May 2024 Tonalibus update – TONALIBUS Harmony and Toanlities

This May 2024 Tonalibus update highlights two tonality derivatives and recordings from a recent cooperation session with Christina Braun. Further, it provides an update on Tonalibus playlists and new sounds. Finally, this update touches on the popularity of Tonalibus releases on Spotify.

Two new tonality derivatives

Two tonality derivatives — PentaMinMix / PentaEolDor and PentaLoPhryg / Bairagi Bhairav — are new in the extended pentatonalities tables and tonalities overview. (Derivatives are not further detailed in the catalogue.)

“իմաստուն Imastun survivors” — calling for silence — PentaMinMix / PentaEolDor (derivative) on F# (184 Hz) — 8-string guitar, conch, voice, tanpura — 6:28

“Pebbles in the pond” — a touch of a raga — Bairagi Bhairav raag based on C# — Christina Braun: voice — Ulrico: 8-string guitar — 5:38

Tonalibus cooperation recordings with Christina Braun

New cooperation recordings with Christina Braun (voice) are now in playlist Coop B and April 2024 Sounds:
“Ever forward into the open” — blue destination (↓)
“Cherry blossom dragon” — spring awakening
“Pebbles in the pond” — a touch of a raga (↑)
“Straight forward” — dare jump in head-on

“Ever forward into the open” — blue destination — PentaMin/PentaEol based on D# — Christina Braun: voice — Ulrico: singing saw, bass, 6-string guitar — 4:15

May 2024 Tonalibus playlists & sounds update

Playlist O and April 2024 Sounds conclude with above mentioned coop recordings. The new Playlist P and May-June 2024 Sounds start with:
“Querencia” — the place where one’s strength is… (↓)
“मैत्री Maitrī base” — the privilege of breath (↓↓)
“իմաստուն Imastun survivors” — calling for silence (↑)

“Querencia” — the place where one’s strength is drawn from — Lydian on C# (276 Hz) — 8-string guitar, big gong, tanpura — 7:05

Popularity of Tonalibus single releases

On Spotify, a most significant online music platform, Tonalibus listeners have recently more than tripled, the new release of May 4, 2024 “Breath of life chant” was already played many hundred times, and the piece “Once upon a time — again and still on the way” from June 2023 has well exceeded a thousand times.