Ancient Dreamscapes

I am delighted to announce the release today, 1st June 2024, of my new album, "Ancient Dreamscapes"! "Ancient Dreamscapes" is available now, from all the usual digital platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon & iTunes (all artist links at the bottom of this video description). Here is the album on Spotify:
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For studio quality, losseless WAV audio (superior to CD Quality!) including a PDF booklet of the detailed album notes, this option is available from Bandcamp:
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Similar in spirit to my ultra experimental 2017 album, "Ascension of the Lyre" (which was inspired by Spock's 'Vulcan Harp'!), this release also attempts to go boldly where no other lyre player has gone before!
This album features a mystical, dreamy fusion of tracks from of my former experimental 2020 album of the same title with pieces remastered from my other former experimental 2020 album, "Spirits of the Ancestors" which was a musical evocation of the ancient Greek mythology surrounding the passage of the spirits of the dead, on their journey to reach Elysium - a comfortable place where the sun always shone.
These two previous highly experimental releases were created during the Covid pandemic and now, in retrospect, were far too experimental in the resulting soundscape! I was never quite happy with the mixes and sometimes the rather too excessive use of contemporary studio effects, so I decided to completely remaster only those tracks from both albums I now feel worked best, created a few new pieces and merged them into this new attempt at creating an ‘auditory dreamscape’ using a wide selection of receated ancient lyres & kithara.
The ancient Greek-themed improvisations feature my recreated chelys (tortoise shell form) lyre kithara and phorminx (an archaic form of kithara) all made in modern Greece by Luthieros and the pure harp-like timbre of my 10-string lyre (handmade in the USA by Marini Made Harps).
The aim of this release is to attempt to create a meditative, inspirational compilation; suitable for enhancing creative thinking, relaxation & to transport the listener to distinctive dreamscapes sculptured by their own imaginations in response to my lyre improvisations.
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[@Kasaix]

Beautiful and mysterious. A touch spooky too. Amazing work as always.

[@MichaelLevyMusic]

Glad you liked the spooky vibe! The biggest challenge of this re-release was getting just the right balance between the fusion of ancient lyre & kithara timbres with dreamy contemporary FX, particularly the tracks recorded in my garden - I added about 8% time stretch to the recordings for a more trance-like feel, with misty reverb overlays & delays at specific phrases, to further blur the distinction between the feeling awake & being in a dream whilst hearing these tracks.

[@xapexpredator7500xx]

A little bit aggressive. The original Name of the Track was: who I destroy the kithara 😅

[@MTB214]

It’s interesting to listen to something how music was so far in our past.

[@YTheTraveler]

Wonderful , beautiful sound .what is the tuning brother ?

[@MichaelLevyMusic]

Glad you appreciate the intended dreamy atmosphere of this album! Regarding tunings, each of my various tortoise shell lyres, kitgara, phorminx & harp-lyre are tuned differently depending on the track. The tracks all feature examples of the original ancient Greek modes, each with their distinctive expressive qualities, eg, "Elysium" & features the dreamy, sensual qualities of the Hypolydian Mode (equivalent intervals as F-F), whose characteristics are further enhanced by the use of the intense focussed intervals heard here in just intonation.

[@YTheTraveler]

@@MichaelLevyMusic after watching your Channel the certainty that I needed a kinnor harp for my prayers and meditation on God (blessed be he ) . The tuning of my kinnor(same as you used on your song of David) is this "G4 F#4 E4 D#4 C4 B3 A3 G3 F#3 E3 " it's seems quite different and cannot get that ancestral vibe sur as yours . Thank you