Psalm - Live Recording from Jerusalem

This is a recording I made by audio blogging through my cell phone, during our dress rehearsal for the Prime Time Jerusalem Day Special. We were at the Sultans Pool, just outside of the Old City walls. There was lots of wind, and I recorded throught the speaker part of the cell phone, so the quality is not very good. Even so, there is a quality to this recording that gives it a very ancient effect.

Shabbat Music Meditation

This is a beautiful shabbat music meditation, welcoming in the angels of peace along with the Sabbath bride. May peace be unto you... Shalom Aleichem...

It's quite amazing to see silence at work in the midst of prime time television production.

There we are, the "special" ancient instruments, on one side, and on the other, the big boys house band (ala David Letterman)... with the egos to match. Doesn't leave much quiet for the ancient stuff to be heard.

One day I was playing the sagat (finger cymbals) and one of the keyboardists says to me: "You should play the tambourine. It'll be much better than the finger cymbals", he wanted it his way. He went to the music director and told him his idea. I pretended I didn't hear. The music director replied, "They're great, they're visual... the cymbals are the right thing". Score a point for the Goddess of wisdom and peace :-)....

Then there was the band "Shuti Hanevua" (Fools of Wisdom) who came with their song of Jerusalem with a very strong intent of minimalism and meditation. I play the finger cymbals as small cymbals or bells.... one ding every eight bars. It is the classic case of small being grand. As we were rehearsing and then recording, I fell into trance. At one point, I noticed the television camera recording the dance of my hands playing the "ding". I hope it gets broadcast so that I can record it and put it up on the site... providing a visual experience of the audial meditation.

I am really enjoying this project.

Eden Harel, King David, Music in Jerusalem

My God, yesterday was incredible at the filming of the Jerusalem from the Heart television special of which I am part.

We travelled in the afternoon (me, and three other ancient instrument musicians) to the City of David for filming of a promotional show for the prime time special.

The scenery was incredible. I recorded pieces on my minidisc... yes, there is a solution to not knowing how to teleblog.

When I return home, I'll upload the stuff, and make links to the blog so you can hear.

Stay tuned!

Wandering Jew

Sorry I haven't gotten to the multifaith prayers yet. Life is pretty full these days and I am a wandering Jew in the Holy Land.

I just came upon Wandering Scribes blog and was really inspired by it. It occured to me that I am about to be the Wandering Jew for the next week and a half to two weeks. I will be participating in a television production about Jerusalem... they have an orchestra with ancient instruments... I am one of the musicians. Also thrilled that they invited me to participate... especially after so many years of trekking this untravelled path of healing music, voice and rhythm, starting with singing on the inner city trains of Paris (a daily meditation of mine which lasted one year).

I thought it would be cool to phone in from the rehearsals and from Jerusalem so that you can hear all these cool instruments. Now I am going to go learn how to use the mobile blogger.

Multi Faith Prayer

As soon as I get a little more free time, I will post some cool meditations that I recorded at the Independence Day - Naqba weekend in the Western Galilee.

There were Jewish, Christian and Moslem prayers along with a Sufi Zikr. I rounded out the end of the prayers with AUM-AMEN focusing on ourselves as the instrument.

Stay tuned...

Sacred Dance Meditation Unedited

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Sacred Dance Meditation

Yesterday and the day before over 100 Jews, Moslems, Christians: Israeli, Palestinian and Europeans met to commemorate loss and gain regarding the Holocaust, The creation of the State of Israel and the loss of Palestinian homes in it's creation.

Workshops, meditations, movement and song helped us face the pain, as well as open our hearts to accept the present and commit to create a better future together.

This is the unedited Peace Dance Chant including everyone involved:

"Everything is present in the face of God"
This is the face of the Divine.

Paste this into your browser in order to listen:

http://www.voicesofeden.com/music/Sacred_Dance_Meditation.m3u

The sound is a bit higher due to the file conversion process on the computer. I'll try and fix it tomorrow.

Kitaro at Healing Music Conference in Poland

On this day of Yom HaZikaron and following Holocaust Memorial Day remembering those who died at the hands of Hitler, Divine justice and healing is being given through the Healing Music Conference in Poland this summer. Kitaro will be giving a performance and there will be presentations from leading sound healers from around the world.

For more information:




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