Blueprint by SoundScape

SoundScape's 3rd album Blueprint provides in its unique style a world music fusion where Tibetan singing meets Indian singing, Didgeridoo meets Chinese Erhu, Moroccan Guembri meets Harmonium and where Pakistani triple flutes Algoza meets Gregorian singing


This flowing upward and downward is a sonic expression of the maxim "as above so below". But SoundScape guides us from a starting point of here and now - the below, hence the subversion of the original verse from which some of the music took inspiration.
The mystic phrase is here interpreted in an open approach so the music carries us in either direction depending on our mood or the order we flow through the songs: sometimes moving from the roots to the branches and other times descending from the Stars to the depths of the Earth.

To achieve this, SoundScape, as we are now accustomed, employs a "boundaryless" melange of musical styles in their unique masala, combining the sounds of the most diverse instruments from many different traditions with the harmonic melodies tied together by the most ancient instrument of all: the human voice whose beautiful chanting and choruses carry us away towards the timeless destinations of our imagination and emotions.

And so the below reflects the above, as the above is mirrored below in the infinite dance between the parts of the whole. The music is just an element of this dance with us - the listeners, being invited to participate into the uplifting alchemy or rooting power of sound and enjoying an aural experience that allows us to reconnect to reality more deeply in a meditative moment that is the blueprint of vibrational awareness.

J.D., School of Bullshido

Renaud Gay is a French musician and composer focusing on the use of traditional instruments that he has been playing for 18 years in different projects with different artists from all around the world. He has recorded 7 CDs dedicated to world music.

Instruments: Pakistani double flutes Algoza Didjeridoo, Jaw harp, Guembri, Ney, Throat Singing, Suling...