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By Ana EggeAna's WebsiteiTunesRoad To My Love is the sixth, and most soulful release to date, from the critically acclaimed folk-rock songwriter, vocalist and accomplished guitarist, Ana Egge. Once called "a folk Nina Simone" by Lucinda Williams, Ana brings an honest, deep and beautiful offering to the rootsy folk genre. In addition, Road To My [...]
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Near to the Infinite
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite." Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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What music proves
"Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are,the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same."[John Denver]
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The Joy of Drama
In this RockOm FLASHBACK (originally posted in November of 2008), we take the musical interval known as the tritone (also known as "the devil's interval") and use it as a launching pad in understanding the play of light and darkness in the world. Though we think we want constant peace, here's an argument that we may actually need and enjoy life's drama.
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There are no questions
"It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers."[Gustav Mahler]RockOm says: We would take this so far as to [...]
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Fabeku & Sound Healing Pt. II
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In Part II of RockOm's interview with sacred sound healer Fabeku, he shares about his ritual for preparing for sacred sound sessions, his new album Remembering Through Resonance and how "sound works at the energy level."
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Fabeku & Sacred Sound Healing
Many are discovering a simple, yet profound way to be shifted into a higher awareness of being and out of negativity using sound and music. Here, as part one of a two-part series we feature highlights of an interview with sacred-sound healer Fabeku as he explains how to "shift stuff" with music to bring about balance and a more abundant experience of the life inside us.
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Invulnerable
"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." [Henry David Thoreau]In what ways does music give you courage, make you fearless or make you invulnerable?
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Satyagraha
This week we continue with songwriter Scott Valentine's weekly blog post in his journey to give away a free song each week over the course of a year from his five-disc compilation entitled Seasons. This week's offering is entitled "Satragraha." Download the track for free and check out Scott's reflections on the song and Gandhi's practice of non-violence.
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A World Beyond
"Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me of a mysterious world beyond, which moved my heart deeply and eloquently intimated its transcendental nature." [Bruno Walter, Of Music and Music Making (1957)]
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New album by Trevor Hall
"We are all notes in this eternal song; God plays his flute, we all dance along." So sings Trevor Hall on his latest album - a self-titled release, available today (7/28/09). Trevor is a longtime friend of RockOm, having been featured several times on the site and it's no wonder why. His outstanding music is a blend of the sacred and secular - melding funky, acoustic-reggae jams with deep, spir...
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Remembering Through Music
Even in death music can play a powerful role in celebrating life and remembering those who have passed. The circle is unbroken when we gather and use music as a healing source in remembering those who have gone on before us.
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Becoming Whole
"First of all, let's define the term heal. Healing is restoring into one's life what is missing, becoming whole. Secondly, let's define the term healer. In indigenous history, the healer was both a musician and physician - the shaman. So, at its roots, music has been part of healing for centuries." [Christine Stevens of UpBeat Drum Circles, speaking to RockOm.net]
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Understanding
An ill-fated email conversation, a man's distaste for the music of Celine Dion, and a look at this website's reason for being... RockOm's Trevor Harden blends all of these topics together to share a few thoughts on the spiritual concept of understanding.
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The Primary Purpose of Music
"Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and [...]
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