Sound Bath Sessions 222: Lumi Higashi

I recorded Lumi in the 100-year-old Former Tanaka family Villa. It was a beautiful space, all made of wood, tatami, and shoji screens overlooking a small garden with the smoking Kagoshima volcano in the distance. The morning weather was warm with cool breezes occasionally flowing through the house. The sounds were muted in the villa, with the sound of passing cars on the main road was slightly hidden by the splashing of a fountain spout. Perfect location for a sound bath.

We set up in a large room with tatami. Hitomi brought her large white bowls to one end of the room, and Lumi set up her crystal bowls on the other. Lumi's alchemy bowls have a lighter sound than Hitomi's, which made a perfect match in their final track when they played together.

Lumi chants while playing the shruti box in this track. Heavy trucks pass on the road as she fades out her own voice, chanting softer and softer. She ends this short session with Om.