Background
Mathias Grassow played drums and guitar in the 1970s and moved on to keyboards in the early 1980s. Later, he became interested in keyboards and electronic synths. He had an interest in Alan Watts books and spirituality.
His interests progressed over from Buddhism to Sufism and to the mystical side of Christianity.
He became interested in overtone and subharmonic chants, long deep synthesizer drones, and in Indian classical music Later he was influenced by the singing bowl sound recordings of Klaus Wiese.