Meditation Music with Flute for Australia

Meditation music with Flute for Australia. First tracks from my new flute album

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I recognise that for many, Australia Day is ’Survival’ or ’Invasion Day’ — a day of mourning. I hope music can help provide a voice of hope and reconciliation, a ‘bridge of understanding’. 

Reflecting on Australia 🇦🇺 Day,

I’m aware of our true history: that our First Nations people have been here many thousands of years and have suffered immeasurable loss. In recording and releasing three flute meditation pieces for 26 January, I acknowledge and pay my respects to our Australian Aboriginal people, their ancestors, their wonderful culture, their song-lines and country. These sentiments continue with the release of my further Flute Meditations on Australia.~

The history of the song Botany Bay has such poignancy, so I have treated it wistfully, as an elegy, with a sense of sadness and the past: the impact of 26 January (actually the landing of the First fleet in Botany Bay occurred about a week prior to this date, on January 18, 1788.) January 26 is the day First Fleet commander Captain Arthur Phillip rowed ashore and arrived at Sydney Cove, raising the Union Jack and proclaiming British sovereignty.

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We Are Australian Flute Meditation

I had the collaboration and blessing of Aboriginal Elder Gavi Duncan (Didgeridoo). Let’s look forward to our future possibilities with positivity,  ❤️ love and respect in our hearts.  

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Yaloo! A Valediction Forbidding Mourning:

First recorded as an Improvisation. When I’m composing (my meditation with flute) I initially think of a narrative, and an image…then I find a tonality. I wanted this piece to be filled with hope & a sense of the future, so I chose to hover in & out of the miraculous key of D Major, which is such a joyful uplifting key. The bird noises were recorded just after dawn at the late Diane Cilento’s Karnak Rainforest Sanctuary & Theatre. I imagine the sounds of the Daintree Rainforest would have sounded thus 100s of years ago…

Initially composed for those who lost loved ones in the Covid-19 Pandemic, during the recording process the piece took on greater meaning for me:
I began to relate it to anyone who has suffered loss: the recent bush fire victims and our indigenous people who lost and suffered so much after the arrival of the First Fleet.

Relating it to Australia Day, I wanted the title to convey something historically British, yet also to convey an organically Australian vibration. So I chose to draw inspiration from the John Donne Poem, juxtaposing its images with those of Australia. Divine homesickness. Yearning to be reconciled. A nostalgia for things to return as they they once were.

More info on further flute mediation recordings belonging to this project in another blog…

I hope you enjoy this meditation music with flute, my dear friends… 🙂