One of the greatest blessings of my life has been becoming a recording artist. I have always adored music and it was always a dream of mine to one record my own music and albums. This dream came to fruition humbly with the release of my first album CRYSTAL HYMNS in 2012 of my Crystal Bowl Singing sound healing music with channeled singing.
Things went to a totally higher level in 2013 when I released my breakthrough album THE TANTRA OF TRUTH featuring a multi-genre collection of songs, some composed, some channeled right there in the studio and produced by my genius friend Stephen in Toronto, Canada. This album reached thousands of people, leading to my incredible headlining performance at the Toronto Yoga Conference in 2014 and sparking my most beloved song ‘Source’.
Following that came the EP or mini-album THE DEATH OF LOVE and my next installment of sound healing journey music in 2018 with SONGS OF SOURCE.
My latest album, HONOUR ALL CREATION, is a double-album that I recorded in 2020 during the pandemic when I moved to Costa Rica and produced by the genius, Steffen Ki.
Most of my albums are available on streaming platforms and some others are available only on my BANDCAMP page: https://darrenaustinhall.bandcamp.com/
I also release new music and my DJ Druid ecstatic mixes, as well as some live Sound Journeys over on my Soundcloud page: https://soundcloud.com/darren-austin-hall
And finally, there’s LOADS of music videos, sound journeys and song channelings over on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DarrenAustinHall
Below you will find a listing of all of my recorded albums including summaries of them all. Enjoy the vibrations!
Here’s also an article I wrote featured in the online zine Face the Current where I share more of my philosophy on being what I call a Sacred Musician: https://facethecurrent.com/the-sacred-musician/
HONOUR ALL CREATION (Double LP) (2020)
HONOUR ALL CREATION is a double-album of journey and ceremonial music to awaken humanity, honour Mother Earth as the living Goddess and sonic medicine to inspire mystical consciousness. These 22 songs offer themselves as diverse nodes of activation, from deep sound journeys, spoken word poetics, ambient electronic dance, earthy hip-hop, tantric balladry and more. These songs are intended for deep listening sessions, meditation, prayer, healing sessions and also to be used in ceremonial contexts, such as work with sacred plant medicines and righteous psychedelic use to expand human consciousness and enthuse our alignment with Source.
The album also spawned the online course HONOUR ALL CREATION: A NEW EARTH STORY: https://course.honourallcreation.com/home
Darren received the vision for this album years ago during a revelatious ceremony with Mother Ayahausca. HONOUR ALL CREATION was a profound teaching he received; a credo of awakened human consciousness, harkening to fifth dimensional wisdom where all is embraced and universal truth is channeled to the heart.
After both performing at the Envision Festival and Sound & Silence Gathering in Costa Rica, Steffen Ki and Darren befriended each other after years of mutual admiration. They found themselves together in an oceanside retreat when the pandemic struck the world and decided, alongside Steffen’s beauteous partner and songstress, Maywa, to make Costa Rica their new home. It is there that Darren received guidance from his daily meditations with Mother Earth that it was finally time after years waiting to create the HONOUR ALL CREATION album project and that Steffen was the perfect ally to help him bring it to fruition. In allegiance with the spirits of the sacred land and in deep devotion to Gaia-Earth, Steffen & Darren joyfully co-created this magnus opus.
HONOUR ALL CREATION is deeply a devotional offering to restore a sense of GODDESS to our world. Darren has long been a student of indigenous and ancient wisdom and has been on a decade-long odyssey recovering his own indigenous ancestry as ancient European, specifically in Gnosticism and Druidry. There are many allusions on the album to SOPHIA the wisdom Goddess who is Mother Earth; the Great Mother of ancient mythologies who is also the mother of humanity. May these songs inspire us all to once again hold Goddess in our hearts, regenerating the virtuous sense of the sacred feminine in our understanding of the divine. As the Valentian Gnostics decried ‘the world was born of Sophia’s smile.’ It is time to remember Her. It is time to let Her wisdom reign and honour each other as Gaian, all children of the Earth.
COLLABORATIONS WITH MOSE
COLLABORATIONS WITH MOSE
The Tantra of Truth is an album of incredible depth and power, provideing a perfect soundtrack for our power revolutionary times. Tantra, an ancient form of spirituality from India that was found profound renewal in our contemporary times, evokes an ecstatic spirit of unifying with all aspects of our experience--from the dark to the light. In this truth, humanity is called to expand and evolve to embody its natural birthright as a being of bliss and wild wisdom. The Tantra of Truth is like a musical initiation into such, providing massive soundscapes of power and intense feeling to inspire shift and positive transformation. This album is perfect to empower ecstatic states, healing and meditative work, to inspire a sense of the sacred and enliven the feeling power of the heart.
Produced by musical genius, Stephen Bahnesli, the album veers from crystal bowl trance ("Calling the Awen") to an honouring of indigenous prayer with robust guitar, stirring beats and meditative harp ("Soaring [When Eagles Come]) to the luminous rendition of the Gayatri mantra which opens the album in a massive invocation of the power of light and consciousness. The album also features the yogini and spoken word artist extraordinaire, Megan Marie Gates, who lends her angelic vocals to "Woman Is Sacred"--an anthem for the return of the sacred feminine. Finally, Liz Huntly features with her seraphic violin. Each of the nine songs is an epic journey unto itself to be enjoyed in solitude or in the throes of an immense shamanic dance party. Dive in and power up!
"When attempting to describe someone's music, it's natural to compare it to something else. I have trouble doing that with Darren Austin Hall's album The Tantra of Truth because his sound is so original. Sometimes I feel I'm listening to a modern shaman; other times I envision myself sitting on a vast delta in India watching the sun rise, or in the depths of an ancient temple in Tibet. Guttural calls from deep in the throat manifest as sutras, then something else. Spontaneous poetry and evocative rhythms bring to mind yoga or psychedelic journeys. I alternatively want to meditate and dance to this fusion music: this could be the sound track for what Terence McKenna called the Archaic Revival." -- Guy Crittenden
SONGS OF SOURCE (2018)
'Songs of Source' is an album of deep sound healing journey music. Each song is a channeled prayer with sacred intention to take the listener into a healing and meditative space for empowerment and transformation. The music inspires spiritual awareness, deep relaxation and is perfect for shamanic journeying, meditation, yoga practice, accompaniment for healing sessions and for prayer-work. Each song carries these sacred frequencies being channeled from mystical realms. This is deeply transformative and healing music. Open your heart and soul to be blessed by these divine currents of sound and music and let these songs connect you to our universal source...
Darren is a masterful Crystal Singing Bowl performer. His array of bowls also includes incredible 'Alchemy Bowls' which are fusing of Quartz with other precious gemstones and metals. The album features his Aquamarine Alchemy Bowl which fuses Quartz, Copper and 24k Gold, as well as his special Abalone Seashell Alchemy Bowl, tuned to the auspicious frequency of 528hz which is said to be profoundly healing for the Heart and which transmits the power of the ocean. This bowl is featured on the closing song, 'Winged Heart' along with Solfeggio tuning forks tuned to 174hz & 528hz for added healing benefit. The album also features his Moldavite Alchemy Bowl. Moldavite is one of the rarest crystals in the world as it came to Earth on a meteorite in ancient times. It connects us to our 'star-brethren'.
Also featured on the album is the ancient Monochord, an instrument made of 32 strings all tuned to the same note to create a heavenly droning sound. It is said the Monochord was created by the ancient Greek sage and music-master, Pythagoras. The Monochord is featured on the song-prayer 'The Greatest Victory Is Surrender' which is an ode to opening oneself to the creative flow of life.
MUSHROOM JESUS (single)
This song is a storytelling odyssey about the psychedelic roots of religion. Recorded in one take at 528 studios in Toronto, this is also a sacred song channeling! Enjoy!
MYSTICAL MEDITATIONS (2019)
MYSTICAL MEDITATIONS is an album I always longed to make as I have such a passion for guiding people into wonderful inward journeys, harnessing the divine powers of the imagination to create transformative experiences in our inner-world. For years, I've guided thousands of people into such deep meditative and visionary states in my sacred music concerts, sound healing performances and workshops. Now, some of that magic is captured in the studio for you to experience anywhere and anytime.
Most of the meditations are accompanied by the healing tones of Crystal Singing Bowls which have been scientifically proven to put us into Alpha brainwave states which is where meditative states begin. From there, we can begin to deepen into the Theta state where we experience visions, fulfilling our true destiny as oracles. Having the Crystal Bowls as accompaniment amplifies the meditations immensely.
The album as a whole offers a diversity of mystical and transformative experiences. Some of the meditations are tender inward journeys while 'Shaking Medicine Meditation' offers an experience of shaking the body ecstatically and wildly to shift our frequency state powerfully, vitalizing us intensely, accompanied by powerful drumming. 'Chakra Toning Meditation' works with a system of vowel sounds that you are invited to tone together with me as we vitalize and balance the Chakras with the healing power of our voice, with the Crystal Bowls guiding us into their ascending scale of vibration. And the final track offers a Song Journey to take us into an experience of Universal Love.
Much thanks to my soul brother, Marco Furgiuele, who captured the majority of these tracks at his studio 528 Recordings. And also thanks to my soul brother, Stephen Bahnesli, who captured the big magic of the 'Cosmic Heart Meditation'.
May this album guide you into wonderful states of consciousness that will help you heal, find inspiration and experience the mystical. It is my humble perspective that humans are wired to experience enhanced states of mystical consciousness and that these are deeply nourishing for our lives. May these meditations offer you a chance to experience a deeper aspect of yourself and perhaps even a sense of the universal self <3
HONOUR ALL CREATION/REVISIONS (2022)
This is a mini remix album of some of the most beloved tracks off of my double-album HONOUR ALL CREATION, featuring remixes by incredible artists such as Temple Step, Binder and Steffen Ki.
WOMAN: PASSION POEMS OF THE SACRED FEMININE (2020)
Five ardent spoken word poems of devotional love, sagacious wondering and reverent rendering of the infinite dimensions of the beauty of WOMAN. Accompanied by the healing tones of crystal bowls, crystal lyre, koshi chimes, Indian tanpura and the blessed sounds of nature. COME and be carried away by these journeys into the sacredness of the feminine…
THE DEATH OF LOVE EP (2015)
The Death of Love is an EP of magnificent potency. The album centres on the title track, which was a totally improvised one take recording of me channeling my own suffering days after heart-break. Everything just poured out perfectly, lyrics and all, with the guidance of the muses, as tears welled in my eyes. 'Tears of a Smile' is an older piece that I wrote while working with a council of Native American elders and harkens to the spirit of that time when the power of prayer really came into my life. 'With An Eagle On My Shoulder' is a powerful spoken-word piece I put over an amazing ambient piece Stephen composed. It speaks to the intensity of our times and is a call for warrior strength. 'Woman Is Sacred' (Transcendent Remix) is an incredible trance-remix Stephen made of a song which originally appeared on my last album 'The Tantra of Truth'. It's very special and should provide some ecstatic dancing inspiration!
