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A little bit about my journey in music, towards being a professional Bansuri maker.
I have been on a long musical journey starting from when I was about 14, when I started to play the guitar. I studied harmony with the great Maestros from Venezuela Emilio Mendoza and Eduardo Soto, after experiencing many musical styles I always felt an attraction to bending notes with the guitar, I was listening to classic psychedelic rock bands which got me into using technology like synthesizers and effects. I was exited to explore the possibilities of electronic music to create new things. I went to England to study creative music technology, and produced world fusion music for many years while living in the UK. After some years I became a bit saturated with technology because I felt I was becoming a slave of my equipment and I was in need of a more simple musical life, I wanted to reconnect with playing live music without much dependance in technology.
One day I started having dreams of the Amazon in Venezuela, I was missing the tropical jungle, then, one morning in my home in Bristol I switched on the TV and there was a documentary about the ancient Tepuis (mountains) of the Amazon, I felt a very strong call to start a new musical project inspired mainly in the connection with nature. I traveled back to Venezuela in search for natural inspiration for my musical journey, I spent years having a strong connection with South American flute players and shamans, that was how I fell in love with the sound of bamboo flutes. I was playing silver flute and Quena (Andes flute) for some time until one day I was blown away when I heard the sound of the Bansuri played by Hari Prasad Chaurasia. It became my everyday meditation music, I had found my call, I started to buy Bansuris from different makers and studied by myself for years until I had to go to India and study Bansuri with Hari Prasad Chaurasia himself, to be able to go deeper into the world of Indian Classical Music. While travelling across India for the last 5 years I have also studied with other music masters.
My love for Bansuri music is constantly growing, as I feel that while tuning with the flute I am also tuning myself, singing with the bamboo is connecting with the voice of nature. Paramhansa Yogananda says:
“The sound of the flute recalls the human souls wandering in maya-delusion to their true home”.
Meaning, that the sound of flute takes us out of our everyday problems and limitations, and towards the true state of ourselves, a state of peace.
Your breath is the sound you make, and the breath reflects your state of mind and heart. Bansuri connects to meditation, playing Bansuri is a very good way of meditation, you have to calm your breath, and so you calm your thoughts and your entire nervous system. The sound becomes your master, it will show you yourself, and it will open up the doors to the magic of nature we are part of. Each day I am learning, coming closer to the pure sound.