Hello everyone!
today I want to talk about my own ambient/acoustic/indian band called
The Dharma Fire
Watch out - If this post gets enough upvotes we will open our Bandcamp page to download our EP for free!
Read all the details at the bottom of the post
Let's start with some history: the project started in 2010, in Pisa (Italy) with me (Andrea Mosca) and the guy called "Captain Check".
I was playing Indian sitar and electronics and he played keyboards.
this is me playing indian sitar
We managed to record our first EP called "The Dharma Fire EP", a 4 tracks album, which you can listen free here: https://dharmafire.bandcamp.com
The recording, production and postproduction were quite long, so it took us some years to finish it and publish it on Bandcamp in 2014.
We created out first video clip using our song "Madhar" and extracts from the Creative Commons cartoon "Sita sings the Blues" by Nina Paley (http://www.sitasingstheblues.com)
(this video, published on my personal youtube channel , had more than 40,000 views and turned out to be the most successful thing we did since now)
Then Captain Check moved to Japan for some years and we managed to create this cool video using some footage he took on Japan mountains of Kanagawa province, which is here on youtube (on the Dharma Fire official channel)
After that, I met a very smart guy which plays Indian tabla, flute, drums and other percussions and spent some years in India to practice tabla playing,
He his Erberto Mario Marino and you can find him on Facebook on his personal artist page (italian language) https://www.facebook.com/Mario-Marino-290898484300518/?fref=ts
Mario, which also works as a certified music therapist in Italy, turned out to be a great friend and musician, so we started collaborating together and playing around Tuscany (Italy).
Meanwhile, thanks to the help of the smart friend and developer Mikko Ohtamaa, Dharma Fire became the first italian band to accept Bitcoin for their music, on the bitcoin music website http://www.libertymusicstore.net .
Note that for technical problems the website is not actually selling music, even if you can still browse bands.
Mikko, which is actually here on Steemit as 
, is currently developing a new, Steem-based music service - you can read his feed here on Steemit for further info about that.
The cool thing about his website is that he never took a single satoshi for this service which was 100% free and open to everyone for years! Big credits and respect to him!
So let's go back to the Dharma Fire now...
We were performing in Italy as a duo, then we decided to call Mauricio ( 
We also managed to hire a spectacular female singer for the band, Sara, while Captain Check is still away and keeps himself available only for next recording sessions of our next album.
So we became a quartet and kept performing in Italy.
You can listen to two concert extracts of our last concert near Florence here:
So why we are different from other bands?
- we make relaxing/meditation/therapeutic music to help people to feel better
- we play with all our instruments tuned with A at 432hz, with gives special vibrations and is quite different from common 440hz tuned music (read this for further info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_pitch or a great Steemit post here https://steemit.com/music/@doogee/why-do-i-keep-hearing-about-432 )
- we mix different musical traditions, indian, ambient, soft electronic, music therapy, lounge
- we were the first italian band to accept bitcoin and we strongly support crypto currency since years
But now let's talk about our musical giveaway, finally!
If this post receives more than 200 upvotes, we will immediately open our Bandcamp page to avail free download of our EP for everyone for an entire week !
if this post receives more than 350 upvotes, we will give free download of our EP for everyone for an entire month
if we get more than 500 upvotes, we will allow free download of our EP forever, for everyone !
Please remember that creating music is a real effort and requires years of dedication, study and sacrifice.
We really need your support to go on and create new music. Only crypto people and Steemit users can help us to go on!
Thank you in advance - The Dharma Fire Band - Italy
Links to our pages on the internet:
The Dharma Fire on Blogger - http://dharmafire-music.blogspot.it
The Dharma Fire on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dharmafiremusic/
The Dharma Fire on Bandcamp - http://dharmafire.bandcamp.com
The Dharma Fire on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmRxXoCvXEtPXuleEQ08Y-w
The Dharma Fire on Liberymusicstore - https://libertymusicstore.net/buy-music-online/the-dharma-fire/bitcoin/
Note - to certify that we are the real members of Dharma Fire, we put the link to this post to our official pages on Facebook and Blogger!