Nirodha — Sound · Voice · Silence

Music that quiets the mind

Nirodha

Sound · Voice · Silence

Discography

The Music

Sound & Silence

Native flute · Classical guitar · Instrumental

Voice & Mantra

Chant · Kirtan · Voice & Tanpura

Night Sanctuary — Nirodha album cover

Album · Monthly releases

Night Sanctuary

Native Latin American flute for sleep. Intimate, meditative and unhurried. One track released each month — a record built slowly, in real time.

Surya — Nirodha single cover

Single · 2026

Surya

An acoustic homage to our inner light. Classical nylon-string guitar and traditional tanpura — for deep introspection and quiet mornings.

Chants from the Heart — Nirodha album cover

Mantras & Kirtan

Chants from the Heart

Harmonium, voice and silence — nothing more. Sanskrit mantras sung the way they were meant to be heard: close, unhurried, and without performance.

«Words do no justice — listen. Relisten.»

Bre · Massachusetts, USA

«I keep coming back to this. I listened with my baby, now a toddler. It puts her to sleep quickly and gently.»

Heather · USA

«Soft and almost tender — inviting me to hold on and arrive in this peaceful moment of time.»

Tiff · Insight Timer

Insight Timer · 12,000+ followers · 4.8 avg. rating

Gatherings

Upcoming Encounters

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Guided practice

Courses

Insight Timer · Available now

Sleep Sanctuary

Seven nights of native flute and slow-wave frequencies — designed as a sonic cocoon. No active listening required. Your only task is to let go.

7Sessions
~20′Per session
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Awakening the Inner Temple

Voice and tanpura, nothing else. A spoken course for those who follow the mantra — seven invitations to sit with what has always been there.

7Sessions
~15′Per session
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12,000+ people follow this practice on Insight Timer. These courses depend on nothing external — just you, the sound, and a few minutes of honest stillness.

The practice

About

Daniel Espada playing native flute outdoors

I have spent over a decade exploring what sound can do to a restless mind. Recordings, meditation circles, yoga festivals, kirtan gatherings — and one conviction that hasn’t changed: stillness is not something you achieve. It’s something you remember.

My work moves between kirtan, meditative composition and immersive sound — native flute, classical guitar, harmonium, voice. Each instrument chosen not for its complexity, but for its capacity to get out of the way and leave space for what’s already here.

I record alone, perform in circles, and teach what I know. If any of this resonates, the newsletter below is the quietest way to stay close.

Composer · Multi-instrumentalist · Kirtan facilitator

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Letters from Silence

New music, upcoming gatherings, and a few words from the practice — before they reach anywhere else.

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