Hello Friends, ‘Kokūzō’ – Space Treasury’ feat. Ayla Schafer is the fourth single to be released from the upcoming album of Mantra Songs ‘One Thousand Petals’. It weaves together a Japanese mantra with English lyrics describing the benevolent qualities of Kokūzō Bosatsu, one of the five great wisdom Bodhisattvas of Esoteric Buddhism. Kokūzō’s name translates […]
Gayatri – Source of Love is a collaboration with Australian sound healer and medicine man Darpan, and Norwegian singer Helene Bøksle. It also features a string quartet arrangement by Misha Mullov-Abbado, percussion and guitars by Brazilian musicians Renato Anesi and Txai Fernando, Italian bass player Antonio Moscato and the South Devon choir Glorious Chorus. I’d […]
Bhaisajyaguru – Medicine Buddha is a collaboration with Lua Maria and Misha Mullov-Abbado. Lua is a singer with a beautiful voice that I collaborated with on the album Phoenix Tree, which features her songs with duets for shakuhachi & Native American flute. It’s been 15 years since I last recorded anything with her and it’s so […]
‘Om Mani Padme Hum’ is a collaboration with pioneering Brazilian medicine musician Chandra Lacombe, and involves many other musicians and singers. ‘Om Mani Padme Hum’ is the quintessential Buddhist mantra. Some monks spend their entire lives chanting it. In essence a simple homage to the miraculous beauty of the lotus flower, and can be loosely […]
The release of the new album Trust In The Path opens a new chapter in my musical journey, as it is the first studio-produced album of the 160 medicine songs I have received over the past 25 years. What does ‘medicine song’ mean, and what does it mean to ‘receive’ a song? Medicine Music is […]
‘Take it All’ – The Third Single form the Upcoming Album ‘Trust in the Path’ to be released in the end of 2022. I received this song on a trek in one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen – seated by a waterfall in the enchanted Vale do Pati in the Chapada Diamantina […]
Daughter Of The Stars is the second single from the forthcoming album Trust in the Path. This song came to me while visiting the beautiful, remote Devon beach at Start Point Lighthouse. It was my first time out in nature after 6 months in lockdown. I spent the night sleeping on the clifftop in my […]
For some time now I have been working on a series of new recordings of the Lotus Rising songs with an amazing group of singers and musicians, and I am going to release a series of themed albums over the next couple of years with the Nixi Music label. The first of these albums, […]
Deep Space Blue – Nils Olav Remix “My musical world enters new horizons as Nils Olav releases his electronic dance remix of the acoustic track Deep Space Blue from the Kindred Souls album. I must confess I have mixed feelings about electronic music – I spent some time in the 90’s getting deeply […]
Fresh Encounters With Kindred Souls Chandra Lacombe & Adrian Freedman – Kalimba and Shakuhachi The Kindred Souls album, released on 18/06/21, features intuitive musical encounters between 20 international musicians and Adrian, recorded on his travels around the world. This series of magical encounters continues in an open ended flow, as Adrian continues to […]
My mother passed away in 2009. After a long illness. I was sitting with her by her bedside in her final moments. I had one hand on her heart, and one hand on the crown of her head as she took her final breaths. I had read from Sri Ramana Maharshi that this is the […]
Deep Echoes of Stillness originated with a commission I was given by Richard Rudd from the Gene Keys project. I composed and recorded the original piece for solo shakuhachi, and this can be heard on the Zen Stillness Music Set for Yoga and Relaxation. I later came back to the piece and created a […]
“The Shape Of Eggs” album is a mellow suite of melodies from different South American Countries, Ireland and Northumbria, arranged for Japanese and Western acoustic instruments. It was recorded 30 years ago in 1991 in Kyoto, Japan. The remastered reissue is exclusive to Bandcamp and you can listen and download here: https://adrianfreedman.bandcamp.com/album/the-shape-of-eggs In the early […]
Zen is defined by a heightened sense of Presence. An awareness of life unhindered by fixed, limited or conditioned thoughts and feelings, but rather an intuitive, meditative flow that is open to the infinite flux of consciousness. This allows an experience of life that is both full and empty at the same time. […]
The video for “Rainha das Águas” was released today, July 2nd. “Rainha das Águas” is a beautiful healing song in honor of the Queen of The Waters, Yemanjá; I received this song in 2007 in the spirit of Brazilian healing music, with words originally in Portuguese. It is a gift. A gift that, like […]
Kindred Souls Album is Out Today! Here is some words from Adrian about this album: “I feel a mixture of relief, honour and joy at finally reaching the date of release for the Kindred Souls album. Relief, because of the time and effort it has taken to shape these ten pieces into the final form […]
