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01/03/2012 ~ CONCERT IN PAMPLONA, 20th April, 2012
Asher will be repeating his very successful 2011 concert in Pamplona this April. The venue this time is in a beautiful hotel up near the Pyrenees, organised by an international yoga group. The room holds 350 people, and Asher will be singing songs from his latest album O Great Spirit, from his back catalogue of 25 years and some brand new material too... including one or two songs in Spanish! The music is both tender and sacred, as well as uplifting and spirited. The atmosphere is sure to be joyous and electric, and the setting is lovely. See details...
04/12/2011 ~ New album: O Great Spirit
Asher's brand new album is available now. You can purchase it in our shop, or download it here.
O Great Spirit consists of 6 brand new Asher compositions, 3 cover versions and a traditional, spiritual ballad. Also, there are 2 bonus tracks... re-mixes of two very popular tracks from 2010's Falling Through Time. Though each track is vocal, there are also lengthy, sublime instrumental passages, and O Great Spirit is a vintage Asher recording, full of melody, emotion, passion, joy and hypnotic, other-worldly rhythms and mystical lyricism.
'Half past ten' is a spellbinding, visionary, exalted folk song that opens the album, set the pace and establishes the spiritual intensity of the whole work; the title track 'O great spirit' is a Sufi chant Asher composed over 30 years ago, set to a thrilling and powerful shamanic drum rhythm; 'People get ready'... an anthem written by Curtis Mayfield back in the 60's... is given a one-world makeover here, which develops into a mantra combining sacred words from different spiritual traditions. Then there is the profound and mesmerising 'We are one', which has a swirling Celtic, Breton feel, and a spiritually unifying message, followed by a deeply touching, piano-based rendition of Snowy White's 80's classic 'Bird of paradise'. 'God's perfect circle' is a gentle and yet dramatic essay in spiritual awareness and awakening, followed by a spirited, intimately sung acoustic guitar-pick version of the traditional 'Angels watching over you'. Shaina Noll's powerful, pure and innocent 'Each holy child' is interpreted vigorously and plaintively by Asher, and leads into the delicately rhythmic and catchy 'Thanksgiving', with the piano melody being the foundation stone of this humble offering. The collection closes with a new, joyous, 'live' in-concert, love and peace anthem entitled 'All over the world', introduced briefly with a whimsical, gently barmy Elvis drawl.
The hugely popular title track from Falling Through Time is re-created as a bonus track... simplified, and with a soaring lead guitar solo from Kristian Biddiss, and the equally popular 'Blessings on your soul' is also simplified and offered as a bonus track, now including a Mariachi-style trumpet refrain.
The whole album also contains overtones of the Solfeggio tuning forks, designed to promote balance and healing with their pure and ancient sound frequencies, and they contribute profoundly to the loving, joyous, spiritually uplifting, passionate, emotional and positive nature of the recording.
15/11/2011 ~ New downloads shop here now!
Our new downloads shop is now open! (click here) We have 10 albums currently downloadable, including O Great Spirit, and all of Asher's albums will follow shortly. There will also be new compilations and mini-compilations created, which will only be available for download... not on CD. The first of these is a piano compilation called Piano Moon, which is now available. Each Asher album listed in the discography will be fully represented in the near future... both the current catalogue and the back catalogue going back to 1987. The price per track will be £0.79, and £6.99 for an album.
30/10/2011 ~ New artist on Singing Stone Music
Singing Stone Music are proud to present the instrumental songs of Mei-Ling Grey, who records under the name of Myristica. In the new year, we will have her album Sea of Dreams available for download. Mei-Ling's beguiling, healing, spacious tunes have won plaudits far and wide. See here:http://soundcloud.com/myristica.
Our plan is to create a new, independent mini-website for Singing Stone Music, linked to this site... it being the label Asher has created to distribute his own albums on, as an independent artist. Singing Stone will have two artists, Asher and Myristica, with a third, Shaun Britton, intended to be added later next year. Myristica's album Sea of Dreams will at first be available in a download format only, with the option to press CD's if it proves to be popular here.
28/08/2011 ~ Shop news | Please contact us for details
As I try to expand Singing Stone Music which was created to sell and distribute all my CD's, I'm pleased to say that the following shops now stock my titles: The Psychic Piglet, Enlightenment and Changing World in Glastonbury High St; esoteric bookshop Watkins in central London; the Earthlights cafe in Swanage; Destiny in Brixham; Paper Moon in Totnes; 't Stockpeerdsje in Maastricht and Words and Music in Wheeling, West Virginia.
The following companies also distribute my titles to shops in their own territories: New World Music in the UK; Oreade in the Netherlands; De Goddaert in Belgium; DG Diffusion in France; Evolution in Italy; Naturway in Spain; Silenzio in German-speaking countries; Brumby in Australia and New Zealand and Allegro in the USA.
Links to most of these shops and distribution companies can be found on the Links page.
