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August 1, 2023 - Reading time: 3 minutes

Another musical travel guide from The Smiling Buddhas.

Most of the tracks are intoxicating techno numbers, but two longer ambient pieces open up multi-layered soundscapes from areas full of myths and lost indigenous cultures.

* Berlin in the early 1990s. We had so much fun, dancing the night away in places that weren't clubs but functioned as clubs. * We always loved the Greyhound ride from Alamogordo (NM) via Durango (CO) to Denver. Early in the morning the starry sky very close over Taos, then the breakfast break in Durango and at the end of the journey our friends picked us up at the bus terminal. * Trieste is perhaps the world capital of espresso. The nights flow into the day and soon it's night again. Every now and then the heart pounds hard and fast, like techno, because too many espressos doppio should sweeten life. * The Nida plateau in Kreata very close to the highest mountain on the island, the Psiloritis. A place of power for the Buddhas. * Flagstaff, our gateway to the ancient sites of the Hisatsinom, also Anazazi. * When the fog is thick in San Francisco Bay, the city disappears and then we see the Miwok rowing boats across the bay behind the shrouds of fog. * Drinking Polar Beer early in the morning at Kevlavik Airport is not out of the question when you're listening to Sigur Ros music in your headphones. * Long marches lead to magical places of ancient indigenous cultures. Magical!

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