Artist Leigh Ann Phillips Bio: Leigh Ann Phillips is an award-winning singer songwriter, sound healing practitioner, lecturer, and teacher. She is on a mission to merge sound and music to assist people in leading more fulfilling lives in healthier bodies. Her work is taking her all over the world and back again – to her nest in the San Luis Valley of south central Colorado. Through her sound healing work, Leigh Ann began to travel around the Southwest, then across the USA.
Leigh Ann Phillips is now the Executive Director of The Shimmering Sounds Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and promoting the benefits of sound and vibrational healing, and the advancement of this healing modality in the field complimentary and alternative medicine. All donations are fully tax deductible, as the foundation has a 501c3 sponsoring relationship with The Folk Alliance! The purposes of The Shimmering Sounds.
Leigh Ann Phillips (Adire): quartz crystal singing bowls
Thomas Barquee: guitar, keyboard, percussion
CD: Removing Negativity
Powerful primordial music and sounds of crystal bowls, guitar, percussion, and keyboard – designed to clear, uplift and strengthen, as well as increase calm and serenity.
This exquisite primordial music is designed to be the emanation of a a powerful mandala that removes negativity in the Taoist tradition. This mandala was etched onto a moss agate/Apache Tear obsidian quartz crystal singing bowl. This bowl was the foundation of a project to create music that could clear and strengthen the bioenergetic field. When a mandala is etched onto a bowl, the intention of the mandala is amplified within the sound. Thomas Barquee has blended keyboard, percussion and guitar to the celestial sounds of the bowls to create a powerful soundscape that clears and uplifts as well as increases calm and serenity.
Leigh Ann Phillips (Adire): quartz crystal singing bowls
Thomas Barquee: guitar, keyboard, percussion
CD: Dawn Mountain: I live in a valley above an ancient sea. To the east is the grandeur of Mount Blanca. The Native Americans call this 14,000 foot peak, Dawn Mountain – The Gatekeeper of the Sunrise. This album is an acoustic offering for them. The quartz crystal singing bowls have their own song. Within the note of each of these precious gemstone bowls lies a river of overtones that sing above and over the music. Music is acoustic. It is alive. It is sentient. Whether the instruments themselves sing with strings or reeds, the music is a call to what lives in Nature, and what lives inside ourselves. I wanted to feel and hear what would happen if the quartz crystal singing bowls had a chance to dance in each others’ harmonics – like a dance under an aspen tree.
What if the long sweet note of the violin called to the ruby crystal bowl to sing with her? What if the notes of the hollow bone flute floated along with the drones of the deep charcoal bowl? What if no notes were written, and what if each note led us down a path, and we had the courage to trust and to follow it?
Don Richmond and I chose a few keys and a few instruments to accompany the crystal singing bowls, with the intention that the crystal bowls would be the protagonist in this harmonic play. We then played and sang. We did not know where we were going. But at the end of the day we smiled, and felt in our hearts that this singing was heard – by Dawn Mountain
CD: Journey Into The Mind-Intrumental is the perfect soul companion to Dawn Mountain – offering a relaxing acoustic blend of piano, strings, and quartz crystal singing bowls. Originally released as a guided meditation with Kiara Perkins, this instrumental version features Leigh Ann Phillips on piano and quartz crystal singing bowls, with string accompaniment by Don Richmond.
CD: Call of the Feather Thoughtful, evocative music that is firmly grounded on Mother Earth yet takes you to another place. Primarily acoustic and piano-based, with elements of singer-songwriter, Americana, jazz, world, and new age sounds creating a sophisticated, powerful mix. This CD is a collection of songs about love, the land and the evolution of these times. This album means the world to me, for I feel I now have a recorded document of hope, and hope with action. Beauty is a form of healing, and these songs have already traveled to different parts of the world, reminding us that each of us has a purpose in being here. The quartz crystal singing bowls are on two of the songs, as well as recordings of raven, and the Sandhill Cranes from the San Luis Valley of Colorado. This album weaves the beauty of strings, woodwinds, piano and percussion with full production. http://www.leighannphillips.com/
