CD: The Thread of Life
New York, 2008
New York, 2008
This is the 3rd CD which I co-produced for the Society for Universal Sacred Music. The Thread of Life is a narrative of music that binds us across cultures and an exploration of the divine in music.
This was a project made in heaven. I had the great pleasure and educational feast of working with my co-producer, Kim Cunio, the Australian composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist & music historian, and the Australian soprano Heather Lee, who is Kim’s wife.
For this concert, part of the Society’s Second Festival, we put together a multi-cultural group inviting Yoel Ben-Simhon, singer and oud player, to come and join us from Israel. Kim and Heather met first time Yoel and his Sultana Ensemble of instrumentalists of Arab-Israeli origin: Rachid Halihal (violin), Daphna Mor (flute, nay, recorders), Brahim Fribgane (percussion) and Liron Peled (percussion). The Australian composer Nicholas Ng offered to play the Chinese erhu. They all bonded musically in only 5 short days of rehearsals and gave such a special concert that it had to be offered to a wider audience on a CD. Kim’s editing, mixing and mastering work in Sydney, Australia, gave me a new understanding of the heights of this art. The CD is available to order here.
From Kim Cunio: All cultures have music that is mystical or transcendent, and each of these is remarkable in their own right. Presenting them together offers an opportunity to experience an even greater mode of expression. By listening to diverse mystical pieces together we can transcend our everyday lives in a new way, and create an artistic interfaith experience free of dogma. We can make music a pathway to spirituality without borders.
“The mystics of all ages have loved music the most.” Hazrat Inayat Khan
Tracks
• Armenian Lament
• A la Una Yo Naci
• Lama Bada Yatathana
• Sh’mah Yisrael Adonay Elohainu
• Yer a Ming
• The Thanksgiving Scroll
• De Spiritu Sanctu Hildegard Von Bingen
• Uskudar
This was a project made in heaven. I had the great pleasure and educational feast of working with my co-producer, Kim Cunio, the Australian composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist & music historian, and the Australian soprano Heather Lee, who is Kim’s wife.
For this concert, part of the Society’s Second Festival, we put together a multi-cultural group inviting Yoel Ben-Simhon, singer and oud player, to come and join us from Israel. Kim and Heather met first time Yoel and his Sultana Ensemble of instrumentalists of Arab-Israeli origin: Rachid Halihal (violin), Daphna Mor (flute, nay, recorders), Brahim Fribgane (percussion) and Liron Peled (percussion). The Australian composer Nicholas Ng offered to play the Chinese erhu. They all bonded musically in only 5 short days of rehearsals and gave such a special concert that it had to be offered to a wider audience on a CD. Kim’s editing, mixing and mastering work in Sydney, Australia, gave me a new understanding of the heights of this art. The CD is available to order here.
From Kim Cunio: All cultures have music that is mystical or transcendent, and each of these is remarkable in their own right. Presenting them together offers an opportunity to experience an even greater mode of expression. By listening to diverse mystical pieces together we can transcend our everyday lives in a new way, and create an artistic interfaith experience free of dogma. We can make music a pathway to spirituality without borders.
“The mystics of all ages have loved music the most.” Hazrat Inayat Khan
Tracks
• Armenian Lament
• A la Una Yo Naci
• Lama Bada Yatathana
• Sh’mah Yisrael Adonay Elohainu
• Yer a Ming
• The Thanksgiving Scroll
• De Spiritu Sanctu Hildegard Von Bingen
• Uskudar