Aloka — Mixtape 001

Curated by Graham Slick

About the Mixtape

Some of these tracks live inside Graham's Sound Circle ceremonies. The playlist moves through kirtan legends Krishna Das and Bhagavan Das, Seema Mishra's devotional folk, and The Hanumen — featuring Portland's own Benjy Wertheimer. It includes Anoushka Shankar, daughter of sitar master Ravi Shankar, and Nick Barbachano — an independent musician whose songs are rooted in plant medicine and prayer circles — with the quietly sacred "Arbolito Divino." It opens with Radiohead's "How to Disappear Completely," drifts through S.A. Karl's "Andrea's Song," and closes with "In a River" by Rostam — the Grammy-winning producer and Vampire Weekend co-founder who made one of the most quietly devastating solo songs of the last decade.

About Graham

Graham Slick is the founder of Aloka Sound Bath House and one of Portland's most recognized sound healers, named Best Sound Bath Experience by Willamette Week's Best of Portland 2025. He leads weekly Sound Circles at Yoga on Yamhill and designs immersive ceremonial sound experiences rooted in somatic healing and non-dual awareness. His instrument palette spans crystal and Tibetan singing bowls, handpan, harmonium, gong, and Native flute — and his playlists move the same way his ceremonies do: slowly, intentionally, toward stillness.