In the Fall of 2022 I set aside my coaching and mindfulness teaching to focus on developing my voice as a composer and producer. Specifically, I’m interested in creating music for healing and transformational contexts. After many years in the band Lotus, I had begun to feel a kind of dissonance in relation to the culture that surrounded my live music events. I perceived myself in the middle of a party-centric atmosphere where the consumption of alcohol and other recreational substances seemed to saturate the environment night after night. And because my personal lifestyle choices didn’t tend to include recreational substances, I often felt alone and somewhat alienated from the social contexts I found myself in. On the one hand, I knew that the party atmosphere was only part of the picture and that Lotus’s music was often a wonderful medicine for people, but at the end of the day, I felt a longing to shift my attention towards musical contexts that were more resonant with my lifestyle and values. The choice to leave the limelight as a performer was incredibly difficult, but in the end, I felt that leaving the project was the only way I could stay true to myself.

So these days my intention is to channel my musical passion toward contexts that are explicitly oriented towards health and wellness, healing and wholeness. These contexts include: 

  • Creating ambient music for guided meditations

  • Creating long form “musical journeys” for psychedelic therapy

  • Creating music for ecstatic dance and yoga asana practice

  • Creating original music for podcasts, content creators, and change-makers whose work is focused on psycho-spiritual wellness and/or the evolution of a healthy culture. (If this is you, please contact me at Michael@michaelrempel.com)

This moment of my musical career feels new and experimental: I don’t know what will emerge or where exactly the path will take me. At times, this unknown can feel scary, but ultimately I trust the path and it feels really good to be rooted in what matters most to me. I expect to begin releasing some of my new music in 2024, and if you’d like to stay tuned for that, please sign my mailing list below.

In the meantime, you can stream a few of my earlier releases here. These are also available on Bandcamp and other streaming sites.

This is a Iive track, performed with Kyle Liss in 2019, from Ambient Yoga Journey Vol. 1:

This is a track from Early Works, which was produced around 2010:

My second EP, Adventures of the Innocent/Sage, was released in November of 2020. The following song is from that release:

I also have some DJ sets, performed live with improvised guitar for some yoga classes back in 2015, that are available here.