Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I am delighted to announce the release today, 1st June 2024, of my new album, "Ancient Dreamscapes"! "Ancient Dreamscapes" is available now, from all the usual digital platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon & iTunes (all artist links at the bottom of this video description). Here is the album on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/album/3gEGDDU5TAfQQ4YqatDjpB?si=EiQXBDXiQliTq4vTCOtGSw
For studio quality, losseless WAV audio (superior to CD Quality!) including a PDF booklet of the detailed album notes, this option is available from Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-dreamscapes
Similar in spirit to my ultra experimental 2017 album, "Ascension of the Lyre" (which was inspired by Spock's 'Vulcan Harp'!), this release also attempts to go boldly where no other lyre player has gone before!
This album features a mystical, dreamy fusion of tracks from of my former experimental 2020 album of the same title with pieces remastered from my other former experimental 2020 album, "Spirits of the Ancestors" which was a musical evocation of the ancient Greek mythology surrounding the passage of the spirits of the dead, on their journey to reach Elysium - a comfortable place where the sun always shone.
These two previous highly experimental releases were created during the Covid pandemic and now, in retrospect, were far too experimental in the resulting soundscape! I was never quite happy with the mixes and sometimes the rather too excessive use of contemporary studio effects, so I decided to completely remaster only those tracks from both albums I now feel worked best, created a few new pieces and merged them into this new attempt at creating an ‘auditory dreamscape’ using a wide selection of receated ancient lyres & kithara.
The ancient Greek-themed improvisations feature my recreated chelys (tortoise shell form) lyre kithara and phorminx (an archaic form of kithara) all made in modern Greece by Luthieros and the pure harp-like timbre of my 10-string lyre (handmade in the USA by Marini Made Harps).
The aim of this release is to attempt to create a meditative, inspirational compilation; suitable for enhancing creative thinking, relaxation & to transport the listener to distinctive dreamscapes sculptured by their own imaginations in response to my lyre improvisations.
Support:
patreon.com/Michael_Levy_Ancient_Lyre_Music
Subscribe:
youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Klezfiddle1
Official Artist Links:
Official Website:
ancientlyre.com
Facebook Page:
facebook.com/beautifullyre
Twitter:
twitter.com/AncientLyre
iTunes:
itunes.apple.com/us/artist/michael-levy/id4324920
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/7Dx2vFEg8DmOJ5YCRm4A5v
Amazon:
amzn.to/2zmJph3
Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com
I am delighted to announce the release today, 1st June 2024, of my new album, "Ancient Dreamscapes"! "Ancient Dreamscapes" is available now, from all the usual digital platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon & iTunes (all artist links at the bottom of this video description). Here is the album on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/album/3gEGDDU5TAfQQ4YqatDjpB?si=EiQXBDXiQliTq4vTCOtGSw
For studio quality, losseless WAV audio (superior to CD Quality!) including a PDF booklet of the detailed album notes, this option is available from Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-dreamscapes
Similar in spirit to my ultra experimental 2017 album, "Ascension of the Lyre" (which was inspired by Spock's 'Vulcan Harp'!), this release also attempts to go boldly where no other lyre player has gone before!
This album features a mystical, dreamy fusion of tracks from of my former experimental 2020 album of the same title with pieces remastered from my other former experimental 2020 album, "Spirits of the Ancestors" which was a musical evocation of the ancient Greek mythology surrounding the passage of the spirits of the dead, on their journey to reach Elysium - a comfortable place where the sun always shone.
These two previous highly experimental releases were created during the Covid pandemic and now, in retrospect, were far too experimental in the resulting soundscape! I was never quite happy with the mixes and sometimes the rather too excessive use of contemporary studio effects, so I decided to completely remaster only those tracks from both albums I now feel worked best, created a few new pieces and merged them into this new attempt at creating an ‘auditory dreamscape’ using a wide selection of receated ancient lyres & kithara.
The ancient Greek-themed improvisations feature my recreated chelys (tortoise shell form) lyre kithara and phorminx (an archaic form of kithara) all made in modern Greece by Luthieros and the pure harp-like timbre of my 10-string lyre (handmade in the USA by Marini Made Harps).
The aim of this release is to attempt to create a meditative, inspirational compilation; suitable for enhancing creative thinking, relaxation & to transport the listener to distinctive dreamscapes sculptured by their own imaginations in response to my lyre improvisations.
Support:
patreon.com/Michael_Levy_Ancient_Lyre_Music
Subscribe:
youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Klezfiddle1
Official Artist Links:
Official Website:
ancientlyre.com
Facebook Page:
facebook.com/beautifullyre
Twitter:
twitter.com/AncientLyre
iTunes:
itunes.apple.com/us/artist/michael-levy/id4324920
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/7Dx2vFEg8DmOJ5YCRm4A5v
Amazon:
amzn.to/2zmJph3
Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com
