About Omkarmusic

Omkarmusic is a combination of my name, Omkar,
once given by my master Osho (which you see here)
and the part of my life I like to share with the public, my music.

Since I accepted Omkar to be my name,
I use it everywhere and all the time.

So with the artist name,
it is not invented by me to create an image to others,
to impart a message
or to accentuate how religious I am.

Omkar is just my name.

Some published music can be downloaded for free,
some albums and tracks needed to be purchased.

Thus can be done in the Omkarmusic Shop
or on internet shops.

You will find everything music related
on the music projects site.

Most frequently asked questions via mail
are replied on the FAQ section.

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About Omkar

y current lifestyle I should call an M&M package,
a candy mix of music and meditation.
(The picture is a symbol, not me).

After going through several meditation techniques,
I have chosen Vipassana meditation
as my everyday entry into the oasis of distance to personality.

The meditation was practiced and initiated by Buddha
and I found my way to it with Osho.

If you become curious to try it for yourself
or want to practice for a while in a different way,
you will find support with "Music for Vipassana Meditation",
released by me for this purpose.

 

You might be surprised telling you
when performing music I refer the most to silence.
To me this is where the startup, the beginning of music is.

Sitting silently,
silence becomes louder and louder, more present,
more touchable and has a certain kind of sweetness.

Before I hear harmonies of a possible track to be performed
I am not listening to any music at all.

Just cleaning something, walking somewhere, having a cup of tea
and melodies arising out of the blue
which are simply needed then to be written down on a paper.

n a highscool for children I became educated in music theorie
and learned the relation of notes and western harmonies.

It was hard for me to follow without holding an instrument in hands
and except some basics, all and everything
is wiped out of my mind.

Later I learned some basics on piano,guitar and drums
and from then on I was learning by doing
and became an autodidact on playing and recording.

Until it became crystalized which music direction will be my favorite,
I jammed a lot with bands
and was getting familiar with rock,jazz,funk,blues,soul and instrumental music.

By the time and moreover with solo projects
the work settled on the corner of world music,athmo,chillout
combined with the influences I used to play live before.

Luckily with the invention of personal computers
I was supported from the very beginning
to go into solo projects and to keep at it.

Because of private circumstances and illnes like Tinnitus
there also have been periods of musical inactivity.

The Music Workflow

I`m composing and performing multi-instrumental.

Over the time I accomplished some equipment for a small studio in Hamburg, Germany.

I used to play in live bands on different instruments,
basically drums, percussion, guitar and flute
and I wrote the songs.

Today I prefer to work on solo projects
and the digital age enables me to apply instruments from computer.

All publications are produced independent,
some are downloadable for free ,
some needs to be purchased just for the butter on the bread.

The free material is licensed under the terms of creative commons.

Music Projects

 

Omkarmusic projects commonly comprise themes,
be it music from a continent
like the free downloadable album `Petite d`Afrique`
available on different mp3 portals,
or music around a figure
like retail CD `Shaku`,
available on various shops worldwide.
So one can say, my music projects does have a narrative character.

Important to understand is,
the free downloadable material
is experimantal due to certain recording techniques
without having mastered studio quality on mind.

It should give an impression on what kind of music or genre to expect
when it comes from omkarmusic.com and does not represent
the sound quality of commercial releases.