Harmonic Worlds
“What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music, our mind and our body, the nature in which we live, the nature that has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music; and we are close to all this music, and live and move and have our being in music”
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Hearing Solar Winds Alight CD $14.00
“Hearing Solar Winds Alight” is a new take on a 25 year old classic. Originally released in 1983, “Hearing Solar Winds” was something completely new. The explorations that cumulated in “Hearing Solar Winds” began in the 1970’s. It was comprised of elements from overtone singing from Asia, the explorations of modern jazz into different tonal colors, the exciting speculations of modern cosmology into the nature of the universe and a growing Buddhist perspective. All these elements lead to a new way of singing, a new way of making music. Harmonic singing illuminates the elements of the one tone that is Creation. It is, in addition, a meditative practice and a modality for healing and understanding. It is a “gateless gate”.
“Hearing Solar Winds Alight” is a special 25th anniversary edition audiophile edition of David Hykes’ legendary composition and recording of “Hearing Solar Winds” with The Harmonic Choir. With over 300,000 “legacy” copies sold of the original album and CD, for this special edition, David Hykes revised and remastered his original audio recordings in a high-resolution 96kz digital audio environment. His deep familiarity with the music and the recordings in this new audio environment allowed him to bring into even clearer focus the extraordinarily rich, strong and magical harmonics of the voices echoing in the magnificent expanse of the Thoronet Abbey in France, where the work was recorded. This definitive edition, personally supervised by David Hykes renews the startling legacy of his “music of the spheres” for a new generation of listeners. It also features a wonderful new cover by Caterina Verde. To see more of her work, follow this link.
Harmonic Meeting DVD David Hykes
and The Harmonic Choir $15.00
Filmed in Paris in 2006 by Frederic Legendre and Gille Bock, this DVD is a rare treat to experience a concert by David Hykes and The Harmonic Choir. Hykes has in recent years collaborated with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, composed music for the wonderful films “Travelers and Magicians” and the “Journey Into Buddhism” series by John Bush. He is joined in this concert by Timothy Hill, Seth Markel and Joel Bluestein and also Stephane Gallet playing the ney and bowed tanbur and Bruno Caillat on percussion. The concert consists of these tracks:
Harmonic Opening
Spectral Path
Brotherhood
Om Mani Padme Hung
Breath of the Lord
Hearing Solar Winds
Harmonic Meeting
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