Mike Tamburo

Mike Tamburo, also known as Brother Ong (born 30 March 1977 New Kensington, Pennsylvania) is an independent musician, sound explorer, music educator, filmmaker, musical instrument builder, interdisciplinary sound artist, gong enthusiast, storyteller, writer, meditation teacher, installation artist, painter, currently living in New Kensington, PA. He is a well known multi-instrumentalist and plays the hammered dulcimer, gong, shahi baaja, swarmandal, autoharp, the crowned eternal (an instrument he built out of a headboard), tuning forks, guitar, percussion, electronic instruments, bulbul tarang, bass gopichand, gulbulgar, singing bowls, bells and clarinet. He runs 2 small labels called: New American Folk Hero and Sounds Eternal. He teaches Kundalini yoga, Nāda yoga, sound therapy and Experimental Instrument Building. Early in Tamburo's career he gained notoriety for his string playing (hammered dulcimer, guitar and shahi baaja). In many of his early performances he began to enter into altered states of consciousness and have out of body experiences while performing. In order to understand these experiences he went into years of self study; exploring Kundalini Yoga, energy work, the therapeutic use of sound and how sound effects consciousness, human perception and self healing. His love for long sustained overtones and psychoacoustics led him to working with multiple gongs and other tuned metal instruments (bells, sound plates, singing bowls) as well as exploring the healing power of mantra and toning. He has traveled the United States extensively, performing over 1500 shows in his career. He writes about many of his adventures in an ongoing collection of stories called Without Beginning, Middle Or End. He has also curated 3 years of the Fantastic Voyagers Music Festival. He performed and recorded for several years with Crown Of Eternity with his ex-wife Galina Haralambava.

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The Heavy Music - 2025-11-18T00:00:00.000000Z

Drifts and Nods - 2025-05-05T00:00:00.000000Z

The Giant Sleeps - 2023-08-25T00:00:00.000000Z

Private Humors - 2022-12-06T00:00:00.000000Z

The April Tapes - 2022-05-24T00:00:00.000000Z

The Air We Share - 2021-09-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Plays Metal - 2020-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Shaking the Spirit from the Bone - 2019-07-09T00:00:00.000000Z

Aquarian Drifter - 2019-02-25T00:00:00.000000Z

World of Sound - 2018-06-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Forgotten Strings and Other Hallucinations: An Anthology (2004 - 2009) - 2017-05-31T00:00:00.000000Z

Empress Village - 2016-05-18T00:00:00.000000Z

Brother of Creation - 2013-10-31T00:00:00.000000Z

When I'm Gone Bury Me at Sea - 2025-01-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Farewell Voyager - 2024-10-29T00:00:00.000000Z

Gravity Attracting - 2024-08-22T00:00:00.000000Z

Lullaby (For Sleepless Dreamers) - 2024-07-03T00:00:00.000000Z

6 Tears for Funwheel - 2024-06-28T00:00:00.000000Z

Sonic Visions - 2024-01-24T00:00:00.000000Z

Laughing Magic - 2023-04-27T00:00:00.000000Z

As You Wake or Return to Sleep - 2023-04-07T00:00:00.000000Z

Just Another Twinkle in Time - 2022-05-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Distance Music - 2021-04-16T00:00:00.000000Z

Fantastic Tales - 2020-05-06T00:00:00.000000Z

The Great Unraveling - 2019-11-08T00:00:00.000000Z