John Brozak: Sufi Journey (Pt.2)
John continues to share his journey. After taking time away from the Sufis, and exploring fine wines, John’s involvement with the Men’s Movement led to Vancouver Men’s group, and back to the Sufis once more through Rumi.
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Jelaluddin on Sublime Music
Music has always been fundamental to the Sufi path. Pianist, composer and musician Jelaluddin Gary Sill continues his talk about Sufism, music, improvisation, inspiration and his own process in creating music that reflects the flow of spirit.
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Jelaluddin on Sufism and Music
Accomplished musician Jelaluddin Gary Sill discusses his experience in music, in the light of Sufi teachings and wisdom. In a free-flowing talk, he touches on many aspects of the process of improvisation.
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Making Spirits Bright!
Advice for the holiday season from Feng Shui consultant, Teresa Bockhold.
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Rough Diamond
Found on YouTube, “Malvasio” sings All the Diamonds by Bruce Cockburn, an exquisitely beautiful redemption song.
On his Youtube channel, Malvasio2, the singer says “I was a subway musician for 25 years from 1975-2000 here in Montreal, I also played in night-clubs and sang in the summers at a tourist area called the Old Port. After 25 years of trying to make a living as a musician I switched careers and became a computer nerd. About 18 months ago I came upon YT and it hit a nerve, my love of music reared its head and my guitar which in the previous 6 years had remained mostly dormant once again became part of my daily routine….”
His channel features a wide variety of songs, sung with guitar, at home, at the computer, posted on YouTube for all to hear.
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About Lee Van Patten
During the past 40 years, Lee Van Patten has studied Sufism, Hatha Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, and Chinese martial arts.
He has applied the knowledge and experience gained from these disciplines to the fields of health, business, and music production.
He is happily married to the woman of his dreams.
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Transcript The Soul and Balanced Mastery
A Minor Waltz
This video with pianist Jelaluddin Gary Sill shows him recording a piano improvisation in his Vancouver home studio.
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A Night for All Souls
Paula Jardine, artist in residence for Mountainview Cemetery, talks with Carol Sill about her work creating the remarkable Night for All Souls event, an inclusive community remembrance. It is described as “a family friendly sanctuary of beauty for tender feelings, with fires to warm us, music to uplift us, tea to refresh us and materials to create personal memorials for our dead.” “We consider ourselves hosts, and that our job is to create a sanctuary, and we call it “A sanctuary of beauty for tender feelings,” that’s how we think of it.
This past week, we’ve just completed the fourth year of this event, our mantra was, Beauty is the bottom line.
For more about this event, go to the Mountainview website.
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Piano Raga in ‘D’ Major
Piano improvisation by Jelaluddin Gary Sill.
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About Jelaluddin Gary Sill
Gary Sill became one of Canada’s leading new age artists, releasing numerous commercially successful albums, some of them medatative, others solo instrumental. The pianist and composer was born on September 28, 1944, in Fort Macleod, Alberta, to a bandleader father and journalist mother. He has studied at both the Banff Centre for the Arts and the University of Calgary; taught at Grant McEwan College; worked as a jazz pianist throughout Canada for years; and lived in Calgary, Banff and Edmonton before permentantly residing in the west coast city of Vancouver with his wife, the Canadian photographer Carole Harmon. Sill has composed music for CBC Radio, theater productions, and more but is perhaps best known for his solo recordings. His series for PacificLine was commercially successful as is his series of Sufi music and practice recordings. Sill won much more acclaim for his series of piano albums that began in 2000 with Healing Moon, followed annually by Spring Is in the Poet and Restless Hearts. These albums all charted highly on NAV’s Top 100 chart. ( Written by Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide)
Gary counts as important influences Sufi teachers and guides Shamcher Bryn Beorse and French Sufi composer Hidayat Inayat-Khan whose thirty year friendship has deepened and directed his understanding and practice of music. Since 1985 Gary has been assisting Hidayat Inayat-Khan as a performer, producer, and engineer of both formal music projects and compositions to accompany Sufi spiritual practices.
Gary Sill Website
CDs Available
Video Conversation with Gary
Piano Improvs
Music, Angels and Six Wings
Jelaluddin Gary Sill talks with Carol about his current musical composition project.
Spirituality and music have long had a deep connection, and Jelaluddin has been a devoted student and masterful teacher of both for many years.
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