Pema Journey, a watercolor lotus resting on pale blue water

PEMA JOURNEY

Todd Boston  ·  Silvia Nakkach

For Your Consideration

Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album

GRAMMY Awards®

Also on Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming services.


A sonic reunion of two lifelong friends, Pema Journey unfolds as an immersive passage through a forest radiant with color, breath, and memory. Whispered voices, acoustic instruments, and richly textured soundscapes emerge while raga-inspired melodies wind through the trees like threads of light.

This is a musical journey shaped by friendship, wonder, departure, and return. Music that asks not to be hurried but received. Each piece opens a space for deep listening: a ceremony in sound, a quiet crossing into stillness, release, and expanded awareness.

Pema Journey is an offering for the listener’s own unfolding: a gentle medicine path inward, where the unseen becomes audible, and every breath may lead home.

All sounds and music created and recorded by Humans.

Pema means lotus and refers to purifying the mind.

Silvia Nakkach and Todd Boston, hands open, photographed in black and white

Silvia Nakkach and Todd Boston


Performance

Silvia Nakkach  vocals, piano, ambience
Todd Boston  guitar, GuitarViol, synth, ambience
Max Boston  additional ambience on Becoming
Sumeet Banerji  kanjira on Pema
Renata Ururahy  crystal bowls on Pema
Michal Palzewicz  cello on Pema
Gordon Hempton  nature field recordings

Production

Composed and produced by Todd Boston and Silvia Nakkach
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Todd Boston at Spatial Sound Studios, Portland, Oregon

Contact

Todd Boston  music@toddboston.com
Silvia Nakkach  voxmundi@yahoo.com


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Six Pieces

Becoming4:50

Essence4:00

Moonlight6:42

Poem6:15

Pema4:57

Reunion4:29