Album Notes

Michael is a depth psychologist by day and a multi-instrumentalist by night. Keenly interested in the way sound and music alters consciousness he has been using it as a healing modality since he was a child and now interweaves it into his therapy, workshops, concerts and speaking engagements nationally and internationally. He has been playing piano, keyboards and world percussion since he was a child and for the last 10 years has been mesmerized by indigenous wood winds from Australian didgeridoo's to Native American Flutes and Bansuri's. He has played with Grammy Winners Bill Miller and Mary Youngblood, Grammy nominee's Carlos Nakai and David Darling, as well as nationally known artists such as Coyote Oldman, Jeff Ball, Peter Phippen and Ash Dargan. He is founder and director of Ontos where you can find out more about him and his work at www.ontos.org.

The River was been 2 years in the making and takes the listener on a musical journey that mirrors our life journey - from sunrise of one day through nightfall, midnight and sunrise of the next.


Michael says of the CD:

"Music for me has always been my way of praying. These are tone prayers, wrought out of a deep sense of reverence for the experience of being alive. Our lives truly are a river we have never been down before, full of mystery, awe, and wonder. On the river of life, from sunrise to sunset, from midnight to dawn, we are perpetually learning about living and dying, being and becoming, when to paddle and when to glide...ultimately to not resist nor push the current, but rather trust the flow. Ultimately, Learning about accepting what comes our way with grace...May the river of life always flow through your heart..."

Dedicated to all who "listen" from the heart...
and know it is possible to live a whole life time in a single day....