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Heart Land

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If you are looking for beautiful and pure flute playing as on the Hoppe albums, this is not the album for you. It is like an opera, much of the CD is vocal with no flute whatsoever. Please amazon, put up some sound clips on this one.

from the moment I heard Tim Wheater's "Heart Land" I was captivated. This piece of epic proportions, divided into 4 very long movements, has a beautiful panoramic feeling. 3 of the 4 segments are very long, and have meandering energies and styles throughout. Sometimes operatic, sometimes new-agey, sometimes worldly, The Hear Land transports the listener to many worlds. The theme is Surrender, and while it may be soft and melodic, it is a very masculine composition with very gentle qualities. It also works wonderfuly as a holiday piece (regardless of what you celebrate). It's soothing, exciting and reflective. Many of my friends who have borrowed it have bought copies for themselves and their friends.

Normally I'm skeptical when I hear anyone say listening to a particular recording can be a healing experience. But there's something about the peaceful, simple melodies, the variety of instruments and volume fluctuations that draws one in immediately. And although the selections are lengthy (the first clocks in at 24:56) they are very memorable. I find myself choosing HEART LAND whenever I want to relax. An absolute must.

Having already purchased "Incantation," I was ready to explore more of the same genre. I was simply BLOWN AWAY by the depth and scope of this album. It is lush, vibrant, and memorable. I teach an energetic-healing seminar called Ener-Chi Quest ... and we use it extensively for meditation and soul exploration. We invariably get requests for the album's artist and Title as it is the perfect adjunct to transitional awareness. This album is SUCH a winner! I feel blessed to be exposed to it and recommend it with the highest praise - BRAVO!!

This CD is an amazing acomplishment. As a musician and singer, I am continually inspired by this work, as well as uplifted. I refer to it as an esoteric pop opera, and I encourage everyone I know to listen to it again and again! Tim Wheater has outdone himself! This is probably my favorite work, as beautiful as the major operas, but in a more familiar setting and so much more spiritual.

I just attended a workshop at Esalen (in California) led by Tim Wheater and Julia Cameron and it was beyond transformative. Mr. Wheater is an extraordinary man and his music is very very beautiful and healing. I listened to Heart Land for the first time during my five hour drive home and was, simply, blown away by it. I found it challenging, very layered, evocative, both grounded and soaring. I love this CD!

I listened to it on a radio station for several months until I finally could buy the CD. Great. I have many other albums by Tim Wheater but this is absolutely the best. I just wish all his works were half as good as this one. My favourite New Age CD.

I use this title for my own deep personal movement healing. It allows me to begin on the earth, and move from that place of where we came from and then to standing, moving, becoming a warrior spirit. The music eventually takes me to a place back upon the earth, where I return. I have shared this with other women and in group energy. Wow. Organic from the core. Allows me to use my voice and chant, move or be still. Become the goddesswarrior. The more I use this music and hear it, it becomes richer.

This music was presented as a gift to me by a dear friend. In the mountains of Mexico I finally found the space to listen to it's message of healing....I inturn, presented it also as a gift to a dear sister who could only cry through the whole epic. I took the music to Machu Pichu in June of '98 to experience it's deep resonnance within a sacred site. Tim Wheater brings us a message of surrender and joy...

Mythic and ravishing. Gorgeous voices, excellent orchestration, and a divine touch of a Warrior's "returning his soul to gentleness." The perfect marriage of a sound knowledge of classical harmonic technique and the mental freedom to add everything from harmonic toning to a digeridoo, all perfectly appropriate to this Hero's Journey that seems part of the collective unconscious of every culture. And the bottom line is that the music is so beautiful it's breathtaking: The first time you hear it you can hardly believe somebody came up with it. The poetry by Stuart Wilde could have been better, but the music by Wheater and an extraordinary group of female singers is one of the five or ten most remarkable pieces of music I've ever heard.