Hey everyone, my new double album is finally ready! It sums up 10 years of my journey with the handpan so it's a very important milestone for me. It took a lot of work and a lot of dedication to make it, and finally today it's released! Please enjoy and share! You can order a digital download or stylish USB card with 24 tracks. Physical CD and USB card available, and of course a digital download!

New chapter: EOX TonguepanNew top quality Tongue InstrumentHi all!We're exited to announce the new top quality Tonguepan instrument which from now on is available for the order from our website Eoxdrum.com. EOX is a top quality steel tongue drum (tonguepan) with unique enchanting sound. It is designed and handcrafted in St Petersburg with proprietary technology. Currently it is one of the best sounding steel tongue drums on the market. EOX Drum has a very distinct sound timbre with a deep resonance between the tongues and a crystal clear high end. It sounds very reach, calm and clean because each tongue of our instrument has several harmonics tuned (from 3 to 7) and it is made from thick 3 mm steel. It's a perfect instrument for solo playing and also perfect addition for the low tonguepans like RAV VAST to extend your playing range to higher octave. Check out the video of EOX D Sabai 12: Check out the video of EOX E Golden Arcadia 12 (regular):  EOX has a long sustain and a pleasant look that distinguishes it from all other steel tongue drums.Besides that we apply a multi-stage treatment which make the tongues resonant and responsive.EOX Tonguepan is an ideal companion for many activities such as meditation, sound therapy and healing sessions (we can also build EOX in 432 Hz reference on request), early musical education for kids, for yoga classes, or just for daily recreational use as a perfect tool to calm down and rebalance after stressful working day.Professional musicians will also benefit from using EOX and successfully enrich their live sets and studio recordings by remarkable unique sounding and precisely tuned instrument with attractive look.EOX is really easy to approach for beginners and get your first beautiful sounds out of it. You don’t need any musical education or playing background to start having fun with it. Unlike handpans the EOX is very robust and doesn’t require regular retuning which also makes it very user friendly and long living instrument.Another great feature of EOX is its portability and travel friendliness. You just use a normal cabin baggage trolley or standard small backpack to bring our Medium and Small EOX model on board of any budget aircraft. EOX fits even in a small cabin bag! So you have no stress and hassle with airlines. (Already successfully tested even with Ryanair!

RAV Drum

We’re really exited to introduce the new product in our shop: RAV drum.  YOU CAN ORDER IT HERE

 This is a truly revolutionary instrument in a family of metal tuned percussion. Due to special patented technology there's up to 6 harmonics tuned on each tongue. On a central note of drum there's 7 harmonics tuned. It's possible to separate those harmonics and extend the range of the instrument to full 2 octaves of the scale. Imagine 8 bells tuned to the scale and on each of them all the partials are tuned as well! That's how we would describe the sound of this instrument.

"Tales of Ro", the first video of SOLUS LOCUS Orchestra project. Nadishana - pantam SpB Loup Barrow - cristal baschet (crystal organ) Manu Delago - hang Thomas Bloch - ondes martenot Music, arrangement and video production by Nadishana Ro, or Roe is a mythological island from the Kuzhebar folklore. Recorded and filmed in Rennes, FR, 17.01.2015 Thanks to Gaëlle Evellin (filming), Nacho Martinez Castelli (filming), Thomas Bloyet (recording), Gwendal Le Flem - photo

Nadishana, interview for the "Koha Ditore" newspaper, Prishtine, Kosova

1. What's special on ethno music?

Well, just the fact that for thousands years there was no other music on earth besides ethno music. It's an immense amount of knowledge accumulated by generations of masters in different cultures. I think It makes ethno music interesting enough for anyone who's serious about music in general.

2. How did you start experimenting with instruments? (A detailed story about first steps, challenges, triumphs)

I started my musical self-education in 90s. There were no internet and no info about ethnic music then. Nowadays you can go to some supermarket and buy a djembe or a jaw harp. But that time in Russian province you couldn't buy any ethnic instruments. Nobody even heard about such a thing. But that was the time when I just got some tapes with amazing traditional music from India, Africa, Indonesia etc. That was a revolution in my mind. I understood, that what we usually define as "music" is probably just 1% of amazing variety which exists in reality. On that tapes they were playing on some unbelievable instruments producing fascinating sounds. And you couldn't understand how these instruments look like, how they work, what is the construction or how the sound is produced. The only way to have instruments that time was to make them yourself from anything what you can find around you. And then also find your own way of playing, because there was no one who could teach you. Well, me and my friend were trying to reproduce somehow the sounds we heard, and we began to make weird instruments from tins, bottles, springs, plates, water tubes, rubber bands, ceramic pots, shellac disks.. We were so obsessed! Regarding the challenges I can give you some examples. That's how I made my 1st "dumbek". 1st of all you should understand the construction of the instrument. Since there was no internet, to see the real instrument you had to travel to visit one of 2 instruments museums, in St. Petersburg or in Moscow. There you could see which shape of the body is traditionally used and how to put straps etc. Then you had to get a ceramic body and a specially treated drum skin. I made a deal with my friend from ceramic factory and she got an unprocessed ceramic vase for me. The security was patrolling the factory wall, so we had to wait until they would pass and then my friend passed me the vase over the wall. After this I had to go to the workshop of another friend, who has cut the bottom of the vase on a machine. Then I managed to get a key from the room where they were stored old pioneer drums. Some of the drums had skin on the top, so I could get these skins. As the last step I had to put that skin on the vase with the glue and straps. So whole thing use to take a lot of time and effort as you can imagine.

Nadishana - portable dzuddahord, hybrid kaval, beer can, glass bottle, hadgini udu, jaw harp, composition. Anton Davidyants - 4-str. bass Takku Ta Tei - the folklore of nonexistent nation. Nonexistent music on nonexistent instruments. This is an example of what i call "inner folklore". I was grown up in the country where traditional culture is killed, but one cannot survive without roots! So the answer to this situation is to grow the "folklore" from within yourself. The song is pretty much all about that. I want to express my sincere thanks to Anton Davidyants for learning and playing this crazy bass part. He accepted the challenge despite it was really uncomfortable part. to make it work. As you see on the video he even uses his left thumb to make some chords with long stretching and he has to tune one string quickly half tone down and then back, because this piccolo bass does not have enough range to cover the written part. About unusual instruments used in that video: Stringed instrument with sitar-like sound is a new portable version of Dzuddahord made by my request https://nadishana.com/index.php/en/stringed/item/230-dzuddahord It has 6 individual sitar bridges (javari) for each string and played with mizrab (sitar plectrum) It has a lot of complex electronic inside very small body and collapses to fit in a small bag! Weigth - 2,6 kg. The dream of multi-instrumentalist :) The woodwind instrument is hybrid kaval, an experimental instrument. You can play with different embouchures on it as you see on a video. Here I use turkish position (in a corner of the mouth) and khakass siberian position (on a 3rd tooth) Some junkphones are used on that video as well. Regular beer can which i found at the trash. It has wonderful long sustained sound with 3 clear harmonics, which you can isolate (as on tabla). I play here with harmonic isolation technique: I have my left thumb most of the time on a membrane to isolate highest overtone, unlike on tabla, where they use right ring finger for the same purpose. Glass bottle is what we use in Siberia to preserve vegetables for the winter. It works great with the brush (see the accompaniment during bass solo). Jaw harp is a chinese kou xiang. It was recorded live in a Monkey Forest (Ubud). Filmed in: - Bali: Changgu seashore & Ubud Monkey forest - Germany: Sound Microsurgery Department studio & Berlin Aquarium - Russia: Art-Mamuka studio, Moscow Julia Surba - design concepts, filming Produced by Nadishana @ Sound Microsurgery Department, Berlin, June 2014 Special thanks: Aquarium curator Rainer Kaiser Filming in Moscow: Mamuka Helashvili

Here is some body percussion, inspired by Sympla real time tracking algorithm.

"Sympla" is programmed by my friend and bandmate Armin Metz. https://arminmetz.com

He's fantastic musician and bass player, check his videos at https://www.youtube.com/user/arminmetz He filmed this video in his studio when i was visiting him in Hildesheim.

From the 1st concert of our new trio line up. We've met at Krutushka festival, Russia, rehearsed for 2 days and performed for the 1st time on a festival stage. David Kuckhermann - hang SpB (F integral/Db Dom7), foot rattle, riq Nadishana - turkish kaval, hang SpB Stephan Braun - cello Live @ Крутушка 2013 Festival Thanks to Julia Surba, Alexandr Batrakov, Dina Bashkirova, "Tyloburdo", "Voronovo Krylo" for the help!

https://nkm.nadishana.com Nadishana - dzuddahord David Kuckhermann - udu, cajon Armin Metz - 6-string fretless bass Filmed by Julia Surba Dzuddahord is a blend of guitar, mandola and sitar. It has 11 additional symphatetic strings (taraff) which are also possible to play as a 'harp'

It's a studio version, made by overdubbing. You can see all 7 instruments at 6:17 Nadishana - bansuri, utar, cajudoo, cajon, concept & arrangement. Dima Gorelik - guitar Valeri Tolstov - keyboards Beat Gisler - bass Filmed by Valeri Tolstov in Berlin and Zurich Special thanks to Julia Surba. Thanks to Hands On-Drums for the cajudoo. Produced by Nadishana at Sound Microsurgery Department, June 2013, Berlin