The Whole Music Experience

I still feel disappointed that no book publishers are publishing self-help books on music. They're no longer publishing books that tout music awareness either.  So I started a Go Fund Me campaign (the link is at the bottom) to continue my music research. And create a new avenue of getting this music consciousness information out to the world during a crucial shift on the planet. In the meantime, here is an excerpt from my book Whole Music (Soul Food for the Mind Body Spirit). I'll also be giving lectures and teaching workshops on music consciousness. If you feel that this work is important, even a five dollar donation helps. Raising Music Consciousness with Soul Music American soul music raised the social consciousness of African-Americans from giving African slaves a musical outlet in the early days, to liberation, and work songs after emancipation, to fueling the Civil Rights Movement, and then later, empowering people of color along with the “black is...

Circumstances of the past two years have forced me to sit on my unpublished book, Whole Music.  And now I'm ready to publish it the traditional route.  I also thought it would be fun to share an audio clip of an excerpt from the introduction. I used images from album covers of artists I reviewed on this blog and Wikipedia images.  So here, I guess you can watch an unveiling of a book that was published then unpublished yet the saga continues.

Finnish Kalevala, Wikipedia Excerpt from Whole Music (Soul Food for the Mind Body Soul) Musical Treasure Hunt I started out as a folk-rock musician, but over the years, I have reviewed just about every kind of music on the planet.   For me my introduction to world music began when a music librarian in Seattle introduced me to nuevo (new) tango by the Argentine bandoneon (small accordion), player Astor Piazzolla and an owner of an independent music store introduced me to the Portuguese vocal tradition, fado.   Both tango and fado expanded my music consciousness, and eventually sent me on a quest exploring the world’s music traditions. Similar to treasure hunts from our childhood, I’m going to send you on a music treasure hunt in which the pleasures are many. Pretend that you are a song catcher visiting other cultures where you collect new sounds. While I mentioned sound healers earlier, another important player with music preservation a...