Found this in 'The Secret life of Plants'...
author: Saskia
"The whole purpose of dissonant music, according to Cyril Meir Scott, the English composer and theosophist, was to break up thought-forms, which, settling over whole countries and people, turns them stagnant with lethargy or rampant madness. It is an occult musical fact, that discord- used in its moral sense- can alone be destroyed by discord, the reason for this being that the vibratios of intrinsically beautiful music are too rarefied to touch the comparitively coarse vibrations of all that pertains to a much lower plane"
Read more...
on 'Take Him, Earth' (the third track)
author: Sakia
This track is something else entirely; it's as if it’s working on ALL levels... Like an incredibly intricate, rich and beautiful painting with a dark red line cutting right across it, it comes in from the right almost like a pain- it makes my listening more intense- I have to force myself beyond the noise of the percussion & deeper into the other sounds/ feelings... Like all good (was going to say great but not sure if your ego could handle it ) art it has stopped me in my tracks, taken me deep into myself.
Read more...
Music from the landscape of Somerset
author: R. Pitt. BBC 'Introducing' 06/04/2010
On 'Take Him, Earth'- '...very close, very intimate...no frills..timeless.'
Read more...
Sweet , intelligent and wistful...
author: C. Elliot
As the sun was setting and the day cooling i put one of your Cd's into my car player (Up From The Underworld). Absolutely loved it: your voice is so wonderfully unique -haunting and at times androgynous; the music, sweet, intelligent and wistful. I played it again at bedtime and it entered my dreams: pure magic! What is interesting too is that it evoked in me (and i mean this as a complement) echoes of Dead Can Dance, The Divine Comedy and David Sylvian. My only disappointment was that it
was tantalizingly too short!
Read more...