Let me introduce myself: I am Linda Isvara, and have been a songwriter and singer and guitarist since 1971, although I was singing since I was aged two, according to my mother; and in latter years, I have added some attributes of keyboard, bass, a little violin, and a fair smattering of studio techniques, including Cubase, and sampling, which I usually use for bits of myself doing things rather than for bits of other people doing things; it's nicer that way. I've only had the use of a sampler for one year, summer 1989 to summer 1990. If anyone knows of an Akai S1000 or the like, which someone can let me have cheaply, please let me know. (Send e-mail to: )

         My music project is entitled ANTAKARANA, a word which I believe comes from Sanskrit, and means "The connection between the god-goddess world and the human-world", to be thought of in terms of frequencies of vibration such as thought, light or sound; hence my company name, Harmonious Vibration. Via Harmonious Vibration Productions I'm releasing a few albums of my music on CD, which later this year will be able to be bought from this website via Paypal; at present please e-mail me at the address above. I wrote the songs, and other people playing, where they do, are credited. There is one saxophonist and one drummer whose names I don't know, although if they would like to send me their photo and name the time they played I'll credit them also.I do remember their faces. Much of the music is done by myself, either with computer or 4-track or on acoustic guitar and voice only. Band things and festival sessions (some are both) abound, it's a matter of finding representative stuff from different years. The album called LAUDE SERVICE has some retrospective stuff from the early 1970's through to the present. The album ENTELECHY has more emphasis on the newer stuff about consciousness. However, be aware that the recording techniques on the second one are not ace since I don't have the old studio to use now. There's a third album, concentrating on acoustic material, called ADVERT:I:SING, and a compilation album of mostly live festival gig sessions from the 1980's called RAINBOW BRIDGE. This one includes material I played with the bands I started: PSYLENS, in 1981 to '83, THELEMA EUTHUS PNEUMA (Will to the Spirit) in 1983,THE RAINBOW BRIDGE in 1984, and ANTAKARANA in 1985 through 1988. To order them and my autobiography, Mystory, e-mail me using the address shown above and at the bottom of this page.

         These bands mostly had the same members, with only the name changing. The 1982 through '86 lineup was Linda Isvara on guitar and singing and writing the songs, and arranging them where necessary; Mark Huxley on drums, and "Cosmic" Andy on bass. In 1988 the band was revived with Marcus Cole as second guitarist, Johnny _____ on bass, and Steve _____on drums. I split that up when first Marcus and then Steve got violent. There have also been happy sessions with Bliz Costa on guitar and Karen Green on bass, one with oddments of Ozric Tentacles including Ed Wynne and Roly Wynne, and an all-nighter on the Pyramid stage at the full moon at Greenham Common in summer 1982 with Nik Turner joining in on saxophone, and also with the aforesaid unknown drummer, whom I photographed next to Nik's original pyramid stage the morning afterwards, when none of us had had any sleep yet, and the fence to the nuclear base had been cut for the first time, following my belting out an extempore (i.e. written on the spot) peace ballad,"Break Down the Walls", which, I have heard, later got copied. The Wystic Mankers did a cassette in 1982, and check out the first track, which has me singing and Nik Turner on saxophone. Rory Cargill plays guitar on a New Year's session Mark and I hosted in Hackney in 1982/3, and "Little" Dave of punk fame is on a tape or two from around that time,perhaps a year later. I had a collaboration with "Psi" Steve Nadler, from 1981 off and on. so he's on some music, though years later, when I dug him out of a flat in Wandsworth to live in a neighboring house in Hackney, and even moved him and six others in my ambulance, including "generator" John and Jenny and their daughter, when they moved from one house to another; he later turned around and stole my house while I was away due to illness. Let this be known far and wide. I trust that his reputation is adjusted downward accordingly; as well as that of "generator" John Schuchard, who was in on that; he worked at an antique tool shop in Islington, now closed down. It took ten years for the right circumstances to crop up again for me to get back to the area, because people who later lived in my house, who knew that I'd started the house after the tenant/owner had left early in 1982, prevented my return to it.

         In my new house, someone started a fire in hope that I'd wimp out and leave, but I didn't. I would really appreciate any offer of rebuilding help anyone can give: there is no window frame at all in one window, and another needs the glazing done where the fire department smashed out three panes. I've had them measured and bought the replacements and the putty although I don't trust myself to be able to get the window out of the frame and back into it. Also the roof needs work on the flat section, including new wood beams. The electricity on one floor got wiped out, also. In exchange for all this work (not just a little of it) being done, including providing some of the materials, I can offer the person (providing they don't smoke cigarettes or eat meat indoors) a basement room to live in for the duration of the work and some time longer. The area is pleasant, with a park nearby and not much traffic. The room is seriously quiet and will have a bit of natural light after the post-fire clearance, which I also need help with. I am not ashamed to ask, because I've had more than £2,000,000 worth of songs stolen from me. Every song I've written and had stolen has charted in the top ten, and that's five songs: two number ones, a number two, a number five and a number seven (plus a couple in which a non-chorus phrase only was used) . I guess you have to believe it or not; one of them has been in litigation since 1987, the year for which it was the top-selling single WORLDWIDE! This is why I don't name them here. I can talk about them face-to-face, after which people can say they've heard about this one or that one, using the word made famous by Private Eye and Have I Got News For You: "allegedly". So in advance may I say thanks for understanding and goodwill.

         Back to the happy stuff. Yes, some good music got done, and some good music is still getting done. On the Laude Service album there are three songs co-produced by George Stewart of Kissing The Pink (later known as KTP), with J. Owen Williams on second and third guitars, and Mark Kendrick on bass.

         LINKS: In addition to other people's and groups' sites, there is MYSTORY, my autobiography; The book can be bought in unbound manuscript form, published by Anawim Publications, and available via e-mailing me. I look forward to getting Anawim covering some green matters also, with text by myself and other people. (If any contributions, please e-mail them, and if they aren't too huge, I'll link them when I can work on the site. I can't access the internet at home yet so that's in the future. Also I don't have a scanner, so if it's large put it on your site (unless you don't have one) and a link will suffice. The links from my site are spiritual, philosophical, political, and environmental. An interactive guest-book is something we'll have here also; a forum, called The Rainbow Bridge, after the old band. The Sound Foundation is the name of the studio where I record, and although it's not flash or "industry standard" quality gear, it offers CD mastering, digital-to digital, or from any hodge-podge of analogue sources like cassettes, which can be doctored a bit on the spot. It's not in a public place, so introductions are more suitable than advertising, for it. I hope you like the festival photos, from 1981 onward, and photos of Ecovillage in Wandsworth, 1996. There are more photos than the ones on the site now. Credit where it's due, I am being taught vaguely, and receiving help putting this site together, from Rory Cargill of the Invisible Band, whose site is named in Links as Ethereal Music. Therefore if this site seems small, remember that I've had to blag time on a scanner somewhere else, ask for a CD of what I scanned, and can only put up a few more pictures and paragraphs at a time due to using Rory's computer and his own time. Thanks to him, and to Jacko (who was at the Library and Lido in Hackney) for the scanning and use of a work computer one time. There are some photos of one-day events, and of life in the city and on sites. Eventually some snippets of live sounds from stages, when I've done the .wav files, will appear. At the moment my computer doesn't make any sound with midi so that has to wait. Harmonious Vibration is getting this initial background information up on it now, a few months after the site was established as a dot com; we have to start somewhere. Thanks for your patience if you've called up this site before and found nothing but the title. Won't Capital FM be surprised.

         All photos and website content are copyright 1999-2004, Linda Steer (Linda Isvara). Please credit me, Linda Isvara, as the photographer if you wish to download any photographs, and e-mail me (or leave an entry in the guest book) to say you're doing so, with your web address, thanks. I hope some of this is of interest. Be happy if you can, be conscious even when you're asleep or somebody might try to do that for you. Not me! I'm one of the good guys. See you there.