Music

A Zen Guitar is one of the creative outlets for Nick Palmer. Based a little West of London, one of Nick’s preoccupations of the last three decades has been the source of creativity. Ask any great imaginer about the inspiration for their work and you’ll get dozens of responses: Lovers, the wonder of birth, transcendent experiences, vast skies. Asked about the origin of their creative energy, most artists don’t know. Only those creators with a...

Ayla Shafer was born on Winter Solstice (December 21st) in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK. From a young age she was naturally attracted to the creative arts, drawing and painting for hours and listening to music. Her mother encouraged her to play violin and piano, which in tandem with her attendance at St Christophers, an independent self-governing Quaker’s school that prioritised the nourishing the spirit of the individual, her creativity and enjoyment for the arts flourished. Yet...

“To say science and spirituality are mutually exclusive, does a disservice to both” - Carl Sagan. Those insightful words always resonated deeply with me, and by extension the arts (in my case music and sound), provide the perfect medium to communicate ideas which simultaneously straddle the worlds of science, spirituality, and art. I discovered my passion for music and sound via electronics and technology. Growing up in the late 70’s – early 80’s around the...

Kevin Kendle is a world-renowned composer and synthesizer musician whose 30+ albums are adored by fans around the world for their exquisite beauty and peaceful, pastoral atmospheres. Recording in his studio in Hertfordshire, Kevin's music reflects the beauty and majesty of the natural world, along with an indefinable something that many cite as spiritual in nature. We asked Kevin to elucidate on this, and on his spiritual journey. The style of music I create is...

Rawz is an MC and Poet. Growing up in one of the UK’s most deprived areas, Northfieldbrook (Greater Leys) in Oxford, he first discovered lyric writing in his early teens. It was an essential way to channel his emotions and organise his thoughts. A self guided therapy. Music had always been a big part of his home environment, listening to music was something that he always loved doing. It was in his teens, aged about...

James Asher is an established recording artist with more than 50 albums bearing his name. Comprising of solo albums, library albums and collaborations spanning his 50 years in the music business, James Asher’s music is well known and widely shared, with many of his videos exceeding 100,000 views on YouTube, and Spotify followers in excess of 30,000. In addition, his music has been extensively sampled and used as the basis for other tracks, including the...

Hanford Flyover are a British-American band who deftly mix elements of psychedelia, rock, electronica and folk to create a unique sound, interwoven with deep lyrical content. Band members are Josh Bowler from the UK, and Holly Bowler, who was born and raised in Kentucky, USA. Josh, a multi-instrumentalist, takes his influences from artists of the 60s through to the 90s. Holly’s background was immersed in folk, blues, rock, gospel and bluegrass. It is the combination...

David Wright is the keyboard player and composer of electronic space music who founded the AD Music label in 1989 and who co-founded the avant-garde electronic rock band Code Indigo. His music is melodic, atmospheric and emotive, with a strong emphasis on mood and feel, invoking a deep spiritual connection.  His gently rhythmic style combines piano, synths and multi layered sounds that often incorporate electric and acoustic guitars, violin, percussion, samples and male & female...

Pete Ardron is a writer, producer, engineer, remixer, performer and DJ who has released over 20 albums of his own solo, band or collaborative projects, including the band Orchid-Star, and before that Glow & the Dept. of Luminosity, and 3 albums of Kundalini Yoga mantras, and more, with Kwali Kumara. He has worked with a variety of other artists including Afro Celt Sound System. He has conducted at the Royal Albert Hall and was awarded...

A singer, composer and Yoga teacher, Rajesh was born into a family of singers, growing up in an environment of music, nurtured by the music and singing of his parents. Says Rajesh, singing came naturally to him, having inherited his musicality from his parents. They were his first teachers. Growing up in the city of Mumbai, he went on to take formal training in Indian classical music from several well-renowned classical singers, a training which...

I dream of a long-lost land of sun and rain, a hearth of warm beauty blanketed by the breeze of summer. This place has many names; all are true and all are beautiful. It is here I long to find my home, tucked safely away behind the shades of murky shadow and the cold bite of winter. Both I know well. Both we all are. Both you shall find here, wrapped in word and song....

Music composer and producer Clifford White is no stranger to the concept of weaving spirituality into his music. Over 37 years ago, his first album Ascension (1985, New World Music) aptly demonstrated his fascination for exploring astral vistas of sound, and with track titles like Hallowed Ground, The Calling and Eternal Dusk, it was immediately obvious even to the uninitiated that Clifford had a clear affinity for creating the subtle vibrations of spiritual music. Ascension...