both concepts lead to the questions, what is pleasant? How do we enjoy things and why? I believe reality is a projection of our mind. At the same time our mind works on making sense of reality. But there is no separation between the two. It is a constant cycle of adaption, recognition, and change. That which exists outside the mind is Nature. By encountering Nature, we can expand our mind and bypass reality, that which we live in. Music for me is a way to do this. Recording music is a way of passing on or sharing the essence of the musical ritual. Like providing a taste of something. When recorded music works it transports the listener to the site of ritual. At that point a form of transcendence can be experienced. The ritual does not have an audience. It only has participants. I want to be in a permanent state of ritual, making music for the realizing of higher consciousness for all.

Drone based trance music. Didgeridoos, synthesizers, tanpura machine, two FM3 Buddha Machines along with samples. Recorded and produced in the summer of 2023 at Nadaville Studios in south Stockholm. I am most attracted to the ritualistic and consciousness changing elements of music. I know music can be used for pleasure and enjoyment, but both concepts lead to the questions, what is pleasant? How do we enjoy things and why? I believe reality is a projection of our mind. At the same time our mind works on making sense of reality. But there is no separation between the two. It is a constant cycle of adaption, recognition, and change. That which exists outside the mind is Nature. By encountering Nature, we can expand our mind and bypass reality, that which we live in. Music for me is a way to do this. Recording music is a way of passing on or sharing the essence of the musical ritual. Like providing a taste of something. When recorded music works it transports the listener to the site of ritual. At that point a form of transcendence can be experienced. The ritual does not have an audience. It only has participants. I want to be in a permanent state of ritual, making music for the realizing of higher consciousness for all.

Drone based trance music. Didgeridoos, synthesizers, tanpura machine, two FM3 Buddha Machines along with samples. Recorded and produced in the summer of 2023 at Nadaville Studios in south Stockholm. I am most attracted to the ritualistic and consciousness changing elements of music. I know music can be used for pleasure and enjoyment, but both concepts lead to the questions, what is pleasant? How do we enjoy things and why? I believe reality is a projection of our mind. At the same time our mind works on making sense of reality. But there is no separation between the two. It is a constant cycle of adaption, recognition, and change. That which exists outside the mind is Nature. By encountering Nature, we can expand our mind and bypass reality, that which we live in. Music for me is a way to do this. Recording music is a way of passing on or sharing the essence of the musical ritual. Like providing a taste of something. When recorded music works it transports the listener to the site of ritual. At that point a form of transcendence can be experienced. The ritual does not have an audience. It only has participants. I want to be in a permanent state of ritual, making music for the realizing of higher consciousness for all.

Dug out of the vaults...a set of tracks made sometime....collaboration over distance with Michael Donnelly of Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood etc. Didgeridoo, percussion, sitar, cello, harmonica, samples, loops, words, breath.

Dug out of the vaults...a set of tracks made sometime....collaboration over distance with Michael Donnelly of Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood etc. Didgeridoo, percussion, sitar, cello, harmonica, samples, loops, words, breath.

Dug out of the vaults...a set of tracks made sometime....collaboration over distance with Michael Donnelly of Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood etc. Didgeridoo, percussion, sitar, cello, harmonica, samples, loops, words, breath.

Dug out of the vaults...a set of tracks made sometime....collaboration over distance with Michael Donnelly of Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood etc. Didgeridoo, percussion, sitar, cello, harmonica, samples, loops, words, breath.

Dug out of the vaults...a set of tracks made sometime....collaboration over distance with Michael Donnelly of Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood etc. Didgeridoo, percussion, sitar, cello, harmonica, samples, loops, words, breath.

Dug out of the vaults...a set of tracks made sometime....collaboration over distance with Michael Donnelly of Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood etc. Didgeridoo, percussion, sitar, cello, harmonica, samples, loops, words, breath.

Acoustic acid tribal trance for 2020. Smash the control images, smash the control machine. Love is the Law, Love under Will. For some time now I have been working with old reel to reel tape machines to record and make music. I am at last starting to produce sounds that I am happy with. This was recorded using a Nagra 4.2 Mono reel to reel tape machine, then mixed using the Reaper audio program. I offer it as a piece for the new year, new decade and new world. Global human society is in a desperate state in many ways as we continue to blunder on with our greed and fear, promoted all the time by those that are supposed to be leading us. I am inspired by Mahayana Black Hat Buddhism. The central yogic practice of the Karma Kagyu is the doctrine of Mahamudra, also known as the "Great Seal". This doctrine focuses on four principal stages of meditative practice (the Four Yogas of Mahamudra): - The development of single-pointedness of mind, - The transcendence of all conceptual elaboration, - The cultivation of the perspective that all phenomena are of a "single taste", and - The fruition of the path, which is beyond any contrived acts of meditation. It is through these four stages of development that the practitioner is said to attain the perfect realization of mahamudra. Mahamudra is practiced both independently and as the completion stage of Vajrayana practice. Then Every attempt to escape yourself Ends in a mirror Do not spend your lifespan Feeding appetites Step out of the circle The body is where We wait for death but Instead open a wound In the skin of reality Crawl through it Into yourself The ache of experience Points to no new roads But the dream can be the map From what you already know You present ultimatums Like they are ideas And then wonder why The television is not listening. What time is mind? Lying in the arms of separateness Get grow or give the difference To strangers The spider queen lives within me Colonial reparations paid to the moon. There are many ways for looking at forever Shall we begin?

Ken Andersson - Guitars and effects Ida Lundén - modified piano, effects, electronica James Barrett - didgeridoos, bells, clapsticks

Fragment from a studio jam - Katt Hernandez (violin) and James Barrett (didgeridoo, mini-synth, electric tambura)

A selection of original poems read in a studio in Stockholm in early 2019.

Didgeridoo, samples and beats - James Barrett Violin and vocalisation - @katthernandez Recorded using a Nagra 4.2 reel to reel machine and mixed using Reaper.

Playing at an abandoned factory in Hammerby, Stockholm with Coyote STHM.

Jah Blade by The Night Pharma

Maelström by The Night Pharma

A collection of pieces built on samples and loops using found audio and acoustic instruments and voices. Several of the shorter pieces are designed to be experienced as continual loops for the purposes of mental disassociation, trance and meditation. Instruments: Didgeridoos, bells, hand drums, flutes, jews harps.

A collection of pieces built on samples and loops using found audio and acoustic instruments and voices. Several of the shorter pieces are designed to be experienced as continual loops for the purposes of mental disassociation, trance and meditation. Instruments: Didgeridoos, bells, hand drums, flutes, jews harps.

A collection of pieces built on samples and loops using found audio and acoustic instruments and voices. Several of the shorter pieces are designed to be experienced as continual loops for the purposes of mental disassociation, trance and meditation. Instruments: Didgeridoos, bells, hand drums, flutes, jews harps.

A collection of pieces built on samples and loops using found audio and acoustic instruments and voices. Several of the shorter pieces are designed to be experienced as continual loops for the purposes of mental disassociation, trance and meditation. Instruments: Didgeridoos, bells, hand drums, flutes, jews harps.

A collection of pieces built on samples and loops using found audio and acoustic instruments and voices. Several of the shorter pieces are designed to be experienced as continual loops for the purposes of mental disassociation, trance and meditation. Instruments: Didgeridoos, bells, hand drums, flutes, jews harps.

A collection of pieces built on samples and loops using found audio and acoustic instruments and voices. Several of the shorter pieces are designed to be experienced as continual loops for the purposes of mental disassociation, trance and meditation. Instruments: Didgeridoos, bells, hand drums, flutes, jews harps.

A collection of pieces built on samples and loops using found audio and acoustic instruments and voices. Several of the shorter pieces are designed to be experienced as continual loops for the purposes of mental disassociation, trance and meditation. Instruments: Didgeridoos, bells, hand drums, flutes, jews harps.

A collection of pieces built on samples and loops using found audio and acoustic instruments and voices. Several of the shorter pieces are designed to be experienced as continual loops for the purposes of mental disassociation, trance and meditation. Instruments: Didgeridoos, bells, hand drums, flutes, jews harps.

A live recording of the Drone Bow project in a performance at Supermarket Stockholm Art Fair 15 April 2018. Still Mind/Vali' is a ritual confluence of modern and ancient instruments from different corners of the world, accompanied by words, texts and images, revealing secret worlds of impossible art in tribute to women of the underground. (Photo by Morgan P. Karlsson). James Barrett - samples, beats, loops, didgeridoo Katt Hernandez https://soundcloud.com/katthernandez - violin, modular synthesizer, vocals Quoted or referenced in the piece are Audre Lorde ("Uses of the Erotic: Erotic as Power"), Angela Davis (address at the 2004 Boston Social Forum), Barbara Kosta (City Girls: Berlin's Modern Women of the Weimar Republic), Diane Di Prima (Revolutionary Letters 1968), Anita Berber, Vali Myers (from Ed van der Elsken's "Vali"), Hannah Höch, Rosaleen Norton, Claude Cahun, Emmy Hemmings, Leonora Carrington, Leah Hirsig, Maya Deren, Nora Carrington and Suzanne Malherbe. Marche Marche, Judith Malina, Rain House, CC Henix, Juliette de Bairacli Levy, Helen Nearing, Margart Andersson and Jane Heap, Rita Abadzi, and Polly Bradfield.

Collaboration between Katt Hernandez and James Barrett as Drone Bow. @KattHernandez - words, violin and synth @Didgebaba - Didgeridoo, percussion, samples, post-production, words Alan Watts - The Physical Universe

Collaboration between Katt Hernandez and James Barrett as Drone Bow. @KattHernandez - violin and synth @Didgebaba - jaw harp, percussion, samples, post-production, words Samples include: Tree in Wind by Spoonbender, and Song of the Comet. Were there enough reasons Left behind For anyone to find them And take up the same life Of fears and concerns? Was pleasure left stranded On her own island And made a prisoner By those that could afford The segregated time. Did knowledge watch The whole sorry scene Unfold from his vantage high In the trees where memory Had trapped him eternal. The camp we made In the future was deserted By the time our children arrived Fanning out in multiple directions A search was commenced for promise. By morning it was over Gathered in the dust of chance Nobody was ready for history And instead tasks were allotted Based on forgetting. The larger concerns were constructed Decorated in seashells and wine They first took turns in the mirror Waiting for the signals sent by them Selves advertised each day to no one. The last fight was staged in darkness It took years to find the separation Once it was put on display The audience had already left the building But nobody knew the way home. (James Barrett 2017)

Live performance in Jakobstad (Finnish: Pietarsaari) at Groljud 2017 festival for Gro Gallery on 28th October 2017. “A Vision for Vali” An improvised performance using didgeridoo, samples, bells, sticks, Tibetan singing bowl, photo slides, smoke and the film ‘Vali’ by Ed van der Elsken. Vali Mayers (1930-2003) was an Australian born, global artist who lived the natural world through an artistic and magical vision. Vali embodied her art in a total awareness of her surroundings and its experience. She bonded with animals and people on a single level. Her art production is a mapping of these worlds where spirits evolve and communicate with each other through forms.

For John Sinclair a pioneer and genius. Drone Bow (James Barrett - samples, didgeridoo, bells, percussion) (Katt Hernandez - violin, synthesizer, effects https://soundcloud.com/katthernandez) The voice track is right wing tele evangelist Rev Jack Van Impe - "Rock started in Russia".

Shapeshifter, Owl-Warrior, Light-Bearer in the Dark Fake ethnographic recording from Nada Baba (James Barrett) in an invitation to return to the forest, the darkness of the heart and the line back to our Earth.

Drone Bow with guest Paul Pignon - Bass Clarinet ( https://soundcloud.com/paul-pignon) Katt Hernandez - Violin (https://soundcloud.com/katthernandez) James Barrett - Didgeridoo (https://soundcloud.com/didgebaba)

James Barrett - Yidaki Katt Hernandez - Violin