The global release date for the new album “Tonalibus D & E” is June 11, 2022. On that day, it appears on Spotify, YouTube Music, Deezer, Apple Music / iTunes, Amazon, and on many more music platforms around the world. This album features twenty-seven spontaneous, new improvisations by Ulrico on various instruments, a few also with voice. These pieces span close to two and three quarter hours of diverse original world music. They have a more or less meditative character and at times a touch of blues. Detailed information about this new album you find under Tonalibus D & E — Albumin the Fidibus shop.
High mountains on fire, light, and sound unfolding freedom of sound and harmony
Aeolian — double 8-string guitar and multiple voice — June 2022 — 5:09 — as loop on a separate tab
Truth, goodness, love, and beauty
Truth, goodness, love, and beauty are commonly regarded as poetic ideas, but they are, in essence, spiritual facts. These are the ideas which one should include in his speech and thoughts. They are the language of soul and bring about an awakening of that pervading, persuasive urge in man to realize himself in his totality, as a being essentially spiritual and eternal. Truth as given by spirit is neither esoteric, strange, nor fanciful. It is at once sublime, universal, and profoundly practical.
Truth cannot be taken as one’s own discovery, but it has to be continually rediscovered. It has to be reformed and transformed if its meaning, its living value, and spiritual nourishment are to be preserved. This is known as the law of spiritual growth, which results in the necessity to experience the same truth in ever-new forms, and to cultivate and propagate not so much the results, but the methods through which soul obtains knowledge, experience, and reality.
— Free after: The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Books One & Two, Paul Twitchell, pp. 425 and 433
Who cares for unfolding leaves embracing morning dew
Morning dew gathered in unfolding leaves — May 2022 — Grächwil, Switzerland — photo by Karin Gsöllpointner
Phrygian — extra sound sample, calm — 8-string guitar — May 2022 — 3:59 — as loop on a separate tab
The tonality of the month of June 2022 is Phrygian. Overall it is likely the least familiar of the regular diatonic heptatonalities, though well used in Islamic and Hindu music. The octave of regular diatonic tonalities follows a balanced pattern or matrix. Either two or three consecutive whole steps, a pair and a trio, alternate in separating the two individual half steps of these tonalities from each other. Phrygian corresponds to the white keys on the piano with E as fundamental. Its most distinguishing feature is the presence of both, the minor second and the minor sixth.
The above Phrygian sound sample first dwells for a moment in a reduced form of Phrygian, that is PentaMin / PentaEol or pentatonic minor. More (purely) Phrygian sound samples are available in the Tonalibus catalogue of tonalities under Phrygian. Below is an expanded elaboration of the the above Phrygian sound sample, the piece “Phrygian HU” — a meditative blues:
“Phrygian HU” — multiple 8-string guitar, voice, crotales, tampura — May 2022 — 10:20 — as loop on a separate tab
You may enjoy a sound sample or tonality loop as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation. This can help with upliftment, purification, and focusing. Or it could simply be used as soothing background sound for relaxation and regeneration. If you care to hum, chant, or sing along, you could do so using a spiritually charged syllable like HU or Ōṁ / Aum ॐ, or another mantra syllable that suits you.
Stars sparkling on the crests of gentle waves — May 2022 — Lake Wohlen, Switzerland
It is clear How it all is After looking And listening Sing and play Then in silence Some distance Let go what was Embrace what is All free and real Right here now Alone together Going very far As is possible And fare well In living a life Reach beyond And get flushed As illusions melt Essences remain Cliffs in a wild surf Pounding waters Splash thunder Moisture heals All battle wounds In a heart of peace And detachment Love carries all Home as soul.
“Farewell welcome blues” — from one Moon to the next
PentaMin / PentaEol — twofold bass, 8-string guitar, and voice — May 2022 — 6:27 — as loop on a separate tab
It’s clear, the Shariyat essence of spirit
The fool is convinced that nothing greater than himself exists… That which exists as it is beyond all understanding… It is understood only when the student allows it to swallow him and digest him.
In spirit there is the unmistakable tone of sincerity which makes the action which is not studied and contrived. Whosoever thinks and acts with a split mind rings like a cracked bell, one part standing aside to interfere with the other, to control, to condemn, or to admire. The true self, or soul, cannot be split, for it’s like the sword that cuts but cannot cut itself.
— Freely after: The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Books One & Two, Paul Twitchell, pp. 238 and 248
The day’s gone. Night will lead to another. Colors beam.
Unaltered late spring evening colors approaching dusk — May 2022 — Grächwil/Meikirch, Switzerland
This brief May 2022 Tonalibus update touches on the new single “Humpbacks breach the surface” released on May 1. It announces the coming global release of the new album “Tonalibus D & E” on June 11. Further it gives a Fidibus shop update on playlists and on the new tonality of the month log. Finally it concludes with a photo in memory of Kalif Moon, the cat.
Now on June 11, 2022, Tonalibus globally releases its second extensive album. Soon, detailed information about this new album “Tonalibus D & E” will be available. It features twenty-seven recent recordings by Ulrico on various instruments, a few with voice. Original music, mostly contemplative and meditative, at times with a touch of blues. Below is “Blue HU — a freedom adventure”, the most recent piece.
“Blue HU” — PentaNaMix — 7-string guitar, voice, bass bowl, crotales — May 2022 — 7:19 — as loop on a separate tab
The playlist “Tonalibus F — So many colors of reality” got reset to hold new pieces moving forward. Its accumulated entries transferred to “Tonalibus E — Freedom of sound and harmony” because they are part of the new album “Tonalibus D & E”. Plus, there is a new playlist “A symphony of life and love”. It offers a selection of recordings from the corresponding 2014 CD.
“Eternal moment” — fretted vichitra veena — summer 2014 — 3:17 — from CD “A symphony of life and love”
Kalif Moon, the cat who saw himself more as a bear
Bye Kalif Moon, one of two Tonalibus cat assistants — April/May 2022
