Track Listing

1. En Trance
2. Seventh Ray
3. Uluru
4. Dark Falls the Night
5. Benedictus
6. Pacificus
7. Love Is Here
8. Whistler's Lament
9. Circle's Edge

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92905 in Music
• Released on: 1999-01-12
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Incantation is Tim Wheater's debut album with Real Music. Exquisitely produced by David Lord in Bath, England, the nine original compositions, seamlessly woven together with Wheater's haunting flutes along with soft gongs, dynamic percussive rhythms and seductive, melodic vocals and chants, propel the listener through a vivid, contemporary and mystical experience.

Amazon.com
Wheater's gentle music has long been a favorite of massage therapists, by whom he is appreciated as a sound healer and facilitator of sound workshops at New York's Omega and California's Esalen. A renowned flautist of considerable articulation, Tim Wheater studied flute with the magnificent master James Galway, who made the flute hip even for scrappy street kids. Wheater has also collaborated with noted spiritual creativity writer Julia Cameron (The Artist's Way, Vein of Gold) on a number of audio projects, including This Earth and the 1999 coauthored Soundtracks. Here on Incantation Wheater's considerable talents are evident, yet muddied by the attempt to do too much--Celtic, native, Tibetan, aboriginal and pagan New Age--all at once. A fine exception to such distraction is the "Circle's Edge," on which the keyboards pull back from the monastic choir-like vocals, blending beautifully with Wheaton's flute and the "Om mani Padme hum" chant. --Paige La Grone

Neale Donald Walsch, Author
"Pure joy, ecstasy by the earful. Tim Wheater is a magician whose magic wand is a flute."

Customer Reviews

from Solo Piano Publications
I really enjoyed flautist Tim Wheater's earlier collaborations with pianist Michael Hoppe ("The Yearning" and "The Dreamer"), but "Incantation" gives a much clearer view of Wheater's virtuosity on flute as well as his mastery of composition. Cinematic in scope and symphonic in scale, this is a very emotionally rich and fulfilling CD. Many ethnic influences are drawn from, and musical samples were recorded on location in New Zealand, New Mexico, and Australia. The very unusual instrumentation includes flute, cello, Celtic harp, electric banjo, digeridoo, crystal bowls, etc. Several of the tracks include vocals in English, Gaelic, and Latin, but the voices are mostly used as additional instruments. Several of the tracks ("En Trance", "Uluru", "Benedictus", and "Circle's Edge") are very heavy on the rhythm and percussion, giving them a tribal, somewhat ritualistic feel. "Pacificus" is much more ambient. "Seventh Ray", "Dark Falls the Night", "Love Is Here", and "Whistler's Lament" are tender and gentle to the core. There is an obvious variety of approaches on this CD, but a mood of darkly spiritual mystery (does that make sense?) is sustained throughout. Spiritual, but still melodic and accessible, and the various rhythms are infectious. I really enjoyed "Incantation" the many times I listened to it, and heard new subtleties each time. Hear, hear!

A cathedral set in a primeval wood. A Samhain bonfire on th
Haunting, mystical, amazing!!! There are not enough words to describe the emotions that are stirred by this CD. It's an amazing ride into otherworldly realms. Turn off the lights, light a few candles, and get ready for a spiritual journey of immense proportions! This is one CD you don't want to be without!!!

A cathedral set in a primeval wood. A Samhain bonfire....
Haunting, mystical, amazing!!! There are not enough words to describe the emotions that are stirred by this CD. It's an amazing ride into otherworldly realms. Turn off the lights, light a few candles, and get ready for a spiritual journey of immense proportions! This is one CD you don't want to be without!!!