Category: Update

The new triple album “Tonalibus O, P & Q” appears globally on many music platforms on May 1, 2025 — Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, Amazon Music, and many more. It covers the themes: “Balance of life and love“, “Discovering new horizons“, and “Coming home to oneself“. It offers 23 meditative improvisations by Ulrico (two with Christina Braun, voice) in thee hours of uplifting music, at times with a touch of blues. More info: Tonalibus O, P & Q — Album.

Playlist R entitled “Waves of silent peace” already offers six pieces in 43½ minutes of recordings, the newest are:
— “Trust the boat” — on the high seas
— “Permanent impermanence” — heart remediation
— “Harmonics of the heart” — hear the overtones?
— “Vibhas dawn” — daybreak raag (below)

Individually, you can find these pieces also under Winter-Spring 2025 sounds.

PentaVibhas (1-2-5-8-9-1) is a derivative pentatonality that recently emerged in Tonalibus improvisations (as in the recording “Vibhas dawn” above). It is equivalent to the Indian raag Vibhas / Bibhas listed in the Tonalibus Raagas correlations tables in the Fidibus shop.

The Tonalibus website main menu option “Concepts” recently became streamlined to “Harmony” to clearly express its focus and essence. The newly designed page “Harmony” offers eight “Visual harmony basics” and the “Harmony basics presentations”. The basics “Five-cours series” became the “Course preso series” unchanged with Harmonic and Tonality Fundamentals, enabling potential expansion to further course modules.

Tonalibus recordings are available on many internet platforms. Spotify seems to be the most significant and generated “This is Ulrico. The essential tracks, all in one playlist” with 32 Tonalibus pieces (3 hr 19 min), as well as “Ulrico Radio” with 50 pieces (about 3 hr) including up to 10 Tonalibus recordings intermixed with pieces of other somewhat compatibly sounding musicians.

Sound of silence
to be heard and seen
one for all and all for one
he or she who hears will see
the light and the love in all life
. . .

May 1, 2025 will be the global release date for the new triple album Tonalibus O, P & Q. Detailed info about this new album will come about in March and April.

A preview of Tonalibus O, P & Q are the recent singles:
— “A blessing of Ōṃ / Aum ॐ” — with love for all sentient beings (below) — released December 25, 2024
— “Perfect imperfection” — one step closer — released January 30, 2025

Playlist R entitled “Waves of silent peace” is the beginning of the new threefold Tonalibus R, S & T. Currently it starts with so far two compositions:
— “Calm Mudita joy” — are you here? (below)
— “Be here now – Ōṃ āḥ hūṃ” — meditation anchor

This also initiates the new Winter-Spring 2025 sounds and its parent page 2025 Sounds and Images.

BTW, PentaNa / PentaPro is the tonality of the moment, that is for spring 2025, with an all new sound sample.

Playlist Q “Coming home to oneself” is now complete with 10 pieces and 75½ minutes of music including several from Nov-Dec 2024 sounds and Coop B.
Two with chanting bass voices anchoring on C#:
— “A blessing of Ōṃ / Aum ॐ” — for all beings (above)
— “Bodhicitta contemplation” — ༀ་ཨཱཿ་ཧཱུྃ — Ōṃ āḥ hūṃ
Three of five new recordings with Christina Braun:
— “Soaring free” — wind in the wings (below)
— “Sunlight enters the dark” — light’s on
— “North woods gnome procession” — warming hearts

Let go
of self
and all
be free
you are
and all is
what is
for real
. . .

Playlist Q “Coming home to oneself” has by now grown to 5 pieces and 47½ minutes of music including the following new Sept-Oct 2024 Sounds:
— “Rinpoche déjà-vu chant” — for recognition and deliverance
— “Thö-gäl” — instantaneous arrival
— “ༀ་ཨཱཿ་ཧཱུྃ – Ōṃ āḥ hūṃ” — dissolving search and soft landing
— “Humble bumble dumble” — homecoming blues

The playlists Very & most popular pieces were updated.

Since 2020, Tonality of the Month announcements and Tonalibus Updates appeared mostly monthly, plus Spiritualibus blog posts more or less weekly. All this came in four languages: English, German, French, and Italian. From now on these will appear more sporadically, allowing for increased time away from computers.

Tonalibus listeners on Spotify increased remarkably during the last half year, from 1 to 3 per day and often none, exceptionally up to 5, before May 2024, to continually over 20 by July, then over 50 by September, and over 70 in October, very often clearly over 100, peaking at 137 different listeners all over the planet on October 13.

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.”

“The truth.” Dumbledore sighed. “It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

“Realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign . . . to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”

— Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone, J. K. Rowling, pp. 214, 298, & 299

On October 5, the new triple album “Tonalibus L, M & N” appears globally on many music platforms — on Spotify, Boomplay, YouTube, Apple Music, Deezer, Amazon, and many more. It offers 27 meditative improvisations by Ulrico in 3½ hours of uplifting music, at times with a touch of blues. The playlist “LMN sampler” presents ten of these pieces in 78½ minutes. Detailed info about this album, platforms used, and its pieces you find in the Fidibus shop. One of its key pieces is “Embraced in silence” — so close, and yet so far (below).

Playlist P “Discovering new horizons” is now complete with 11 pieces and 75¼ minutes of music including the following addition of three July-August 2024 Sounds and the first of so far two Sept-Oct 2024 Sounds:
— “From red line to white plane” — a serene transition
— “Beatenberg Buddha bounce” — to & from silence
— “It is that it is” — and that’s good news! (below)
— “Vajra bridge buzz” — rainbow light body karma
Playlist Q “Coming home to oneself” starts with:
— “गरुड़ Garuḍa” — puja for the celestial hawk

Over recent months, Tonalibus monthly listeners on Spotify multiplied surprisingly after having hovered around a dozen, exceptionally briefly surpassing 20, to now over 900! They are spread all over the planet, many in USA, India, Canada, the UK, Australia, and Finland.

BTW, Ulrico got the inspiration to play the guitar flat on his knees more than 50 years ago in India from Jacques Dudon and just found a 2018 YouTube clip of his.

Raagas correlations in the Fidibus shop now present also a list by tonality name, besides by raaga name, lower and upper tetrachord, and correspondence level.

The Spiritualibus Blog includes exceptionally posts of the category “Extra”. These may be available without translations, like “Suicide taboo” of 8/27/2024 in English only. And, due to their special nature, “Extra” posts are not widely distributed, announced, or listed by Tonalibus, like “Misrepresentation to the public” of 3/6/2024.

Raagas correlations in the Fidibus shop now present four two-page tables that list over eighty Hindustani raagas with their Tonalibus nomenclature correlations:
— alphabetic by raaga name
— by lower or by upper tetrachord
— by Tonalibus correspondence level

By now, Playlist P “Discovering new horizons” has grown to 7 pieces over 51 minutes with the addition of three June 2024 Sounds and the first of July 2024 Sounds:
— “नट सरस Nat Saras” — moon dance by a pond — with some correspondence to the raaga Nat Bhairav — (↑)
— “Between light and sound” — Hungarian Gypsy equanimity — in between, in more ways than one — (↓↓)
— “Vanishing appearance” — frettless floating kiln — (↓)
— “Prince on a pea” — can you find it? — corr. raaga Todi
Further, there are new extensive tonality sound samples available for LoReachUp, ReachUpMin, and MajReach.

The yearly Sounds pages also present Tonalibus image collections, one for the first and another for the second half of each recent year. In “2024 sounds and images“ the first half 2024 image collection has concluded and the second half 2024 image collection started.

“To the poet, everything is luminous; to the dull, nothing is remarkable.”

“You can shoot arrows at the sky if you like, …, but they’ll invariably fall back to earth.”

— The snow lion’s turquoise mane, Surya Das, p. xxii & 5