Agni-Shabd Yoga Guitarist, Tisziji Munoz

This profile is maintained by Ahku(Miqel), with assistance from Tisziji & his family. To contact Tisziji or obtain CD's please visit Anami Music. Surat Shabd Yoga - a Sanskrit term, surat means "soul," shabd means "word" and yoga means "union." The term "word" means the “Sound Current,” the “Audible Life Stream” or the “Essence of the Absolute Supreme Being,” that is, the dynamic force of creative energy that was sent out, as sound vibration, from the Supreme Being into the abyss of space at the dawn of the universe's manifestation, and that is being sent forth, through the ages, framing all things that constitute and inhabit the universe.The stated purpose of Surat Shabda Yoga is to: Realize the individual's True Self (Self-Realization), True Essence (Spirit-Realization) and True Divinity (God-Realization) while living in the human physical body.
( Wikipedia link ) Tisziji Muñoz : Living as Heart-Fire Sound
"I play by and from no established theory or known academic, mainstream or success formula or system. I play the truth of my human experience and Being. Therefore, I confess my ignorance as to the ordinary conventions and invented traditions of music and admit my disdain for the stupid sexist, racist and political games of musicians and their business lords. May all beings go beyond music and into the Spiritual Sound Current!"
quote from: Hearing Voices by Tisziji Munoz © 1994 "With such unabashed freedom beyond musical mastery comes the enlightenment of one being music beyond all form, all sound, all time, all space, all Silence and all self. One is then all heart, and free to not merely play the Heart Itself but free to be Compassionate Mercy Itself. Here is the miracle of the Heart and Its highest form of selfless Bleeding! The great musician surrenders itself to Its Heart-Source."
quote from: Heart Blood by Tisziji Munoz © 1999
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Samples of Tisziji's Spoken Wisdom: Tisziji speaks about Music, Life, Spirit, Art and Heart. Very good Wisdom! Interview with Tisziji - Part I (MP3)
- Harvard University Radio in 2003. Part I Interview with Tisziji, Part II (MP3)
- Harvard University Radio in 2003. Part II "Does Spirit only work in the ways of a tradition? Is Spirit not Free to create a new one? The statement 'no enlightenment outside of the traditions' indicates that if you are going to Awaken, it is going to have to happen through transformational processing from some exclusive tradition or formerly established, antique system, institution or lineage. And it is a great statement indeed which has its appropriate impact on certain developed but unenlightened or unliberated beings. But not all Sat Gurus are born out of such traditions. Spirit truly works in Strange ways. In fact, It works in Its Own Ways. And this fact of the process each and every being must be open to. Traditions do not create Spirit. Spirit creates traditions. Masters do not create Spirit. Spirit creates Masters. The ultimate purpose of genuine spiritual traditions is to empower beings towards or into Enlightened Beingness, not to make beings merely look or feel good."
Tisziji's Inner-Planetary Guide by Tisziji Munoz © 1990 New Download:
Tisziji As Guest Speaker To Students at the Boston Conservatory of Music 2004
(Invited by Bhapuji's student, master drummer and faculty member Bob Moses) Three 20 minute clips -
Tisziji at Boston Conservatory Part 1
Tisziji at Boston Conservatory Part 2
Tisziji at Boston Conservatory Part 3 ..
Musicians Quotes: "“Tisziji Muñoz is a man of self-knowledge, and a very advanced musician. Tisziji is one of the spiritual players. He has that quality about him. He is the only one I know that plays like that. He is the only guitar player I really know that I can play with. To me, it’s like there are no other guitar players. He is the only one. I can’t play with anyone else like I play with Tisziji.
Tisziji can come into my band at any time and we can just play. We don’t have to think about it. He just knows what to play. And we’re just gonna do it. We’re just gonna play the music and it will be what it will be. You never know what he’s going to do next. He thinks and plays on a higher level. Tisziji plays with that spiritual quality that is about being Free. That is in his music. He has a lot of conviction in his music. He has that unique Sound. If you want to know about Tisziji, you have to listen to his music.
I can always talk to Tisziji and play with him like there is no time between us. He is a very unique person. He has helped me through a lot in a lot of different ways. For instance, when we played in Schenectady, I came in with a lot of physical pain, but Tisziji took away my pain. He made me feel good. I always feel good when I’m around Tisziji."
Pharoah Sanders - 1998""Tisziji is a very spiritual person. He is one of the most spiritual people I know. He’s really into it. He lives it. He’s for real. There’s nothing false about him. Everything that he does in his life enhances his music. When you listen to his music you hear that. Everything spills right into his music. To me it’s all about music. Everything in life is in the music. It’s universal.
It’s hard for me to define the spiritual stuff, but I get a feeling when it’s good. All of Tisziji’s music is good. This cat Tisziji is crazy. He has that real open-mindedness and the music can go anywhere at anytime. He is right into what is happening when it’s happening. He’s a great musician and a great person.
Tisziji’s open and free conception is what I’ve been working towards all my life. I found it with Coltrane and I’m still trying to define it. I feel like I’m finding out more with Tisziji, but I also feel that I won’t ever get to the end of it."
Rashied Ali - 1999
"I first met Tisziji Muñoz in Toronto Canada, Summer 1969. At dawn, one morning, I was returning home from what was then referred to as an ‘all-nighter,’ when I walked by a man, seated on a stoop, playing acoustic guitar. As I walked, I listened, but having passed, I realized what I had heard, and could walk no further. I turned around, went back and stood transfixed by what this many was playing. It was music of a unique, other-worldly nature. It was intense, beautifully improvised, haunting melody, and although I didn’t understand it, I was galvanized.That same morning, as the sun rose, I introduced myself to Muñoz and the two of us went to a piano-practice room at the University of Toronto where I was a student. There we played together and he began to instruct me in how to accompany and play this type of music. Thus began a musical and spiritual friendship which continues to this day. I apprenticed with Muñoz from that morning until I left Toronto for New York in 1974. He taught me first a repertoire of jazz standards, expanding my knowledge of harmony, then gradually freed me to play the modal type of spatial music with which he dealt. He formed an electric band and led me and a small group of cats in an exploration of music as a means of spiritual communication with each other and, ultimately, with God. He inspired me to go into music as a full-time vocation."
Paul Shaffer, Musical Director
Late Show / CBS Television ..
PRIMARY INFLUENCE: "SPIRIT FIRST AND LAST" ... with many musicians inbetween."
- Tisziji MunozTisziji's Expression of Life & Spirit from the 'Visiting This Planet' liner notes
Spirit is my Life, Nature is my Body,
Consciousness is my Mind, Compassion is my Heart,
Knowledge is my Mother and Wife, Realization is my Father and Guru
the Human Race is my Family, the Earth is my Stepping-stone,
the Solar-system is my Neighborhood, the Universe is my Country,
Spiritual Law is my Constitution, the Open Sky is my True Home.
Transcendental Wisdom is my only real Friend,
Enlightmenment is my Day, Ignorance is my Night,
Disability is my Victory, Suffering is my Sacrifice,
Spiritual Genius is my Responsibility,
Detachment is my Discipline,
Continuity is my Ever-Deepening Joy.
Communion is my Power,
Creation is my Thought, Word and Action.
Experience is my Degree, Understanding is my Virtue,
Intuitive Illumination is my Success,
Selfless Being is my Peace,
Unconditional Love is my Pleasure.
Lightning is my Symbol, Truth is my Light, Silence is my Sound,
Enlightened Service is my Path, Death is my Liberation,
Pure Awareness is my Soul of itself.
the Sound Current is my Voice, Freedom is my Song,
Balancement is my Instrument,
Pure Music is my Religion,
Guidance is my Offering,
IS-ness is my Doctrine,
Desirelessness is my Fullness,
God is my Source
and
Tisziji is my name." Tisziji Munoz, liner notes to "Visiting This Planet"
Tisziji does not usually play with a 'formal' band, (the longest regular gig was playing with Pharoah Sanders group in the 1970s & 80's) but he records with many of the most renowned Free-jazz players of the last 30 years. Saxophonists: Pharoah Sanders, Dave Liebman, Ravi Coltrane, Nick Brignola, Pat La Barbara, Jerry Bergonzi, Michael Stewart, Charles Lloyd, Dave Schnitter, Bill Drews, Carlos Garnet, Joe Henderson, Mario Rivera, George Garzone, Alvin Paul and Arthur Rhames.
Pianists/Keyboardists: John Hicks, McCoy Tyner, Hilton Ruiz, Marilyn Crispell, Bernie Senensky, Paul Shaffer, Danilo Perez, Don Thompson, John Medesky, Joe Bonner, Brad Hatfield, Terry Logan, Jon Weiss, Greg Murphy, Bob Murphy, John Esposito, Ted Moses and Michael Cochrane.
Drummers: Rashied Ali, Bob Moses, Idris Muhammed, Elvin Jones, Lucas Ligetti, Claude Ranger, Adam Nussbaum, Franklin Kiermeyer, Freddie Waites, Clayton Johnson, Dave Calarco, Terry Clark, Jim Norman, Keith Blackley, Michael Carvin, Bob McLarin, Greg Pilo, Norman Connors, Lenny White, Greg Bandy, Michael Craydon, John Weir, Charles Moffit, Guillermo Cantu and Don Thompson and Toby Williams.
Bassists: Don Pate, Art Davis, Cecil McBee, Dennis Irwin, John Lockwood, Ratso Harris Mark Dresser, Alex Blake, Matthew Garrison, Don Thompson, Michel Donato, George Koller, Neil Swainson, Steve Neal, Steve Wallace, John Erlenson, John Burr, Dave Pilch, Stanley Clark, Chris Woods, Rick Homme, Reggie Workman, Buster Williams, Andy McKee, Andy Gonzales, Jack McFadden, Bruce Gertz, Phil Bowler, Jameel Nasser, Saheeb Sarbib, Ray Drummond, Fred Hopkins, Junie Booth, Andy McCloud and Stafford James.
Percussionists: Jerry Gonzales, Guillerme Franco, and Lawrence Killien.
Trumpeters: Tom Harrell, Freddie Stone, Eddie Henderson, Woody Shaw, John Gardner, Hannibal, Bruce Cassidy and Michael Malone.
Guitarists: Sonny Greenwich, Lenny Breau and Henry Kaiser.
Trombonist: Steve Turre.
Flutist: Kathy Moses. ..
The Current Release:
is a Compilation/Retrospective covering 20 years of Tisziji's underground and over-the-top music.
"Love Always: Spirit of the Ancient Masters" Columbia/Japan 2007 "LOVE ALWAYS: Spirit of the Ancient Masters - by Tisziji Munoz
Now On AMAZON.COM
Tracks:
1. "Song For All Children" - CD: Visiting This Planet (1982/Anami)
2. "Seven Steps to Heaven"- CD: Death Is A Friend Of Mine
3. "All Blues"- CD: Death Is A Friend Of Mine (1996/Anami)
4. "Blessings"- CD: Presence Of Mastery (Anami/1999)
5. "Summer Of '42"- CD: Death Is A Friend Of Mine (1996/Anami)
6. "Breaking The Wheel Of Life and Death" - CD: Breaking The Wheel Of Life and Death (Anami/2000)
7. "Happy Sadness"- CD: Presence Of Joy (Anami/1999)
8. "Purification By Fire"- CD: Spirit World (Anami/1997)
9. "Offering Of Love"- CD: Parallel Reality (with Ravi Coltrane) (Anami/2001)
10. "Love Is When You Let It Be"- CD: Death Is A Friend of Mine (1996/Anami)
Discography:
Love At First Sound, 2004 Anami Music
Divine Radiance, 2003 Distributed by Dreyfus Records Produced by Anami Music
Shaman-Bala, 2002 Anami Music
Hu-Man Spirit, 2001 Anami Music
Parallel Reality, 2000 Anami Music
Breaking the Wheel of Life and Death, 2000 Anami Music
Auspicious Healing, 2000 Anami Music
Presence Of Mastery, 1999 Anami Music
Presence Of Joy, 1999 Anami Music
Presence Of Truth, 1999 Anami Music
Tisziji Muñoz Live! Great Sacrifice, 1999 Anami Music
Alpha-Nebula, 1997 Anami Music
Spirit World, 1997 Anami Music
Present Without A Trace, 1997 Anami Music
The River of Blood, 1997 Anami Music
Death Is A Friend Of Mine, 1996 Anami Music
Tisziji Muñoz - Spirit Man, 1995 Anami Music
Heart Sound, 1995 Anami Music
Visiting This Planet, 1980's Anami Music
Rendezvous With Now, 1978 India Navigation - N/A
Pharoah Sanders - Pharoah, 1976 India Navigation - N/A
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Tisziji's Spiritual Teaching Function:"Spirit Is the Great Mover. All of my written and musical works are responses to either requests or questions from certain individuals, or are the responses to Spirit. I have no desire to create of myself. Only Spirit and the spiritual needs of others will move me to create and share of these things.This is not written as The Truth of or for every being, nor are most other beings expected or intended to be in agreement with this or any of my works.
Rather, this work is for the few whose awakening is in sympathetic resonance with this Spirit. Therefore, any book I write or anything that i say is the viewpoint or statement of the moment and not necessarily Who or What I Am."
Hu-naam,
Tisziji Munoz A Message from Tisziji:
(... This music and teaching)
"is the gift of the living fire of Silence, here for those in critical psychic and
spiritual need of serious multidimensional deep healing, integration and recognition.
Who, in recognizing their apparent, persisting conscious and unconscious bondage to mechanical self, thought, speech and mind programs,
gradually open to the blister path
of immediate awakening by Heart-Fire Sound burn!
How beautiful is this?
Who hears this?"
-Tisziji Munoz, May 1st 2007.
From personal message to miqel about the myspace page Knowing that most individuals would not have any direct contact with him, Tisziji has graciously documented and published his views on a vast array of subjects, which served the purpose of providing answers and insights into life’s problems.
He has also provided writings describing the way that he plays and how best to listen to his sound creations and musical expressions. These written works freed Tisziji from the burden of any formal or ritualistic teaching function.
We will add new quotes from some of Tisziji's dozens of self-published books to the profile each month.
Tisziji accepts no followers but welcomes the friendship of those who appreciate his music and sacred effort. He teaches that each must become masters of their own fate, that each must awaken the Master within themselves. This profile is maintained by Ahku(Miqel), with assistance from Tisziji & his family. To contact Tisziji or obtain CD's please visit Anami Music.