HEALING - A BRITISH BARD IN THE ANCIENT TRADITION
To love one’s self is the key to health and well being. Without this self-love one cannot love others without that love being potentially destructive.
Amerynd Flutes have been referred to as ‘Love Flutes’, ‘Courting Flutes’ or as one Scot put it, “Pulling Flutes”. This is to restrict the concept of the true nature of the instrument and its music.
Each flute is a self with its own distinctive voice. It needs the assistance of another self to breath life into it, to enable that voice to be heard. Each self that mingles its breath with the flute will give that voice a different colour.
It has to be said that Amerynd Flute is essentially an improvisational instrument, its music impelled by the core spirit of the player. There are those who, just as the old folksong collectors bowdlerised and arranged traditional folk songs for piano, have collected Native American traditional song an arranged it for the Amerynd Flute, song that was traditionally unaccompanied save, on occasion, by the drum. This interference is in the tradition of formal European musicians wishing to impose the restrictions of western musical notation on to every other kind of World Music.
Improvisation allows one to seek out and unfold that core of self-love so essential to health and well being. The music, so made, also assists others to achieve this state. This is why Tony Morris, a British Bard in the Ancient Tradition, is collaborating with Healer, Jenny Weston in recording Amerynd Flute music to be used with healing meditational downloads from the Internet at www.healingmeditations.co.uk and on the Meditations sub-page here.
All musical instruments have the power of healing although some may favour healing the player rather than the listener. The Amerynd Flute has the capability to be an all round healer bringing the benefits of physical, mental and spiritual health and well being to listener and player alike. More is written of this on the Workshop page here.
Amerynd Flutes have been referred to as ‘Love Flutes’, ‘Courting Flutes’ or as one Scot put it, “Pulling Flutes”. This is to restrict the concept of the true nature of the instrument and its music.
Each flute is a self with its own distinctive voice. It needs the assistance of another self to breath life into it, to enable that voice to be heard. Each self that mingles its breath with the flute will give that voice a different colour.
It has to be said that Amerynd Flute is essentially an improvisational instrument, its music impelled by the core spirit of the player. There are those who, just as the old folksong collectors bowdlerised and arranged traditional folk songs for piano, have collected Native American traditional song an arranged it for the Amerynd Flute, song that was traditionally unaccompanied save, on occasion, by the drum. This interference is in the tradition of formal European musicians wishing to impose the restrictions of western musical notation on to every other kind of World Music.
Improvisation allows one to seek out and unfold that core of self-love so essential to health and well being. The music, so made, also assists others to achieve this state. This is why Tony Morris, a British Bard in the Ancient Tradition, is collaborating with Healer, Jenny Weston in recording Amerynd Flute music to be used with healing meditational downloads from the Internet at www.healingmeditations.co.uk and on the Meditations sub-page here.
All musical instruments have the power of healing although some may favour healing the player rather than the listener. The Amerynd Flute has the capability to be an all round healer bringing the benefits of physical, mental and spiritual health and well being to listener and player alike. More is written of this on the Workshop page here.