Name: Nature Boy
Duration: P00H15M18S
Description: This is a transcultural exploration inspired by the imagery of the Eden Ahbez song Nature Boy, emanating from the sonic gravity of the sound bed, and performed as a sono-ritual invoking contemporary Raga deities.

Nature Boy

from becoming-song: contemplative transnomadic sono-fictioning by Jonathan Kay

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This is a transcultural exploration inspired by the imagery of the Eden Ahbez song Nature Boy, emanating from the sonic gravity of the sound bed, and performed as a sono-ritual invoking contemporary Raga deities.

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There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he

And then one day
A magic day he passed my way
And while we spoke of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me
The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return

The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return

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from becoming-song: contemplative transnomadic sono-fictioning, released September 15, 2022
Esraj (bora esraj) and soprano saxophone performed by Jonathan Kay
Sound Bed (multi-stringed drone instrument) provided by Aurelio

Recorded: June, 2019
Recorded by: Varun Rao, at Svaram Studios, in Auroville, India
Edited by: Jonathan Kay

Many thanks to Aurelio for his inspiration, as well as offering the sound bed recording.
Thanks to Varun for recording the project

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Jonathan Kay Toronto, Ontario

Jonathan Kay is a jazz/improv & transcultural multi-instrumentalist (saxophone, esraj, shakuhachi), from Toronto, Canada. Inspired by the revolutionary and spiritual cries from John and Alice Coltrane, Jonathan traveled to Asia in search of non-western ways of musical knowing. He has lived in Kolkata for 10 years studying Raga music and studied Japanese shakuhachi music in Kyoto. ... more

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