jarguna celebrates his 50th release with an 8-hour collection of music.

jarguna is Italian sonic-alchemist Marco Billi. He creates organic-ambient-electronic music in mandala-like hymns of richly enveloping ritual music.

Peter Thelen of Exposé Magazine writes: Marco Billi released his first album using the name jarguna in 2006. (And) he has been one busy guy over the years. Since 2009 he’s been averaging about four releases a year (some in collaboration with others), and the amazing thing is all of them are worthy of attention, especially for listeners who love ambient soundtracks. The sounds and textures that jarguna has assembled are soft, gentle, sparkling, and intensely beautiful, filled with lush tonal colors and powerful imagery, consisting of a mix of dreamy synthesizers, muted and processed acoustic instruments, found sounds, and studio magic as the glue that ties it all together. Yes, there is a lot of intensely powerful ambient music being produced these days, and (jarguna) ranks among the finest.

jarguna writes:

This collection of 50 tracks is meant to be a long journey immersed in my world, my worldview perceived through the music I produce.

As of 2023 I have released more than 49 albums, each with its own story, its own dreams, introspective journeys, but also many real journeys with on-the-spot recordings, tribal chants, ceremonies, and natural environments. The albums are a representation of my life, straddling modernity and contact with native people in search of origin/inspiration/foundation.

This compilation is a selection of tracks mainly with a soft and relaxing character with some passages with tribal, ritual, hypnotic hints.

Actually not all of my discography is based on relaxing music, often classified as New Age, rather, my journeys are often winding as it is, or as it should be an inner path. We can even call it spiritual. As the Bon of the pre-Buddhist Tibetan tradition say, "feed your demons.” Only by learning to see them, recognize them and know how to control them can we overcome many obstacles that we self-inflict or have been inflicted on us by the environment (parents are also part of the environment).

Seven and a half hours of ... jargonian atmospheres. This is a roundup of tracks selected since the first album in 2006, not very far in truth, but in these years I have been working hard to express what I had and have inside.

The unfolding of the tracks develops with a slow and rather "sleepy" beginning, full of collaborations, to arrive towards the middle with an increase of rhythmic, sonic impetuosity, a pulsating, energetic heart. After that we plunge into more slow and calm atmospheres, closing with the last 3 tracks again animated with melodic rhythms.

A kind of sine wave facilitates the brainwaves to enter states between Delta and Gamma waves, a cyclic alternation that can also help bring homeostasis into balance.

In many of these tracks there are several or even numerous artists who collaborated in the making of the tracks (see Chimera of a New World for example). Below you see in parentheses the name of the album and the chronological number of publication; then after the parenthesis the name of the artist who is part of the track.

I wish everyone a peaceful listening and that you can appreciate there is a lot of research and desire to spread good energy behind these sounds.

BIO

jarguna is Italian sonic-alchemist Marco Billi. He creates organic-ambient-electronic music in mandala-like hymns of richly enveloping ritual music. Since his first recordings in 1998, jarguna’s work has been an exploration of sounds, feelings, contrasts, passion, acoustics and electronics.