Inside Our Mantra Writing Process – Stories & More

How does your creative process of writing music and mantras look like?

So,

Hello everyone.

That's a very interesting question and between the two of us it happens like this.

Sometimes Alexandra brings in a small phrase or idea.

And maybe you want to tell a little bit about how,

For example,

Your dog inspired you to write something.

Well,

Yeah,

You know,

I have two dogs and one is younger than the other and the younger one likes to run about and be in the garden while the older one is really actually seeking peace and quiet a lot of the times and we have a two stair flat.

And so the older one one day was looking out in the garden,

Saw her playing,

But he couldn't be convinced to go down.

So I started singing to him and came so spontaneous.

Hey,

Look outside,

She's playing.

What are you doing here?

You know,

I really want you to have fun in your life.

That was a tune that just came to me.

It was almost like a children's tune and I kept singing it and it returned day after day.

I couldn't stop that melody.

Even my young daughter came and said like,

What are you singing?

I said,

I'm singing to Bernardo.

He is just feeling a little bit lonely up here and he doesn't know he can go downstairs.

And then I told you I have this tune that won't leave me and we started you started actually helping me to see what one can do in if you have a tune,

But maybe the words aren't right.

And then we were going a little bit deeper in our conversation around Yeah,

What does the tune express?

What is the element,

The emotion behind it?

And this is how we kind of build that song around Krishna.

The boundless love one can have.

For any person,

Any being,

Any animal,

Anything that is represented by him.

And I started looking up a little bit.

What Krishna stands for,

What kind of mantras you can sing to him,

And that's how that song came to life.

Yeah,

In general.

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Also,

One approach that we have is that maybe In our day-to-day lives,

We feel the energy of Kali coming in more,

Or we feel the energy Krishna or not.

Jesus Christ coming more into our lives.

It's a simple melody or an idea pops up and then we work on it and we tune in more in this energy and then from there This creates melodies and songs.

And of course,

It's a little bit of music.

Little trial and error and all of these things,

But then.

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If you stick to it and if you also find what I think the space inside of yourself where song sits or lives inside of you,

Then you can bring it to the outside.

For me,

It was since I hadn't been composing,

You're more familiar with the process than I was when we started to work together.

For me,

What really blew it all open was the idea of,

Yeah,

You can hum anything.

And from that little bit of humming,

You kind of start creating and looking what kind of fits together.

And like the recent song we composed together,

It was again sense of there is a melody inside of me and a few words and I sang it to you.

And then I was trying to find the padding around it,

So to speak,

You know,

That it kind of sits in something.

And my impression of the song was it was just too,

It was too,

It was too strong in like a marching band.

And I said to you,

It needs something softening to cushion it.

And then you started playing around with it and I really like that it doesn't come from a mathematical point of view.

Creating music doesn't come from a mathematical but from a playful kind of Yeah,

Position where you can allow yourself to try out things,

You know,

What are you feeling,

What are you hearing and all that.

That's at least how I kind of started learning it.

Yeah,

And it's a very creative process that's also a lot of fun.

Yeah,

And you know,

As we're talking about it,

I just became aware that when you say,

Or when I say,

You know,

It's an emotional process,

It's a playful,

Creative process,

It reminds me of why music needs human beings.

Because artificial intelligence,

They can create and adapt to the idea or this is that emotion,

And they can have different tones of emotions program,

But what really happens is the juiciness and the conflict in an individual that creates the music,

The experience,

The wants of experience they have.

To me,

Music.

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Like AI music cannot represent the depth of tunes that really hit us in our core and that's what we're trying to write in some ways,

Right?

We want to kind of wake up people to the music in our music.

Yeah,

And I think a big part of it is also telling the story around it.

How did this song come to life?

What happened in your day-to-day life that this got created?

Sometimes it's a short journey,

Sometimes it's a long journey.

The most important thing,

I think,

Is that you go on the journey.

Yeah,

That we share.

It's like storytelling.

It's the storytelling in the process.

And to just say,

I am not like you,

But I am like you,

So to speak,

You know,

Like I had this experience and I'm going to share it.

And maybe you can relate a little bit or you can just say,

Look,

No,

I don't understand that.

That's not my kind of song,

You know,

And that's where we kind of start to to engage with audience,

You know,

And kind of attract the audience.

Understands our lifestyle,

Our way of kind of seeing the world.

And I think it's also part of it is the part of a role model because people see how you can live differently,

You can actually find a different way that's more authentic to you.

Live your life like this and music can be a big part of this and also the path that opens up inside of you through the music can be a new world inside of yourself and then also outside.

Yeah,

You can be who you want to be and you're allowed to say who you are.

Which is difficult.

Topic in itself these days where we are trying to smooth over and please everybody so everybody is involved,

And sometimes we lack the courage,

I'd say,

You know,

To speak up and say like,

This is how I feel,

This is what happened to me,

This is,

Yeah.

I like it.