Meditative music by Daniel Espada
Nirodha
Native flute, guitar, harmonium and voice.
Most people arrive here after falling asleep to something of mine on Insight Timer. Everything I record lives on this page — and new pieces land here first.
Releases
The music
Two threads run through everything I record. One without words, for sleep and stillness. One with voice, for mantra.
Sound & silence
Native flute · Classical guitar · Instrumental
Voice & mantra
Chant · Kirtan · Voice & tanpura
Album in progress
Night Sanctuary
Native Latin American flute for sleep. One track released each month, so the record grows in real time. If you found me through a sleep meditation, this is the same room.
Single · 2026
Surya
Nylon-string guitar and tanpura, recorded in one room with the window open. Made for early mornings, before the day asks anything of you.
Mantras & kirtan
Chants from the Heart
Harmonium, voice and silence. Sanskrit mantras sung the way they sound in a small room with ten people, not on a stage.
Words do no justice — listen. Relisten.
Bre · Massachusetts
I keep coming back to this. I listened with my baby, now a toddler. It puts her to sleep quickly and gently.
Heather · Insight Timer
Soft and almost tender — inviting me to hold on and arrive in this peaceful moment of time.
Tiff · Insight Timer
Stay close
Letters from silence
Night Sanctuary grows by one track a month. When a new piece is finished, it goes out here first, with a short note about where it came from and what I was trying to hold still.
Two letters a month at most. Nothing else.
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Guided practice
Courses on Insight Timer
If you want the music with a structure around it, these are the two courses. Same sound, guided over several nights.
Available now
Sleep Sanctuary
Seven nights of native flute and slow frequencies. There is nothing to follow and nothing to get right. You press play and let go.
Open on Insight Timer ↗Coming soon
Awakening the Inner Temple
Voice and tanpura, nothing else. Seven short sittings for anyone who follows the mantra rather than the melody.
Tell me when it opensBehind the name
About
I’m Daniel Espada. I have spent more than a decade working out what sound can do to a restless mind — in recordings, meditation circles, yoga festivals and kirtan evenings.
One thing hasn’t changed in all that time: stillness isn’t something you achieve. It’s something you remember.
I record alone, mostly at night, with whatever instrument gets out of the way fastest: native flute, classical guitar, harmonium, voice. Nirodha is where that work goes.
Composer · Multi-instrumentalist · Kirtan facilitator
Live
In person
No dates confirmed right now. I play in small rooms — retreats, yoga spaces, kirtan evenings — usually sitting on the floor with harmonium, flute and voice, and no amplification beyond what the room needs.
If you host something like that, write to me and tell me about the space.
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