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Everyone's Children

by Surya Botofasina

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we are all children. Favorite track: Waves For Margie (with Radha Botofasina).
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Tiago Neves How come so few people have bought this album and only about 700 people listen to Surya on Spotify (data of May 2023)? This is an incredible, passionate, heart-warming, exquisite album!
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discoluvr4evr This offering of divine connection is beyond measure. It transports me to a place that is timeless, tranquil, peaceful and meditative. My heart, mind, and spirit are in alignment when I listen to this and I am eager to dwell in this realm everyday. A new dimension has been added to my life. Deep gratitude.
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Carlos Niño Music I couldn't be more excited, delighted and proud of this Record! It was an Honor to be a part of it. I bought the Vinyl the moment it was announced, just now . . . Thanks to all involved, and to all who listen. The Debut Album by Surya Botofasina, Highly Recommended!
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    The phenomenal debut album by extraordinary keyboardist and composer Surya Botofasina. Surya was taught in the tradition of Alice Coltrane, by Swamini Turiyasangitananda herself, on her Ashram in California where he grew up. Produced by and co-performed with Carlos Niño in Los Angeles, this is a unique, deep listening masterpiece of spiritual jazz and meditative sounds from a progressive Sonic Artist devoted to: "OneLove. Family. Music.

    Music by Surya Botofasina
    Produced by Carlos Niño
    Mixed by Carlos Niño and Jesse Peterson
    Recorded by Jesse Peterson
    Mastered by Frank Merritt at The Carvery

    Design and Art Direction by Nep Sidhu

    Spiritmuse Records 2022
    Music for the Spirit

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    The phenomenal debut album by extraordinary keyboardist and composer Surya Botofasina. Surya was taught in the tradition of Alice Coltrane, by Swamini Turiyasangitananda herself, on her Ashram in California where he grew up. Produced by and co-performed with Carlos Niño in Los Angeles, this is a unique, deep listening masterpiece of spiritual jazz and meditative sounds from a progressive Sonic Artist devoted to: "OneLove. Family. Music.”

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Everyone’s Children is the stunning debut album of spiritual avant-garde music from keyboardist, composer Surya Botofasina, out on Spiritmuse Records. The record combines deep jazz excursions with expansive synth passages and intimate piano turns to create a hypnotic, meditative and devotionally expressive suite that soothes, enriches and uplifts the soul.

Botofasina’s upbringing at the Sai Anantam Ashram in the Southern Californian hills involved daily bhajans (traditional Hindu devotional songs) led by legendary jazz harpist and pianist Alice Coltrane. Her musical and religious teachings continue to have a profound effect on the keyboardist, whose career has since gone on to take in acting stints in the TV series Vinyl and Boardwalk Empire alongside a diverse range of musical collaborations with the likes of Reggie Workman, Joey Bada$$, Gangstarr’s GURU, Amel Larrieux, N’Dea Davenport, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. His work as the Music Director of the Sai Anantam Ashram Singers has seen him tour internationally honouring Swamini Turiyasangitananda Alice Coltrane’s devotional music. “The way I play the piano is not the way my friends play the piano” he says. “It forced me to find the place I truly dwell in - the place between the hip hop and jazz, but based in meditative and long form expressions of my spirit.”

Botofasina’s renown has enabled him to enlist a supremely talented, cross generational group of musicians for the project including major LA mainstays such as multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Carlos Niño - who also produced the album - jazz singer Dwight Trible, and indie folk vocalist Mia Doi Todd. Brilliantly gifted guitarist Nate Mercereau, saxophonist Pablo Calogero, and drummer Efa Etoroma Jr., round out the guest collaborators alongside Botofasina’s mother, the harpist Radha Botofasina, a key musical disciple of Alice Coltrane’s during her Ashram years and a hugely formative influence on the keyboardist.

Ten years in consideration, the album’s genesis lay in Botofasina and Niño’s long-running creative partnership. The pair first linked up through Niño’s Build An Ark jazz ensemble, by the recommendation of Atwood-Ferguson, in 2011 and - after Niño suggested recording a Surya lead project, the idea began to solidify with a series of collaborative concerts in 2018 (still on-going,) that engendered a deep musical bond. Recorded by Jesse Peterson in 3 joyous sessions last year in Glendale, California, the results are grounded in the ashram music that Botofasina grew up with and present his own unique jazz-influenced take on devotional sounds.

That vision achieves heady form in the shape of album opener Surya Meditation, an epic twenty-seven-minute duet with Niño built around Botofasina’s assorted keyboard textures. Synths hum hypnotically, softly patter like raindrops or drift by like clouds on a hazy summer’s day. Niño’s subtle percussive accompaniment offers a gentle sense of otherworldliness throughout a contemplative, meditative and stunningly beautiful piece that offers feelings akin to floating gently across water. “I knew when it was happening that it would be the focal point, the opus, the centre of this project” says Niño of the recording.

The solo piano piece I Love Dew, Sophie melds jazz and classical keyboard notes in warm-toned clusters before the ecstatic spiritual jazz excursion Beloved California Temple opens things out into a group setting. Here, Botofasina’s hypnotic piano motifs and Niño’s expressive percussion are joined by Pablo Calogero’s breathy saxophone lines, before Dwight Trible’s dramatic wordless vocals bring things to a rapturous climax to the accompaniment of Efa Etoroma Jr.’s crashing drum crescendos, with the harmonic brilliance of Nate Mercereau’s guitar synth fortifying the whole.

The title track Everyone's Children follows. Featuring Mia Doi Todd - whose pregnancy at the time of the recording inspired it’s name - the track blends her dream-like singing with the buzzing swoop and swirl of a synthesizer - a recognizable throwback to the Sai Anantam Ashram devotional sound - alongside gentle piano runs. Begun in reflective mode, Sun Of Keshava’s synthesizer textures build in warmth towards a denouement of radiant keyboard notes that recall the beauty of a summer sunrise.

The cascading Waves For Margie features gentle harp textures and vocals from Radha Botofasina. The album ends with a reprise of it’s centerpiece Surya Meditation, in a shortened and powerful edit that comes accompanied by the potent spoken reminiscences of Swamini Satsang. It’s return marks the closing of an extraordinary musical circle whose singular blend of improvisatory and devotional music defies easy categorization. The warmly reflective solo synth piece for Meghan Jahnavi* was added with the intention to promote mental health and wellness initiatives. “That is specifically what Dew Sophie's and Meghan's pieces are composed for,” Surya reflects. “Their imperative nature and importance to me cannot be overstated. I, and we, are in a place where uplifting our spirits to wellness is the most crucial part of many aspects of human existence.”

Dedicated to the formative influences in Surya Botofasina’s life; his mother, grandmother and Alice Coltrane, his debut album is imbued with a wide-eyed sense of discovery. He explains: “Each piece feels like an inaugural experience in the most spiritually youthful way. Many musicians have many albums - but there is only one first. The Divine energy of a new life is within every second of the music.”

*digital only

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MUSIC FOR THE SPIRIT

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released November 4, 2022

Music by Surya Botofasina
Produced by Carlos Niño
Mixed by Carlos Niño and Jesse Peterson
Recorded by Jesse Peterson
Mastered by Frank Merritt at The Carvery

Design and Art Direction by Nep Sidhu

Spiritmuse Records 2022
Music for the Spirit

1. Surya Meditation
Surya Botofasina - Keyboards
Carlos Niño - Percussion

2. I Love Dew, Sophie
Surya Botofasina - Piano

Mixed by Jesse Peterson

3. Beloved California Temple
Surya Botofasina - Piano
Carlos Niño - Percussion
Dwight Trible - Voice
Pablo Calogero - Saxophone
Nate Mercereau - Guitar Synth
Efa Etoroma Jr. - Drums

Music by Surya Botofasina and Carlos Niño

Additional Recording by Nate Mercereau
Mixed by Carlos Niño and Nate Mercereau

4. Everyone's Children (with Mia Doi Todd)
Surya Botofasina - Keyboards and Piano
Carlos Niño - Percussion
Mia Doi Todd - Voice
Jesse Peterson - Synth

Co-Produced by Jesse Peterson

5. Sun Of Keshava
Surya Botofasina - Piano

Mixed by Jesse Peterson

6. Waves For Margie (with Radha Botofasina)
Surya Botofasina - Keyboards, Piano and Voice
Carlos Niño - Percussion
Radha Botofasina - Harp and Voice

Co-Produced by Jesse Peterson

7. Surya Meditation (Reprise) Radio Edit
Surya Botofasina - Keyboards
Carlos Niño – Percussion

8. Meghan Jahnavi *digital only
Surya Botofasina - Keyboards

9. Surya Meditation (with Swamini Satsang) Excerpt
Surya Botofasina - Keyboards
Carlos Niño - Percussion

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Keyboardist and composer Surya Botofasina was taught in the tradition of Alice Coltrane, by Swamini Turiyasangitananda herself, on her Ashram in California where he grew up. These are unique, deep listening spiritual jazz and meditative sounds, from a progressive Sonic Artist devoted to: "OneLove. Family. Music.” ... more

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