Sacred Earth is an evocative, 1-hour musical experience of the primordial elements Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. The four electro-acoustical movements offer a mix of lush, ethereal soundscapes, intense and drum-driven shamanistic chanting, and airy, sweetly hypnotic meditations.

The experience begins with a prayer deep inside the long-silent red-rock canyons and ancient pristine forests where the soul of Earth herself dwells. Flora and fauna play in delicious 7/4 counterpoint. Wind chimes charm us to a vantage point just above tree-level; we see in the distance the mystical flanks of Mt. Fuji, robed like an empress in snow and heralded with a great Japanese gong. Moments of Zen contemplation ensue. Then higher still, a welcoming canopy of air lofts a solitary carefree kite, dancing to a simple F pentatonic melody nearly forgotten since childhood but now forever remembered.

The Fire Movement actually “sounds” hot; beyond-measure-hot…Volcano Hot. We’re there at the rim, staring deep down into our own violent, roiling origins, hypnotized and mute, unable to move. The spell is picked up by villagers below as they sing by torchlight to their own frenzied, ecstatic dance. An Elder jumps to the center where with wildest abandon he gyrates to the drums and scales from worlds well beyond this one. The spell suddenly breaks with a magic-sword: a crack of heat lightning. The Storm: a mystery of transformation from fire to water, two perceived opposites. And then…the rain comes, and keeps coming. The drops dance; we are intrigued by the amazing mystic liquidness of our being. The whales sing. Not just underwater ... through amniotic fluid …the earth of our birth.