A Message from the Artist

I love to compose music to express how I feel about life, and it’s an outlet I really need. I play piano by ear and am unable to read music, but I tend to ‘hear’ whole pieces inside and then sit down and try to represent what I hear. The music and the emotion always come first, and any lyrics are secondary. The process heals me the moment I can represent what I feel and hear, and then communicate my experiences to others. Both things are equally important to me, the feeling and the sharing, only then is the process complete.

The music I hear tends to express longing, beauty and innocence, as well as joy and celebration. I don’t seem to need to express darker feelings like anger, frustration or fear through music; I have other outlets for those.

I began to make up tunes when I was three years old, but I didn’t really develop maturity, lyrically, until I encountered a spiritual path in my late twenties. Since then my constant source of inspiration has been life itself, and this has really released a flow. When I was younger I wrote protest songs but it never really quite gelled.

As a child I used to listen to radio Luxembourg under the bedclothes, and liked Buddy Holly, Rick Nelson, Elvis and the Beatles, and as a young man I was inspired by Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen and the like. Classically, I resonate particularly with Baroque music, especially Vivaldi, Albinone and Pachelbel, and casting the net wider still I really resonate with folk and ethnic music, especially Celtic music, South American and Middle Eastern music. In a former age I might have been a troubadour or wondering minstrel singing love songs which have both a spiritual and secular meaning, like Sufi Love poetry.

My ambition was always to be seen and heard so I could really ‘sing my song’. At first I wanted to be a footballer, then a pop-star, like many boys. That dream has evolved now into composing and recording music which seeks to excess the Divine in all things and into working in Jungian Psychology* where I can help people become who they are meant to be.

*My practice is full, but for those interested in psychotherapy or training in this area, contact CCPE (Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education) 2 Beauchamp Lodge, Warwick Crescent, London W2 6NE (0171 266 3006) or the Centre for Transpersonal Psychotherapy, 86A Marylebone High St. London, WIM 3DE (0171 - 935 7350).

Asha

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