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Click here to listen to the full Spotify playlist of over 100 spontaneous compositions featuring Native American flute.

For just $15 a year you can now join my subscription community on Bandcamp! Get any new music I make delivered instantly to your mobile device, plus download over 30 full releases from my back-catalog (100's of tracks representing over 20 hours of psychoactive music), and supporter-only exclusives. Read all about it here. This is a place to not only listen but to interact. Please let me know how these tracks effect you and to what uses you have put them. This includes my newest album which I have not yet conceived, coming out sometime next month. As a member of our subscription community you will, of course, have instant access to any new tracks as soon as they are posted! Also you may commison a piece of your own as top level supporter on Patron.

You also may listen to the individual albums featuring Mad Dog Friedman on indigenous flute below:

In Wonder Moments, Mad Dog, aka M. D., Friedman improvises on Native American flutes around original poetry about peak experience. (All poems are from M. D. Friedman's INTO LIGHT collection and are read by the poet).

"…such powerful and emotive audio and flute splendour…one of the most unique of releases I have heard for many a year…I found each recitation compelling, caring and deeply thoughtful and incredibly special, this is a journey not to be missed.” ~ Steve Sheppard, presenter (DJ) at One World Music Radio (READ FULL ALBUM REVIEW), March 21, 2024

Healing intent: Introspection, diferent tracks may serve as guided meditations for various healing modalities such as message, vibrational therapies and energy healing.

Wood Songs is a celebration of the Native American flute, the makers, the players, the fans, and especially the trees that live again through this music.

Wood Songs by Mad Dog Friedman is a fine example of a solo flute album played really well. The artist is clearly in the zone with this recording and it shows. The resultant conclusion and final product is one of total satisfaction and serene peace, and that with regard for such an artistic creation cannot be a bad thing at all. A sure fire hit is completely on the cards for Wood Songs by Mad Dog Friedman. ~ Steve Sheppard, presenter (DJ) at One World Music Radio (READ FULL ALBUM REVIEW).

Healing intent: Relaxation, also serves an effective soundscape for various healing modalities such as message, vibrational therapies and energy healing.

 

 

 

Touched is saturated with the smoke, ash, fear, loss, determination, hope, generosity, grace and heart of the victims of the December 30, 2021, Marshall Fire which raged a little over a mile from Mad Dog Friedman's basement studio where these songs were spontaneously composed and recorded in the weeks following the tragedy.

Touched by Mad Dog Friedman has to be one of the most original and organic albums I have heard for many months, birthed from the heart, mind and soul, here is a solo Native American style flute release that will delight fans of the genre, an album, that if you allow it do so, will take you away to a place of tranquillity and calm, to breathe again. ~ Steve Sheppard, presenter (DJ) at One World Music Radio (READ FULL ALBUM REVIEW).

Healing intent: Resilience, emapthy, community and letting go, also serves an effective soundscape for various healing modalities such as message, vibrational therapies and energy healing.

Word is Mad Dog Friedman's original poetry set to spontaneous Native American flute, harmonica & Theremin compositions.

Healing intent: Introspection and connection to inner currents and flow.

Prayers for Peace is a solo album of single pass Native American flute improvisations by Mad Dog Friedman

Healing intent: Relaxation, also serves an effective soundscape for various healing modalities such as message, vibrational therapies and energy healing.

One World explores seeing the present global crisis as a catalyst to bring the world together. Only through collaboration and cooperation will we survive, not just as a culture, but as a species. This idea we are all in this together and depend on each other for survival is embedded in all of nature. You can you hear it in the song of the birds, the whispers of the wind and the joyous laughter of open water. You can feel it in the green of the forest and in the churning of the oceans. You see its movement and patterns in the play of light and cloud. It is the first lesson of human community, yet it is a concept that seems largely lost in modern society. It is my hope that this album helps awaken this ancient wisdom in each of us. Please consider this music an invitation to move forward together on a path of healing and love. I hope you find it soothing and quietly helpful in these stressful times. #OneLove #OneWorld #OneLight

Healing intent: Relaxation, also serves an effective soundscape for various healing modalities such as message, vibrational therapies and energy healing.

eleMENTAL Four suites celebrating the fourfold nature of our existence recorded as they were created in The Tank. At high noon on October 22nd, 2019, Mad Dog and Michael, two kindred shamanic adventurers, arrived between early snowstorms at the sacred confines of the Tank Center for Sonic Arts in Rangely, Colorado. The result is an explosion of musical creativity reminiscent of the early 1970's. It is often hard to tell who is playing what because this music involves a perpetually changing mosaic of highly textured sound from rare and unique instruments either from around the world or out of Michael's inventive imagination. Although it often sounds like a much larger ensemble, this album is the live work of only two players with no over dubbing. It presents sequentially the entire recording session and offers four suites of spontaneous compositions, one for each element, for a total of over two hours of original music.

Healing intent: Right brain stimulation and enhanced focus, increased creativity.

Live in Love Land by The Astral Project was recorded Live at Lo Co Coffee in Loveland, Colorado, on Saturday, August 31, 2019

Healing intent: Rejuvenate the weary, soothe the forlorn, help mend the deep wound and illuminate the always journey.

A Pilgrimage:The Tank Sessions by The Astral Project, a performance ensemble dedicated to creating healing music live. Our performances are all spontaneous compositions that are drawn from the love in the room at the time. A Pilgrimage was recorded at The Tank Center for Sonic Arts on May 6 & 7, 2019.

Healing intent: Rejuvenate the weary, soothe the forlorn, help mend the deep wound and illuminate the always journey.

Be Tankfull was recorded on May 15 & 16, 2018, in the Tank, a truly amazing and unique sonic wonderland. We send this music out as a heartfelt, tangible token of our gratitude to Tanksounds - The TANK Center for Sonic Arts and the Chamber of Commerce of Rangely, Colorado, for making this all possible and making The Tank experience available to all.

Healing intent: Relaxation, also serves an effective soundscape for various healing modalities such as message, vibrational therapies and energy healing.

The Thaw is Alex & Mad Dog’s sixth improvisational collaboration. Like The Thaw, Au Naturel (2017), Alex & Mad Dog Live (2016) and Not Far from Hear (2016) feature just the duo with Alex on Celtic harp and Mad Dog primarily on Native American flute. (Mad Dog also appears on harmonica on Alex & Mad Dog Live and on Theremini on Not Far from Hear.) Alex also appears along with Mad Dog on significant portions of Apples & Honey (2017) and Between Two Worlds (2016).

Healing intent: Quieting the mind and easing the pain in the heart.

Au Naturel is relaxation and meditation music that is clean, simple and au naturel. Spontaneous compositions by Mad Dog Friedman and Alexander Bernat all recorded as first takes. No overdubbing was used in the recording and minimal processing and effects were used in the mixing and mastering.

Healing intent: Relaxation, also serves an effective soundscape for various healing modalities such as message, vibrational therapies and energy healing.

From the Heart depicts a musical journey from knelling in a hollow, sifting fine, dark humus through your fingers, through a magical forest that bristles with the energy of the powerful nature and animal spirits that reside there. My father introduced me to this world as a child. This one is for him.

Healing intent: Relaxation, also serves an effective soundscape for various healing modalities such as message, vibrational therapies and energy healing.

Apples & Honey is only about half flute music. The title track features simultaneous improvisations on Celtic harp by Alexander Bernat and on chromatic harmonica by Mad Dog Friedman.

Healing intent: Quieting the mind and easing the pain in the heart.

Alex & Mad Dog Live is a recording of our first full live duo show (almost a full 2 hours of improvisational music) just as it was performed at Espresso Vino in Lafayette, Colorado on August 31, 2016.

Healing intent:Quieting the mind and easing the pain in the heart.

Breathe is pure Native American Flute relaxation music, and makes a perfect for background for your next message or yoga session.

Healing intent: Relaxation, also serves an effective soundscape for various healing modalities such as message, vibrational therapies and energy healing.

Not Far from Hear is our first album composed and recorded as the duo of Alex & Mad Dog. It features spontaneous Celtic harp improvisations of Alexander Bernat with the spontaneous Native American flute and Moog Theremini improvisations of Mad Dog Friedman.

Healing intent: Relaxation, also serves an effective soundscape for various healing modalities such as message, vibrational therapies and energy healing.

Between Two Worlds is about embracing the harmony of duality, facilitating creative transition and cultivating the bliss intrinsic to the awakening spirit. Sometimes we get stuck, not sure which way is forward and which is back. Yet, whether we stumble on in befuddlement or stride confidently forward with clarity, we must keep moving, knowing change is all that is constant, and keep expanding our hearts and minds, knowing that our love and vision are all that is important. There is magic afoot in this music, magic that can rejuvenate the weary, soothe the forlorn, help heal the deep wound and illuminate the always journey. Please help us share this gift from within with anyone it may help.

Healing intent: Right brain stimulation and enhanced focus, facilitates creativity and lucid dreaming.

Songs for Our Mother, explores the common textures between nature and the spontaneous music of indigenous instruments. Featuring eleven spontaneous compositions for Native American flute and kalimba enhanced with Theremini and computer generated soundscapes, these tracks utilize an interesting blend of what on first glance may appear as incongruous elements to create an amazing interweaving of lush sonic layers in celebration of the connection between Mother Earth and human artifice. Please enjoy a full listen for free and let me know what you think.

Healing intent: Relaxation, also serves an effective soundscape for various healing modalities such as message, vibrational therapies and energy healing.

My first Native American flute album, Flutations, musical meditations for wooden flute. Please take a free listen and let me know what you think. I am still very new at this music, yet it seems to come from somewhere very ancient inside of me. The flute has been for me up until this point, something I just play for myself. I am hoping by sharing this gift of wood and breath, this music may help others as much as it has helped me, taught me, soothed me, healed me and made me smile.

Healing intent: Relaxation, also serves an effective soundscape for various healing modalities such as message, vibrational therapies and energy healing.

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