tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49964140572494383782011-07-08T00:10:32.837+01:00Padmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980376895010869102noreply@blogger.comBlogger601100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996414057249438378.post-13350271516216242622010-05-21T10:57:00.002+01:002010-05-21T11:03:02.985+01:00

OK so it's not quite as shocking as MIA's new video, but it does feature a minority hair colour. Got to be worth a few Youtube views, surely.Here is the first video footage in support of the new album. There are more on the way, but for now, check out a live rendering of 'Consumers of the World, Unite!''Consumers' will be the first single from the album. You may be familiar with Karl Marx's

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I was supposed to be filming and doing a photo shoot this weekend. In the end the photo shoot got postponed, which worked out well since I was totally exhausted and it was chucking it down with rain all day. The filming went pretty smoothly though: Beautiful weather, beautiful room, did a nice live version of 'Consumers of the World, Unite!' complete with loop pedal, plus an interview for the EPK

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Even though the album isn't due out until mid-July, everything has to be rolling now so that I can get promo packs out to reviewers and radio in time, and start generating a bit of anticipation for when the album actually is available to buy.It's quite a job, releasing your own album. I mean, being a musician is plenty of work in itself - maybe get a blister on your little finger, maybe get a

Padmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980376895010869102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996414057249438378.post-14105659115689100832010-04-08T19:22:00.000+01:002010-04-08T19:23:26.042+01:00

Have you ever bought a download? Do you prefer to buy CDs? Would you be prepared to buy a book with a download in it and try downloading for the first time?Given that election fever is in the air (in the UK at least) and opinion polls are going to be coming out left, right and centre (hopefully more left than anything but I'm not holding my breath), I thought I would have my own.I am hoping to

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I am now the proud owner of a full-body arctic camouflage suit.I have decided to go with my gut. My gut is having visions. Last night's vision was me dressed as a soldier, standing in a forest for the photo shoot for my new album 'In Defence of the Wild'. Today I went shopping for an outfit.As some of you will know, my first album came out on a UK-based indie label and had a few thousand pounds

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I'm starting to look at booking a UK tour for later in the year. Where should I play? Who should I approach?I care about music so much that most of it drives me insane. Most of what I hear on the radio makes me want to smash things up. So it is perhaps unsurprising that my music does not sit comfortably in the standard live music scene.A room filled with beer-drinkers, chatting to each other

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This is a blog about my blog. My blog just got featured on the front page of The Independent website! Cool or what? Check it out:

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Since I'm pretty sure I am done with working on the album (hurray!), I have uploaded one song for you to listen to.Please buy it and help me fund the release!!!! You can pay a dollar (the cost of about three mouthfuls of coffee), or more if you want to generate some good karma, or want to email a copy to a bunch of your friends without feeling guilty.It's my version of This Land is Your Land by

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Yes friends, my second album will be a truly independent release. Just Music, the record company who released my first album, have decided that they don’t feel they can market it.To be honest, I agree with them. They are a chill and downtempo label, and my music has been moving increasingly away from chill. In fact, my aim with this album is to incite people to do the exact opposite of chill. I

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For a while now I've been a bit frustrated at being so dispersed across the internet. It doesn't feel very neat. So I just took a couple of days to pull everything together into a fully integrated, firing-on-all-cylinders, Rolls-Royce-of-the-internet type web experience that is PadmaLand!From now on my blogs will be posted there. There's also a section for video, Twitter updates, links to

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Greetings allSorry I'm being a terrible blogger at the moment. Got so much on with life and recording demos and writing the book that there isn't much time left for other things.So, quick brain dump for you:1. I've been thinking about the future of the internet. I think right now the internet is really big but, like life in general, it is going to get smaller. When Myspace, Youtube and a million

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At last I have sorted a musician page on facebook. A place where we can all hang out and comment on each other's statuses (or is that stati?) while being benignly observed by the CIA and other organisations with our best interests at heart.Please join us!

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Things have been quite busy of late.Went to a seminar on placing your music in TV, film and computer games. A couple of music producers came up from LA to talk about their work. So I am taking advantage of being on the West coast.I’ve always had an interest in the business side of the music business. I think I’ll probably even set up a label one day, when there's a good reason to do so (like I've

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This is a tekky post for people (like me) in the exciting position of just having bought a new midi controller keyboard.If you want to assign the transport keys (play, stop, record, etc) in Logic to the ones on your new toy, you may have a bit of trouble.I have just been scouting the internet for help. There's not much out there so I thought I would post this. It seems that you:Go to LogicPro/

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“Basically we’re making a vessel, we call it, that deals with shelter, of course, energy, food, water and air. Almost like on Walden Pond – those were the things Thoreau said people needed. Well, we need them, but we need them without nuclear power plants, we need them without power lines, and we need them without destroying the earth’s aquifiers. We need to provide them in each unit that we

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The other day, someone asked me my opinion on the MPs-expenses scandal which is currently providing journalists with something to write about in the UK.Parliamentary politics is of limited interest to me these days (I did a degree in politics) but the question still got me thinking.Basically, I have spent a lot of time being angry, disappointed, frustrated and outraged by the cruelty, greed and

Padmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980376895010869102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996414057249438378.post-48404999894568089692009-05-21T17:24:00.000+01:002009-05-21T17:30:15.277+01:00

Here's one of the things I did while I was in London:

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Dear AllA little while before I went off to the yurt there was a period when I was left utterly alone in my studio. After about 48 hours I emerged, exhausted, hungry and squinting into the daylight. The good news is I had given birth to a beautiful bouncing baby song. It was a fairly painless delivery and required no drugs. But it's not like my other kids.It's called 'The Bloke Downstairs'

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The community where I am living recycles 95 per cent of its waste. They are almost at the stage where they don't need the garbage truck to turn up. In fact there was a strike a while ago and no rubbish was collected for six weeks. It was piled up all over the city, but this community was fine.I bump into people on the stairs and have excellent conversations about vipassana meditation or art or

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Yep I have arrived. Just about over the jetlag and the mild strain of swine flu that I caught on the plane over. They just shouldn't let pigs on planes. It raises all kinds of issues about expressions starting with "If pigs could fly..."But I digress.Between leaving the yurt and arriving here I've been writing articles, doing interviews and performing on web TV. Thus not much time for

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“I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one ... I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amidst the mountains.” Thoreau, Walden.Captain’s blog. Stardate: Spring 2009.Six

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“We read that the traveller asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The boy replied that it had. But presently the traveller’s horse sank in up to the girths, and he observed to the boy, ‘I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom.’ ‘So it has,’ answered the latter, ‘but you have not got half-way to it yet.’”Thoreau, WaldenI’ve been spending the morning by the fire,

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Here is my little contribution. As you can hear, it was raining outside! It rained solid for 24 hours and the spring is now running well again. Thank you weather system!

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Just wanted to break from my usual one post a week to say that tomorrow (March 28th) at 8.30pm, you are warmly invited to turn off your lights for one hour.This is will be going on all over the planet: http://www.earthhour.org/I'll be turning off my (solar-powered, energy-efficient) light bulb and listening to the stove crackle, while imagining the planet as it was not so long ago. Beautiful

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Sorry, been a bit crap with getting the video sorted out again, but will endeavour to get something sorted mucho rapido....Several days later: Here you go..."Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores." Thoreau, WaldenDawn is rising as I write this. The embers from last night’s fire are still

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This week I’ve been writing an article on music and commercialism, which has just been published on this website. So this week’s blog is going to be a short one.As you can see from the video, I’ve spent a little time involved with the anti-autopista campaign. It’s excellent to see how quickly they are organising. Two people had been doing research into the health and environmental effects, and

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“The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever! The faint silvery warblings heard over the partially bare and moist fields from the blue-bird, the song-sparrow, and the red-wing, as if the last flakes of winter tinkled as they fell! What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations?” Thoreau, WaldenSpring has arrived (though a

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“...and now for many a year there will be no more rambling through the aisles of the wood, with occasional vistas through which you see the water. My muse may be excused if she is silent henceforth. How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?” Thoreau, WaldenAs you will see from the video, the main news this week is that a big utility company want to make an ‘electricity

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This week's quote is not from Thoreau, but from a Buddhist academic called David Loy, basically because I read an article of his this week and found it interesting.Also, an article of my own has been published on Off-Grid.net this week.And now for the blog:“... for many premodern societies, the physical conditions of their survival were often precarious, so we have embraced technology to control

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“A voice said to him – Why do you stay here and live this mean moiling life, when a glorious existence is possible for you? Those same stars twinkle over other fields than these. But how to come out of this condition and actually migrate thither? All that he could think of was to practise some new austerity, to let his mind descend into his body and redeem it, and treat himself with

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“While I enjoy the friendship of the seasons I trust that nothing can make life a burden to me.”Thoreau, WaldenYou can’t really plan your life here in the same way as you can in a city. It has been raining most of this week. Heavy rain. Parts of the land look like day three at Glastonbury festival. So that prevented me from working on various tasks which required me to be outside. The weather has

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This week began with a destructive unwanted visitor...“When I return to my house I find that visitors have been there and left their cards – either a bunch of flowers, or a wreath of evergreen, or a name in pencil on a yellow walnut leaf”Thoreau, WaldenOne thing that Thoreau never talks about in Walden are the hard times. The times when you think ‘Am I completely insane? Is it actually possible

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Here is this week's video blog at last! Had some trouble getting it uploaded.

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I have just realised that I left my copy of Walden in the studio at the BBC, so here's a quote from The Smiths:‘Fame, fame, fatal fame. It can play hideous tricks on the brain. But still I’d rather be famous than righteous or holy, anyday anyday anyday...’ Morrissey, Frankly Mr ShanklyI sit on my mountain at night sometimes and I look at the stars. And I think about the size of this universe. And

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My walk to get water:Happy new year. Hope you had an enjoyable festive season. Mine was ok. The weather has been terrible for weeks (see above) so life has been a bit more of a challenge, and I have been having to ration my electricity due to lack of sun, but I am settling into being here and continue to enjoy myself. I have noticed that I am beginning to stop comparing this life with living in

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Spending time in nature, having some time away from the distractions of life simply to be with myself, my mind is calming down, the internalised noise of the city is dying away, I am becoming aligned with the sounds and rhythms of the natural environment. My heart is opening, my dreams are becoming richer, I am starting to have realisations about who I am and how I am.The natural world isn’t just

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Spent the last few days snowed in on the mountain...And other news...I now have, not only a woodshed, but a woodshed filled with wood.You don’t need a chainsaw, you need friends who have a chainsaw.I built the woodshed in a frantic couple of hours, like some rabid sculptor channelling the muse.We were walking out in the hills about an hour away and found an old branch which was the perfect size

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Sorry, the inverter packed up a week or so ago so this video blog is a little short and a bit out of date. Got a new inverter now so the next video blog should bring us back up to speed. Anyway, here is the yurt as it was a couple of weeks ago...OLIVES AND OLIVE WOOD“Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection. I loved to have mine before my window … they warmed me twice, once while

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"My company has winnowed by my mere distance from town. I had withdrawn so far within the great ocean of solitude, into which the rivers of society empty, that for the most part, so far as my needs were concerned, only the finest sediment was deposited around me. Beside, there were wafted to me evidences of unexplored and uncultivated continents on the other side."Thoreau, WaldenSomeone looked at

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Last night was our first night in the yurt. Haven’t got the solar gear installed yet so no electricity for now. Hence no video blog yet.The last week was taken up with building the yurt. I have been consistent in my underestimation of the time required to make things happen here. I thought the yurt would take half a day to put up. A day tops. In the end it took more like four days. This was

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Yesterday I was packing yet more stuff into the car for transport to the new site when 8 kittens turned up. One of them found a snake (an adder) and started playing with it. He eventually killed it and ate it without getting bitten. The battery had run out on the camera :-(As a vegetarian I felt kind of weird about letting this happen, but these cats live outside and hunt for food. And in the

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This week, as well as showing my general day-to-day life, I talk a bit about the right to privacy. For those who are interested in this issue, you may wish to find out more here:http://www.noliberties.com/http://www.no2id.net/http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/I also mention Inter-Ference, the totally excellent Brighton-based performance poet:http://musiciam.co.uk/Inter_Ference.htmWORK: A

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Say what you have to say, not what you ought.Any truth is better than make-believe.Thoreau, WaldenI am currently sitting in a house in a village about an hour away from the land where the yurt will be. I will be based here for a couple of weeks while working on the land and erecting the yurt.So far it has been lots of fetching and carrying. The land is a couple of minutes walk from the nearest

Padmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980376895010869102noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996414057249438378.post-42004187264553771502008-10-24T18:41:00.005+01:002008-10-25T21:57:25.946+01:00

I am SO excited! It's like getting a pat on the head from God's offspring. Who I guess would be Jesus. Or Mohammed.http://www.belowzerobeats.com.I have just arrived in the mountains in Catalunya, Spain, from where I will be posting videos and written blogs as part of my Thoreau-esque project, 'Here; Or, Life in the Mountains'. Regularly. Promise.

Padmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980376895010869102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996414057249438378.post-32751169592961778022008-10-09T04:08:00.001+01:002008-10-09T04:14:35.397+01:00

I'm heading off down to Spain soon so life is very full. Fortunately I have a new camcorder to take with me on my travels. So here is my first video blog!

Padmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980376895010869102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996414057249438378.post-61312147374277492002008-09-28T14:50:00.003+01:002008-09-28T14:57:58.548+01:00

This morning I got up before dawn and ushered myself off to the BBC studios in Brighton to talk about nirvana and yurts.You can hear the interview online. It's on the Gavin Ashenden and Emily Jeffery show on BBC Southern Counties radio here.The interview is about 1h:35m in and is followed by an interview with Julie Birchall, who has apparently found God (but is still her usual belligerent self)

Padmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980376895010869102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996414057249438378.post-64268256060760967092008-09-22T23:56:00.005+01:002008-09-23T00:40:35.788+01:00

Ok so, I know I was supposed to be writing a follow-up to the thing on The Secret, and that will come. But given the events of the week, I feel compelled to put in my two penneth.Now normally I wouldn’t actually be that aware of the events of the week. I have no TV, so the emotional rollercoaster that is The News usually passes me by and I get along just fine. But this week I was interviewed on

Padmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980376895010869102noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996414057249438378.post-17340529434838867462008-09-12T00:29:00.002+01:002008-09-12T00:33:04.162+01:00

Dear readerIf you tried to pre-order the Entryphone EP from the post below, and found a broken link, I am pleased to say that the link is now fixed and works a treat. Not only that but you can now even buy the thing straight away - no pre-ordering required! How cool is that?Thank you for your continuing support.I remain, as ever, your humble servant,Padma

Padmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980376895010869102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996414057249438378.post-71091923366302255852008-08-27T17:22:00.001+01:002008-09-12T00:28:27.034+01:00

'Song for an Entryphone', the second EP from 'Here', will be released on 15 September.The EP features three tracks: * Song for an Entryphone * Waiting for Dolma (Extended mix) * Little Boxes The EP is a digital-only release. You can buy it here.A video featuring an acoustic version of 'Entryphone' is available on Youtube:

Padmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980376895010869102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996414057249438378.post-23113872742407141862008-08-20T18:11:00.003+01:002008-08-20T19:14:28.135+01:00

The Secret to ‘The Secret’ Part 1Recently, I played at the Buddhafield festival. It was great. Apart from the general peace-and-love vibe (which re-charged my batteries and left me determined to keep going in this quest to live authentically and completely), it was great because I got to hook up with a lot of old friends.At about 3am one night/morning, I was sitting in a dimly lit café with one

Padmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980376895010869102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996414057249438378.post-63631986121279984192008-07-02T22:11:00.001+01:002008-07-02T22:11:57.933+01:00

I called the album ‘Here’ for a few different reasons. Firstly because I had a brain haemorrhage a couple of years ago, and the odds of me still being here right now (and in a state which would allow me to make the album) were by no means in my favour.But also, if I had to distil the Buddha’s teaching into one word, that’s the word I would choose. Being fully present, in this moment, where we

Padmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980376895010869102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996414057249438378.post-51918751552256765362008-06-06T01:17:00.002+01:002008-06-06T01:34:20.135+01:00

The other night I watched a BBC drama about Mary Whitehouse. As a kid I instinctively disliked her. Everything she said seemed nonsensical to me – even at the age of eight or whatever I was. Conversely, there was something about seeing the Sex Pistols on TV that seemed completely right. I had no idea what a ‘sex pistol’ was, and I didn’t understand much of what they were singing about, but I

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An album is not just a random list of songs. It is lovingly and painstakingly arranged, with great attention paid to creating a listening experience that goes above and beyond the songs themselves. If it’s done well, the track listing creates a kind of sparkly magic glue, that binds the album together, and the whole becomes more than a sum of the parts.So now we have iTunes and that’s all very

Padmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980376895010869102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996414057249438378.post-65283492735990380242008-05-05T02:11:00.000+01:002008-05-05T02:12:42.522+01:00

According to Friday's Guardian, after declaring record profits a few days ago (£4bn in three months) Shell has decided to pull out of the world's largest offshore wind farm project (London Array) which would have provided 25% of London's electricity.Hilary Benn, the environment minister, said this was 'very disappointing'. No shit.The oil companies have the governments of the world over a barrel

Padmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980376895010869102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996414057249438378.post-72630877180342806762008-04-25T17:15:00.004+01:002008-04-25T18:13:49.632+01:00

The other day I was reading the blog of a 17 year old goth on Myspace. She had an excellent vocabulary for a 17 year old (though I got the impression she felt the need to prove this at least three times in each sentence) and she certainly had her own opinions. It was refreshing to see that young people still think for themselves, against all odds, given the banal offerings dished out by the

Padmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980376895010869102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996414057249438378.post-19081319124365951112008-04-08T15:23:00.000+01:002008-04-25T15:24:35.192+01:00

I can understand why people are criticising the activists who have tried to grab the Olympic torch, extinguish it and so on. I mean it is a bit impolite isn’t it.But then it has successfully attracted the attention of the world’s media at the human rights abuses going on right now in Tibet. Torture and murder. The use of force to prevent people from speaking about the conditions under which

Padmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980376895010869102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996414057249438378.post-41684614080168070842008-03-14T15:29:00.001Z2008-04-25T15:31:56.342+01:00

I called the album Here for a few different reasons. Firstly because I had a brain haemorrhage in 2005, and the odds of me still being here right now (and in a state which would allow me to make the album) were by no means in my favour.But also, if I had to distil the Buddha’s teaching into one word, that’s the word I would choose. Being fully present, in this moment, where we are right now, is

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