At long last, we return to the historic Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden for a limited series of intimate monthly concerts focused on collective breath, meditation, and unity. This is music as medicine, collective ritual, and an invocation for the worlds to come.

We begin with our dear friend Surya Botofasina who is visiting us from Brooklyn this week to sit in on the Saul Williams Meets Carlos Niño & Friends residency at Blue Note. Pulling up with a deep array of synthesizers, we’re simply so grateful to receive his loving music, share this presence, and highly encourage your attendance.

Surya was raised on the Sai Anantam Ashram founded by Swamini Turiyasangitananda (known to many as Alice Coltrane). The Ashram was a sanctuary of music, spirituality, acceptance, and under Turiya’s mentorship, Surya’s musical, personal and spiritual growth within the Ashram has remained a central reference point in his life and music.

We’ve given this micro-series the name ‘The Paradise Garden of Endless Melodies’ as a play on two references. First, as a nod to the late IASOS and his Vibrational Environments series which included an album called The Paradise Bird of Endless Melodies comprised of synth and birdsong. Second, as a love letter to the history of Paradise Gardens, and their adjacent role in both Japanese and Persian culture as sites for utopic world building.

Bring a blanket and gather in the garden with us for an evening of bhajan, improvisation, playful motifs, and the rekindling of something very special.