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Padma Rec.     Kwannon : Anahata -cdr-(US,2005)***'

In a different but also personal way like Kay Hoffman (see review next page), Kwannon interprets her music, melodically mostly like a somewhat improvised medieval music, filtered through a contemplative sphere of a calmly performed ritual.
Some slightly echoing instruments like hammered dulcimer together with berimbau, bodhran, buibal tarang, Celtic harp, chest-beating, chimes, doumbek, ektara, frame drum, gopichand, kantele, mountain dulcimer, psaltery, rainstick, singing bowl, sistrum, synthesizer, tinwhistle, valiha, percussion instruments, and zils. All these instruments provoke the association of ancient times and of respectful rituals in dedication to some of natures' aspects.
Kwannon’s voice has a slightly operatic soprano feeling, in a calm way this is not the most technical correct musical creative interpretation, but is just perfect as to create the respectful mood, as I described before, from a potentional priestess.

The music works very much like a hypnotic dance to bring you into the right trance and mood.

Jenne used, besides self-penned inspirations, also some texts from Robert Graves, John Keats, Shakespeare, and one from the 'Carmina Gadelica'.

Homepage : http://www.kwannon.net/
Other review : http://www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk/Label-Review-Kwannon.htm

Review of earlier release on http://psychefolk.com/WICCAREVIEW2.html    next album->

















Woven Wheat Whispers   Kira : The Way Home -download- (US,2004)***'

This is a well compiled well written song album with Pagan related themes, sung by a beautiful voice, sometimes with some reverb or second voice overdub, accompanied by dulcimer, picked or more strummed giving more efect to the hypnotic effect of drone strings.
A perfect album to listen to. Should be released properly. The lable WWW has stopped its features because of too many illegal and hacked downloads from its site.

Audio : rise,crystal cave,seven years,the waiting,leaf,siren,summer,persephone,perfect mind,insight
Contact through e-mail
Official download (dissapeared): http://www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk/...
private      Kwannon : The Twisted Book -cdr-(US,2010)**°°

The latest album from Kwannon is called “a meditation on the sorrows of Derdriu”, referring to the Irish story/myth of Derdriu or Deirdre (-a story later dramatised by William Butler Yeats and John Millington Synge-), about a woman being forced to exile after a prophecy they were going to fight a war for her, without being able to escape this destiny. The album has something of the theatre from the time of Ancient Greece or before that, like a priestess expressing the story, at times provoking its spirit, then singing a beautiful song, then being celebrative and ritualistic in nature, with slightly hypnotic repetitions or with voice arrangements confirming the background describing a situation. The percussion, with dulcimer and such, sounds exotic and neo-pagan and provokes a magical setting. Jenne’s voice still has these strange operatic soprano vibrations, which with overdubs show either a feminine earth worshipping nature or a more ethereal priestess world, or a theatrical setting. There is use of medieval dance rhythms here and there. I love most melodically singing songs, like “Noisiu speaks to Derdriu” for instance. A nice one.

Homepage : http://www.kwannon.net/
& (with audio) : http://www.myspace.com/kwannon
Audio & info : http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/Kwannon1
Also available (40 copies only) from http://reverbworship.com/first.html
Other review : http://dmiley.livejournal.com/tag/kwannon

More about Deirdre : http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/life-society/irish-language-legends/the-exile-of-the-sons-of-/ & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deirdre