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Monsoon-Music is an independent music label that provides a platform for experimental art music engaged in transcultural exploration.

Monsoon-music is a digital home and community space where all artists retain 100% of their album sales. Jonathan Kay, Andrew Kay and Justin Gray have united under Monsoon-Music to cultivate a creative and harmonious consciousness that aspires towards the highest ideals of humanity through their collective expressions of art and music. Since the dawn of humanity it has been known that music is the

universal language that is both transformative and healing. It is through this ancient science that Indian Raga music has evolved and Monsoon-Music is dedicated to sharing this spiritually healthy music with people from all cultures, offering an enriching and elevating experience. Monsoon-Music is culturing a deep understanding of Eastern philosophy and music, and aims to unify the fabrics of both Eastern and Western music and culture in a harmonious and innovative expression. Through their traditional and contemporary music, the trio hopes to leave a lasting impression on the listener, engaging and challenging them towards inner fulfillment.

“Creative Unity” summarizes and focuses our goals as Monsoon-Music. We believe in the purification of all thoughts and actions into a wider and more luminous plane of consciousness where the individual-self merges with the universal-self. The intuitive and creative expression of our intimate relationship with the universal-self is what we aim to express through our art and music. The dissolution of the self into that of a larger, broader collective consciousness aids in the purification of the ego and ultimately elevates the root motive of all action into a higher and wider light. Monsoon-Music is devoted to creatively expressing a unified consciousness that will elevate and enrich all aspects of our lives. Inspired by their time living in India, the trio aim to infuse their music with the sacred and vibrations first revealed to the ancient mystical yogis. This musical consciousness, passed onto us by our Guru, Shantanu Bhattacharyya, is a powerful instrument of spiritual elevation. By dedication and sincere devotion to these ancient teachings and music practices, Monsoon-Music aspires to create music that elevates the listener into higher and wider planes of being. Monsoon-Music is excited to share their vision of this consciousness by building a community of aspiring and like-minded individuals, and organizing events and concerts that will unify and strengthen our connection with each other and the Cosmos. Since it’s creation, Monsoon-Music has organized a multitude of meaningful and successful events, including 4 wonderful years of The Toronto Indo-Jazz Festival, and The Monsoon-Music Scholarship was created to raise money for under-privileged music students in rural India, and Monsoon-Music has successfully donated thousands of dollars to make a lasting difference in these children’s lives.

01/10/2025

Proud to be partners in presenting this and being a part of the discussion. Andrew Kay will moderate and Jonathan Kay with take part in the discussion along side Mitra Bhattacharyya and her father and guru Shantanu Bhattacharyya.

Surely be a rich dialogue about spirituality in raga music.

In Conversation with Pt. Shantanu

Presented by Small World Music

In partnership with Raag Mala Toronto and Toronto Indo Jazz Festival

ISHQ Festival invites you to an intimate discussion with Pandit Shantanu Bhattacharyya, one of India’s leading Hindustani vocalists, moderated by Toronto musician and educator Andrew Kay. Together, they will explore the deep connections between spirituality and Raag Sangeet, and the transformative power of Indian classical music as a meditative, devotional practice.

Let this one-of-a-kind night open something within.

🗓️ Oct 24 , 2025
📍 Small World Centre
⏰ Doors at 7:30 PM | Show at 8:00 PM

🎫 Get tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/in-conversation-with-pt-shantanu-bhattacharyya-tickets-1567716023829?

27/09/2025

We just launched the Kickstarter yesterday and in the first 24 hours we’ve made it to 10% of our goal!

Don’t miss out on being the first to hear the album, grab your copy of the limited edition double LP vinyl, and your very own t-shirt. Not to mention VIP tickets to the Album Release concert on Friday, Nov 14th @ Aga Khan Museum.

Use the link above to visit the kickstarter campaign and help us release this album!! Support local live music!!

-jazz

26/09/2025

BIG Announcement!! Kickstarter Album Release & TIJF25 - https://mailchi.mp/9b57c6b3b64c/big-announcement-kickstarter-album-release-tijf25

We just launched a Kickstarter campaign for our latest double LP album - The Coltrane Sutras - Cosmic Threads of Becoming

Be the first to hear the album, support the project and help it get birthed into this world!

We are also re-igniting the Toronto Indo-Jazz Festival with an exciting edition featuring 3 nights of unforgettable music.

Check out the announcement and be sure to mark your calendars.

06/03/2025

Bandcamp Friday! - https://mailchi.mp/a92516f5dfa3/bandcamp-friday

09/02/2025

06/12/2024

Bandcamp Friday! Please take a moment to browse our catalogue of eclectic original music by inspiring artists and PURCHASE the music to support artists directly!!

Monsoon-Music is an independent music label that provides a platform for experimental art music engaged in cross-cultural exploration. We live in a time of rich cultural dialogue and global interconnection which has in turn inspired unprecedented diversity and creativity in the arts. Monsoon-music i...

24/09/2024

What a great new edition of Collaboration: A Journal of Integral Yoga called Music and Consciousness.

Here's a great feature article in it:

In his essay “The Wide-Ranging Impact of Maestro Shankar,” Philip Goldberg traces the influence of Shankar on key musicians such as Yehudi Menuhin, Philip Glass, and John Coltrane, and subsequently through their influence on numerous other musicians. However, in Goldberg’s words, “For sheer ...

06/09/2024

2 New Releases! New Live Music Series- https://mailchi.mp/5d330b0f0599/2-new-releases-new-live-music-series Our latest release by Jonathan Kay and Andrew Kay features a duelling soprano saxophone improvisation. Andrew Kay's latest creation also features the soprano saxophone, alongside singing bowls, frame drums, and rich immersive synths, to help you meditate and look into how Judgement shows up in your life. A new music series curated by Jonathan Kay and Kayla Milmine called the Undercommons Collective starts this Saturday @ Annette Studios.

01/06/2024

Premiering at 12pm TODAY.

Watch this video I made for my Be-Longing track and be transported to another realm. Seriously, it's pretty trippy.
Hope you enjoy!! Don't forget to LIKE, SHARE, and leave a comment on where you travelled to!!

https://youtu.be/1JM31r69kJQ

Andrew Kay Music

Be-Longing by Andrew KayEmbark on a sonic odyssey with multi-instrumentalist Andrew Kay's latest composition, where the soulful resonance of the bass clarine...

15/05/2024

New Track from Andrew Kay - https://mailchi.mp/5e478e947c30/new-track-from-andrew-kay-be-longing Embark on a sonic odyssey with multi-instrumentalist Andrew Kay's latest composition, where the soulful resonance of the bass clarinet cascades over a tapestry of drones, drawing inspiration from Hindustani Ragas. This introspective voyage delves into the depths of grief and the yearning for belonging, offering a transformative listening encounter.

17/04/2024

Here is an article by my friend Jack Bagby on the philosophy of music and the attunment of the soul. If you make it to the end you will find a link to a musical project we have exploring and experimenting in ancient Greek temperaments!

In Athenian philosophy, attunement is important not only in music, but also for moods, attitudes and states of mind

09/04/2024

music-image raga-creation

A contemporary North Indian Raga creation by Jonathan Kay. Set to North Indian Taals (cycles): Matta (9 beats), Pancham Sawari (15 beats), Drut Ektal (12 bea...

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We live in a time of rich cultural dialogue and global interconnection which has in turn inspired unprecedented diversity and creativity in the arts. Monsoon-music is an online home which supports cross-cultural exploration and experimentation.

Monsoon-music was founded in 2006 by Jonathan and Andrew Kay and Justin Gray. Since then Monsoon-music has earned a reputation for supporting cross-cultural dialogue and art. Based on Toronto, Canada, Monsoon-music is engaged in bringing artists together from all cultural heritages, encouraging the confluence of traditional music with contemporary forms of expression.

With digital recording technology more accessible then ever, online musical content creation has exploded, and the advent of global internet accessibility has enabled independent artists unmediated accessibility to specialized audiences. On one side of the coin, the digital age has created a new paradigm for the independent artist, with unlimited possibilities in the digital interconnected world. Free from the artistic limitations of profit oriented music labels, online interconnectivity makes it more possible then ever for artists to explore musical creation on their own terms.

On the other side of the coin, online music streaming sites have lead to unprecedented accessibility of music, which have drastically reshaped of the mode of music consumption in the digital age. This has it’s benefits, but has also instigated irreversible damage to the music industry leading towards the ultimate devaluation of music. It is undeniable that globalized techno-capitalism is reshaping subjectivity through modes of digital consumption and the music industry has become a game of designing momentary viral trends, in which algorithms (based on unethically mined data) predict and manipulate the next virtual sensation.