For immersing yourself in the ambient healing tones of both the natural world and organic, hopeful melodies and progressions, look no further than the music and mantras of Matthuji. As we lean into the warmth and wonder of Gayatri Invocation, the sound is quickly enveloping, inviting, and deeply soothing.
Layers of modest voice, wind and world instruments – bansuri flute, harmonium, bass, percussion, keys, tenor saxophone – all backed by the gentle capture of crisp, clear water running alongside. Gayatri Mantra follows seamlessly for this two-part single from Matthuji, and provides a profound aura of serenity that’s timeless but also impressively clean and powerful in its modern recording.
Matthuji encapsulates the spiritual lifestyle as an artist, playing and teaching harmonium, composing and embracing listeners with the humble, gentle and often stunning musical progressions that make up his repertoire.
Gayatri Mantra is a fine example of the peak blissful appeal of his style, with subtle moments of rhythm, voice, sax, and other instruments, providing an atmospheric warmth and waves of peaceful guidance, which naturally prompt you to turn up the volume and escape entirely into the peacefulness and humanity of the sound.
Elsewhere Matthuji’s catalogue welcomes engaging variety, the female vocals and light rhythms of Shanti Anahata – Om Namah Shivaya proving hypnotic and uplifting, almost traditional folk-like in their looping calm and colour.
The song rises up beautifully, for over seven minutes of performance, within which the passion and power of the delivery and arrangement evolves and enchants its audience increasingly. A stunning presentation, euphoric in its dedication to the blissful unity of human melodies, voices, notes, and movements.
Finally, from the 2009 project Shanti, Matthuji made an album with tracks to every Chakra, along with artwork. The green Anahata is the 4th Chakra, the Heart. The blue one is the 5th Chakra, the throat, and there are seven Chakras in total, so seven releases to browse through.
Shanti Vishuddha is divine, a solo instrumental lead, a descending melody both intimate and hypnotic, later supported by harmonised male and female voices, with English lyrics that pour through like folk poetry, slowly but surely approaching an intoxicating melodic crescendo.
The sounds of water return for the final quarter, and the voices and music fade out, as the natural world re-welcomes us, safe in the comfort of knowing ‘we all come from the godess.’
This track is a personal favourite, an unforgettable highlight, but from a collection of original musical works that each adhere to a sense of emotion, purpose, and professionalism, which naturally transcends the walls of much of modern expectation.
To hear more about the effects of mantras and the Gayatri, listen to this podcast. Find Matthuji on Instagram, Facebook & his Website.
