Arambol Experience

Arambol is like the organic cousin of the famous urban "temporary autonomous zone". Its refugees have escaped city stress to live there where "beautiful" is natural and you can play music without any limits or pigeonholing. They have turned their backs on the rat race, learned to enjoy life again and have a hedonistic sense of nothing to lose underpinned by their rejection of the objective tyranny of tomorrow. This environment obviously generates its own reference points and a different use of time ... Real pitfalls for someone out to make something lasting! You had to have the capacity to get the best from this decidedly different set-up without caricaturing or desecrating it. You had to have the instinct to make a musical jigsaw puzzle out of it. And you quite simply had to have the courage of your convictions. Because if you want to take on this haven where partying and the offbeat are king, you have to be prepared to take the plunge yourself.

Such is the dedication of the architects of this project: chuck it all in to take a gamble on the unknown, muster the energy needed to form a team of musicians who were in Arambol to do anything but work, give new meaning to the pleasure of creation and find the beauty in doing something for nothing. It makes for a powerful combined effect that points to the underlying message: one heart in different bodies. That's why, in a world with oceans of music and barely a drop of risk-taking, Arambol Experience makes its mark on the short list of current initiatives worth sitting up and paying attention to. This documentary film and double album tell the tale of a human adventure in which each character takes a bird's eye view.