Music can be merely entertainment, to be appreciated live or the soundtrack to a night out. It can also inform and be the vehicle to disseminate thoughts and agendas, ideas and ideologies. Music can be used to evoke emotions and feelings. And then there is music that has a higher purpose, and that is where we find Theda Phoenix.
Using a combination of guitar, harp, drum or singing bowls and through ethereal vocal drifts (chants would be a fine thing, geddit?), she builds soundscapes which are less to be appreciated and more experienced. Designed to alter the listener’s mood, to calm and compose them, Crystal Calm is an aid to meditation, or at least a way of quieting the mind and relaxing.
Depending on your aim, this soundtrack of peace and tranquillity will take you by the figurative hand and guide you to a place where you can leave the real, physical world behind. It is a place where contemplation comes more easily, where higher thoughts can be processed and mulled over, and where, perhaps with time, awakening can even be attained.
Or it is just the soundtrack to a relaxing bath. It all depends on which path you are on, I guess.
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