Floating Weeds Music - Beyond, Within (2026) [Hi-Res]

The idea for this record came as an afterthought following the release of the first album by Floating Weeds Music: I liked how the track "Nataraja" from "Traces In The Sand" came out, so I thought that maybe I had something else to say in that vein. I also wanted to make something better, improving the songwriting and the technical aspects of the recording. That being said, I also felt that the previous form of ""Western pop homage"" to "Indian music" as a whole was not enough and I said to myself:

Let's do it again! Let's do it better!

So I started diving a little deeper into the traditions of the Indian subcontinent. Then I explored its symbols, archetypes and spiritual tradition and I discovered how deep and complex they are, even though I'm still scratching the surface of such a vast and diverse culture, a culture that, being an european guy, I still can't (and maybe never will) grasp ad its fullest. Discovering how similar some of the metaphors, images and archetypes of some Hindu schools were to those in certain Buddhist and Sufi schools (for example) was both weird and exiting, and the search for more information raised many questions like: "Why do we humans (at least some of us) have a necessity to reconnect with a higher state of consciousness?", "What is consciousness?", "Is there a higher reality? Is this material world just an illusion?" stuff like that.

Anyway, it all began very randomly with the idea of an album of just tabla and fretless bass, but I rapidly changed my mind and started adding other instruments. The songwriting process was pretty straightforward: I would program a tabla pattern, write a bass riff, and add the vocals, then add the rest (guitars, sitar and bansuri samples etc.). I want to stress that I approached these instruments, rhythms, and symbolic references with deep respect, aiming to integrate them as inspirations from a wider net of cultural and musical influences. To conclude, I've really enjoyed working on this album because I felt I was in complete control of what was going on without losing the spark of childlike excitement when something good and unexpected came out of the music. I really hope to convey that through this work, and to give you an hour of quality time, hoping that this record might build cultural bridges, all in the realm of Western popular music.