Monsoon-Music is an independent music label that provides a platform for experimental art music engaged in cross-cultural 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.
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!!
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...
Upcoming Shows • Coltrane Sutras @ Hirut, Toronto - https://mailchi.mp/50fcd981056d/upcoming-shows-coltrane-sutras-hirut-toronto Jonathan Kay & Andrew Kay's latest project The Coltrane Projects will be performing two nights @ the Hirut Cafe, Toronto, right before heading into the studio to record their upcoming full length album! Please come on out to support the band and live music in Toronto.
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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.
Monsoon-music is an artist run collective which critiques and takes a stand in solidarity, resistance and revolution, against this modern culture of commercial consumption. We aim to carve out a digital territory which can cultivate conscious engagement through reimagining and creating an alternative-modernity based on shared ideals. Thereby amplifing the micro-political power of art creation through online interconnectivity, Monsoon-music is an interface for seekers to find resonance that empowers positive change in the world.
