Pavaka Group

Following modern utopian and human potential movements from the 60s through the 80s, one theme that runs through these groups is the inclusion of music and sound-making in their organized practices. Music — like collective, collaborative farm work or group guided meditation — was another channel for personal and group expression of a new ideal of living and being.

On these recordings one might find a guided meditation, helping the curious work through a simulation of the group's own practices on relaxation or insight. Almost always, improvised sound provided a backdrop to the proceedings. The more forward-thinking records used improvised and electronic sound to emphasize the technology of stereo sound recording.

Pavaka Group music is not from that older era. Pavaka Group music seeks to reflect the possible conditions of human potential and therapeutic liberation for a new audience, in a new millennium — sharing their words, waiting for new initiates, and a new movement to emerge.