Harp Music Recordings

The Yoga Mix, album by Linda Khandro

The Yoga Mix

Harp music for yoga, transition and meditation by Linda Khandro

Featuring Ann Lindquist (flutes) & Shiho Kurauchi (kotos)

After the release and success of Tethys, I moved home to the BC, Canada interior for a couple of years, so the momentum that ShAnLi had developed temporarily waned. A few more years have gone by and with families and work at the forefront, it has yet to happen but we are in touch and we know our group and our music will resurface! In the meantime, with thoughts of the hospice patients of years back still in my mind, I selected out the improvisations that I liked the best from all 3 prior cds (Transition, Full Hearts Empty Mind, and Tethys). 

The Yoga Mix is a compilation from the 3 original cds, produced with a simpler and more affordable style for distribution. In addition to being suitable for the special hospice environment, it’s suitable as low-volume, background music for various therapies such as massage; and various health-related activities such as yoga and Pilates. It was played and approved by a massage therapist I greatly respect, and his comments left no doubt that it was right to accompany his work.

Track List

  1. Harmonic Wind

  2. Heart Pools

  3. Waterfall

  4. Adagio In Spanish Mode

  5. Sakya

  6. Living Wave I

  7. Salmon Arm

  8. Slip Stream

  9. Tethys

  10. The Sea Her Song II

  11. Living Wave III

  12. Water Light

  13. Lotus

  14. Sakya Reprise

Tethys by ShAnLi

Tethys by ShAnLi

by ShAnLí - Shiho Kurauchi, Ann Lindquist,
& Linda Khandro

Detailed notes from Linda and Ann can be found with the following links, but this is a quick introduction to ShAnLi and the music: 

After several years playing bedside music for hospice patients and retirement home residents, my sense of fulfillment from improvising on the double strung harp for these folks was raised a significant notch when I met Shiho Kurauchi and her koto colleagues at a Seattle-area house concert. We both played our original sets, then realized that we could (and should!) do some improvisation together. Our first was at the CD release party for my 2nd cd, Full Hearts, Empty Mind. It was a success for each of us, and went over extremely well with the folks attending the party. I had already had the pleasure of working with Ann on FH,EM, and was in awe of her deep and innovative flute work. So it didn’t take much persuading to pull us all together and thus was ShAnLi (SHiho, ANn, LInda) born! We played several live events in the Seattle area before settling down to create the Tethys cd.

Album Notes by Ann Lindquist

Track List

  1. Wave Form

  2. La Playa

  3. Sanga

  4. Island Spring

  5. Sombra de la Aparique

  6. Lotus

  7. Slip Stream Part 1 Part 2

  8. Kujira

  9. Harmonic Wind

  10. Shizuku

  11. Tethys

  12. Salmon Arm

  13. Ichie

  14. Rain

  15. Yemaya

Full Hearts, Empty Mind, album by Linda Khandro

Full Hearts, Empty Mind

Linda's second CD of solo and accompanied harp music maintains the tranquility of her first CD, Transition, but with a band and a beat! A veritable string section (cello, viola, and violin) adds depth and richness, and innovative flutes, tamboura, Himalayan bowls, keyboards, vocals, and percussion add unique textures and rhythms. Beautifully produced, this CD will delight and entertain, as well as entrain and soothe.

Harp music by Linda Khandro

From the Inside Liner:

Can you sing yourself into being
In the world?
In spite of the world?
O, the heart hurts
As it stretches open
Full of love.
The mind empties itself
Of grief and desire
As it learns compassion.
Who are we? Precious humans
With our despair and longing
Our delight and loving
Our uncertain knowledge
Certain wisdoms
And unmistakable karma

That invites suffering as it
Relieves suffering.
Oh, this mountain is so big!
What else is there to do but fill the heart
with loving-kindness
Empty the mind until the space is nothing,
But compassion.
The mountain becomes the sea
Of your song, of your wave
Of your heart, of your mind.
Rejoice!
We’re all in it together
And no one gets out alive!

- Linda Khandro, Spring 2002

Victory Music Review, October, 2004

"The very talented Linda Khandro makes serious music to meditate by, deep, rich, complex music that soothes, cleanses, and restores. The title of her album refers to that state of personal security beyond the reach of worldly concerns, and this sumptuous disc can help get you there. Seattlite Khandro adds a variety of eastern and western instruments to the blend, and the sparkling recording (by another local, Richard Vanceunebrouck-Werth) captures each lovely nuance."
—Tom Peterson, Victory Music Review October 2004

Track List

  1. Sakya

  2. Stories from a Train

  3. Breton Mystery II

  4. Cedarwind

  5. A Maid in Bedlam

  6. Roslyn Castle

  7. Oidche Mhath Leibh (Goodnight to You)

  8. Far Away

  9. Song for Geraldine

  10. Brae Lochial

  11. Full Earth Circle

  12. Nine Years

  13. Waterfall

  14. Living Wave III

  15. Waterlight

  16. Sakya Reprise

  17. Nine Years Reprise

  18. Trees They Do Grow High

  19. Stories from a Train Reprise

Transition, album by Linda Khandro

Transition

Original and Celtic music played solo and accompanied, on a double-strung harp. Intended to aid those in pain, illness, or in one of life's' major transitions, this music is the perfect accompaniment to massage, Reiki, and other body and energy healing work.  

Harp Music by Linda Khandro

From the Back Cover:

This music intends to aid those in pain, illness, or in one of life’s major transitions events of 9-11-01.  From my heart to yours, this music attempts to speak to our great need for unity, peace, compassion, and above all, love…the wish for all beings to be happy.  Twelve works feature…seven improvisations and five traditional melodies (Bransle de la Torche, Chanter, Scarborough Faire, Grenadier & the Lady, The Mowers, Bold Fenian Men) played on double strung harp with touches of cello, flute, and piano accompaniment.

Reviews:

"Meditative, hypnotic…this IS master-quality…inventive and thoughtful playing…traditional melodies are featured well."
—Taxi: Music Critique and A & R Listing Service

"Nothing like this has touched me for years. There is space in this music, incredible space where my ear goes to silence, where my mind relaxes and opens."
—Rick Lortz, musician

"The harp rings like a bell, clear, calming, spacious…I am in a great hall, tapestries of unexpected notes cascade, shift and blend around me…can't tell where it comes from or where it goes. In the Celtic songs, cello and flute move in counterpoint to the harp in a haunting evocation  of an ancient time."
—Maureen Barrat, actress

Track List

  1. Virginia's Song

  2. The Sea Her Song I

  3. Living Wave I

  4. Adagio in a Spanish Mode

  5. Bransle de la Torche

  6. Breton Mystery

  7. Scarborough Faire

  8. Medley - Grenadier & The

  9. Lady, The Mowers, Bold

  10. Fenian Men

  11. Song of the Chanter

  12. Heart Pools

  13. Living Wave II 

  14. The Sea Her Song II