Onyay Pheori’s unique sound was birthed at some of the most powerful sites around the world. An experienced recording and performance artist, Onyay began a 7 Year Quest called 33 Muses in 2005 where she traveled to ancient sacred sites opening up to the mysteries and frequencies beyond this world. At each site crowds gathered transfixed by her sound and Onyay began understanding how to share these experiences, through music and multi-media performance, with the world. A key element to this new sound can only be described as an angelic or galactic language, indecipherable by the mind but irresistible to the soul.
Since 33 Muses’ inception, she has journeyed deep into the Amazonian Rainforests and ascended high into the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, explored the Mayan Ruins of Mexico, the Temples and Pyramids of Egypt, the Caves and Ruins of Crete and Greece, the castles and mountains of Southern France as well as sacred and natural places in over 19 countries including Chile, Ireland, Indonesia and South Africa. Her process involves a receptivity and communication with the sounds and memories held in these places, translating them through her voice and violin as a sonic shapeshifter, becoming more human and more than human simultaneously.
In 2008 Onyay joined forces with Grammy winning producer and musician Jeff Bova. Though most known for his collaborations in pop music, he has transported listeners into a peaceful world of mystique and mysticism with his ambient group Cypher 7. Through his subsequent work he explored the inner dimensions of self and alternate realities finding new ways to allow the listener to experience themselves through music. With Jeff and Onyay a dynamic collaboration was born. Onyay Pheori and Jeff Bova’s most recent creation “Visitation” is a haunting tale of a songbird who has gone silent and it’s communication, through Onyay, about humanity and the planet.
Onyay’s experimental lyrics and hypnotic melodies explore the extreme light and dark of the human experience as well as the mystical realms beyond this 3D reality. Onyay and Jeff’s ambient grooves and sumptuous rhythms elevate the spirit… A listening and visual experience that leaves the audience with the feeling that there is a deeper part of themselves they have just met and a door has forever opened to places they have longed to remember.
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Vanishing was composed and recorded with Jeff Bova for a short film, A Love Song from a Vanishing Honeybee. Awake and Dreaming and Come Closer were recorded with DJ Story in Northern California. Yes You Can HOPE was recorded with Jeff Bova, Bob Rice and Ellen Lazares to Get Out the Vote in a Music Video for Obama. Love Again was improvised with Ananada in San Francisco. He also recorded and played guitar on Your Kisses.
Where is heaven? you ask me, my child, - the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of day and night; it is not of the earth. But your poet knows that its eternal hunger is for time and space, and it strives evermore to be born in the fruitful dust. Heaven is fulfilled in your sweet body, my child, in your palpitating heart. The sea is beating its drums in joy, the flowers are a-tiptoe to kiss you. For heaven is born in you, in the arms of the mother-dust.
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“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music. ”
Heart Surgery Current mood: adored Category: Romance and Relationships
She had tried to email her heart to God (the ONE*) but the attachments were too large. It had been so long since she had the original document· Hours of silent truth in the early hours had revealed that her True Heart was still in the outbox. This came as quite a shock.
She had thought that task was done long ago. No wonder nothing had been sending. She shook her head and deleted the file. On her hard drive, she spotlighted TRUE HEART and it came up again in the little window. Without all the other files she had added, it was a small file of 108k. It had been a long while since she had opened that particular file. She had to use an old program. She opened it with curiosity.
On the dark indigo background a tiny diamond star moved in its own flash format. Two simple words in white shone out. The words below it said- True Love.
As she viewed the page, The star seemed to come out and hover between her face and the screen then embedded in her physical heart. She felt a wave of warmth and peace through her body like a narcotic.
From this interior vantage point, she looked at her emotional heart. It had strands of light and dark coming from it, controlling it, drawing energy from it. As the star lodged in and sent its rays, the hard dry outer shell cracked away and revealed a happy, new innocent heart easily giving, easily receiving. Pumping its life blood through the form sending currents of well being and strength to her mind and all the world.
The power shot directly to the Earth's heart, and the rays mushroomed out through Her. Right to the core of the Drama that had once seemed so full of despair and darkness It now appeared light, perfect and hopeful. Each atom of her being and body was saturated with never ending love. She smiled serenely.
Finding the address, she typed My HEART in the subject line. and pressed SEND.