CELESTIAL NILE CD

The music on Celestial Nile was recorded over several years between Seattle and Glasgow. It is essentially dance music. Fully developed in 1990 for dance choreography El Jardin de los Misterios, the music was made for Jacques Broquet and his company DanzaHoy, in Caracas, Venezuela. Re-mixes and additional selections were added in 1998.

To uncover the detail hidden within, many journeys were taken within the domain of the music. I am indebted to the musicians who performed with me on these recordings. They include: percussionist Signy Jakobsdottir, percussionist/dancer Jacques Broquet, vocalist Jana Szabo.

The music is alternately moody, emotional, strong, and full of spatial surprise. It is an electro-acoustic music that seeks links between past and present, performer, listener and the unknown.

The instruments used on these recordings include Indonesian Gongs, drums and gamelan instruments, African drums and mbira, Chinese Opera gongs and percussion, Latin American hand drums and percussion, Roto Toms, Middle Eastern darbuka and North African doumbek, Tibetan bowls and Nepalese Kyezee, Indian drums, mouth harps and zithers, the haunting Balinese suling, and more.

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	The Celestial Nile is that pathway of stars through the heavens, known as the Milky Way. On this great star-swept river, the soul of the Initiated, sailing in a ship of Light, travels through the Gateway of the Zodiac to the Seriadic domain of Isis.

		The music on Celestial Nile was recorded over several years between Seattle and Glasgow. It is essentially dance music. Fully developed in 1990 for dance choreography El Jardin de los Misterios, the music was made for Jacques Broquet and his company DanzaHoy, in Caracas, Venezuela. Re-mixes and additional selections were added in 1998. To uncover the detail hidden within, many journeys were taken within the domain of the music. I am indebted to the musicians who performed with me on these recordings. They include: percussionist Signy Jakobsdottir, percussionist/dancer Jacques Broquet, vocalist Jana Szabo. The music is alternately moody, emotional, strong, and full of spatial surprise. It is an electro-acoustic music that seeks links between past and present, performer, listener and the unknown. The instruments used on these recordings include Indonesian Gongs, drums and gamelan instruments, African drums and mbira, Chinese Opera gongs and percussion, Latin American hand drums and percussion, Roto Toms, Middle Eastern darbuka and North African doumbek, Tibetan bowls and Nepalese Kyezee, Indian drums, mouth harps and zithers, the haunting Balinese suling, and more.