AMÆMI is a Tantric, Sex Education Practitioner and Sound and Body Performer. She graduated in Philosophy, completed a Master's degree to obtain the title of Sex Educator and Consultant in Sexology, and then became a Tantric Yoga Teacher (at the Yoga Alliance). She’s also an experimental Dj.

The purpose of AMÆMI’s Sound and Body project is te creation of an immersive space through the acting of mantras, the playing of live music, and the performing of tantric yoga movements, in order to tell a story about a judgment-free elevation.

She shapes unusual flux of sonorities made by mixing obscure rave music, ancestral vibes, robotic and psychedelic notes, followed by ritualistic dance movements and yoga positions to represent both the Occidental reality and the Tantric sensual ritual world.

Congratulations for the release of your first single, DHUM. Could you tell us a bit about this title and why you chose such experimental and spiritual sounds?

Thanks! DHUM is the bija mantra (seed mantra) of Dhumavati, one of the ten Tantric Goddess of death. She’s considered the principle of transformation, said to manifest herself at the time of cosmic dissolution, incarnating the Void that exists before creation and after death. She’s associated with things considered inauspicious in Hinduism, such as the crow, because she teaches to look beyond the superficial, to find the inner truths.

So, through DHUM I wanted to create an ode to the blurred boundaries between dream and reality, also to share the invitation to welcome every end as a new beginning and every death as an awakening to the beauty of existence, which is exactly what Tantra teaches.

Talking about the sound, I see Dhum as an enveloping sensory experience. Producing this sonic fabric, I wanted to create harmony between the lascivious and the sacred, a state of immersion in spirituality, where sensuality could merge with contemplation.

So, as a performer and Tantra master, did you also want to share a message through your single?

Absolutely. I’m not a singer, nor strictly a musician. I studied theater for many years and then started djing, so, once I discovered my Tantric spiritual journey, I felt the need to express myself in a more organic way. I felt that playing music of others was funny but not the ultimate aim for me, I also wanted to use my body and music as channels to convey a message of self discovery and love, to fully embrace the human experience in all its facets. The track is an ode to the cyclicity of life, to the continuous dance between physical and spiritual, death and rebirth.

What about the Italian poem you recite in the middle of the track?

As I mentioned, I want to use music in a performative way, to convey a message, that's why I decided to include a poem I wrote after a moment of great inner revelation. I felt that there was nothing beyond the present, I perceived that acceptance, calmness, and sensuality coincided within me. I had a strong connection with my innermost energy, and I clearly saw how every second I was changing, dying, and being reborn. This is also the essence of the message behind the deity Dhumavati, embracing constant change, the incessant questioning of external reality, as a possibility to rediscover stability internally. I chose not to translate it into English because I felt that the words made sense just as they came to me, in Italian.

You announced that DHUM will be part of a more various EP, which will accompany a new performing project. Can you tell us more?

Sure. Talking about the EP, it will be a complete journey, a passage through the fusion of the cybernetic, sexualized, and metallic Western world with the Eastern tradition of the Ten Tantric Goddesses, that embody various aspects of the creative and generative energy present in the human being, necessary for his self-knowledge and the achievement of his own completeness.

The tracks capture the essence of the different deities. I played with the alternation of vocal use to reproduce the tribal and ancestral Mantras of the Goddesses, and experimental sounds drawing from both the clubbing and trance festival scenes, as well as influences from Western noisy and ambient genres. What will unite the sound of such diverse compositions is the mixture and fusion of styles itself, accompanied by a sense of ritualistic authenticity.

Also, the EP has been created specifically for the performing project DieciDee, which will stage the Ten Main Goddesses of the Tantric tradition. The musical tracks will accompany the bodily movements that reproduce the yogic positions of the Goddesses. My aim is to modernize and bring the millenary Tantric tradition into the occidental contexts, to spread the idea that only by embracing both spiritual and urban, good and evil, sacredness and sexuality, we can achieve a complete androgynous, balanced, well-being condition.