david hykes' harmonic choir

i can't recall the first time i heard david hykes' harmonic choir but i do know that it was in the early eighties. it was one piece on a compilation of similarly challenging music and i remember that it stood out from the rest by being somehow more human than the other music.

david brings an extraordinary depth of musical presence. this has come about in large part through his work as a dharma student of choky nyima rinpoche, who gave him the name shenpen yeshe, "the primordial wisdom that brings happiness to beings". he also completed twenty years of spiritual studies in the gurdjieff foundations in new york, san francisco, and paris, as a student of gurdjieff's successors lord john pentland and dr. michel de salzmann.

david's own website describes his music as:

"a deep fusion of sacred chant and overtone-based throat singing reveals and explores the essential harmonic nature of contemplative mind in relation to the music of the spheres. hykes's music and teachings explore the harmonic nature of vibration found at every scale in the universe, for harmonics are to musical sound what the color spectrum is to light.

they are the vibratory dna of all music in this resounding creation, from the still-echoing harmonics of the big bang, to the harmonics of stars. closest to home, we can discover the deep chord of our own being-- the harmonics of mind, heart and body."

here is david hykes and the harmonic choir "arc descents" ...



david again but with instrumental support - "times to the true" ...



to learn more about david hykes then you should visit his website.