Geodepedie - Hidden Light By Christina Tourin

 

Geodepedie - Hidden Light

By

Christina Tourin

Written by

Steve Sheppard

 

The Harp is a thing of beauty, beautifully played Harp is a musical sojourn you may never wish to return from, and this brand new album entitled Geodepedie - Hidden Light is a masterpiece of supreme pleasure, a gratification of utter delight, and from one of the leading exponents of the genre in, Christina Tourin.

There can be no doubt whilst attending to this album that you are listening to a maestro, tracks like the opening piece and title header Geodepedie - Hidden Light had me captured from the first note played, I was lost in a world of evermore. Her soft almost mesmeric style flowed over my senses and created calm and serenity as it went.

This is a bliss filled 16 track odyssey of brilliance, with flourishing narratives like the mystical oasis of Brigid's Green Mantle, simply highlighting the genius within.  Walk Through The Sunflowers would become one of my favourite tracks from the album; there were certain energies of a time long gone within its refrains, one could easily see bands like Rainbow and Zeppelin utilising the skill sets of an artist and music like this on their respective progressive nuances from yesteryear.

This release contains something for everyone who seeks fulfilment through truly good music; we only have to gaze into the crystalline awareness of pieces like the mysterious and deeply magical Icelandic Northern Lights, a perfect depiction of the subject matter, or perhaps, and another personal favourite of mine in Amethyst Of Avalon, the harp and vocalisations describe a wonderful new age of harmonious happiness, one bathed in the loving energies of openness and love, the fluent vibrational dynamisms here were simply idyllic.

As Above So Below will be our penultimate journey, a long form opus and an incredibly remarkable pastiche of artistic genius can be found on this most illustrious of compositions, the title is a paraphrase of The Emerald Tablet from the late 8^th century, and many may be reminded that a representation maybe found, one that is perhaps even more familiar, as in The Magician from the Rider Waite Tarot deck. Here for me personally, Tourin sums up her masterful skill by producing one of the finest new age creations of the decade thus far.

The album is concluded with a piece to lift the hearts and minds, with a composition entitled Colors Of The Season, a perfect ending creation of both warmth and tenderness, a wonderfully happy closure of the release can be found here.

Geodepedie - Hidden Light by Christina Tourin, is a new album from one of the greatest master teachers in harp history, her fluency and calmness of performance is only added to by utilising talents such as Peter Sprague on guitar, and bringing into the fold synth segments from David Eastoe, and the legendary Suzanne Doucet, let’s also tip the hat to the vocals of Buvana Gerlach and extra harp work on the opening piece from Lies Joosten.

Geodepedie - Hidden Light by Christina Tourin is an extraordinary album, it is one of those releases that only comes around in every decade or so, a release that is destined to remain as a highlighting creation of all that is good in the world of instrumental music, and a flag raiser at the top of harp mountain, it simply doesn’t come any better than this.