Where There Is Love pre-video shoot on YouTube.

I’ll be posting more about the video as production develops!

Recently I spent about a week in Vancouver recording new songs and working intensively on other projects in Jarome’s studio. Opportunities to work together in person are rare, so this was a wonderful chance to finally record and finish songs we have been waiting to complete.

In a previous post, I mentioned that we will soon finish a Chinese spiritual CD with several accomplished musicians including Cheng Lin, Phil Morrison, Keith Williams, Jin R, Lily and Siria Rutstein.  We just released Rose of Love about a month ago which will be included on the CD.

I’m excited to tell you about the newest songs as they are quite different in style from anything I’ve recorded vocals for before.  The songs are a New-Age, Latin-infused, Middle-Eastern style.  It has been fascinating recording for these songs as I have been exploring what my voice can do to suit the style.  There have been challenging moments when recording them because the style is so different from what I’m used to singing and the lyrics are original so I had to get the feel for them as I sang them.  We hope to release several of these new songs as digital downloads quite soon so that you won’t have to wait till we release the whole album.

One of the songs is about the struggle between our spiritual nature and our attachments to this world.  I love this song because of the rhythm, the lyrics and the flamenco guitar which is one of my favorite live instruments.  Eric Harper plays the guitar infusing the song with gorgeous rhythms on top of Jarome’s lovely composition.  It has been a thrilling journey exploring this new style of music and incorporating harmonies and rhythm.  I’ve been so looking forward to adding more percussion to my music – after all I was raised in Kenya which is full of wonderful African rhythms!

Last night I was asked to sing ‘Love is Patient’ at a variety show at my children’s school with my son’s teacher, her children and my daughter. It was the first time I’ve sung ‘Love is Patient’ live and I thoroughly enjoyed singing it in a group.  I think the rest of the singers knew it better than I as they listen to it almost everyday. :)

For a free download of the song, please click here and to read more about the background of the piece and how it was composed, please read my blog here.

Of course my highlights of the evening, besides singing with my daughter (standing next to me in the photo), was listening to her play one of her own compositions on the piano and watching my son play a jazz piece on the piano!  Pure joy!

Today marks the one year anniversary of the imprisonment of the 7 Baha’i leaders in Iran.  Here is a new video addressing the grave issue.  Please also download and share our song ‘Persecution’ that was composed in honor of all the Baha’is in Iran.  Click here for the gifts page to download Persecution.

I am pleased to announce that my latest song ‘Love is Patient’ is available for free download!

‘Love is Patient’ is one of the songs that is included on my most recent release entitled, ‘Birds of Love‘.  This song is inspired by the well-known Bible quote and has often been used for wedding ceremonies for centuries.  I felt that a CD on the theme of love would not be complete without the timeless classic bible quote from 1 Corinthians 13:4-8.  So far the feedback has been very positive.

You can listen to ‘Love is Patient’ below:
Love is Patient from the album Birds of Love:

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Please feel free to download the song by clicking here. I hope you enjoy!

Here are the lyrics to the song:

“Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.”  ~1 Corinthians 13:4-8

I look forward to sharing more about how this piece was created in my next blog.

I would like to wish you and your family joy and happiness during this time of the Baha’i Festival of Ridvan!

My producer, Jarome, recently entered our song ‘This Earthly Plane’ from the CD, ‘Fire and Gold’ in the ourstage.com song contest in the New Age/World category.

I’m excited to report that it is currently 12th place out of 246 entries and it keeps climbing! The contest is on for the month of April.
Please visit the site, sign up, and click judge link for New Age/World.

The contest is great because it requires you to vote on the other artists by listening to their songs before you can vote on ours so it’s fair and unbiased that way, and it’s a lot of fun! It’s a great way to hear some new music. Here is more info about how it works. That means you can’t just vote for me, you have to listen to other artists until my song comes up…

My new song ‘Where There Is Love’ has also been entered into the Pop category.

When you sign up, you can become a fan and write a comment if you like. Thanks so much for all your support!
http://www.ourstage.com/fanclub/elikamahony