DIVINE
PEACE
(1998)
Duration 72’ 49 BEL CD 007. (CD only) £10
The
Temple Within
Mountain
of the Shining Ones
Message
from Shambhala
Track 1: THE TEMPLE WITHIN (10:16)
which features Frank’s overtone singing with his 12th century
Heart Chakra Tibetan singing bowl within the beautiful acoustic space of The
White Temple – this is also the companion track to SINGING CRYSTAL on
RAINBOW HEALING PEACE. Frank's style of overtone singing comes close to
that of David Hykes. The song has its roots deep within the inner meditative
silence of spiritual contemplation. Beginning with the sacred sound of OM
repeated three times Frank moves into his vocal improvisation dwelling on
those tones which resonate with the (inner and outer) space of the White
Temple. This takes as its inspiration the Divine truth that each and every one
of us carries within this wonderful gift from God – the Great White Light.
The overtone chanting revolves around this One Central Note of the Inner
Temple. A song of praise to the one Self within All.
Track 2: MOUNTAIN OF THE SHINING ONES (40:35), a long track derived from a totally spontaneous improvisation upon the complete collection of all his instruments and a fine example of Frank’s ‘vertical’ improvisations – where there is no ‘linear’ development; one is quite simply in the eternal now. It really is hard to describe Frank's improvisations for the music is constantly changing from moment to moment - as Frank's music seldom features repetitive patterns. Broadly speaking, the several sections largely alternate between Petalumines and Gongs, nonetheless, clusters of bells also appear. The deep Paiste tuned gongs reverberate beautifully within the White Temple acoustic. The Petalumines were invented and built by Frank in the late 1970's and are unique in the world with the largest one ringing on for five minutes! Two exceptionally rare Tibetan bowls - ‘Talking Bowl’ and ‘Whistling Bowl’ - also appear in a section dedicated to themselves alone. The improvisation ends with long high and drawn-out bowed sounds. Both of these opening pieces come from ‘The White Temple’ 1986 recording sessions, benefiting both from the acoustics and the sublime spiritual energies of the Temple of the Star Brotherhood and using the one ‘sound-field’ microphone with no editing or mixing possible. Frank actually recorded the ‘Talking Bowl’ at the time quite simply for his own pleasure but when putting together this album found that it was precisely the right length and sound to complete this beautiful improvisation. The ‘shining ones’ are those great spiritual masters, adepts, and initiates abiding upon that Mountain at the spiritual centre of the world - Shambhala.
Track
2: MOUNTAIN OF THE SHINING ONES. Click
HERE
for sound clip. My music features little repetition and unfolds more
like a conversation or poem
. This clip is but part of a larger whole.
Unfortunately, some of my sounds do not faithfully reproduce into MP3's.
Track 3 MESSAGE FROM SHAMBHALA (21:58). This last track comes in answer to requests from many people for
something similar to Frank’s ‘live’ festival performances and also close
in affinity to the opening track except that here his powerful overtone
chanting – including Tibetan Tantric ‘Undertone’ chanting – is framed
by very deep Tibetan bowls overlaid with the exceptionally exotic and haunting
sounds of special ‘Water’ bowls – deeply potent sonic vibrations! Yet
another of Frank’s shamanic journeys to this ancient and mythical spiritual
centre. It takes as its theme this City of Light, City of Fire, or Land of the
Holy Ones or those great initiates, adepts and masters to whom H.B. Blavatsky
referred as The White Lodge. Whilst most overtone singing in and around the
Mongolia region is rooted in songs, Frank’s takes a more shamanic form of
spontaneous transmission of other states of consciousness expressed through
these unique word-transcending vocal sounds and anchored in the spiritual
through the drone supplied by a 12th century Heart Chakra singing
bowl.
Photo above taken by Oliver at Musicalfresco 1998.
Tracks 1 & 2 were recorded by Richard Elen in The White Temple of The White Eagle Lodge in January of 1986.
For more details check out The White Temple Recordings.
These two recordings were made entirely digitally and utilise UHJ-Ambisonic Surround-Sound techniques. For a full technical account of this recording session read Richard’s article 'New Age' on the Ambisonic website.
'Message from Shambhala' recorded by Oliver Nares at Musicalfresco.
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The
Russian artist Nicholas Roerich created several paintings titled Message
from Shambhala or the alternative title Shambhala Daik. Whilst the
CD track isn’t associated with any one of these particular paintings, yet it
shares the same inspiration for this piece.
Below are such paintings by Roerich on this sublime theme.
Shambhala Daik. 1932 By Nicholas Roerich.
Message of Shambhala – 1945 By Nicholas Roerich
By kind permission of the Roerich Museum, New York.
Shambhala Daik by Nicholas Roerich.
To view more paintings by Nicholas Roerich visit the website of the Roerich Museum in New York
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