LJ Navera is a Filipino master craftsman, sound alchemist and artist in Lipa City, Batangas.[1] He can play more than a hundred instruments and made most of them himself: didgeridoos, handpans, Native American flutes, African djembes and shamanic drums.[1] In 2023 he built the first handpan made in the Philippines.[2] He was never trained in music. Everything he composes and everything he plays is intuitive.[1] He is also a recognised painter and sculptor, a professional tattoo artist and an art therapy facilitator.[4] He combines them when he works with others. He was a pioneer resident sound healer and art therapy facilitator at The Farm at San Benito.[1] He has been in recovery from depression for more than twenty-five years and works as an addiction professional and a life coach,[4] and he was the resident sound healer at the 2022 National Mental Health Summit, run by Mind You with the Philippine Department of Health.[4]
Carlos performs as Cardan Balam, a musician and ceremonialist who fuses pre-Hispanic instruments, prayer and live electronic production. His touring project is Cardan Balam Ancestral Music.[1][2] Born in Atlixco, Puebla, he leads cacao ceremonies, temazcal and Hikuri ceremonies from his own ceremonial space in Playa del Carmen, on the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán.[1] His path crossed with Mayan culture and with Wixárika (Huichol) shamans when he was young, and he represents Wixárika, Mexica and Maya shamans today.[1] He founded Colectivo Cultura Ancestral, and with his family works to preserve Mayan lands and heritage in the Yucatán.[1] He has released music since 2021, most of it on the Balam Music Label, and in July 2024 he led the Tribal Village at Dreamersland Festival in Poland.[5][6] In November 2023 he was one of three credited artists on Sukum Balam, a five-track electronica album on the Balam Music label.[3] His Instagram, @cardan_balam_musica, has about 25,000 followers.[2]
Chris Doria is a sound healer, frequency music producer and performance mentor in Melbourne, Australia.[1][2] He has spent more than twenty years working at the top level of elite sport, international music, live performance and private mentoring.[1] He played basketball at state level and football semi-professionally before Collingwood Football Club recruited him, and he played VFL with them.[3] He toured and recorded as SOUNDCHECK, with releases on Sony Music, Revealed Recordings, Ultra Music and Cr2 Records, and sets at Stereosonic, Future Music Festival and Creamfields.[3][4] He now makes afro house tuned to 432 Hz as one half of Resonant Realms with Dan Byrne.[5] In a sound session he plays frequency music he composed himself alongside instruments he has collected around the world.[3] Every track is tuned to a precise frequency,[1] and he writes those frequencies into the music to heal and to activate deep emotion. He does that work privately for industry leaders and in rooms of thousands of people.[3]
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