Sound Bath Sessions 170: Donna Chan & Tata Tse

Tata invited me to record her and her friend Donna in the Peak area. The weather was warm, and the view of the south side of HK was beautiful. Donna has been a practitioner for several years and travels to China to give sessions, too. We went inside to record these last two duets. Donna played her drum, and Tata was on her new, large Gongland gong. This track was an amazing track because the feeling of it was so visceral. Donna started the track with her drumming as Tata slowly drifted in with the gong, eventually swallowing the sounds of the drum, making it barely heard under the weight of sound. It sounded like putting an ear to someone’s chest and listening to their faint heartbeat underneath their skin and breathing. Touch being my primary ‘love language’, it was moving to me that a sound bath could evoke such a nostalgic, human experience that symbolizes connection and… touch.