Ecstatic Dance Music - Jaran's March 8th

Shh.

Sorry, quick sound check.

Ready? Yeah. Fuck you.

Hello, hello. Czech, Czech. So everyone, can we make our way towards the middle and we're gonna get ready to begin this ecstatic dance. We're gonna make like a circle.

Is that all right?

We okay? Sir. Hello, welcome everybody. My name is Niraj Naik Naik, and together with my musicians, we're going to create this sound journey of ecstasy, bring you all into the highest states possible. And we go by the name Amaya, that's who we are known as. And I just want to ask, Who has not ever been to an ecstatic dance before?

Me. Me.

Ah, okay. So do we need to go through all the rules? There are like a few basic rules, like, you know, literally, this is like a free dance, so you can really like express yourself, go with the flow, and know your boundaries as well. There can be some moments where you can touch and contact each other, but know your boundaries and keep a safe space. And if you feel like you don't want anyone to go near you, you can just kindly tell people to move out the way. But everyone's very friendly and very loving and happy, so we should have a very, very good time. And so what we're gonna do is we're gonna begin with a very simple breathwork technique. I'm known for making the music for this guy called Wim Hof. He's got this special breathwork technique called the Wim Hof Method. Who's heard of Wim Hof? Quite a few people.

Excellent.

And I made all the soundtracks to it. And actually what we're gonna start with is some of the shamanic music that we produced together. And we're gonna do this very gentle breathwork technique that's gonna build up all this good vibes, good feelings. Things from inside. So we're gonna do it together, it's gonna be really simple, and then the music's gonna kick off, and then you're gonna guide yourself into your movement. Okay, so let's all get ready, we're gonna all hold hands. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, just one simple rule, no videos, photos, talking, And we do have actually a cameraman, a professional cameraman who will be doing a few shots, but he's keeping himself to himself as well so that it won't be too invasive or anything like that. And if you have any objections to being filmed, just tell the cameraman. Okay, so are we ready to get going? Yes? Just a few people left. Okay, there we go. All right, so this is how we begin. Okay, so we're gonna breathe in. Imagine when you're breathing in, you're breathing in fully from here, from your base of your root chakra, your sex. You're gonna breathe in fully, filling up your belly, your chest, and then your head. So imagine when you breathe in, you're filling up all of your potential for oxygen, your possibility. As he can. And then when you get to your top of your inhalation, you just let go. Just like this. And when you get to the bottom, you're gonna breathe again. And we're gonna raise our hands together, 'cause really strange things happens when we all breathe together at the same time, the same rhythm. We start actually creating this coherence between the energy of the heart and we're gonna create lots of good vibrations in the room together. So this is how we're gonna do it. We're gonna breathe in fully and down and up. So it's in, out, in, and just let go. That's it, keep that rhythm going, let's keep going. Keep that groove. Okay, I'm just gonna step away and we're gonna start the music. Now I want you to take a deep, big, deep breath in and blow all the air out and hold your breath out. Hold it out and just feel Feel the good vibrations, the music pulsing deep within, the pulse of the beat. When you get that first urge to breathe, what you're going to do, you're just going to take a big deep breath in. Imagine you're breathing all the oxygen into your head and then just hold it and then relax. And then when you're ready, you can just start breathing again together. That's right, great. They go with the groove. Hold your breath, and then when you're ready, you're going to take another deep breath in, and then you're going to start getting into your own groove with the dance. So when you're ready, you can start moving. You got charged up, and you can keep breathing whenever you feel you want some more energy. That's right.

Hey! Woof!

How's everybody feeling?

Wah! Wah! Wah! Where you is—

it's where it's at! And you can't beat that with a baseball bat!

Where you is—

it's where it's at! And you can't beat that with a bat!

Where you is—

this is where it's at! And you can't beat that With a baseball bat. Where you is, is where it's at, and you can't beat that with a bat.

Where you at? Is this— we're exact! And I can't beat that for baseball bat... Weeeyeseezeeezezeeezeeeezzestttt!! ...and ya cain' bate dat wit da bassbatt!!! Wheyooissssssseethereitsethnnnnd yacanbeatdatwitdaabaseballbat!!!!

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to turn me on. I just need your body from dusk to dawn. You don't need experience to turn me on. You just leave it all up to me. I'm going to show you what it's You don't have to be rich to be my girl. You don't have to be cool to rule my world. Ain't no particular sign I'm compatible with. Just want your extra time and your kiss. You got to knock the talk down, baby, if you want You don't have to be rich to be my girl. You don't have to be cool to rule my world. Ain't no particular sign, I'm compatible with. Just want your extra time and your— ah! Oh! Ooh! Cheers! Aah! God knows, God knows I found love. I'm not sure it's right, but it's true. Yeah, I can't get over the way you love me like you do, but I have to be sure when I walk out that door. Oh, I want to be free. Oh, I want to be free. Oh, I want to But life still goes on. I can't get used to living without, living without, living without you by my side. I don't want to live alone. Hey, I got to go. Got to knock it along. Something I can't just see. I got to break free. You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes. You're paralyzed! Everything is good and grand. Oh, I'm here again. A little sunshine smile upon my face. My friends are close at hand. And now my head of measures have disappeared without a trace. I found it. I found it. Oh yeah, it's about a hook. I can run backwards. This is the return of the Space Cowboy. It's been that temporary. Goodbye, Toronto. Say at the speed of cheetah, oh, you and that good viva. Remember, I have to get high to get by. Cheer up, cheer up, cheer up.

Yes, people, feel the energy, feel the light coming from above, absorbing through your feet. You are me. I am you. We are more than family. We are one. We are together. Alright, we're gonna change up the style now. This is an Amaya original. Feel the groove. We are separate, but we are one. We are individuals, but we are always together. We can't be separated. Can't be created. Can't be destroyed. Love cannot be destroyed. I say again, love cannot be destroyed.

Feeling—

get ready. Ready, going steady on these tracks. Told so many tens and twenties, I'm surprised they let me back. I got bare birds like a Christmas luncheon. When I say words, it's fear, stop bumping. I was on the scene when MCs were jumping inside. Now it's like your tongues ain't functioning right. I don't give a fuck if your jeans are tight or if your team tears and rows in bright. Can you hold the mic, get things hype, get them lit, and be that light? At least speak off the truth. When we come through, don't need no suits. Just like the news, it's used to confuse the truth, so I leave it at two. Still gotta live though, watch that shit. For a group break, they're like, watch that Lift. I would roll into the— watch that kid. Ex-teachers calling sick to watch my gigs. Didn't graduate, but I somehow avoided the magistrate. They come to the rave, see the magic, they breathe me ghost. They just have to hate, and I don't fear the flames. I'm so glad I gave up my callous ways. Of course, in days and nights, the inner fight comes back to life. That's when I jam the stage. Damn the stage! Feel the love going through you, trickling from above. Moving and soaking up through your feet, meeting in the middle.

Feel it.

Okay, now we're gonna change the pace. This is a song about Koh Phangan. I think a lot of people know it. We made this song last year. It's about the opposing forces. Bath and bathe in a moonlit rave. If I change my ways, they got the coolest babes that might just save my soul, who knows? Don't be fooled though, take it slow. Not every person's bad who glows, and sometimes tricksters have no clothes. Don't get sold on emotions alone, your own intuition knows what it knows. That being said, only half's ever told, so open your mind, man, lick the toad. You might go to a road from the ancient days where the human race used to move like apes and the tools were shaped in a basic way. Then you step in the sacred space and face the jungles. Jungle of the Kopangan. There's only so deep you can go before you flow back to shallow.

Spirituality isn't drinking spirulina, like if it's tasty. Can't you see we don't need to be saved? We were never slaves and you can't buy freedom 'cause it's already free.

In the jungle, in the jungle, in the jungle of the Kopanga.

In the jungle, in the jungle, in the jungle of the Kopanga.

Where do we come from? Was it Koh Phangan? Maybe evolving the sun while the volcano— fun combination of sums. Health and fun, where the paradox runs like when life begun. One side can't stand the other. Party people in Tantra Club is the new New Age and undercover. Some of the fun ties lovers, some love the money, some love the ruckus. Our ruckus stuck if you're driving Drunken, watch the sun set, party to sunrise, meditate at sundown. The garbage are burned down, kind of like your skin. Sizzling hot in the beach, just sing. Go in the jungle for medicine, sort your life out. Right now's the time, maybe before your light's out. Fading fast while you're chasing cash, there's some major classes that could save your ass. Take a dash to the jungle, go where the sun goes, eat some fungals. Don't forget your fun though, know you're safe but also know your place. Float in space while you lose your hate in the jungle. Loser hate in the jungle. Jungle, everybody! Alright, now this is a new song we just made yesterday. Us four and one missing. Orlando, we need you! 2017, baby! Breathing Beats, we back! You know, we love people. We love life, love it, but we really, really, really love the music. Do you love the music? I said get back to where the party at. I said get back, DJ, where the music at?

Hey, hey, get back where the party at.

Hey, I said get back, DJ, where the music at? I gotta get back to the track. I gotta lose the pack so I can choose the trap. Stand alone when I'm on the road, but at home I'm my own and I'm in the zone with the squad. And it's hard When the hotties tryna get caught with the naughty nod. Give me the stacks and I'm all about that, but this track is way too fast, so please just get back.

Where the music at?

DJ, come on!

Get back!

Hotty people, where you at?

I said get back!

DJ, where the music at?

Where the music at? I said get back!

Hotty people, where you at?

Let me hear you! Yeah, play it, baby. Let me hear it, let me hear it, let me hear it.

All right, one more verse. Girl, I see you and I love you, but this bass was made to jump to. You can slap me both hands. Now stand with your friends so I can dance again. It's not you, baby, it's me. I feel the beat when I breathe like a common need. I can't wait for the next track. Gotta get slicker, get that beat.

Get back, ain't getting rid of all yet.

Get back, party people, where you Where you at?

Where you at? Get back!

DJ, where the music at?

I said get back!

Party people, where you at?

Come on, Mango! Oh yeah!

Where you at?

Where you at? Aye, yeah! Come on, baby, come on! Oh yes, get back! Where the party at, DJ? Where you at?

Get back, party people!

Where you at? I said get back, DJ!

Where the party at?

Where the Where the party at? Say get back!

All the people, where you at?

Get back! Where the music at? DJ, where you at? Get back! Where the party at? Where the party at? Say get back! DJ, where the music at? Where the music at? Say get back! All the people, where you at? Say where you at? Oh yeah, feel it, feel it, baby.

Let it take you over, surrender to it. Drummers, let me hear you. I said drummers, let me hear you.

Okay!

Yes! Oh shit, now we're going really heavy. Yeah, this is the free monkey. Crazy mind, there's only two ways to tame it: meditate or dance. Let's see it! Oh yeah! Crazy like, crazy like.

Time to tame that.

All right, here now, get ready for the bass. If your mind is crazy like a monkey, you know what to do. Crazy like a monkey. Crazy like a monkey.

Crazy like a monkey.

Yes! Even the dogs are getting crazy like a monkey. Yeah, here we go. Feel the group energy, the collective energy. Absorb it, give it out, the same thing. Yo! Diggin' it up, diggin' it thick! Get to the bass head again so they bitch! Get to the bottom of that shit again so they miss it again so they bust it again so they miss it—

Yo!

Come here with that energy, that soul said yo! Fuck me with the energy, the soul love! Get to the bossa negra for the bossa negra for the lossy love! Get to the bop!

What now?

I say love! Get to the bossa negra for the bossa doce love! Get to the bop!

Ayo! Yeah! Bring it up! Yes! Yo! Every time I get down, said every time I get down. Every time I get down, I get up.

Yes!

Keep it going! Yeah!

See the love? Say see the love? Feel the vibe? We getting high, sayin'— See the love?

Say see the love?

Feel the vibe? Yo, we gettin' high, sayin', big to the base of the gates of Abyss every time. Get to the base of the gate of Abyss, yo! Getting wild, getting this abyss some width, getting high. Get to the base of the Gates of Abyss, yo, we gettin' wild! We getting wild! So I want to see you smile because we're getting wild!

Yes! Yeah!

We see the people too, we see the people too. I see your feet move, I see your feet move. Yeah, I see the people too, I see the people too.

Yeah, turn up!

Yes! We rise into a new way of being. We rise, glimpse a new way of seeing. We rise, a great army's perceiving. We rise in body, spirit, heart receiving. We rise, we rise, we rise into a new way of loving. We rise Defended, hearts uncovered. We rise, trust the abundant sharing. We rise, oh, with our love bright shining. We rise. We rise. We rise our spines toward the light.

We rise our crowns to spirit awakening.

We rise to find our souls' true calling. We rise with a divine return.

We rise.

We're going to take it back down only to bring you back up. Quick rest. Rest in love. Rest in the oneness. Rest in the duality. Feel yourself like the wind, like the water, like the earth. And feel yourself, feel yourself like the fire.

Yes.

Hey. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! Deal it!

Niraj Naik.

You can begin to, whenever you're comfortable, bring yourself to the earth, the floor. Ground yourself. Get grounded. Relax as you come to the end of the night. Just bringing your awareness to your breath and all the little vibrations of good feelings inside. Fantastic. So we like to just end the night with like some thanks to everyone who got involved tonight. So firstly, my right-hand man, Ale, beautiful musician. Multitalented. And my other right-hand man, if he's here, is Gary. Gary? Oh, he's not here. He's there, he is.

Woo-hoo!

Yes, yes. And we have a band called Breathing Beats, and the lead MC of the band is over there, Chris. Give it up for Chris. Yes, yes. And obviously the wonderful Portal playing at South with this incredible talent, the Hang Drum. Yes, yes. And we also had the formidable, exceptional, incredibly talented Orlando. Give it up for Orlando, the sax man, the man with the sax. He likes to have sax, make sax, yes.

Tantric sax.

Tantric sax.

Excellent.

And we had also awesome percussionists today. We had Haroon with his, uh, how do you say it? Drabuka. That's it, that's the one. He had to leave. Uh, then we had Shunyo. Thomas is getting his shout out. Um, then we had, uh, who else was in the percussion? Tien, as always. Tien was there. And Thomas on the trumpet. Yes, give it up for Thomas. And I hope I haven't missed anyone out. I think that was it. We have a— yeah, we have a lot of people. And obviously this is a lot of music that I've put together over the last few years, and it's been a lot of hard work in the studio, a lot of hard grind. So thank you, actually, to the audience. Give yourself a massive pat on the back for dancing so hard tonight, 'cause that makes it all worthwhile.

Yes, yes.

So, we also like to open the space up to anyone who may have any announcements. I've got one. I'll make that in a minute, but anyone else? Anyone wants to say something about their doing or have some sharing about tonight or any kind of ideas for things you want to have here next? Anyone want to share something? Any events, workshops? You have something? Here we go.

Me, I'm Kayen.

Maybe not here. Chinese Thai guy, we gonna make workshop tomorrow for the contact moving meditation. Yeah, at 6 PM. So 6 PM, contact workshop. Contact moving meditation workshop. Contact moving meditation workshop at Jaran's. Awesome.

Tomorrow?

Nice, 6 PM.

Great.

Anyone else?

After-party at Holistone.

Yes, we are doing an after-party at Holistone. It's tantric after-party. It's a tantric after-party at Holistone. Yes. So yeah, so anyone, if you want to keep the party going, we're going to go over to Holistone next. I am actually doing a workshop, a breathwork workshop. As I said, I've been doing some stuff with Wim Hof. We put together like the new Wim Hof Method course with my music, and it's being all produced right now. So if anyone's a big fan of breathwork and becoming superhuman and tapping into your physiology and learning how to climb up mountains in your shorts, um, we're gonna be doing this special breathwork technique, uh, on Friday at, uh, Samakruna at 6 PM as well. So those of you who are up for that, I'd like to see you there because we've been doing them almost almost every week, every couple of weeks, and it's been amazing. The response has been really, really cool. So it'd be great to see you. Another one?

Okay. If you can't make it at 6 on Friday, but you wanna do breathwork on Friday, 4 PM at Orion, I do a rebirthing group, and it's my last group I'm holding.

Yeah, and I definitely vouch for Shakti and the magic powers. I've had it firsthand experience of them. All right. Anyone else? You have one?

Go for it. Okay.

I want to invite you this Friday for a conscious gig in L'Alcove from 7:30. I'll be playing with some friends. And yeah, if you like wine and stuff, nice proper wine and proper food, just go there to move your booty there dancing with us. Yeah, coming there on Friday from 7:30.

What else?

Ah, yeah, thank you for that. Well, in Hat Rin, we have an amazing place in a sanctuary where we gather in a Latin party with a swimming pool viewpoint. If you're a fan of snorkeling, you can go snorkeling. It's from 12 noon till 10 11 PM. Then you can go to it and get fucked up there. No, it's a Latin pool party and yeah, it's for free. Orlando gonna be playing. I'm gonna be playing as well and it's super cool.

That's it.

It's a pool party with Latin music, so you have to go with your hips really loose, you know? Otherwise it's no, no, no, not for you. Okay, thank you guys. Thank you. Good night. Peace.

Niraj Naik.