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At 18, I was aspiring to be the next Jaco Pastorious when, I had an experience which was to change my life forever (all experiences do but some with a bit more flair). I had had an interest in spirituality as well as Scott Lafaro but... anyway, experimenting with self remembering over 3 days alone in San Francisco led me to looking out a window to see the universe as eternal and emanant, made of light, vibration, evolution and love, infinantely more beatuiful then anything I could imagine...   "Music, being the most ephemeral of the arts has the potential of being the closest to the divine, or the furthest away." - Kungha Over the next ten years I studied Tibetan Buddhism (Kalu Rimpoche gave me my name - Kungha -), Sanskrit and Healing. Finally, I ended up at the Ridhwan School under the direction of Hameed Ali. Here I began to integrate my spiritual experience into a complete, full, human, life. Circumstances then brought my first love--Da Bass--back into my life. A massage client of mine, a Berkelee educated bassist, traded his equipment with me for bodywork (at the onslaught of my spiritual quest I had traded my custom fretless bass for a motorcycle), as he was now concentrating full time on bicycle racing. Whats true returns and music is now a part of my ongoing work of serving the love and beauty I saw and that I now know we are. My first bass teacher was a classical guitarist who stressed technique, theory, and reading. I eventually went on to study with Mel Graves, Kai Eckhart, Benny Rietwald, and Ashly Addams. I play six stringed fretless bass guitar, doublebass, acoustic bass guitar, five and eight string basses, six string electric doublebass, oud, twelve string guitar, and efunctory keyboards and percussion. I've been known to attempt the four string fretted bass at times, usually I have to borrow one. I use every technique from slapping to bowing. My main bass influences have been Scott Lafaro, Mick Karn, and Michael Manring. My favorite musicians are Jimi Hendrix, Trent Reznor, Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis, Fakir Ali Khan, and Bill Evans. I'd love to collaborate with any artists interested in the support of a unique and inventive bass voice. I love everything from Gothic/Industrial to New Age/Ambient. I currently divide my time as a bassist, a teacher, healer, and executive for Radiant World Records.

 

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