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Kodama and The God Within

Get Othon's exclusive 'Kodama' release and help him create his new piano album 'The God Within'

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Kodama and The God Within

Kodama and The God Within

Kodama and The God Within

Kodama and The God Within

Kodama and The God Within

Get Othon's exclusive 'Kodama' release and help him create his new piano album 'The God Within'

Get Othon's exclusive 'Kodama' release and help him create his new piano album 'The God Within'

Get Othon's exclusive 'Kodama' release and help him create his new piano album 'The God Within'

Get Othon's exclusive 'Kodama' release and help him create his new piano album 'The God Within'

Othon
Othon
Othon
Othon
2 Campaigns |
London, United Kingdom
$10,971 USD $10,971 USD 100 backers
108% of $10,104 Fixed Goal Fixed Goal
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Overview
Hello and welcome to the piano-beating universe of ‘Kodama' and ‘The God Within’. This campaign involves two albums, the first of which is completed and the other in the making. In a nutshell, I am offering exclusively to you my unreleased new album 'Kodama', in an exchange for your loving support and help towards the realisation of 'The God Within' aimed to the world at large. Highly collectable perks, including Dan Hillier's forthcoming artwork for 'The God Within', are on offer!

Kodama and The God Within

Kodama and The God Within are two works which follow consecutively my journey from the Ayahuasca awakening of Pineal to the search of my Eternal Self or God Within.

Kodama is completed and The God Within is on the writing process. Kodama has taken its title and inspiration from the spirits that, according to Japanese folklore (and the Greek tradition, as Dryads), inhabit a number of old trees in the forest. These trees are said to possess supernatural powers, they are often protected and there is mystery surrounding them to this day. When they are cut, their painful cries can be heard across the forest.This album is a reflection on our relationship with the natural world, our Spirit and our ability to let go, with tracks such as ‘Father’, ‘Mother’ and ‘Limitless’ being some of the most personal works I have written to date.

The God Within began forming while working with Wolfgang Tillmans for our show at The Tate Modern in March and since then I have been returning to it whenever I had the time and space. My wish with this project is to strip further myself and my sound and create a fluid and intimate album in which one piano song is mixed into the other (much like a DJ set). Here, the ‘Soul Sailor’ sails into the depths of the inner sea in search of the lighthouse that can rescue him and bring him ashore. The songs are joined with passages of meditative or ecstatic improvisations, a technique I explored for the first time at the Tate concert. This allows me to create music and explore transcendental states in one unifying creative activity and demands my controlling conscious personality to subside to allow for the Higher Self create its own magic.

The two albums share much on their energies; they are both centered around the piano. They are also highly visual, dreamy and evocative, and on each one I am experimenting subtly (or not so subtly) with electronics and recording techniques in order to create the right environment, pulse, or atmosphere. But whereas with Kodama I am still journeying, albeit with a clear sense of direction, with The God Within I feel I am a little closer to arriving.

 

A Collaboration with Artist Dan Hillier and with String Performances by The McCarricks

I am very honoured and humbled to be collaborating on this project with one of my favourite living artists. I have been a fan of Dan Hillier’s work for many years and his  beautiful limited edition prints grace our home. Dan's work has been shown in galleries as diverse as the Louvre in Paris, the Think Conservatory in New York City and The Giant Creator show in Beijing, China.  His most recent solo show, 'Ceremony', was at Saatchi Gallery in London in December 2016 to January 2017. He occasionally collaborates with others, most recently with the UK Brit Award winners Royal Blood, providing artwork for their eponymous number one album, and with Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London where his work themed the 'Wonder' season of 2016 - 2017. Dan will be creating original artwork for both albums.

The McCarricks are the combining force of cellist/multi-instrumentalist Martin McCarrick and violinist Kimberlee McCarrick. They have been creating their own otherworldly work as well as collaborating with Marianne Faithfull, Gary Numan, Sinéad O’Connor and other legendary artists. They were my special guests at the ‘Kodama’ (work in progress) concert at SPILL Festival and worked with Marc Almond, Jeremy Reed and I on the project Against Nature. Martin was a long-term member of Siouxsie and the Banshees and a member of This Mortal Coil and has performed with Dead Can Dance and other 4AD bands.

Dan Hillier's 'Field' with gold leaf and drawing by the artist (2016)


Your Help, Levels of Support and What’s Next

There is something really beautiful about doing a crowd-finding campaign. Being a composer is mostly a solitary work and is just so much nicer to share the journey, to communicate my thoughts to you beyond sound! As for this combined double project, I also feel a calm but driving urgency; I do not wish to wait another year or two to start recording The God Within, praying that a big enough label will arrive with a fat cheque to help me do so. I rather use the funds from this campaign to start the process straight way, while the iron is still hot. For whereas with Kodama I am happy to keep things small, with The God Within, I want to ‘sing’ to the world at large and your help, be it with your sharing, youtube comments and buzz-creating enthusiasm or by providing me with the funds to get a PR on board, would be just what I need to share the gift I have been given with whoever wants to receive it.


Where Your Money Will Go

Though I am asking for the minimum of £8,000 for a basic recording & mastering of The God Within, anything extra would go towards adding finishing touches, lush and beauty to the album. If there are still funds left, PR and marketing would be my next priority. I cannot foresee the future but what I know is this; that with these works I have been moving with deeper clarity towards my centre and for that reason they are more Othon than anything Othon has created so far.

 

Just for You

For now, I am not planning to release Kodama ‘officially’, even as a ‘self-release’ on iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. The only ‘Kodama platform' will be my own Bandcamp page, where fans would be able to purchase the digital album and (potentially) any remaining copies of the Limited Edition Kodama Boxes, in collaboration with Dan Hillier, directly from me. On the same page, fans will also be able to find credits and information about the album. In this way, I will keep this release really special & intimate and focused on you. Later on, an official release of Kodama is possible, but even so, I am not planning on creating any Kodama Boxes again EVER in the future.These will be limited to the numbers described in the Perks and will be connected exclusively to THIS campaign.

 

Thanks to

Owen Pratt for the video and his generous technical help with everything. David Sayers and Graham Rutter for financing towards equipment necessary to mix Kodama at home, in my own time. Dan Hillier and The McCarricks who are bringing their wonderful worlds and artistry into the project. Marlena Giersz for the campaign photo. Gabriel Toso, Christoph Bracher and Hector de Gregorio for their advice and help on many different levels.

 

A vision shared is a vision worth having. Thank you all for being part of It.

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Kodama Digital Album

Currency Conversion $13 USD
£10 GBP
Get a digital download of the full Kodama album in the quality & format of your choice. This will be available to you as soon as the campaign is over.
Included Items
  • Kodama Digital Download
Estimated Shipping
October 2017
18 claimed

Limited Edition Kodama Box

Currency Conversion $51 USD
£40 GBP
Receive one of 100 Limited Edition Kodama Boxes with a special-made design by Dan Hillier. These beautifully-crafted super-collectable boxes will be made of wood, each one will have a unique number and will include a wood-covered USB stick with high quality wave and 320kbps mp3 files of all Kodama tracks.
Included Items
  • Kodama Digital Download
  • Limited Edition Kodama Box
Estimated Shipping
October 2017
41 out of 100 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Super-Limited Kodama Box +

Currency Conversion $126 USD
£100 GBP
Receive one of 20 Limited Edition Kodama Boxes, numbered and as described on £40 pledge. These will also include a personal home-video message of thanks to each one of you together with a short piano improvisation.
Included Items
  • Kodama Digital Download
  • Super-Limited Kodama Box
Estimated Shipping
October 2017
6 out of 20 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Home Performance, Original Art

Currency Conversion $632 USD
£500 GBP
Get invited to my place for an intimate gathering where I will perform for you at the piano and we will sip together champagne by candlelight. Receive 1 of 30 Exclusive and Limited Edition 76x76cms Screen Prints of Original Artwork for The God Within by Dan Hillier. The artist will join us for the Home Performance.
Included Items
  • Kodama Digital Download
  • Home Performance Invite
  • The God Within Original Art
Estimated Shipping
November 2017
2 out of 25 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Gold Leaf Original Art + + +

Currency Conversion $1,263 USD
£1,000 GBP
Receive One of 30 Limited Edition 76x76cms Screen Prints of Original Art for The God Within, by Dan Hillier, hand-finished with gold leaf and drawing by the artist. Get invited to my place with a guest for an intimate gathering where I will perform for you at the piano, you will meet Dan Hillier and we will sip together champagne by candlelight.
Included Items
  • Kodama Digital Download
  • Home Performance Invite (2)
  • Gold Leaf Finish Original Art
Estimated Shipping
November 2017
2 out of 5 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
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Soul Sailor Sailing Score +

Currency Conversion $316 USD
£250 GBP
Estimated Shipping
October 2017
1 out of 1 of claimed
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