July 2005 CDs
Celebration of Love
Alan Roubik was a child prodigy who learned to play his organ keyboard by ear at the age of three. Celebration of Love , created in collaboration with Dr. Masaru Emoto, is truly a gift of his creative genius.
By nine years of age, Alan was performing his own compositions as well as classical and ragtime music. But at 16, he sustained severe damage to a nerve in his right arm, making it nearly impossible to move his fingers. He could no longer hold a fork or spoon in his right hand. Doctors suggested surgery, but Alan refused. Determined to continue playing the piano, he began to focus on creating compositions that suited his limited hand movements. Unbeknownst to him, he had been utilizing a form of music therapy that would eventually strengthen his hand and allow him full mobility to perform again.
Alan would later become most well known for his music therapy recordings. His first music therapy recording released in Japan in 1996 fetched an unprecedented retail price of $100 per CD. Alan has produced a dozen CD recordings, three music videos, a film score and commer-cials. Scientifically tested and endorsed by an independent research laboratory in Tokyo, Alan's music is said to have the most healing properties of any modern music. He is the only non-Japanese recording artist to be inducted in the National Archives of Japan for his healing music. Today, Alan's music is used and recommended by doctors, professional athletes and trainers, health, fitness and yoga instructors, as well as spiritual healers.
—Chiwah
Return to Om
People of Peace is wonderfully multicultural, evocative, funky, thoughtful, playful—truly an adventure in musical exploration. It starts out soft, then lifts you up and jazzes you. I thought for a moment I was in China! And nature is truly alive here, wind blowing up a storm.
The first cut on Return to Om is titled “A Call to Silence.” Really. It is that. We played it, and the room immediately fell into a deep hush.
Well known in San Diego for her healing work with Tibetan, Bhuran and Nepali singing bowls, Diane Mandle offers an invitation to rediscover oneness with sound itself, sound as a doorway into the divine. The invitation is not to a concert, for this is more tonal bath than music. Diane and friends wash us clean in the energy of bowls, gantas, tingshaws, chimes, rainstick, gong, dorje, and the voice of Jay Myerson. Highly internal, great for meditation.
Diane's poem inside the album says it all:
Out of silence comes the sound
Awakening the fullness of my heart
One still point – Then another
Mirroring the musings of love.
Sound, then Sound-less-ness
Carrying me further into a place
That has no name
But is known as “Om”—Chiwah
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