Mathias Grassow - Drones Ambient Music

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Perhaps my drones are ‘cosmic downloads’ that contain a certain message – but even if so: if perceived by our ears only, this message does not have the power to change our DNA and open up the way to more profound experiences of our inner self. Such music can, at best, give us a vague idea about who we are, and where our home is. I have the firm believe that if we manage to perceive music on more channels than just our ears – which are governed by our brain with all it’s judgements and categorisations – this will enable us to perceive it on a level which still is beyond our imagination, an expanded perception that might include the relativity of space and time, and the simultaneity of past, present, future, and more … read the whole interview

Latest releases

"Aus der Tiefe der Weltenseele" (4 CD's) : OM C. Parkin (text) with Mathias Grassow (music)

Wisdom texts read by OM C. Parkin with exclusive music by Mathias Grassow.

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(2023) Negra  

NEGRA is a totally live-improvisation from different private home-concerts between 14th and 26th of january by using SOMA LABORATORIES COSMOS "Drifting memory station" in combination with SOMA LYRA-8, CLAVIA NORD STAGE 88Ex, THEREMIN, ROLAND equipment and some more tools.....

Deep throat singing by the artist.

This album is dedicated to a free coexistence of man and machine. The visionary SOMA devices are a step in the right direction, without degrading people and without wanting to replace them. They are interacting friends....

somasynths.com

Cover-Art and layout by Cornelia Kern, many thanks.....
"Peace of mind" is an outcry for peace in the world !

(2022) Halla

.... and here a brand new and exclusive work with HEIKKI LINDGREN, which gave us a special pleasure. Finnish folklore instruments combined with ambient textures and drones.

Mathias Grassow : Ambient drones & textures.
Heikki Lindgren : Bowed lyre (Finnish jouhikko), overtone flutes D and F, wooden horn (Finnish lulletti).

Jouhikko (bowed lyre), overtone flute and lulletti (wooden horn) are some of the instruments from Finnish archaic tradition. In this album they are used in modern context, but still in the same long sound aesthetics as they were played centuries ago in Finnish Karelia.

Many thanks to the inspiring soundworks and field recordings of Heikki Lindgren :
heikkilindgren.bandcamp.com

This album is the beginning of something new and experimental. To be continued.....

Cover design: Ville Westerlund
Video: Jukka Andersson

PLEASE ENJOY THE VIDEO TO "HALLA" TRACK TOO :

HALLA - Mathias Grassow & Heikki Lindgren
by Jukka Andersson on YouTube

(2022) The DreaM of TimE and RooM

This track was originally called "Dream-Time-Room" and was already recorded in 1992. Newly revised, it now appears here in new splendour - accessible to all who love timeless "deep longform ambient".

This album is a free ambient adaptation and homage to Peter Michael Hamel's organ piece BARDO (1979).

Many thanks to Lev Levin who picked out this jewel from my archives.

Special thanks to Peter-Michael Hamel for the "blessing" of this variation of his BARDO piece from the album of the same name from 1979.

Cover image and layout by Cornelia Kern.

Gleisberg + Grassow: The SEER

Here is the new and long-awaited second work on the renowned swedish GTERMA label in accustomed quality : THE SEER is about the famous american medium EDGAR CAYCE(1877-1945), who in so-called "readings" made contact with other worlds in a kind of trance and seemed both prophetic and was able to make contact with the "hereafter".
He was particularly stressed by many desperate parents & partners, who especially after the 1st World War sought help from him because of the loss of their beloved......
EDGAR CAYCE was called "the sleeping prophet" because he gave his "readings" lying down and with his eyes closed.

Particularly noteworthy for us artists is his statement that "music would be the medicine of the future".

Like all media, Edgar Cayce was not entirely without controversy, but such a discussion should not be the subject of the album dedicated to him here. For more information, please use the Internet.
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released October 7, 2022

Album mastered by A.P. in july 2022. Design and artwork by mr_rehn.

Codex Alimentarius

The "Codex alimentarius" is a commission led by the WHO and the lobby of elite (food) corporations, which practically determines what humans are allowed to eat and what not. Under the flag of "consumer protection", it is still forbidden to declare food as a remedy under threat of high fines.
In other words, foods have no healing effect, otherwise they would be medicines. For this reason, the qualities of food and the education of what is really good for us are ignored from conventional medicine. Instead, genetically modified foods are propagated in order to increase profits and keep people in disease and thus dependent.

This work acts now to a very current topic and musically approaches the long-forgotten wisdom about our nutrition.
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released August 10, 2022

After "Carmina hildegardis" now - after more than 30 years - my second work, which I would like to dedicate to the great HILDEGARD VON BINGEN.

Cover image (harvested rapeseed field) and layout by my wife CORNELIA KERN, many thanks !

This TRIPLE CD-R is a well chosen one of a small series of works that are distributed here exclusively in a very small edition of 50 copies. All CD-Rs are signed by the artist - same style as "Ascending rosespirals", which is still available in very small stock !
Only 5 images available from bc site - you will get 3 single CD's with front and back images !

(2022) Interstellar ambience

This four-hour epic brings together the stories and tales of the two albums AMBIENCE and INTERSTELLAR GRAVITY into a coherent work and is at the same time a continuation of both albums. AMBIENCE once stood for the mysticism of the earth (-> here especially the Nordic hemispheres), INTERSTELLAR GRAVITY the feelings in orbit, the universe and in all the vastness known to us. Here, heaven and earth unite into a network far beyond the known...... which, understandably, we mostly encounter with fear. Is there life besides us? Is there life among us? Are we and our ideas (!) real at all? Are we in a matrix, in a hologram? What is finite, what is not? Where is the beginning, where is the end?
In view of these questions, this work may seem small, inconsequential and dubious.... may it nevertheless accompany everyone's own insights and hopes and lift up the listener...... in spheres where no human being has ever been before...
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released May 3, 2022

Many thanks as usual to my wife Cornelia Kern for cover image and layout.

Celebrated on several electronic and acoustic equipment.

In memoriam of Klaus Schulze (1947-2022).
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Karmacosmic: SamSaRa

Karmacosmic has been established in 2003 as a joint project of drone ambient artist Mathias Grassow and film score composer Rüdiger Gleisberg. After many years of hiatus, SamSaRa is their comeback. Karmacosmic is now a full band, again joined by percussionist Carsten Agthe and completed as a four-piece by guitarist and producer Dirk Schlömer, best known for his live work with Ton Steine Scherben.
SamSaRa is a musical journey to far away worlds, ambient-pads meet space sounds and ethnic rhythms.

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(2022) Liana of spirits - Rank of souls

This album is dedicated to the importance of ethnological-transpersonal experience with reference to the intake of Ayahuasca, which has a special cultural status especially in South America and is used on all continents in different contexts.
Ayahuasca is here the synonym for the very own forces of nature, going back to DMT, which can be found in all life forms.

The current world political conditions require inner contemplation and knowledge of any kind. May the listener learn through the music alone which way is the most suitable......
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released February 4, 2022

This musical realization is not based on a recommendation to take Ayahuasca and the music was not composed and recorded under Ayahuasca.

Many thanks to Cornelia Kern for cover image and support

JA U SHIJ A - JA U NU SHUSH !

(2021) HIMALAYA II  

Here after more than 20 years of development in behind many other works, now finally the successor of the HIMALAYA album. Silent, calm and majestic drones with a depth like the mountains of the Himalayas are high........A big thank you also to my old loyal fans who love exactly these kind of drones....
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released December 24, 2021

Many thanks as usual to my wife Cornelia Kern for cover image and layout.

This album contains two bonus tracks of 73 minutes length in total (!), visible and audible only for buyers of the album !
SPECIAL PRICE FOR 150 MINUTES DEEPEST DRONE AMBIENT = 7.99 EUR !!

(2021) Natives & Origins

This is an album about the colonization of our planet in recent centuries, about the excessive arrogance of European countries, all the genocides and the claim over determination of nature, man and lands. Perhaps this will be an album series that extends to the present day, because the exploitation continues unabated; although always under different names......

(2021) The rose mixes in spiral times

And finally here are some "Spiral-Rose-Mixes" for free (donation).
Enjoy this extensive chapter of my musical experiences during 2021 !
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released December 3, 2021

Thanks again to Cornelia Kern for cover images, layout and support....

Mathias Grassow feat. Cornelia Kern - AGUILAR (2021) The forgotten word of wisdom

This album is the successor to the mystical "The Forgotten Wisdom of the Forbidden Word" and continues the allusions to the "values" brought up by the church and state over thousands of years. Musical alchemy lives on here ......
from the west ..... to the east .....
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released November 5, 2021

Thanks to Cornelia Kern for participation, cover image and layout.

Celebrated on different synths, frame-& ritual drums, voxes and more.....
--> ATTENTION : This album contains THREE bonustracks with 30minutes length, visible and downloadable only for purchasers of the album ! <--

Mathias Grassow feat. Cornelia Kern - AGUILAR (2021) The forgotten word of wisdom

Last part of the extended "rose sessions".
Everything flows to the whole, where everything is united and no longer the individual counts. In ONEness is silence, is peace ......
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released November 5, 2021

Thanks to my counterpart Cornelia Kern for her willingness to be both teacher and pupil at the same time and.....of course......for cover images and layout.
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--> 140 minutes of flowers, served in the style of the three predecessors ...... <--

Mathias Grassow feat. Cornelia Kern - AGUILAR (2021) Ambient​-​Chi​-​Night

The "Ambient Chi Night" is a 4-hour extravaganza and was an event and experiment of the artist in collaboration with his wife Cornelia Kern and the wisdom teacher OM. C.Parkin. The 4-hour journey was accompanied by energetic work, breathing and drumming, which unfortunately cannot be heard here for technical reasons.
This unique document reflects the energy of that night, if only as a shadow of what happened "live" and came across as pure power.
These recordings were made directly by the hall mixer and neither compressed nor otherwise elaborately reworked - entirely in accordance with the artist's philosophy of maintaining the highest possible authenticity.

This live-event contains source tracks/fragments from the following albums :
Silent abundance III
The incomprehensible emptiness
Spirals of roses in time
The forgotten wisdom of the forbidden word
Umlaufbahnen
Lichtwerk
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released October 1, 2021

Thanks to Cornelia Kern for participation in this project, support, cover image and layout.

(2021) Missa Universalis

This "Mass" has less of a classical ecclesiastical meaning than a kind of "reverent" inner view of what is what we are and what is reflected in and through us and resonates with us. Like outside, so inside, like inside, so outside. We are the world...
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released October 1, 2021

Thanks as ususal to my wife Cornelia Kern for cover image and layout.

I dedicate this album to my father, who would have turned 100 on September 19th 2021 and to our beloved Uncle Hermann, who passed away on his 86th birthday on September 28th 2021. God be with you ......farewell.....

(2021) Traumzeitraum  

A night journey through all the ups and downs of dreams and dreams within dreams - created as a "living room concert" on the night of 24.08.2021 as a total improvisation...with no special meaning.....or ???
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released September 13, 2021

Thanks to Cornelia Kern for cover image and support.

(2021) LICHTWERK  

Lichtwerk: A musical idea based on the mythological division of life into seasons. Every 18 years there is a change to a new stage of cognition, love and knowledge .......
The 4 core pieces are framed by opportunities and crises that we choose ourselves......

Frame-drums and Djembes handplayed by the artist.

(2021) The emperors new clothes

This well-known fairy tale by Wilhelm Hauff can be applied to so much in our everyday lives. The titles of the pieces are thoughts and feelings about all these "new clothes", of modern times, behind which there is often a clever manipulation of the big media and powerful. We are trapped in these systems, like in a hologram...

(2021) Pandemonic

This is part 1 of a planned trilogy that introduces itself with loose allegories on the subject of the pandemic. The interpretations are free - everyone can decide which position to take while listening ...... or what is really felt inside.

Beside electronics, M.G, played several self-sampled percussion !
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released August 6, 2021

Thanks to Cornelia Kern for cover art and layout.

Mastered by Thomas Sauer alias SONIC☉SPACES -
(pen-umbra.bandcamp.com) - many thanks !

(​~​1995​-​2021) ISOLA

ISOLA contains pieces from the early to mid-nineties. Originally there was a concept of the north - here especially the representation of the SPITSBERGEN islands and their eventful history. The previously unreleased pieces are now available with new titles and remastered; CD edition to follow !
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released August 6, 2021

Many thanks to Johan Rehn for making this release possible.
Thanks to A.P. for mastering.

Announcement: Fundraising for flood victims

Dear fans & friends .....
The catastrophe in my home country affects the whole world.
After a short and careful consideration, we have decided to start a small fundraising campaign, which is running up to and including the next "Bandcamp Friday" on August 6 2021:
From ALL sold works by Mathias Grassow and AGUILAR, 50% of the proceeds go to a well-known and reputable German company, such as the "German Red Cross".

We vouch for the correct handling of the income, which will be paid out to the selected company immediately after the end of the campaign !
If this test run is successful, the action will be continued and this will be announced.

ADDITIONALLY, there is a new work, the release date of which has been brought forward. We are happy about every sold work and thank you in advance for your sympathy.

Mathias Grassow & Cornelia Kern

(2021) Mysterium cosmographicum

Just as the idea of a harmony of spheres has been anchored in mankind for thousands of years, so a connection between geometry and the heavenly conditions has probably been suspected for just as long. Plato associated the five existing and named after him regular bodies with the elements fire, water, earth, air and heavenly etheric substance. He assigned the latter to the dodeceder, the figure bordered by twelve pentagons. The adjacent twelve-surface is inscribed with its insphere, which touches the centers of all side surfaces. The sphere indicated by the outer circle touches all 20 corners of this Platonic body.
This album contains TWO "hidden-bonus-tracks", only available for those, who purchase the album.

(2021) Silent abundance III

art III of this series of deep relaxation music for a voluntary donation.
A thank you to my loyal fans....... this series will be continued irregularly.
This part is particularly long - the bonus track of 35 minutes length is also intended to encourage you to include this series to your collection.....
Part III of a series, which I make available practically free of charge against a donation. These albums are -- as always -- recorded in one run and can be used very well in sound therapy.... of course also suitable as background music for your own inner collection.
Subharmonic chants by MG.

(2021) Trans​-​Orient​-​Express

An eurasian and mystical journey. A train ride in the style of the Orient-Express..... but imaginary maybe from Spain to Persia, or from whereever. you may start..... Impressions from the train window........ Emotions, memories of heydays, of becoming and passing away, of universal and own truths and lies, of progress and regression, - of senseless loops and finally coming home..... or the return ? .......... Impressions from the train window....... Emotions, memories.........repeat...... Transmission ends......

Totally played LIVE in one take at home between 5th and 7th april 2021. No overdubbing !
--> The last three "hidden" pieces represent alternative ends of the journey.
A small wink....... as return from the journey every listener can consider his personal preferred "station". <--

Played in respect and deep gratitude on several synths and samplers, several ritual-shaman-frame drums & over/undertone singing.

Mastered by Thomas Sauer alias SONIC☉SPACES (pen-umbra.bandcamp.com) - many thanks !

Thanks for my second life gift and to all who accompanied me......
Love you CoKe
THIS ALBUM CONTAINS THREE HIDDEN BONUS TRACKS that are only available to buyers of the album !

(2021) Spirals of Roses in time

These "rose spirals" are a pun. They stand for many things and at the same time for nothing. Spirals are the energy of the universe and in the Queen of Flowers we look into eternity as a metaphor for the giving and the taking at the same time......
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released May 31, 2021

Again thanks to my wife for support, patience and inspiration. Without my female counterpart, the idea of the rose series would not have been feasible...... Cover design as always by Cornelia Kern.

NILS WORTMANN : "Alles so schön still hier"

New book publication - in brief: "Everything is so nice and quiet here". A unique book listing the 100 best ambient works between 1975 and 2020, with a description and further recommendations. Initially only available in German. If there is enough interest, an English version will be available soon!

AVAILABLE FROM THE 22ND CALENDAR WEEK !

CONTAINS THE MENTIONED ALBUM "PSYCHIC DOME" AS DOWNLOAD FOR FREE !

Includes unlimited streaming of (1992) Psychic Dome via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

NILS WORTMANN : "Alles so schön still hier"

"The lost wisdom" - the secret knowledge of what we call "Stone of the wise Men", "Grail's cup" or "Bundeslade" is only to be found in us, in man and woman, in connection, in trust, in leadership and devotion at the same time. The dance of life is not a technique, a method, a doctrine, or a religion. This ecstatic music is an idea of what we could experience far from guilt and shame with each other. We are secrets and key at the same time......

Instruments used : Keys, synths, samplers, different frame - and shaman-drums, field recordings, overtone & deep throat singing (not overworked) and some more secrets
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released May 7, 2021

These pieces were created in a special atmosphere. No multi-track technology, no subsequent "embellishments" etc. Pure energy and maximum power transmission..... of the artist's idea of ecstasy..... PLEASE DO NOT LISTEN WHILE DRIVING !

(2021) The incomprehensible emptiness

This album contains one HIDDEN BONUS-track of 58 minutes length - only visible and downloadable for those, who purchase the album.......
130 minutes of drone - & avantgarde ambient ..... for best price !
What is emptiness, what is nothing? Again the question of the "correct" direction in life is asked. What's the point, what's wrong, what's right? Are concepts such as infinity, emptiness, nothing, time and transience relative, or fixed values ​​that we do not grasp, but merely interpret and put into formulas in order to understand a world that has long eluded our perception?
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released May 4, 2021

Many thanks to my personal inspiration and muse nature, my family and friends .... you know who you are......
Thanls to my wife Cornelia Kern for cover image and layout.

"Stop praying.
What I want you to do is go out into the world and enjoy your life. I want you to sing, have fun and enjoy everything I've made for you.

Stop going into those dark, cold temples that you built yourself and saying they are my house. My house is in the mountains, in the woods, rivers, lakes, beaches. That's where I live and there I express my love for you.

Stop blaming me for your miserable life; I never told you there was anything wrong with you or that you were a sinner, or that your sexuality was a bad thing. Sex is a gift I have given you and with which you can express your love, your ecstasy, your joy. So don't blame me for everything they made you believe.

Stop reading alleged sacred scriptures that have nothing to do with me. If you can't read me in a sunrise, in a landscape, in the look of your friends, in your son's eyes... ➤ you will find me in no book!
Stop asking me "will you tell me how to do my job?" Stop being so scared of me. I do not judge you or criticize you, nor get angry, or bothered. I am pure love.

Stop asking for forgiveness, there's nothing to forgive. If I made you... I filled you with passions, limitations, pleasures, feelings, needs, inconsistencies... free will. How can I blame you if you respond to something I put in you? How can I punish you for being the way you are, if I'm the one who made you? Do you think I could create a place to burn all my children who behave badly for the rest of eternity? What kind of god would do that?

Respect your peers and don't do what you don't want for yourself. All I ask is that you pay attention in your life, that alertness is your guide.

My beloved, this life is not a test, not a step on the way, not a rehearsal, nor a prelude to paradise. This life is the only thing here and now and it is all you need.

I have set you absolutely free, no prizes or punishments, no sins or virtues, no one carries a marker, no one keeps a record.
You are absolutely free to create in your life. Heaven or hell.

➤ I can't tell you if there's anything after this life but I can give you a tip. Live as if there is not. As if this is your only chance to enjoy, to love, to exist.

So, if there's nothing after, then you will have enjoyed the opportunity I gave you. And if there is, rest assured that I won't ask if you behaved right or wrong, I'll ask. Did you like it? Did you have fun? What did you enjoy the most? What did you learn?...

Stop believing in me; believing is assuming, guessing, imagining. I don't want you to believe in me, I want you to believe in you. I want you to feel me in you when you kiss your beloved, when you tuck in your little girl, when you caress your dog, when you bathe in the sea.

Stop praising me, what kind of egomaniac God do you think I am?

I'm bored being praised. I'm tired of being thanked. Feeling grateful? Prove it by taking care of yourself, your health, your relationships, the world. Express your joy! That's the way to praise me.

Stop complicating things and repeating as a parakeet what you've been taught about me.

What do you need more miracles for? So many explanations?

The only thing for sure is that you are here, that you are alive, that this world is full of wonders."

- Spinoza

(2021) Silent abundance II

Part II of this series of deep relaxation music for a voluntary donation. A thank you to my loyal fans....... this series will be continued irregularly.
These albums are -- as always -- recorded in one run and can be used very well in sound therapy.... of course also suitable as background music for your own inner collection.
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released April 18, 2021

Thanks to Cornelia Kern for cover image and layout.

(2021) The incomprehensible emptiness

What is emptiness, what is nothing? Again the question of the "correct" direction in life is asked. What's the point, what's wrong, what's right? Are concepts such as infinity, emptiness, nothing, time and transience relative, or fixed values ​​that we do not grasp, but merely interpret and put into formulas in order to understand a world that has long eluded our perception?
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released May 4, 2021

Many thanks to my personal inspiration and muse nature, my family and friends .... you know who you are......
Thanks to my wife Cornelia Kern for cover image and layout.

(2021) Silent abundance II

Part II of this series of deep relaxation music for a voluntary donation. A thank you to my loyal fans....... this series will be continued irregularly.
These albums are -- as always -- recorded in one run and can be used very well in sound therapy.... of course also suitable as background music for your own inner collection.
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released April 18, 2021

Thanks to Cornelia Kern for cover image and layout.

(2021) The Ambassadors of Spring

"The Ambassadors of spring"...... six musically depicted classical goddesses and messengers of spring, who proclaim light, growth and fertility.
Framed by two minimalist piano pieces, this work is an ode to the sun and the awakening of the nature.
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released April 2, 2021

Thanks to Cornelia Kern for cover images and layout.

    

(2021) You are the horizon

An album full of light, the conscious expansion of being and the transgression of the self-imposed limitations.
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released April 2, 2021

Cover photo and layout by Cornelia Kern.

STEP XIV - The early years (1986​-​1989) - "Allegorical doors to inner worlds"

Another beautiful memory of the good old 80s. The pieces moved away from the "New Age" to the more individual "natural mysticism", Christian mysticism and Sufism. Good choice by LEV LEVIN , many thanks !
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released April 1, 2021

Thanks also to Lev Levin, who lovingly selects and restores the pieces of all archives. Thanks to Cornelia Kern for the step pictures and the layout.

    
(2021) We abuse what we miss

This album invites you to think and feel what we do to get care that we did not receive enough in childhood. Since nobody can fill this deficit, we take and act ruthlessly .....
This album may be very difficult again; the 47-minute central piece, however, is a journey that everyone can interpret for themselves. So we often decide for ourselves how light and dark encounter us .....
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released March 5, 2021

Thanks to some insights during the night of February 14th when recording this absolutely home live event.
Thanks to my wife Cornelia Kern for cover images and layout.

(2021) Cascading Rosespirals

Now finally the continuation of the "Mystical rose project" in a special extended version......
"The flower of flowers as calyx and conception at the same time. The holy grail as the idea of ​​the womb and at the same time the source of life ......"

Inspired by the outstanding fan responses to the first album.
This series will continue with continued success - work is already underway on successors......
It is planned to release the complete "Rose Series" as CD's in a limited box. Negotiations are underway with a well-known label.....
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released March 5, 2021

Thanks to my wife Cornelia Kern for the idea, concept and cover design of this second part.
Dedicated to all women who have lost contact with themselves through patriarchy and are suppressed.  

(2021) Silent abundance I

This is the start of a series, which I make available practically free of charge against a donation. These albums are -- as always -- recorded in one run and can be used very well in sound therapy.... of course also suitable as background music for your own inner collection.
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released March 2, 2021

Thanks to Cornelia Kern for cover image and layout.  

(2021) The shamans of science : Al​-​Shaman Chapter III - The twelve steps of Magnum Opus

This album is the third in a trilogy dealing with alchemy and shamanism. The possible connection is only intuitively recorded musically and should give the listener space to find his own interpretation, or to experience something completely different.
Part 3 "Al-Shaman - Chapter III : The twelve steps of Magnum Opus" stands for "finding the philosopher's stone", or "spiritual transformation", usually even after a catharsis.

Instruments : Several synths, frame & shaman drums, Djembe, deep voice, field recordings.
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released February 4, 2021

And a third time many thanks to my wife Cornelia Kern for cover painting and layout.

(2021) The shamans of science : Al​-​Shaman Chapter II - Planets and metals

This album is the second in a trilogy dealing with alchemy and shamanism. The possible connection is only intuitively recorded musically and should give the listener space to find his own interpretation, or to experience something completely different.
Part 2 "Al-Shaman - Chapter II : Planets and metals" deals with the planets known a few 100 years ago and their assignment to metals. The central star is the earth.

Instruments : Several synths, frame & shaman drums, Djembe, deep voice, field recordings.
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released February 4, 2021

Thanks again to my wife Cornelia Kern for cover painting and layout.

(2021) The shamans of science : Al​-​Shaman Chapter I - Scripts and secrets

This album is the first in a trilogy dealing with alchemy and shamanism. The possible connection is only intuitively recorded musically and should give the listener space to find his own interpretation, or to experience something completely different.
Part 1 "Al-Shaman - Chapter I : Scripts and secrets" lists the old, well-known scripts - valuable documents that never reveal the whole secret.

Instruments : Several synths, frame & shaman drums, Djembe, deep voice, field recordings.
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released February 4, 2021

Thanks as ususal to my wife Cornelia Kern for cover paintings and layout.  

(2016​-​2020) Mathias Grassow & John Haughm - OPALUS

3rd album between both artists. OPALUS was made during several "live"-sessions at home in germany on 12th and 13th deember of 2016.
Compiled, mixed, designed and produced by John Haughm; mastering by Gus Elg in 2020.
This album was recorded totally live, without any overdubs.
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released December 12, 2020
Cover painting by Cornelia Kern, photography of both artists by Veleda Thorsson, art direction & design by John Haughm.

(2020) : The dreamquest sessions (1998)

"The dreamquest sessions" was originally released as a CD-R in the late 90s. Ít is closely related to "The darklight quest" and especially "The nightquest sessions".
This edition has been slightly edited and features two framing chapters. It has also received a mastering touch by Anders Peterson of 'Ghost Sounds'.
I am extremely happy to finally be able to present the third, remixed and extended part as the end of this trilogy.

released December 7, 2020

Many thanks to Johan Rehn for making this release possible !
Painting of "the dream" directly to one of the artists "shaman drums" by MG somewhere in between worlds.......

(2020) Advent

Based on singing bowls and drones, Advent is a collection of pieces that were created in the last few weeks of this year's Christmas season. The pieces do not necessarily represent Advent I-IV in exact this order, but can be interpreted by anyone.......Enjoy !

On this album the artist plays :

Singing bowls - frame drum - deep voice - keys/samples/synths.
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released December 4, 2020

Thanks as usual to my wife Cornelia for cover image and layout.

(2020) Eleven virtues

"Eleven virtues" is an idea, a collection of primarily knightly virtues from the late Middle Ages, which I intuitively assigned to these pieces. I chose these virtues because I liked them best; Especially in comparison with the cardinal virtues, the Prussian virtues etc.

Of course, opinions on the "most important" and contemporary virtues diverge. Accordingly, of course, every listener has their own scope to discover this for themselves here as well.

The order of the individual pieces and their titles is not to be understood as an increase in the virtues to be acquired, but rather intuitive and arbitrary. The recordings were made "live at home" in a continuous session.
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released December 4, 2020

Many thanks as usual to my beloved wife and "Aguilar" mate Cornelia Kern for cover layout and support.
Cover photo taken by Tara Bierwisch.

(2020) Yggdrasils burning

This more classic drone-album was created from 3 home sessions that year, from which this two hour selection was made. The current critical situation of our "green lungs" and the consequences of what has not wanted to be seen for decades is the concept of this work. The titles refer to the eight largest "primeval forests" on our planet.

Title explanation:
Yggdrasil, Old Norse Yggdrasill, also: world ash, is the name of an ash tree in Norse mythology that embodies the entire cosmos as a world tree.
released October 24, 2020
Many thanks as usual to my wife Cornelia Kern for Images and support.  

(2018​-​2020) The salt of life

Salt is a symbol of health, vitality, success and happiness. It stands for consistency and incorruptibility. In the past, salt was weighed with gold and paid as a wage, and today you recognize a person's worth by giving them salt.....

"The salt of life" here stands for the essence of what we are here for; on the one hand individually, on the other hand in a spiritual context with the universe.
At the end of the resonance there is the great and unimaginable nothing, the sound of the inconceivable emptiness, which is at the same time permeated by abundance. Not comprehensible with the mind, but felt through this music - an idea ......
Pieces 1-3 are variations from "Europa - Part II".......

released November 6, 2020
Many thanks to Cornelia Kern for images and support - as ususal.......

Life document: (2020) Live at Gut Saunstorf 1st of august 2020

This is the original recording of the concert at Gut Saunstorf near Wismar on August 1st, 2020. The recording was not post-processed, but rather adopted due to the preservation of the highest possible authenticity with all background noises and errors in order to faithfully reproduce the great spirit of this event.
NOTE:
Tracks 1-7 were recorded directly in the audience with a TASCAM live recorder.
Tracks 8 & 9 are the same concert in only two parts - but here taken from the hall mixer.
So everyone has the opportunity to choose their personal version ......
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released October 2, 2020
Thanks to the whole team and organisators of the concert, you know who you are ! Thanks for the great support to my wife Cornelia Kern.

New release: KaleidosHope

This new 80 minute album was created around the same time as "Bazaar" and can therefore be seen as a follow-up album and yet......it is different : Middle points here are also oriental instrumentation, whereby the hypnotic 5th piece represents the core of the mysticism of the Arab worlds and bridges this with the west and the typical "drone" music.

"Life is a kaleidoscope and we design its blaze of colors..."

released August 7, 2020

Thanks to CORNELIA KERN for images, titles and cover-concept.

NOTE : Parts V & VI were played live during my forthcoming live album from "Gut Saunstorf" nearby Wismar in germany on 1st of august 2020.

I want to dedicate this album In memory of the "Hibakusha" - and all the victims of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th, 1945.

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AGUILAR, the Mathias Grassow archive

Aguilar is the Mathias Grassow archive Bandcamp artist site that my wife Cornelia runs and manages. There - and only there - you can get the exclusive "Mathias Grassow" archive series, starting in 1980 ....
The individual parts have a comfortable CD length, are mixed and mastered. According to the time, everything is a bow to the possibilities that existed at the time and is accordingly authentic. You can be happy to collect these series for an acceptable price.
Enjoy.
https://aguilar1.bandcamp.com

From the archives: Drone-Day - Mathias Grassow live in Wiesbaden 26th of may 2018

Live performance of the artist during the "Drone-Day" in Wiesbaden 26th of may 2018.

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released July 3, 2020

Recorded live at the Drone Day Event at Luisenforum, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2018-05-26
Mastered by HaDi Schmidt.
Aural clean-up by Michael Brückner.
Thanks to both of you guys !
Thanks too to Cornelia Kern for cover image, participation and support.

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