Ashera Hart - Vocals, shamanic sonic sounds, singing in the language of light - an ancient, future language that connects all be-in-gs everywhere.
God - Nature sounds, heartbeat of the sun and you and me!
Kate Bush, Billie Holliday, Barbra Streisand, Nat King Cole, Vangelis, Peter Gabriel and then of course there's life, love and above all the funkiness and the grooviness that speaks like light flickering across the water at sunset..........................
Sounds Like
A journey into a world you know so well .....
bejewelled landscapes and a crystal core -----
or maybe Cocteau Twins, Enya, Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell but really
I sound like my-self!
Ashera is a professional singer with over 20 years' experience in the music world and has been studying the healing power of sound with Randy Masters, Jonathan Goldman, Chloe Goodchild, Chris James, Institute of Cyberkinetics (Croydon, UK) and Globe Institute (San Francisco, USA studying Psychoacoustics - scientific aspect of sound healing) etc.
Ashera has been channeling or 'singing in tongues' for many years now and through her own self-discovery has developed shamanic sound tools (see www.theflame.net for more information) which can transmute suppressed energy in the body and harmonise it back into the true natural resonance of a body completely at home, at One and connected with God/Goddess/All that Is. 'We live in a very dissonant world which has become very disconnected with Nature. We've been in our heads instead of in our bodies and our hearts. We need to heal this separation and feel our connection again with the Earth, ourselves and each other in order to ensure our survival and harmonising your body with sound is a beautiful way to feel it'.
Past projects include:-
* Recording artist/vocalist for 'Sirene', 'Contact' and 'Time Strings' on
Anahata's 'Doors to Avalon' (Changing Worlds/Ambient music)
* Recording artist/vocalist on 'Libera' on Chris Michell's 'The Dolphin Song'
(Oreade/New Age music)
* Recording artist/vocalist on Star Children's 'Sacred Reunion' on Return to
the Source's 'Sacred Sites' (Positiva/Ambient)
* Recording artist/vocalist on Avatara's 'Shaddah el Chai' on Return to the
Source's 'Chakra Journey' (Volume/Trance & Ambient)
* Vocal performer/recording artist with 'Emerging Journey'- Celtic acoustic
band with guitar, didgeridoo, flute and percussion
* Songwriter/vocalist with band 'Vibes'- multi-percussion with keyboard -
Gigs included London's Jazz Café
* Recording artist/vocalist for Neutron 9000's 'Cybersculpture'
* Recording artist/performer for Profile's (Polygram) video of 'The Beautiful
Time'
Her debut album, IN OUR MOTHER'S TONGUE, harnesses the 20 years of sound-healing research by Fabien Maman (www.tama-do.com) which seeks to harmonise you, the listener, with the five elements of the body and to reconnect you to the Earth. It also has the Pi and Phi harmonic ratios added by a new invention called the Pyramid or Ra Processor (developed by two well-known sonic pioneers from the USA) to deepen your experience further and re-tune you back to nature, since your body is comprised of these sacred geometric ratios (Pi and Phi) and the music is no longer just a stereo audio experience, it is a spatial and physically-harmonising one too! You can sometimes feel the music playing inside your body! The CD was recorded at the Kittani Music solar-powered studio in the lush, volcanic rainforest of Montecollum in Australia with the wonderful support of producer Tarshito.
Instruments featured include:- Otherworldly, ethereal vocals (Ashera Hart), timeless acoustic guitar (Tarshito [Aus] & Jerry Bewley [UK - Kangaroo Moon]), didgeridoo (Dr Didge Dolphin [Aus]), highland pipes (Andrew Johnstone [US]), percussion (Tarshito & Alon [US]), celtic harp (Daeva [Aus]), violin (Cleis Pearce [Aus]), ocarina (South American clay flute) (Kavi [Aus]) and the humpback whales of Hervey Bay (Aus) courtesy of the Oceania Project.
To download the whole album, go to http://www.pondlifestudios.com/albums.asp?pg=4
MY VISION ......
I've been inspired by the words of Moby in his album "Play" where he openly communicates his views on our world. I, like him, believe in kindness for all and I look at the lives we lead with sadness and disbelief. Sadness because we don't all choose to live together, having fun and keeping this Earth as a wonderful place for us all and disbelief how we settle for so much less. Even "religious" people and those in the so-called New Age movement still have their prejudices and judgement that continue to separate us rather than unite us. There is such potential here on Earth and yet we don't achieve this. Why is that? It is, in my humble opinion, very simple. We have forgotten our spiritual nature and lost our connection to the Earth because we walk on concrete, drive in cars, wear shoes, eat unnatural food and live in cities, polluted and stressed by the treadmilll of unnatural clock "time" and making money. We even get stuck there, in a vicious circle, losing touch with our own bodies, getting ill and then wondering why.
When we disconnect from the Earth and our bodies, I believe we stop the natural flow of energy of the Universe moving through us, and so all our stresses, anxiety etc build up inside. We become a stagnant sponge of life experiences, rather than a free flowing river. If we can open, reconnect and feel again, then we can empower ourselves and change our lives - finally clearing all disharmony we carry from the past up till Now, ending all dis-ease and feelings of aloneness and suffering in the world. We can once more walk a path of honouring the home that nurtures us and re-discover self-love and therefore love for others - where money is not the selfish priority leading to this world's destruction but a tool to harness to feed and liberate us all! Money is not the root of all evil, it is what we often do with it, that is. Let's unite together and create health, wealth, happiness and peace for Everyone! It's our real nature!
Since the use of sound with focussed intention can be very healing, I decided to create an album to help us connect. Nature has a wonderful music that is constantly playing if we've got ears to hear. It's like listening to powerful African beats, mixed with celtic harp or acoustic guitar, angelic choirs and trippy synth sounds all thrown together in this amazing crossover which some call the "Music of the Spheres". It is my belief that this music can help us find the way back to ourselves and it is my intention with this album to re-create this Earth harmony and make songs to harmonise you, the listener, with the different elements of this Earth (fire, water, air/metal, wood and earth (Chinese system)).
A friend of mine, Daryl, said in Feb 2001, "we are not here to make money, we are here to evolve. This is our goal". We need to make urgent choices about what is truly important to us now. A future on this planet for all our children or a £1 billion in the bank? The time is Now!!! Peace starts with each one of us - in our thoughts, words and actions. It's not about pointing the finger at anyone else - it's about taking responsibility . So how do we reconnect and find our hearts again? How do we start? Maybe we take a trip out of the city, breathe some clean air, sit with a tree, have a good cry and feel better.
If we can let go of all the fear we carry in our daily lives, then we can finally find our way to a peace that cannot be bought or lost or stolen and a home that is with us wherever we go. It is also my belief that we all want the same thing, whether we want to admit it or not. We fear the unknown because we fear death but surely a world founded on mutual respect, honesty and love is worth changing for. Yes, the birth might be painful but maybe it could be ecstatic so isn't it worth conceiving? It is my deepest wish that all beings find peace and freedom from all suffering and that this music touches you somehow.
*** In Love and Truth - Ashera ***
Reviews from San Francisco include:-
Real emotion has been created here which has a mysticism to it. You really feel she's accessing her own inner mystery and the music really inspires the crowd to explore their own sense of mystery and inner mysteries and you get a connection to yourself by listening to it. I love playing the tracks at the end of a pumping night of music as they really allow the dancers to drop into a mesmerizing place of reflection. I absolutely love the compositions – they reflect such a mindful construction of ethereal passages circumventing the cliched paths others have trodden.
- DJ Dragonfly - Groove Garden, Myx and Anon Salon
These beautiful sacred invocations conjure the essence between the heart of humanity and the spirit of nature, the soul of the earth. Ashera's soaring vocal work, sung in tongues, is interwoven with exquisitely-played instrumentation and environmental sounds, building a temple tapestry honouring her presence through magical sonic intention. A sublimely healing journey.
- Ron Tofanelli - Sound Spaces, Groove Garden and Mystic Beat Lounge
I have been into music and meditation since 1980 and continually use two of her tracks – Mother's Mantra and All Love & Honour which blend really well at the end of my radio show when my listeners are in an altered state. They're really beautiful. They touch a really deep place inside. I like to close my show with a prayer and have a balance of the male and female so I play Krishna Das and Ashera because her tracks are so heartfelt.
- Yehudit Steinberg - Techno Cosmic MASS, KKUP Radio 91.5FM etc.
The human voice is one of the most powerful instruments for elevating one's soul and Ashera Hart manages to lift me to a place of heartfelt joy while inspiring feelings of deep peace. By taking away the need to express her music through words, she captures the purity of the voice as an instrument of the heart .
- Chris Deckker - Earthdance, Medicine Drum and Return to the Source
Your new CD is well concepted, well performed, well produced, Beautiful, Inspiring, and You touch my Heart. My appreciation for a Job well done.
- Moses McNaughten - One Heart
This music rings with truth and has a beautiful ambience to it.
- Joie Favier - Radio V, Paradise Rocks etc.
We hear the music, we express our soul, we create the songs for our magnificent journey called life. Thank you for your friendship, its a great to share our journey with you. Sending love and infinite blessings of joy. Love Bart & Jody
There are "shaman" of the west & of our time (thankfully), those with insight who interpret & attract others. Eckhart Tolle, David Icke, David Wilcock (Edgar Cayce), Bill Hicks, Terence McKenna, John Lennon or whoever you tune into. Bill Hicks (by the way) slotted one of his most profound observations into a joke & "hit the nail right on the head" with style that sticks in the mind, when he said "matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves". THE master of "summing up" the obvious. He's obviously right that "the mind is very powerful". People live in the mind all their lives (with a little help from their enemies). It's a very cruel form of reality, or perhaps "nightmare". "Living the dream" is much quoted by those who don't know its meaning. Listen to the shaman, when he relates (I say). Simon :) You have more power than you know as yet.
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hey there, I'll see you next week in Miami ;)
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