Chloe Goodchild Sura CD

Inspired devotional music featuring layered vocals from Goodchild set against dense arrangements performed by musician/engineer David Lord. The opening "Om Shiva" serves well as the gateway into the album, though the music here is about more than hypnotic rhythms and chants. Extremely captivating work that can be listened to, or used as part of devotional and ritual workings. ~ Steven McDonald

NEW AGE JOURNAL"Soaring, radiant...."NEW AGE VOICE" I wouldn't mind hearing these pieces for hours on end....Sura's a keeper. Extraordinary!"NAPRA REVIEW " Sura is a profoundly inspirational listening experience. Frankly, I have never been so affected.... I could not give any album a higher recommendation - musically or spiritually. A truly astonishing work of art, production, and devotion."BRANCHES OF LIGHT"Sura is sound magic - a feast of sounds which quicken the heart and inspire the soul to dance, or to meditate."VISION MAGAZINE" This impeccable CD is nothing less than a celebration of the human voice, a feast of divinely passionate sound for those ready for truly sublime beauty."INSIDE" This music transports the listener to another dimension while drawing them to a deeper interior listening, resulting in a complete relaxation."An album radiating with the color and intensity of that most magnificent of all instruments, the human voice, unfettered and transcendent.A passionate recording, is a release that could only come from someone devoted to and inspired by the world's greatest sacred and soulful singers. It's a deeply moving album by an extraordinary vocalist, best-selling author, and internationally acclaimed workshop leader ... a true feast of sounds that will quicken the heart, inspire the soul to dance, and initiate the listener into the pleasures of trance meditation.SURA is Sanskrit for musical note or vibration, and like Chloe's last Raven Recording album, DEVI, this work employs a devotional vibration to unveil the beauty of the human soul. Improvising from within and without chants, mantras and mystical songs drawn from the spiritual traditions of the world, Chloe's style has developed a much stronger, enthusiastically rhythmic impulse. The Hindu mantra "Gayatri" is accompanied by a pulsating Egyptian beat; Hildegard Von Bingen's "Ave Generosa" is punctuated by staccato Stravinky strings, and an ecstatic love poem by Lalleshwari -- a 13th century Kashmiri mystic -- is both sensual and emotionally riveting. "Self Inside Self" and "Everywhere Longing" are inspired by the lyrics of America's mystic poet, Coleman Barks. Other highlights include an ancient Jewish chant, a medieval antiphon from the Rhineland, and evocative Eastern European improvisation, and a innovative take on Purcell's lament from the opera DIDO AND AENEAS. Courtesy of guest artists David Lord and Will Gregory, many traditional ethnic and Western acoustic instruments are arranged behind these splendid vocals, making for a consistently pleasant and uplifting listening experience.Chloe Goodchild's singing voice expresses the spiritual longing of our time through and beyond the boundaries of culture or creed. Chloe has collaborated with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, film composer Angelo Badalmenti, film director Jane Campion and playwright Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues).

Arranger: Chloë Goodchild.

Personnel: Chloe Goodchild (vocals); David Lord (keyboards).

Personnel: David Lord (keyboards).