en françaishi everyone, I would like to introduce you to my new band. We are based in the beautiful Lake District in the northwest of England, a little different from where I was based in Byron Bay Australia. In my recent travels I met and fell in love with my husband John 2 years ago. We are both musicians and have a love for creating heart-centred soulful and interesting music, we also both love Aramaic.
We have formed a band and had our first concert 2 weeks ago, it was such a pleasure to be singing again after a break and the audiences response was so incredible that I know we are offering something unique and deeply touching.
Our music is co-created with Colleen de Winton on vocals, John Sutherland on Piano and violin and Paddy Morton on Guitar. We bring a presence to our performance that enables the audience to relax into a deep space of listening and heart opening. We present original songs about the journey into love, relationship and exploring the unique connection we share with the divine. We also perform sacred chants in Aramaic, this is a beautifully poetic language spoken in the time of Jesus. We have found that the sounds of this language bring a rich and healing quality to the listener. With carefully chosen cover songs sprinkled throughout our performance we offer a wide experience of the known and unknown, familiar and extraordinary, sweet and sublime. Colleen also shares some wonderful stories of her travels and how the songs where born, this offers the audience a unique window into a songwriters experience. Our desire is to enjoy the beauty that arises as we gather together and share what arises within the in-between of harmony.
We have recently r in Salsbury at the Hazelwood retreat, and in Crook at a good friends birthday party. Last weekend we performed for the Interfaith Forum at Brookhole. We are receiving a very positive response, here are just a few of the comments:
“Huge congratulations once again on the wonderful and delicious Saturday
night concert. I know you know (!) but you are so obviously ‘in your
power’, and its so inspiring for one woman (person actually!) to hear the
voice of a goddess – a Diva in the true sense of the word! I was
incredibly connected by your voice – the singing and the chat and the
lightness and the love”.
“I felt the energy moving so sweetly through my solar plexus and then wow my heart exploded, it felt so god, thank you”.
“Every hair on my body stood up as you sang, I was deeply touched.”
“That was the most beautiful experience I have had in years, amazing”
“your voice was so pure and powerful, it reached in and grabbed my heart, a blessing.”
“I feel as if I have been so gifted to be here tonight, the warmth and love you exude is astounding”
“every song felt like a new and incredible experience, you are so expressive and honest”
“I found the stories that you told inbetween the songs where as important as the songs themselves, so inspiring, natural and funny”
“Colleen’s voice – the whole universe that she seems to express in that voice – will captivate you. Simple. Forget what your taste is or even what mood
you are in. Simultaneously, she manages to combine sweetness and gravitas, soulfulness and fun, joy and a kind of sweet grief. Its like a spectacular sunset
manifest in a voice.”
I am so grateful for the opportunity to gather with wonderful souls and share our love of music.
I am releasing my fourth cd in 4 weeks time called
Inana: Journey into the divine feminine.
here is a little taster of what is to come.
thanks for visiting
warm smiles
Colleen de Winton
www.sacredchants.com.au
About Inana:
A gorgeous voice, rich and assured seamlessly blends with refreshing melodic arrangements. These songs and sacred chants offer a sensually powerful experience, evoking feelings of yearning, celebration of life, love and wonder for the divine world.
This CD reveals the healing balance that comes through honest connection with the divine feminine self – a unique collection, Inana is a thought-provoking, sensitive and energizing album.
Colleen has selected key words and phrases to convey the feeling essence and beauty of life through these rich languages. We invite you to have your own meaning making experience and allow the beauty of these ancient sounds to unfold within you.
“After a rich gestation period, Inana was birthed in a closet filled with soft wall coverings and sweet velvet darkness. The wind was storming around our home and the only quiet place to record the vocals was in a wardrobe. The space, only just big enough for me to stand with the microphone, became the largest space I have ever experienced. As I sang, the cosmos seemed to open and hold me in her tender arms.
While co-creating these chants we have enjoyed delicate and profound moments of opening, reverential recognition of personal authority, the ongoing recovery of our natural wisdom and divinity and many belly laughs. This extraordinary journey continues to be transformative, challenging and richly rewarding and one that we are deeply grateful for”.
Colleen de Winton: Vocalist
Colleen’s voice embodies the sensuality, clarity and power of the feminine. Her unique talent as a singer/songwriter and workshop facilitator is informed by her experience and study in sound healing, intentional breath work, radical inquiry, sacred sexuality, chant and the ancient language of Aramaic. Colleen’s studies and concerts have taken her around the world. She was the first non-national to win the coveted “Blue Messenger” award in France for excellence in voice and performance. In the past four years she journeyed to many sacred sights in Israel, Egypt, France and Bali, finding a way to unite her love of music and spiritual unfolding. During her travels she found her loving husband John Sutherland and began co-creating a life filled with music, passion, participatory spirituality, growth and laughter.
She now lives in the heart of the beautiful English Lake District and performs in the UK and Europe. Previous CD’s by Colleen include, Sweet Indulgence by Ionnah; The Prayer and Love’s Breath by Aramaeus.
As a retreat facilitator and therapist, Colleen focuses on supporting women, men and couples in embodying their deepest longing for intimate fulfilment and personal spiritual authority. For more information visit; www.sacredchants.com.au
George Christie: Music Producer
George’s raison d’être in music is to capture the soul of an artist and the spirit of a composition. George is a music producer, composer and multi instrumentalist. He has worked with artists from around the world on projects ranging from the commercial to the avant-garde. As a musician and producer he is self-taught and, from a very young age, learned his trade in at the deep end: on the road and in the recording studio. His compositional and production roots lie in almost every genre of music from electronica and ambient world music to rock, pop and acoustic. Through various record, publishing and production deals he has had a successful career as both producer and artist.