The Healing Space CD

Arathusa Records ARCD-11

date of release: July 30th  2010

playing time: 59:45 minutes

recording artist: David Rankine  all compositions:  David Rankine SOCAN

instrumental with vox

CD release concert - April 16th 2011, at Sharon Tempernace Hall, Sharon Ontario (click here)

 music samples

About Healing Space

     Healing Space is the latest offering by David Rankine in a series of recordings for meditation and healing. Recorded specifically as a tool for therapist, listener or patient,  it can best be described as music that engages the individual in healing and provides an active sound matrix within which to return to health.

 A review of this CD

   It seems the essence of David’s music is to blend structured Hebridean and Indo Persian scales and tonalities with a creative, boundary-pushing style that could be called transcendent Celtic chant but that would be too simplistic a moniker. This latest creation by Mr. Rankine which is the soul mate of a spiritually healing book of the same name, co-authored with Sharon Langfield, continues David’s quest to imagine and then create music that bridges us, here and now, as sentient beings to an ageless human consciousness that is something akin to the true story of mankind. That is, something deeper and more primal than the material structured world that lies before us in fact something that transcends that world.

  I recommend for anyone who wishes to reach out and feel a truer world that they take the time to cross the bridge with Healing Space and go to a place where Creation and the Artist, Space and Time merge into one powerful vision.

   Hopefully the healer within YOU will connect with this music as it did me on my northern voyage on an eastern shore.

Neale Croucher, musician and composer

From aboard S.V. The Dreamcatcher (at North 45deg. 11.900min. by West 080 deg. 5.756 min., Georgian Bay, Canada)

This CD

This is music that has come straight from my soul. Although I was very aware of my intention during the recording of this CD. it was never my intention to sound a certain way or create music that "sounds" like it is from a certain culture or time. My sole intention was to be true to myself- to align myself with my feelings and resonate on that which is true to me.

That being said, it is also music that has been informed by my life experiences and all the music I have been subject to over my life. It cannot help but contain within it elements of many musical traditions and cultures and on this level alone it will engage the listener just as my intention of remaining true to my soul will engage listeners.

I have always believed that any act of self expression -in this case music is not truly born until it has been witnessed by another - not merely heard but witnessed- engaged by the listener.. We live in an interconnected Universe and every expression (and our very being) is in a constant state of co-creation with everyone and everything around us. Lie back, drive your car, play it while you are in a healing session or as you write or create. This is music that has no intention of putting the listener to sleep . It is music that will engage you at multiple levels by the mere fact that that is how it was created and why it was created- to engage myself in an act of co-creation with my soul.

Dave Rankine , Everett, Ontario May 2010

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       For more about the healing qualities of sound and music click here.