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Lokutara (2004 – Pop)<\/span><\/h2>\n

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“By combining tunes written with rocks and trees, Luang Por’s lyrics and Tim’s grounding in indie guitar pop, ‘Lokutara’ the album is the first truly pan-cultural and cross elemental record”<\/strong>
\n– NME \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/h4>\n

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\u201cTim’s haunting and compelling, it’ll be fascinating to hear what he does next.\u201d<\/strong>
\n– NME<\/h4>\n

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Imagine going to rehab in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand, purging your body and soul by vomiting for 5 days when you arrive, chanting and meditating for three weeks, sweeping the yard, being taught to make music from patterns in nature, getting clean and then having a music studio built for you by Buddhist monks so that you could make an album.<\/h3>\n

That, in a nutshell, is how this album was made.<\/h3>\n

And yet it is impossible to describe it in a nutshell. Lokutara was the result of an entire community of Thai people who made me feel like life was worth living again. They put belief and faith in me and my music, and my feelings of gratitude manifested in this album. Completely by surprise, the British music press actually covered a lot of this album and the only single to be taken from it, Walking Through Walls<\/em> was actually play-listed on BBC Radio. The road forward wasn\u2019t all plain sailing and I have remained unsigned and independent ever since, but this album was the nod the universe gave me that let me know that music is not what I do, it\u2019s who I am.<\/h3>\n

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