"Wachuma's Wave" was chosen by Backroads Music as Number 1 release of the year 2003, independent of category

The album started out as a collaboration between Byron and Mark. While studying the Bansuri flute in India, Mark, supported by Wachuma's sacred spirit, recorded some spontaneous flute playing and overtone chanting which found its way into the title track of the album. All the other pieces came together when Byron and Mark worked and rehearsed in Byron's studio, 'The Lair', in Prescott, Arizona.

The general idea of the album was to create shamanically oriented sounds which would support people on vision quests of various kinds. Then Steve Roach expressed his interest in the project. Byron and Steve had been collaborating earlier, and so it was an honor to have Steve on board for "Wachuma's Wave". The mix of Byron's percussion, Mark's Bansuri flute and overtone chants, and Steve's soundworlds makes for an album with a very special character.

Its music weaves tales of the irritating challenges and profound ecstasies the path of transformation can bring. "Wachuma's Wave" is an offering to the spirit world, supporting the quest of the soul in search of the divine.

Here's a review by author Frank MacEowen:
"Wachuma's Wave is sacred music in the truest sense. It is a portal of travel, a soul retrieval, a ritual of deep time dreaming. Veteran trance percussionist Byron Metcalf teams up with German-based musician and shamanic practitioner Mark Seelig to bring forth a multi-textural blend of bansuri flutes, sacred chants and overtone singing, simmering percussion and other hybrid grooves, augmented by rich offerings of deep drift ambient synthesizer and didgeridoo from soundscape maestro Steve Roach."

Listen to some examples:

		Wachuma's Wave:
		Gone ... Beyond:
		Deep Time Dreaming:
		Last Remnants of Reality:
		Dance of the Heart Voyagers:
		Across the Waters:

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