Brave Souls Album
The Album is called “Brave Souls” and I see it as an invitation for us all to become exactly that. I have gathered 10 motivational discourses taken from the last 10 years. It has been a privilege to collaborate on this with a number of amazing musicians from around the world, to create what I hope will be a healing and meditative experience. I hope to take you on a journey of reflection into how we might live more fully, courageously and considerately. The album is in effect a call to arms; an invitation to find the Brave Soul in each of us so that together we might forge a bright new future as the Give Back Generation.
Read the accompanying book ‘The Survival Guide To Staying Conscious’ available -
The music that accompanies all of these tracks has been contributed by a group of wonderful and extra-ordinary musicians to whom I am deeply grateful, for not just their contributions but encouragement to make this album. If you like the music you find here, please take the time to explore their work. They are all amazing.
Track Listing
How Great Was Our Longing 3:41
What Lies In The Stillness 5:22
It's In Your Hand 6:40
Dance Your Own Way 5:30
Turn Up For It 4:55
The Joy Of Simplicity 8:24
The Ground For An Extra-Ordinary Life 5:13
Reclaim The Heart 8:55
Make Thank You Your Final Word 6:31
The Fire In The Heart 9:42
It's Just A Brief Time 5:22
Brave Souls: Find It For Yourself 1:57
Indra's Victory Chant 5:22
The idea for Brave Souls grew as a response to the following that has emerged on Soundcloud from people listening to my discourses. I started mixing edited versions of some of the talks I had given on retreat with pieces of music that I thought matched the mood and ambience of each track.
I quickly realised that people were returning to listen to the same tracks many times and with this I recognised there was a much greater opportunity for them to absorb the message and teachings I was trying to share. There a secular Mindfulness was movement emerging but I felt that this had a tendency to remove some of the core messages that the spiritual teachings it came out of held at its core. This felt to me to be a disservice to the many people out there who I felt were truly ready for encouragement towards positive change in the face of the challenges facing us all now as humanity.
So while I was writing my fourth book “The Survival Guide to Staying Conscious”, I decided also to work on the “Brave Souls” project.
Brave Souls is a call to all of you out there who are looking for ways to change. I hope it will stand as a call to action to find the courage within your own hearts to discover for yourselves the things that are truly meaningful and important in life, at a time where we are all too often prompted to forget them.
At the heart of the message that runs through the album is the notion of just how rare and precious this human life is, and how much care it takes to live it well. Ultimately it is asking all of us at this time to find our own ways of contributing to what I am calling “ The Give Back Generation”. We are the generation in whose hands the future of our planet lies, and it has come to us to make the choices and changes that are necessary to safeguard the future for those whoa re to come.
I hope you enjoy the album. There is a lot of content in it and it is not necessarily the case that you will want to always just play it through from start to finish. Each track is designed to stand on its own, and can be used as the basis for your own reflections and meditation. The music that accompanies all of these tracks has been contributed by a group of wonderful and extra-ordinary musicians to whom I am deeply grateful, for not just their contributions but encouragement to make this album. If you like the music you find here, please take the time to explore their work. They are all amazing.
It goes without saying that without the music that these wonderful folk have offered up, this album would not have happened. So a massive thank you and deep respect goes out to all of them:
Estas Tonne: ( For really encouraging me to push ahead in the early stages.): Loving Kindness Meditation/ The Joy of Simplicity … contact Estas at : https://estastonne.com
Dave Tawfik: ( For the days spent in the Pyrenees laying the groundwork and sowing the seeds): What Lies in the Stillness, Reclaim Your Heart, The Fire Within. ...contact Dave at http://www.dreamfullofzen.net
Toni Castells: ( Whose incredible work 2045 looks also at the question of what technology is doing to us.) : How Great Was Our Longing ...contact Toni at: http://www.tonicastells.com
Sebastian Fox/ Mt Wolf ( for setting the ball rolling with “Burgs”): Its In Your Hands, ...contact Mt Wolf at https://www.facebook.com/MtWolfOfficial/ and listen on soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/mtwolf
Chris Bartel/Elskavon: Make Thank you your final word. Contact Chris at http://anthemfallsmusic.com/chrisbartels
Marius Furche: Its just a brief time. Contact Marcus at http://www.marius-furche.de or on facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PianistMarius
And finally a huge thank you to Grant Collins for Mastering.
