Paul Abbott & Spandamana

Welcome to the homes of modern indie-folk Singer/Songwriter Paul Abbott and his World music project: Spandamana. He has been been singing and playing guitar for 45+ years. Paul's writing style covers a wide range of story-telling themes such as romance, nature, inclusivity, spirituality, philosophy and psycho-social connections set to a variety of rhythms & textures. His inspiration often comes the soul's journey of self-inquiry and the ability to truly connect with the world.

        The first instrument he learned was guitar and  picked up a lot of other instruments along the way since then so his collection just keeps growing. He has played in many different bands over the years with stylings ranging from Rock and Country to Folk and Americana and has had many solo iterations over the years touring regionally. Many years ago, while attending the Southwest Indian Market and Art Festival, he met Brent Haines of Woodsounds Flutes who introduced him to the ways of the Native American flute. An avid hiker, you may catch him backpacking with flutes across the southwest where he get a great amount of musical inspiration. He has been a regular on his church's music team playing guitar, bass and singing in choir. Paul picked up a lot of ideas while traveling the world in the Armed Service. A graduate from the College for Recording Arts in San Francisco whose president was Leo De Gar Kulka (a past president of AES). Much of the music you will hear is inspired by ASMR phenomenon. With over 200 songs written, his writing influences come from every corner of the world: Native American, New age, Ambient music, Folk, Progressive Rock, Jazz, Romantic Classical, Country, Alternative and World music. 

      As a singer/songwriter Paul Abbott is currently working on an upcoming guitar album entitled Meta Folk where his strong vocal presence & powerful lyrics combined with interesting chord progressions causes his audiences to take notice. His past Native American style flute albums have been developed into a style he calls Bohemian Fusion in the world music scene which has won two Global Music Awards. He feels there is so much good music from all around the world, as infinite as God is. There's where Spandamana comes in. It's a Sanskrit term roughly translated means: The primordial universal sound which vibrates forever and ever.  

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Native American Flute is easy and fun to learn and lessons are available on request for folks around the DFW area, most people play right handed but I play left handed so it makes easy for even beginning students to see what's going on as they see a mirror image of techniques involved: Send message to Spandamana on Facebook.