Edward is a recording artist and transformational sparkplug, with a deep passion to support others on their journeys of profound healing and discovering Self.
Ever since childhood, Edward has had a fascination with music and for sound, and has had an amazing gift mimicking different sounds with his voice. Born with exquisite sensitivity, he has a background playing clarinet, saxophone and guitar. His training included studying with the legendary saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi. Starting in his teens, Edward spent a lot of time listening and emulating John Coltrane and Miles Davis in his music. He later developed a fascination with jazz fusion and electro-acoustic music, discovering the likes of John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and in particular, violinist Jean Luc Ponty. In his late 20’s he began playing an instrument called a MIDI wind controller, exploring synthesizers, designing his own expressive electronic sounds, and composing electronic music. His fascination and great love of electronic music has grown and blossomed from this nexus, as well as his background as an electrical engineer.
In September of 2009, Edward released his first album Hummingbird, an album about our relationships to some of the archetypical territories we carry within ourselves. Part of his shamanic journey has been to map these territories of Self, in order to rediscover our human connections to wholeness. Edward composed the music on Hummingbird as an exploration of these relationships.
Several years ago, Edward experienced an extraordinary series of events, that led him to question, “Who am I?” including a series of explosive spontaneous psycho-spiritual awakenings, leading to what is known in some academic circles as a spiritual emergence/emergency. These experiences increased Edward’s level of compassion and understanding for people undergoing Kundalini awakening, and crises of psycho spiritual, trans-personal, transformational natures. They also fueled a deep desire to further heal his own emotional wounds and to empower others to transform themselves.
Edward’s background also includes an extensive spiritual and healer’s journey. He has traveled throughout the US, South America, Central America, and India to gain a deeper understanding of spiritual, energetic, and other healing modalities. He has studied with indigenous healers, shamans, elders , spiritual teachers, healers, musicians, artists, and people of all walks of life – all in order to gain a deeper understanding how to connect to our many sources of strength, love, joy and power within us.
Edward's range of musical and sound expression has grown considerably during his spiritual and healing journey. While on several expeditions to the Amazon jungle, he developed a fascination with the sounds and melodies used by some of the master shamanic healers and teachers of the region. Along with his expressive wind synthesizer playing, he has now found his authentic, compassionate, unique sound using his voice.
In the Summer of 2011, Edward completed his second album, Munay, Love and Will. This album was produced by well known LA producer Thomas Barquee, and breaks new ground, combining ancient enchanting sounds, words, and melodies with rich modern world textures and Motifs.
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