My avatar recording character DJ Sven “Ginge” Andersen is the releasing artist name for my new, hopefully interesting album, THE DREAMTIME.

This is an instrumental studio recording, done at my studio here in South Wairarapa, Underhill Studios. Consisting of seven slow, ambient tracks each some distance over ten minutes in duration, we have a total of two hours and one minute of music aimed at assisting meditation, sleep and centering oneself.

Close your eyes…

Opening track AVIARY is intended to give you a visual of the world before the coming of sentient life. Picture yourself floating on a breeze, awakening to the sights of a fresh world as it awakens with you. Aimed at assisting with thought refocus and removing invasive negativities into one’s subconscious and conscious thought. 15 minutes 03 seconds long.

Track two is CARNIVALE. This looks to give you a visualisation of the life of Roma people from a bird’s eye perspective and the nuance of mood music. Carnivale is intended for people to zone out on long train, bus, air or sea travel. It ebbs and flows with light and dark and is aimed at helping thoughts to drift. 17 minutes 56 seconds long.

Track three is called NGARRANGGARNI. This is a word from one of the languages of Australia’s Indigenous peoples, referred to as Aborigines by many. The word translates to THE DREAMTIME, and is by definition the title track to this album. Picture the vast swathes of red sands and rock, scarcely seen harsh scrubland, and thriving peoples within this terrain, holding the wisdom of tens of millennia in how to flourish here. This is a song aimed at providing a feeling of awakening, turning into wondrous discovery and questioning. This can unclutter the mind and lead to deeper focus on the day ahead. 16 minutes forty seconds long.

Fourth on the track list is HIRAETH. This track is designed to give you the visual of a pasture rich lowland juxtaposed by striking hills, covered in dark evergreen trees and capped with forbidding grey swirls of cloud. The mood swings to people living amongst this and not just witnessing but being pivotal to some of the most fundamental cultural shifts of human society – the Industrial Revolution. Central to this were the South Wales Valleys, for which the track has some echoes of children’s voices as well as the sounds of coal mining, steel working and dock working men and women. HIRAETH is a word in the Welsh language, Cymraeg, and has no direct translation into English. It refers to a loving, longing and melancholy for a time, place and people that are now past or out of reach. This is a track designed to decentralize one’s thoughts from a busy day or event. 18 minutes 21 seconds long.

Track five is called TE TAMAITI A TE TANIWHA, which is Māori for THE CHILD OF THE TANIWHA. A Taniwha is a creature of Aotearoa/New Zealand indigenous folklore, that lives under the water beside the riverbank. Some are friendly. Some are not. The track is aimed at giving you the vision of the islands of Aotearoa before the coming of humans, when the only creatures living there were insects and their kind, and an immense array of birdlife from the smallest to the now extinct giant Moa or the Giant Eagle. This is a track designed to aid one to drift off to sleep, adult or child. 22 minutes 20 seconds long.

Track number six is PUESTA K’IIN MAYA. This is Mayan for MAYAN SUNSET. Its intent is to put you as a fly on the wall during one of the great Mayan Empire eras, living in and around great stone cities surrounded by the all consuming, swampy and deadly jungles of Central America. Climb the pyramid as an elderly priest sits to watch the sun drop behind the endless canopy of green from his place of meditation at the very pinnacle of the city’s reach to the sun. The jungle life continues as the civilization thrives and declines. This is a deceptively understated track, with a lively character that compels your journey through the wild terrain, in search of where these Mayans once stood all powerful. What is around the next tree? This track is not intended for restful thought – rather for stimulation of the mind’s eye for the creative person in whichever field they excel. Creativity is not restricted to the Arts. If you excel in business, in medicine, in academia, follow the Mayan Sunset to stimulate your journey for the day. 13 minutes 26 seconds long.

Finally we reach track seven, WANIYETU LAKOTA. The great Sioux Nation of North America refers to itself as the LAKOTA, and WANIYETU LAKOTA is the Sioux translation for LAKOTA WINTER. Wrap up in your blankets beneath the arch of your tipi, closer to the fire in the middle, as an elder smokes meat from a recent hunt. You use the entirety of your catch, the meat, the skin, the offal, the bones. Your shaman gives thanks to the ancestors as the prairie grows colder and the storms are coming – thanks for the skill of your Braves who provide the means for your women to create what is needed to survive the winter. Migrate from the windswept, rain soaked prairie to the sheltering embrace of the valleys at the foothills of the sacred Black Hills, and revel in family and belonging. This is a track that can be used to aid sleep, but is more intended to inspire thoughts of loved ones and close friends, and to create a dopamine flow from warmth and comfort, within and without. Think of the centuries the Sioux people had this lifestyle and resolve to keep your loved ones close to your heart. Let your thoughts wander and find a centre in love. 17 minutes 20 seconds long.

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