Journal
CREATIVE EXPLORATIONS
Dear friends, I've decided to share my recent videos from The Heart Jewel album on Youtube...it will be interesting to see how it goes. I currently use Vimeo to share my films though I'm not sure it's the best platform for reaching a wide audience. Then again it might be because I prefer to spend time making music than marketing it! Anyway here we go...I've just added the 3 videos for now: I Am Free, Mother’s Medicine and Angels Of Heaven. I hope you enjoy them.
Lots of love from Mog x o x 🕊🙏🕊
Happy New Moon dear friends.
I hope you all had a lovely New Year.
The Heart Jewel album is now available to listen to on my Bandcamp page.
May your year be full of creativity, abundance, love, joy, and peace.
Lots of love and new moon blessings to you all x o x 💕🧡💕
Dear friends,
I’m very excited to share a new video for one of my songs from ‘The Heart Jewel’ due to be released on the 11th January 2024, with the new moon.
I’ve also made some tweaks to the song and added baritone ukulele and the red deer drum that I made at Lammas Earth Centre with Hoppi Wimbush. I felt something was missing every time I played back the song and then I realised it needed the heart beat that brings that gentle holding energy of our Mother Earth.
I hope you enjoy Mother’s Medicine.
Dear friends I’m very excited to share my new video with you ‘Angels Of Heaven’, a song from my new album ‘The Heart Jewel’ due to be released on 11th January 2024.
I hope you enjoy it!
Thank you to Wendy, Kyra and Nikki for the opportunity to be in such a beautiful peaceful sanctuary to create this song and video. Special thanks to, Guy Malkerson, Ari Malmberg, Neil Brown, Pete Sutton and Rachel Elnaugh and Bella Thomas for your continued support on Patreon.
Solstice blessings and lots of love from Mog x o x 🎄🧚♂️🎄
Oh and loving this beautiful animation ‘Summer Legend’ by Françoise Hartmann (1986|8mins)
“This short animation tells the tale of the great spirit Glooscap and how he battled with the giant Winter in order to bring Summer to the North and the Mi'kmaq people. Silas T. Rand, a Canadian Baptist clergyman and ethnographer, and Charles Leland, an American humorist and folklorist, first recorded the legend of Glooscap at the end of the 19th century. Since then, the legend has been retold many times, but never more beautifully than in this colourful animated interpretation.”
Dear friends,
Earlier in spring this year I wrote and recorded a few songs during my artist in residence at the wooden cabin, Road Books, and the stone barn at Dereenacappera, Cork, Ireland. As soon as I was back in the UK I was off again to Lammas Earth Centre in Wales to volunteer with Hoppi and Tao on the land. I also made great use of this time to develop my own melodies for many of the Buddhist and Hindu mantras inspired from my daily mantra club hosted by Lucidia and Rafael (Shrinari) I recommend it so much as a very beautiful heart expanding start to your day.
On my last night at Lammas we had a wonderful Kirtan evening collaborating with Mani and Ash Hirani from the Veda Soul Company at the Earth Centre. So much gratitude to them both for helping to create such a lovely evening and their support for the journey back to Hampshire. And so much gratitude to Hoppi and Tao for a fab four months on the land and offering their beautiful sacred temple to sing together. I’m so looking forward to recording these mantras soon…
In the mean time I would love to share my new album with you which includes the songs I wrote earlier this year and some sweet flute melodies responding to birdsong in different landscapes. Some of these were recorded on location from the coasts of Cornwall to the woodlands of Hampshire. As I was working on the order of the songs for the album, the perfect name for the album came to me after researching Buddhist and Hindu deities. The Heart Jewel.
Pre-order The Heart Jewel and receive an instant download of Mother's Medicine which I wrote back in February. This song was inspired by the beautiful tenderness between a mother and her child during a gathering of inspirational heart centred women celebrating the love and beauty within all of our hearts. x o x
So much love and new moon blessings to you all x o x 💕🧡💕
If any of these self initiated creative explorations have made your heart sing please consider making a contribution. Your support will help me continue creating art and music to nourish the soul.
