MUSIC (RE-)CONNECTS, HEALS AND SOOTHES
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Join me on a positive music journey to awaken your senses with good vibes of Handpan and other instruments through several creative projects...As always, a part of the benefits of my music sales is going to Charities and NGOs defending the Animal Cause and Children Care.By supporting my music, you enter a positive circle. Hopefully and humbly, let's contribute to make the world a better place.

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Handpan Music For Animals
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An original concept and ongoing project since 2015We're all connected...Click on the button below to read more

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Sound Healing & Yoga/Meditation sessions
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The Handpan and some other peculiar instruments, have real sound and vibration properties that help to sooth the mind, the heart and the rest of the body...Let me bring those good vibes in your sessions, workshops and way more...

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(Belly) Dance & Handpan
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A new project of Dance accompanied by Handpan Music, starting with my very good friend, the amazingly multi-talented Belly Dancer, Aimée "Billie" M.If you have the chance to see her in a Belly Dance show, don’t miss that opportunityRead more in the descriptions of the videos where she appears.

Enter the Dance!

“AWAKENING & ENLIGHTENMENT” - xkliber (Guitar & Handpan Extended Version) [feat. Dan Barracuda]
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(single)

When a Handpan meets a Pink Floyd-like space rock Guitar, Earth vibrations and natural singing whales...Watch the official video clip, get/stream this track on all the main music platforms by clicking this button:

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Handpan Stories
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(double album)

2 CDs, 18 tracks, 1h35 of relaxing, immersive, mysterious and groovy Handpan music, telling the stories of a journey around the world... ... from the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean under big storms, to Jamaica and the Bayou of Louisiana, through a very living jungle, strange and enchanting forests to a haunted house, along the French harbors then crossing the steppes of Mongolia, and then noisy cities to the mysterious mists of Avalon to finally find our inner peace listening to our heartbeat.Digital copies available everywhere
+ physical copies on Bandcamp.

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ANONYMOUS Player – 60s HANDPAN CHALLENGE (2019 – 3RD EDITION) – “HEATHENS” (Twenty One Pilots x MuteMath x Xkliber)
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I’VE BEEN HACKED!
and it seems this chalenge tooThere’s even an inner hidden message inside this entry to the 2019 3rd edition 60 second Handpan Challenge.
(but I validate it…).Read a bit more about what happened and why, in the video description on YouTube:

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Running from
the Walking Dead
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(single)

An original composition, on all the main musical platforms, with 3 Handpans and an immersive HD video clip with sound effects and soundscapes.More story in the video description on YouTube

Will you be afraid?
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About Me

Presentation / Introduction

Hello, I'm Jérôme "xkliber" Chauvin.

Music has always been an important part of my life, playing several instruments, solo or in bands and chamber or big orchestras, beside my job as an IT engineer in web techs and design.

I love to create, to mix and to mingle things and even more  (*).

Multi-instrumentalist (Violin, Handpan, several "World Music" percussions and instruments, Electronic music and others as I like to discover and experiment things), I always thought that "Music is THE Universal Language" adding that “it even survived the fall of the Babel Tower”.

That’s why I love to mix several sorts of styles, cultures, musics and technics through my creations.

Music, more than just talking to everyone, also (re-)connects, heals, soothes and can be a powerful tool to do good.

(*) : Involved in Animals & Children care causes, I decided that a part of my music sales benefits will go to NGOs and Sanctuaries like L214, One Voice, Anonymous for the Voiceless, PeTA, Sea Shepherd, The Dragonfly NGO, Tierlebenshof Hunsrück-Mosel, ... 

SINCERITY & PASSION

100

ANIMAL RIGHTS & CHILDREN CARE ACTIVISM

100

Music

85

MULTIMEDIA, PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO WORK & SPECIAL FX

75

WEB DESIGN & CODING

80

Handpan Music For Animals

I am the original creator of this concept and ongoing project, since 2015.My goal is to show how intelligent, sentient and lovable animals-non-humans are.I so wish that we, humanimals, make the connection and evolve to feel and understand the injustice, pain, terror, suffering and cruelty those beings are put through by our fault and our decisions on every level, as consumers and citizens.#GoVeganClick below to go to the dedicated video playlist:

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Services

Beside my music and video releases and projects, I provide several kinds of services.
Use the contact form to ask me for more details.

Accompanying your Yoga or Meditation classes, workshops and retreats

I will be pleased to play for you with my Handpans and other instruments, creating a peaceful and subtle musical ambiance during your local sessions (preferably in Europe).

Contact me to see how to plan it together.

Playing for animals in Sanctuaries

Like in my original concept and ongoing project started in 2015, Handpan Music For Animals, the deep connections I have, every time, make me want to go even further and to come to share good vibes and to play for other beautiful souls and sentient beings.

Contact me if you have an animal sanctuary for a healing process or if you have any event that will help you to gain more visitors and members.

Playing in Hospitals

How not to be sensible to the pain of others, especially children which are innocent and vulnerable?
I will sincerely enjoy to come and play for them there, as well as for other people who are isolated and suffer in any kind of way, in different types of medical structures, in order to share good, positive and soothing vibrations of Handpan music.

Contact me if you work in this kind of structure and think it can bring joy and peace to their hearts and minds.

Handpan Teaching: Initiation, lessons and workshops

With my musical background (many years of learning and playing violin and other instruments), then several years of Handpan playing, I developed my own style and technics, enhanced through various workshops and lessons with some of the best players of the international Handpan scene (Kabeção, David Charrier, Adrian J Portia, David Kuckhermann, Laurent Sureau, Nadishana, ...), in order to see, learn and digest several of their own technics and personal approaches to merge them with my own.

I didn't particularly felt the urge to teach it myself but after several people asked me to do so, I finally accepted and started to give lessons about this magical instrument.

If you want to be initiated to the Handpan world and to have your first touch or if you want lessons for beginners or advanced players, through one to one sessions or via small groups (5-10 people), let me know.

For those who own a Handpan and live further away, lessons are possible via Skype.

Feel free to ask me for more details.

(Online) Music collaboration / Movies, ads and video games Soundtrack

Like I always say:
"Music is THE Universal Language"

So if ever you feel the need or wish to have some magical, groovy and/or enchanting Handpan vibes or else (other world music subtleties, sounds form Nature and animals or even some electronic ones as I like to dig different kinds of sound worlds) in your own musical or video projects, don't hesitate!

In my experiences with musicians and some movie directors from all around the world, it was always a great adventure.
From small but cool projects to more complex and professional ones, I really enjoy to work with other creative people I would probably never have met otherwise.

Hit the contact form link to ask me for more details and check out my "Online Music Collaborations" dedicated playlist on my YouTube channel to know more about some of the previous ones I made.

Sharing a creative mind and technical knowledge

What about some more creative projects together?
Through my professional and personal background, I really enjoy creative projects involving Multimedia, social networks, video shooting and making, audio soundscape and sound FX creation, animation making (with slight FX), Digital Art, Photography, Theater, using my live music with dancing projects ... but also writing stories and scenarios, on my own but also in small or bigger teams.

I would be happy if I could advise you or work with you on your creative projects as a consultant or a member of your creation team.

Simply use the contact form for any enquiries.

Some of my Latest Works

A selection of my music releases, video works, pictures, design, animations ...
Follow me on my social networks and go on my Bandcamp account to know and discover more.
(see icons in the page header)

Show AllAudioCollaborationsDance and HandpanHandpan Music For AnimalsLooper and audio experimentsVideo

What People Say

Testimonials

I am a 100% fan! 🙂 From the beginning and forever! 😀

Claudia H.
Claudia H.Painter-artist and creator of unique jewels

Talented artist, human being with a big heart. His videos where he shares his music with animals are absolutely cult and make him unique in the Handpan family.

Lancelot P.
Lancelot P.Musician, Handpan player

Congratulations on the album! It's very nice all the sound design and soundscapes you created, it works well, and musically I really like, it also tells a story! When you add small instruments in addition, it does it well! It's very immersive!

Dino C.
Dino C.Musician, Handpan Player and Sound Engineer for Opera Garnier, Paris

It really looks like movie music.

Fabrizio A.
Fabrizio A.Handpan player

Keep the good work brother. There are really beautiful things.

Kabeção / Carlos R.
Kabeção / Carlos R.Multi-instrumentalist, Handpan player and pioneer in the sound exploration of this instrument

Difficult to find words to describe sensations. I can only advise everyone to let themselves be transported with Jérôme's music and thus to commune with the heavenly and the earthly. Thank you Jérôme!

Antide P.
Antide P.Fan

A pleasure of listening and authenticity on magic instruments. Thank you thank you and thank you again for these beautiful stories so finely carved and this beautiful musical journey.

Dominique W.
Dominique W.Multi-instrumentalist, Zen Master

Bravo, what a beautiful album where the sweetness of the Handpan is sublimated by the dramaturgical contribution of the sounds between songs ... I could not help but think that with some strings and vocals, we could think of an album from Wax Taylor ... that I love! 😊A nice trip on an unexpected tracks ...

Alejandro P.
Alejandro P.Musician, Handpan player

Jérôme is a passionate musician who loves to convey his love of music to others! Always available, attentive with very good advice.

Clara P.
Clara P.Artist

I love it!

Anne I.
Anne I.Handpan player

I love the sound of your Handpan music, it's beautiful Jérôme

Barbara M.
Barbara M.Fan

I like the sound of the Handpan and your music, it is the instrument that emits sounds most apparent to the vibrations emitted and circulating in the Universe. I give 5/5 stars

Pierre D.
Pierre D.Fan

I love to listen to your Handpan music

Rishi R.
Rishi R.Yoga teacher

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