Album Notes

As a special marker of INNER UNIVERSE the first 3,000 CDS are going to be Personally Autographed BY Pheo.

Notes on Inner Universe

The deeper mind and soul make up our inner universe. This music will help you imagine, enter, & explore your inner universe. The music of this album is dedicated and inspired by the beautiful souls around the world who have taken seriously the inner journey to integrated wholeness and live those values – bringing peace, healing, light, and love to this planet. May this music bring peace, healing, light, and love to ALL who listen.

Short Notes on each piece:

Fanfare for the New Age: Focusing on the music and quieting all thoughts is a superb bridge from the outer to inner universe.
Star Gazing: Imagine your conscious and deeper mind gazing fondly upon one another, like a person gazing upon stars that lovingly gaze back.
High Lights: There is vibrancy of energy that comes when conscious mind has quieted and connected with the deeper mind.
Coherence: Within the inner uniiverse there can be the sense of finding the real self that is beautiful, eternal, and “one” with all.
The Vast: Using the musical beacons to focus your mind, travel within, finding intimacy in the immensity.
Muka Depths: Quiet consciousness even more to enter the greatest depths.
Lost One: There are times of personal lostness in life when conscious mind stops being a bridge and instead tries to dictate from its “own agenda” of desires and needs. Recognizing and accepting this is part of the inner universe experience.
Love’s Reach: Nothing is beyond the reach of Love.
Twinkles: We all would do well to rest our inner child in the arms of Love.
New Star: Personal Integration brings forth new stars in our inner universe, exquisite expressions of increasing “enlightenment.”

What went into producing each of the album’s ten pieces was blogged about on http://myspace.com/pheorose. so that those who wanted to follow along could track the album, and so those who came upon the music after release could get further elaboration about each piece.

Pheo Rose Bio
Sometime between ages 10 and 11, and somewhere in the swirl of bologna and liverwurst that was brought into our house of poverty, came an upright piano. Once here, the old and cracked veneer was stripped off, but nothing ever replaced it. That was “home” then, people and things stripped of what they had, and not much could be given to produce new luster.
I buried my fingers into the piano keys as I unburied emotions through playing. Eight months of lessons almost completely undid any love for the piano. I announced that the only way I would keep with the instrument was “my way,” Without intention, the piano became my “sounding board” for life’s confusion, as well as my confessor receiving all the pain and hurt and troubling thoughts. In so many ways time at the piano was my single intimate companion to whom I could reach out with the most vulnerable of feelings.
My childhood was a life of great scarcity of everything nurturing, and my twenties bore the child of this – personal agony. My intimate companion was there for me; always taking the depth of feeling, and helping me express it musically. I added flute for those times in Nature’s Sanctuary. People who heard my music sat quietly and always seemed to comment, “Don’t Stop.” I realized then that the depth that I reached connected with others as well. So I started paying more attention and remembering more of the “original” pieces that poured out of me.

Since 1973 solo piano, flute, and Celtic harp music has been performed where its depth of feeling could most help others – weddings, church services, retreats, prayer circles, earth day events, etc.
* Since 1989 composed music that would express and support others in the exquisite inner journey to their soul and full self integration. The first three of these cds were released in 2007 – Soul Bridge, Soul Pulses and Soul Yoga.
* Released in early 2008 was Inner Universe which “charts” some of the territory of the Inner Journey.
* Decades of studying and personally journeying the “Way” of the mystics has merged with my music to offer the spiritual journey to full self integration using music as a primary tool.