Paradiso

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Biography

Virtuoso didjeridoo artist, producer and composer, Paradiso Turturici, is the founder and owner of the 5th Element Music publishing company and record label. Paradiso's music has been featured in movie soundtracks, nominated for multiple "best of" categories by the prestigious New Age Reporter, and consistently ranks high on satellite and radio charts. He has released several albums, including three solo CDs -- Healing Vibes, Shaman's Trance, and Middle Path -- which feature the didjeridoo accompanied by keyboards, percussion, vocals, the theremin, and other exotic instruments.

Mystical Date 1/11/11 Marks The Beginning Of Unprecedented Endeavors For Healing and Humanitarian Work In The New Year.

Founder Of 5th Element Music, Sound Healer And Best Selling New Age Didjeridoo Artist Paradiso Chooses This Symbolic Date 1/11/11, For The Release Of His New Album 3rd Eye Rising – A Journey Through Ascending Realms - Along With Influential Philanthropist Oprah Winfrey, Who Also Strategically Chose This Powerful Day To Premiere Her New Network.

Los Angeles, CA – I/11/11 denotes a significant meaning for the release date of a new album from 5th Element Music called 3rd Eye Rising – A Journey Through Ascending Realms, by producer, musician and master didjeridoo artist Paradiso, debuting his long awaited collaboration with Yoganada devoted sound healer Rasamayi. Their new album 3rd Eye Rising – A Journey Through Ascending Realms, combines instrumental new age music featuring Paradiso on didjeridoo and keyboards, and acclaimed Sound Healer Rasamayi's soothing chants along with Tibetan and crystal singing bowls. With tracks featuring a gong duet and the laughter of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, this album is ideal for meditation, relaxation, massage, and all other healing modalities.

In a review of 3rd Eye Rising by Lee Starkey Music Manager at East West Book Store, Lee raves about the album - “The soul resonant frequencies of 3rd Eye Rising– A Journey Through Ascending Realms - offer sustenance on your journeys to deeper and higher realms of spiritual healing” says Lee.

The number 11 has been believed for years to hold spiritual and mystical powers. Numerologists and Astrologists consider events and people marked in some way by the number 11 to be givers, innovators, and humanitarians. So, it's no coincidence that Oprah Winfrey, who revolutionized television programming by introducing a focus on new age spiritual self-empowerment also chose this symbolic date to premiere her new network called OWN.

Internationally acclaimed sound healer Paradiso has continuously topped the New Age Radio charts with his four best-selling and award nominated albums he composed and produced: Healing Vibes, Shaman’s Trance, Middle Path and Himalayan Chakra Healing. The Didjeridoo virtuoso has performed at Carnegie Hall and has been featured in events with spiritual and musical greats such as Jefferson Starship, Michael Bernard Beckwith, Stephen Halpern and Neale Donald Walsch.

In a review of Paradiso’s music New Age Reporter wrote, “Paradiso’s music is an anomalous mix of organic and inorganic instruments that when balanced, create a therapeutic listening environment. All you have to do really is sit back, listen and accept. Your spirit will do the rest.”

Based on wisdom from many ancient cultures, sound is a type of energy medicine that creates the sacred space in which people can heal physically and spiritually. The Aboriginal people of Australia are the first known culture to heal with sound by playing the didgeridoo, which has been used as a healing tool for at least 40,000 years. A self-taught musician, Paradiso is a master player of this sacred instrument. His innate gift for playing the didjeridoo was developed by teachings from various elders and mentors. The deeply therapeutic vibration of the didjeridoo creates a unique experience, described as Dreamtime by the Aborigines, that has led to extraordinary reports by many of the thousands Paradiso has treated, including shifts towards life purpose and restoration of physical and emotional wellness.

"I believe music can heal the mind, body and spirit and liberate us. My vision is to inspire all of us to rediscover oneness with each other, our environment, and all of creation through music”, says Paradiso.

Paradiso has expanded his healing practice with his blessed partnership to gifted sound healer and alchemist Rasamayi, who has intuitively mastered the ancient art sonic healing with Tibetan and crystal bowls. The spiritual pair, share a vision of selfless devoted service to their community at the Yoganada Center in Northern CA, where they live and serve together in private practice, musical performances and group sound healing.

With the release of their first communal album 3rd Eye Rising – A Journey Through Ascending Realms - the healers combine their eternal intention, divine energies and infinite gifts on a journey through realms of the sacred sound current, providing another vehicle for their healing work to reach millions worldwide. “3rd Eye Rising is an extraordinary experience of the soul’s journey inward and upward, facilitating healing and the discovery of one’s true Self”, describes Rasamayi. “Each song was recorded with the intention to facilitate healing and transformation on all levels through the healing power of sound”, adds Paradiso.

Soul mates Paradiso and Rasamayi intend to continue to serve the wellness and evolution of their clients and listeners through their music and synthesis in sound healing. Therefore, by seizing any idealistic humanitarian energy available on 1/11/11, Paradiso and Rasamayi are distinctly strengthening and empowering the intention of their music as a healing modality for all of humanity.

About Paradiso's Soul mate:

Acclaimed sound healer Rasamayi, has been trained in the healing art of sound in the Vedic, Shamanic and Himalayan traditions and is further informed by past-life memories of the practice. She has performed with renowned artists including Steven Halpern and Kai Eckhardt and for prestigious institutions nationwide. Her clients have reported transformative visions of Divine Mother and current and past-life healing.


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Instrumentation

FOR GROUP SOUND HEALINGS:
Didjeridoos, Gongs and Percussions.
If Rasamayi with Paradiso. Rasamayi will chant and play the Tibetan and crystal singing bowls.

FOR MUSICAL REMEDY CONCERT
Paradiso:
Didjeridoo, Keyboard, Theremin and Percussion.

For Bookings contact Rasamayi: Rasamayi@5thElementMusic.com or(310) 924-2660.

Discography

"3rd Eye Rising" 1/1/2011
"Himalayan Chakra Healing" 2010
"Middle Path" 2008
"Shaman's Trance" 2006
"Healing Vibes" 2004
"Circular" 2004
"Through Fields of Stars" 2002

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• Wood That There be Music [+ Show ]
  

  There isn't a more organic musical instrument on the planet than the didgeridoo. A native one is ...
  There isn't a more organic musical instrument on the planet than the didgeridoo. A native one is made out of a five foot piece of a conically shaped eucalyptus branch hollowed out by termites. Doesn’t get more natural than that except maybe the groaning, booming sound that it makes when played. Now blend that very unique sound with electronic vibes, some great songwriting and a host of other acoustic instruments and you can imagine where Shaman's Trance will take you. Occasionally it sounds like space music and sometimes it is ambient, but it is always fascinating. It takes someone like Paradiso (Turturici) with a powerful imagination that crosses paths with deep spirituality to mix a didgeridoo with a Theremin. The result comes out sounding like a soulful journey that you can take in the comfort of your living room and come back with spiritual souvenirs.
  
  Time Lapse opens the album with a low, rhythmic lead over a crystalline background. Honestly, it could be music you might hear if you stared long enough into an infinity mirror. This is space music. The journey is real. The rattles you hear have a strobe effect. Mentally, the images change every few seconds. The total picture is for you to formulate in your own mind. The tune is neither relaxing, nor is it frantic. As intentioned, it is a facilitator.
  
  The next tune Ancient Waterways is a favorite. Natural sounds blend effortlessly with the primal music of water as it seeks its own level. Be it a cascading waterfall, a raging river, or a deceptively quiescent ocean as the givers of life, nourishment to a planet. Tinkling notes over ambient waves makes this tune a soothing reprieve.
  
  The didgeridoo is the lead instrument in the song Land of Free Space. The title is a double entendre of a place where the spirit can flourish as well a place that is priceless. It could be in your backyard, in the neighboring forest or in your fertile mind. The droning didgeridoo murmurs along with some high frequency electronics and some warm synth washes of sound as you feel like you’ve just landed in a fantastic world. It is ready to explore.
  
  The most dramatic piece is the finale called Truth of Nothingness. There’s one to ponder. It’s like of one those Chinese riddles, isn't it?Inorganic voices over a bass didgeridoo background and shifty flourishes of sound mixed with twinkling synthetics and thumping drum. It is as if Paradiso is an ambient juggler and he catches and throws the notes and sounds and manages to keep them suspended in perfect rotation. It is a remarkable tune.
  
  Paradiso is a sound therapist, massage therapist and holistic health practitioner and fortunately for us, a talented musician. His training allows him to understand the real power of music in the regimen of holistic healing. I have always said that all music has cathartic properties and this album is a perfect example. Paradiso's electronic crossover album is an anomalous mix of organic and inorganic instruments that when balanced create a therapeutic listening environment. All you have to do really is sit back, listen and accept. Your spirit will do the rest.
  

• Middle Path [+ Show ]
  

  PARADISO Middle Path 5th Element Music (2008) In many cases, when a didgeridoo is used as the p...PARADISO
  Middle Path
  5th Element Music (2008)
  
  In many cases, when a didgeridoo is used as the principal or secondary instrument on a recording, this frequently dictates either an ethno-ambient or world fusion influence. However, now after earlier hearing Fiona Joy Hawkins’ Ice: Piano Slightly Chilled and now with Paradiso’s Middle Path, I can throw that assumption out the window. Where Hawkins took the Australian aboriginal wind instrument and integrated it into contemporary chill-out, multi-instrumentalist Paradiso relegates it to a more textural/tonal role with barely a trace of the tribal or ethnic aspect. Yes, the “didge” here still “sounds like” it usually does, with its familiar bark, growl, and buzzing. However, the way the artist merges these sonic footprints amongst the assortment of electronic keyboards (which themselves vary from new age to ambient to spacemusic to electronica) is something which surprised me, which shouldn’t since the CD cover states that the album is “Electronic Crossover with Didgeridoo.” Well, I believe that statement now.
  
  The eleven tracks (almost seventy minutes of music) each trek across a subtly (and sometimes pronounced) different musical landscape. Besides didgeridoo and keyboards, Paradiso also contributes on theremin, drums, Tibetan bowls and chants, the latter of which are heard on “Glistening Sky,” a song with a more overt EM sound combined with a midtempo percussive effect that is hard to describe. “Angel of Chimes,” which opens the album, employs the keyboards more as new age music “coloring,” with patient Liquid Mind-like washes and pads over the background didge. Reverberating tones occasionally ring over the flowing synth lines. The SF-titled “Winds of Mars” opens with a haunting drone but evolves into a curious mixture of swirling spacemusic and muted trap kit drum snare/bass drum rhythms, eventually building into waves of retro analogue-sounding synths and twinkling tones, all the while with an undercurrent of buzzing and sparsely barking didge. From outer space, Paradiso takes the listener into deep blue waters on “Ocean’s Spirits,” another foray into more “typical” electronic new age music, and featuring my old bugaboo, whale song. Oh well, as Paradiso uses it here, it’s not too distracting amidst the didge, layers of shimmering synths and keyboard washes/pads. After that, it’s into the deep woods on the arboreal “Cry of the Crickets” accented with wooden percussion, the titular nocturnal creatures, muted drum beats, and a serene sense of nighttime bliss.
  
  Of the remaining tracks, the one that comes the closest to sounding what “typical” didgeridoo music is the aptly titled “Shaman’s Flight” owing to a lot more hand percussion and ethno-tribal beats, but even here the electronics are pronounced enough that you’re never going to mistake this for world fusion music. “Dolphins Healing” features the little sea critters lending their own voices now and then as well as the sparse application of Tibetan bowls. “Transport” is probably the most overt electronica piece on the CD, sometimes reminding me of Crown Invisible’s music, owing to a shuffling chill-out beat at the outset. There’s also a hint of Berlin school EM near the track’s conclusion.
  
  Make no mistake, though. You will not enjoy Middle Path if you don’t like didgeridoo music. Just because the instrument doesn’t step out and command center stage attention often doesn’t mean you won’t know it’s there. However, Paradiso’s ambient/new age electronic music is more than compelling and mesmerizing enough that the didge can be heard merely as a contributing factor to the overall musical motif, not defining it. As such, if ambient/spacemusic fans can look past the new age cover art, they’re liable to enjoy this as much as those for whom I imagine the artist intended it. I enjoyed exploring this relatively undiscovered aspect to the Australian instrument and I recommend the album.
  
  Bill Binkelman
  New Age Reporter
  

• Paradiso is a master indeed! [+ Show ]
  

  This album begins with the primeval sounds of didjeridoo and gentle electronic keyboards. You can si...This album begins with the primeval sounds of didjeridoo and gentle electronic keyboards. You can sit down and simply relax. Your journey to your inner self starts… And it will be very exciting with Paradiso’s music.
  
  Something shamanic and bewitching is present in his didjeridoo playing. And his music is very meditative. One can feel the voice of Mother Earth in the deep didjeridoo sounds. You can come back to your own primordial nature and feel your true essence. Maybe you will wonder how much you lost yourself in the present hectic world. But your own essence was with you all this time and it stays here for now. Feel it, be with it, it is so easy…
  
  Paradiso is a master indeed. His didjeridoo playing is refined and the sound of “Middle Path” is perfect. Listen to this album and feel that the transformation time of our world is imminent. This world will be transformed but each human being must change oneself first...
  

• This CD stands out as the year’s best [+ Show ]
  

  Middle Path, by Paradiso, is another rare gem. 2008 is only three months old but this CD stands out ...Middle Path, by Paradiso, is another rare gem. 2008 is only three months old but this CD stands out as the year’s best. Indeed, it will take a brilliant effort to surpass it. While Paradiso (*) guards his birth name closely, he does not make any effort to protect his mission. He is a Shaman and is crusading to enhance humanity’s relationship with Mother Earth. “We are at a time when Mother Earth is going through a transition. We are the granted souls who are witnessing the change through human eyes.”
  
  This CD, while divided into 11 tracks, is actually one large soundscape with several subscapes. Paradiso’s sound design incorporates exotic instruments (didgeridoos, Tibetan bowls and a Theremin), simple chants, percussion and electronics. He uses simple drones as his base. He builds atmospheres from the drones. He surrounds the atmospheres with rhythms and airs to create deep introspective space music.
  
  Thus, musical greatness surrounds listeners and fills the environment with awareness and sensitivity. Deep listeners will be rapt as the music takes hold and guides them on a search for and of the soul — the soul of the essence of life! The resonance and overtones are powerful!
  
  This CD is that brilliant as well. It is a collector’s dream — an ambient high — to find albums that have such an impact. It can be transformational in its own right.
  

Setlist

Group Sound Healing Concert

last around 1 1/2 hours.
Improvised music evoked by the physical, emotional and spiritual energies of those in attendance; there is no set list.

Musical Remendy Concert

Set 1 65 minutes

Heaven on Earth
Time Lapse
Angle of Chimes
Ancient Waterways
Ocean's Spirits
Wind of Mars
Mirrors Of Karma
Cry of the Crickets
Tibetans Dream
Shaman's Trance
Soldiers Awakening

Set 2 58 minutes

Mountains of Glory
Glistening Sky
Dolphins Healing
Passage to India
Shaman's Flight
Mystery of High Places
Reincarnation Incoming
Oceans Chant
The Land of Free Space
Transport
Truth of Nothingness

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