Translated from the original Spanish.
“Heaven Sent”, the new spiritual music tetralogy by Clifford White.
With a production of four albums, the British musician and producer Clifford White presents “Heaven Sent”, a work very much framed in the spiritual world, creating climates and fascinating sounds that invite an existential journey.
The four volumes, of nine tracks each, have a connection with the development of existence and each of them tells the story of a different state. “Heaven Sent”, “Higher Power”, “Mystic Heart”, “Healing Waters” (Healing Waters), are collections of small pearls that can be emotional and spiritual experiences, emotional moments and visions that inhabit us as human and universal beings. The longings, the melancholy, the hope, the disappointments, the signs from heaven, the manifestation of truth or the images of a world that becomes magical by transcending the small vision of what life is, are like decoded scenes from the traces that the experience of the passage of time imprints on the different dimensions of a being.
Clifford White’s ability to utilize the resources of electronic music is well recognized and has been strongly manifested in his long career as a composer, performer and teacher of sound creation. In previous presentations on this site, such as the “Synergy” series (also a tetralogy) or the double album “Ice Age” we have explored and enjoyed his talent, creativity and sensitivity.
Also in this tetralogy called “Heaven Sent” he manifests a wide range of expressions, sometimes classical, sometimes experimental, but always at the service of creating the necessary environments for the story. The interweaving of the sound networks that function as the basis of the melodies coexists in incredible harmony with the resources of world music, giving a particular shine to everyday scenes that are part of the experiences that inhabit each and every one of us.
The four volumes tell a story that can be small and personal or transcendent of a particular life. The aspirations of divine creation, birth, emotions, expectations, sorrows, anguish, pain, optimism, joy, love, ecstasy, fullness, merge into masterful musical pieces that can make us travel millennia in Earth time, light years to the stars or immerse ourselves in a family photo album going through the genesis of love and creation, the growth of a being “sent from heaven”, the drama of life with its lights and shadows and the glorious expansion of all existence.
At all times there are two dimensions in the presence of the human being on earth, the exterior, in contact with the unknown, the environment of material reality, relationships with the other and, at the same time, the interior vision that can be infinite like the Universe itself. This great British artist dives into both territories exploring vibrations that he translates into experiential, moving, emotional music that invites you to dream of a world without limits.
Throughout “Heaven Sent”, Clifford White maintains a walking climate, sometimes intimate, at times epic, which proposes a state of serene listening, but deep, powerful and subtle, inviting contemplation and exploration of the vibration of the inside world. A musical work that invites an awakened serenity, with aesthetic contrasts between synthesizer and acoustic sounds, expansive and intimate expressions, navigating between the infinitely great and equally ephemeral of existence.
Translated from the Spanish review by Pablo Rego of Yoga Without Borders.
See the original review here.
“Ice Age”, a double album that recreates the landscape of an icy new world full of life.
“Ice Age” is a double album, recently released and inspired by the last Ice Age in which British composer, producer and teacher Clifford White, in a relaxed climate, full of rich and relaxing vibes, brimming with optimism, hope, romance and joy, create an ode of electronic music, chill out, ambient and new age dedicated to a past in which nature roamed freely and the world was new.
With an exquisite handling of keyboards, synthesizers and a successful introduction of wind or percussion instruments, which provide the necessary colors to the desired climates, Clifford creates and executes original images that turn out to be cinematic trips and awaken the imagination, sensually vibrating the body in search of memories that, in this case, are part of the Earth ancestry.
The sound of “Ice Age” is at times intimate, subtle and contemplative and goes through some cool, rhythmic states or symphonic climates. In this way, the British composer creates landscapes and situations of an icy world from which he seems to seek all possible points of view to recreate his most complete scene.
Enjoy ‘Crystal Vision’, a track from Ice Age by Clifford White.
The two albums, made up of ten tracks that add up to more than seventy minutes of beautiful music each, are a journey to a remote past, a dreamlike contemplation that could be an instant inspiration or the sum of countless memories of other lives, the product of the imagination or thousands of sensations in the body that are reproduced in sounds in a fluid, undulating and walking environment.
Ice Age (I & II) is a conceptual work in which the different themes narrate, poetically and inspiringly, landscapes, small details of the lives present at that time, the great movements or the natural cycles of that planet that although it is now was another. And also aspects that define an environment, from its geography to the climate, from an ice crystal to an infinite plain. A spectacular journey through music rich in nuances, through a fascinating world that was the bright potential of the seed of what we see today decline. Everything was about to happen, everything was new and what abounded was the expansive movement of a very powerful projection.
Each part, each track, each one of the small individual musical works of “Ice Age” is part of a great thematic work that, through different aesthetic and artistic formulas, maintains a harmonious atmosphere and a game of observation carried out with the innocence of a first glance. The soundtrack tells of things that began to happen, that dawned, that were repeated and recreated through time, but that in those origins woke up to life originally and initially.
About Clifford White.
As a music producer, he is known for his hit New Age album, ” Ascension,” originally released in 1985 when Clifford White was 17 years old. The album sold more than 50,000 copies.
Clifford also runs his own digital media agency, 21st Century New Media, and teaches web design and video production techniques to national and local businesses.
Visit their Website www.cliffordwhite.co.uk
Translated from the Spanish review by Pablo Rego of Yoga Without Borders.
See the original review here.
