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What Type of Musician are You?
There are Three Types of Musicians
- The Creative musicians, artistic persons, composers who have the capacity for creating new musical structures and who find original forms of musical expression.
- The Performing Artists who know how to articulate the language of music by making it audible and intelligible.
- The Listeners who are as important to the making of music as the performers. They are the people who make sense from what they hear. They understand and enjoy music, but do not necessarily become musicians.
Tchaikovsky-Hymn of the Cherubim – Liturgy of St John Chrysostom
“Reincarnation” from Horse of Colours album – Inner Mongolian Band called Hangai
WOW!! Powerful & awakening as I gallop on horseback across the Mongolian plains. Love the sound of the horse neck fiddle.
“Pipe Dream”
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Dhafer Youssef – “Soupir Eternal”
Breathtaking & magnetizing – heart shared in the moment. WOW! Amazing, spiritual, pure art & musicianship.
A Tunisian composer, singer & oud (Arabic lute) player. Youssef’s music combines Sufi tradition, world, mystical & jazz influences with Arabic lyricism.
Another video with a jazz influence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkvYsbhrsYw
Katya Chilly “Svetlytsa” on The Voice of the Ukraine
Coming from an inner Silence, translating that stillness from inside out. So ‘filling’ and patiently robust. Later on in this video, when she sings with others, she maintains her inner listening which the others ride on.
Mohammad Eghbal performs & improvises mystical texts of Sufi poets accompanied by the oriental reed flute, Nye. His understanding of Rumi’s work & his deeper insights makes the Ney come to sing & come to life. All Mohammad’s pieces are his own compositions, interpreted in a new way during each concert and therefore emerge as unique performances each time. He was born in 1940 in Teheran.
The HU – “Yuve Yuve Yu” has nearly 37 million viewings for a reason. Just listen to this … WOW!
This is a Mongolian folk metal band – between rock, rap, Nordic folk metal & shamanic journeying. Listen to his horsehead fiddle neigh like a horse! I don’t resonate with the Genghis Khan fight – but rather with the robust energy, beat, movement & primal throat singing….oh boy you will smile & move. It’s exciting!
The HU – “Wolf Totem”. LARGE sound…a large landscape in which bold brave people live. Yet it starts with silent space & the small; & returns to it at the end…ethereal! Modern day motorbike horsepower crosses the land like Mongolian horses still do. Primal overtone throat singing stirs a wonderful pulse & movement. See how you move when listening to this without a smile. It’s satisfying! Let me know what you think? 🙂
“Language of Silence” by Deuter. Born in 1945 in Germany, Deuter is a musician who pioneered New Age Music for over 50 years connecting East & West. Throughout the decades his music has always been incredibly creative & ahead of its time. I appreciate that his music slows down to breathe space into it – suggesting the emptiness & beauty between the sounds. Music that has simplicity & is easy to make connection to feel in the flow.
Also listen to “Flowers of Silence” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck94hl7zpdE
“Happens to the Heart” by Leonard Cohen. His voice & poetry of this masterpiece stirs something deep.
- 2 Quotes: There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.
- Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.
A Buddhist monk, Canadian singer-songwriter, poet & novelist. Died in Nov 2016. Iconic songs: “Hallelujah” & “Suzanne”
Ibn’ Arabi – “Alone with the Alone”: Henry Corbin
Henry Corbin (1903-1978) is one of 20th century’s most prolific scholars of Islamic mysticism.
“Alone with the Alone” draws on Ibn’ Arabi’s classic initiatory text of creative & visionary Sufi spirituality that transcends the tragic divisions among Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Mystic, philosopher, poet, sage, Ibn’ Arabi is one of the world’s great spiritual teachers. Born in Spain in 1165, his writings had an immense impact throughout the world & beyond.
“Perception” by Estas Tonne (24.47) Is a travelling Troubadour playing structured guitar music, while having the flowing uniqueness of improvisation. A fusion of classical structure, technique of Flamenco, roots of Gypsy, characteristics of Latin and Electronic Soundscape. His music is busy, shaped by emotional open-hearted expression, weaving in joy, tensions, excitement, gentleness & the grace of connection.
“On the Path of Truth I have been falling and falling, standing up again and again and keep on walking.
And I keep on walking this magnificent walk of remembrance called Love.”
“Primavera” by Ludovico Einaudi (7.24)
Pure & innocent music – flowing peace.
“Czardas” – Hauser & Caroline Campbell
A most passionate performance of violin & cello. Exhilarating!
Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard Sorrow (4.59)
Haunting and gives so much time & space to be soooo beautiful.
“Resonant Chamber”
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Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence – Madison Square Garden, NYC – 2009/10/29&30
Dead Can Dance perform “The Host Of Seraphim” Singer: Lisa Gerrard
Captivating! One of the best bands ever. A sublime journey in which to succumb to the sound & interpretation of Bulgarian folk vocals. Lisa Gerrard makes these Balkan vocal techniques her own & meanders into other styles of unbelievable singing.
Peter Gabriel & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Passion (7.39)
Both are brilliant! Nusrat – the voice from Heaven! Considered one of the greatest singers ever recorded with a six-octave vocal range & could perform at a high level of intensity of several hours.
Peter Gabriel (born 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer, humanitarian & great ambassador of world music. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948–1997) From a 600 year Qawwali family tradition, Nusrat is credited with introducing Sufi music to international audiences.The music of this Pakistani singer is characterized by simple melodies, forceful rhythms & energetic improvisations.
Dead Can Dance perform “The Host Of Seraphim” Singer: Lisa Gerrard
Captivating! One of the best bands ever. A sublime journey in which to succumb to the sound & interpretation of Bulgarian folk vocals. Lisa Gerrard makes these Balkan vocal techniques her own & meanders into other styles of unbelievable singing with lyrics that are a made-up language from within her.
Rumi, the father of Iranian mystic poetry & the pride of Iran. Iranians from the land of Aryans, Mithra, Zoroaster & Buddha!
May you be drawn in to this eternal call without time & space…to feel eternity within.
(A synopsis) When I die you must never think i am missing this world; don’t shed any tears don’t lament or feel sorry; don’t cry for my leaving i’m not leaving i’m arriving at eternal love; have you ever seen a seed fallen to earth not rise with a new life why should you doubt the rise of a seed named human; when for the last time you close your mouth your words and soul will belong to the world of no place no time.
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