Martin Ball: guitar, didjeridu, Native American flute, percussion, throat and overtone singing, bird whistles, pots and pans, and various clay and bamboo flutes
Influences
For Music: Dead Can Dance, Huun Huur Tu, Baka Beyond, Dr. Didg, Outback, Robbie Robertson, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Loreena McKennitt, Lisa Gerrard, Afro-Celt Sound System, Native American music, Aboriginal Australian music, Tuvan Throat Singing, Tibetan Chanting, Shamanic music and ritual, Burning Man, The God Box/Mystic Toad, Entheogens, Mysticism, Dreams, Nature Spirits, Water, Light, Wind -- For Writing: Frank Herbert's Dune, Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, the Matrix, Star Wars, Hayao Miyazaki, Carlos Casteneda, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, Terrence McKenna, Gordon Wasson, Michael Taussig, and anything that relates to mysticism, shamanism, Buddhism, Taoism, Alchemy, fantasy, metaphysics, visions, etc etc etc
Orobai's Vision -- a Postmodern Shamanic Fable for a New Ecological Age, 270 pages. $14.98 plus shipping. Place order here .
Music of Aurduin -- shamanic world fusion, celtic, Native American flute, and more! $12.98 plus shipping. Place order here .
The creative force behind Orobai is Martin Ball, musician, author, and artist. Orobai is both a world fusion musical creation as well as the central character in the novel, Orobai's Vision, by Martin Ball (Ph.D., Religious Studies/Native American Spiritual Traditions).
For 23,000 years, the magical creature, Orobai, has wandered the lost forests and towering mountains of Aurduin. When he finds an unusual jewel that transforms into a mysterious young girl, he knows that his destiny is at hand. Now is it a race against time as Orobai seeks to piece together the intricate puzzle of the girl's identity, their entwined fates, and their relationship to the prophecy of an apocalypse that will forever transform the world of Aurduin. Join Orobai in his quest to protect the girl and seek out a vision that will show him the path to his ultimate purpose.
Orobai's Vision is the first installment of the Tale of Aurduin series, a four-book fantasy epic and is now available as a paperback book for $14.98 through this page at AURDUIN.NET, MARTINBALL.NET, LULU.COM, and Amazon.com. Watch the short video below for a promo of OROBAI'S VISION
"At the foot of the Great Mountain Golgath lived the Grundin. The ancient Gem Seeker was many things to many people. He possessed many names, wore many identities, and was the fabric of more stories than there are feathers on a bird. He was the Raven, the Black Sorcerer, the Singer, the Dark Mystery, and the last practitioner of the ancient art of creation, the Altfein-Aryat. He was Orobai, the Preserver of the Four Ways of the Illan, the final repository of the knowledge and symbols of Creation." -- from the prologue to Orobai's Vision
Click play on the file below to see a promo video of Tales of Aurduin, Volume II, The Fate of Miraanni
"Hi! Just stopping by to share some pretty picts I found.
How adorable is that?
This is a cool pict that reminds me of myself. Not a mother hen but a Being who is capable of Loving and Protecting all no matter what. It amazes me that creatures can do this among themselves and yet so many humans find it hard to give a simple hug. Times are changing though. I still have hope. I don't know who the photographer was for these picts but I am SO grateful for their eyes that can see beauty and their quickness to capture it on film for all to see.
![[Hands of God and Adam Prints, Picture - by Michelangelo Buonarroti]](http://www.fineartprintsondemand.com/images/prints/400/143446.jpg)
