Fresh from the vault.  Ecstasy is the third cut from THE MAGICIAN.  This piece is dedicated to Pan.  The soundscape is of being lost in the medieval forest and coming upon Pan - both enlivening and awesome in his pagan prowess. 

Ecstasy

The eleventh of twelve cuts from THE MAGICIAN. This is one of my most favorite flute solos. The soundscape of a son's experience of a father's grief for his own father, the son's grandfather. Bittersweet, removed, as yet unknown, but destined.

Father's Sorrow

This last piece of the retrospective is a four minute excerpt from the twenty three minute long play 1984 original On Angels Becoming Human from AEOLIAN MELODIES.  The Angel Theme is played by each of the separate instruments and climaxes in unison, before the individual voices leave again into their separate individual expressions. 

Aeolian Melodies

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On Angels Becoming Human

Cut one of RAYS honoring the heralding trumpet of the Archangel Michael.  Hold the image of the current head of the angelic triumvirate trumpeting down from the Heavens upon a Chariot of Golden Light pushing aside the confounding darkness of the Luciferic Dragon. 

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Archangel Michael

Honoring the eternal battle between the Sacred Sisters of the Hawaiian Islands--Pele & Hi'iaka.  The scene opens with Hi'iaka calling to Lohiau to consummate their up to then platonic relationship.  This infuriates her sister Pele, who commences to bring forth her molten fury and kill the unsuspecting prince.  His soul flees to the underworld from where Hi'iaka delivers him and life begins anew as the fern breaks through the hardened a'a - life ever renewed after death.   

Magma/Mana (Pele's Passion/The Beauty of Hi'iaka)

The third cut from the 1985 release RAYS. This features keyboard work by Nelson Hiu, rhythm programming by Kit Ebersbach, and kalimba, double ocarina, flute, synthesizer, and vocalization by yours truly.  This work evolved over the course of working with performance artist, Leo Lightning of the Big Island during which he would meander about the stage in an elaborate snail costume with long silver train to the delight of unsuspecting audiences.  

ÆOLUS: A Retrospective

Cosmic Snail

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Formula composition utilizing theme and variations from a single motif contained in the ostinato. 

Journey's Edge

Fifth cut of RAYS honoring the constellation of the same name.  This is an open ended improvisation over the 16 note journey sequence in A minor.  This was composed for the Birth of Venus concert series that was done in the Planetarium of the Bishop Museum.  Imagine lying back contemplating the Heavens from your favorite high place or within the domed walls of your local planetarium.  

A Retrospective

Orion

Welcome to the Faire is the ninth cut of twelve from the MAGICIAN digitally recorded in 1989 at Dragon Production Studios.  Percussion arrangement by Raymond Powers.  Composition and performance by Robert ÆOLUS Myers.

Welcome to the Faire

This is the newly re-mastered third album by Robert ÆOLUS Myers.

The Magician

Pau Hana

This is the long play version of On Angels Becoming Human from the 1984 release of Aeolian Melodies, that has long since been out of print.  Enjoy.

A poem from the original release:

On Angels Becoming Human

You are... alone.
No light.
No sound.
No memory.

You reach out... you wait.
A door... the knob.
You hold it.
You wonder.

You turn it.
You remember.

You open the door. 

Oracle - This is the first of twelve tracks from HIGH PRIESTESS remastered and re-released June 2006; all works composed, arranged, and performed by Robert ÆOLUS Myers.

HIGH PRIESTESS

Oracle

Jungle Love - An excerpt from PRIDE, a commission for the Valerie Bergman Dance Company, since named Rainbow Dance Theatre.  I had the honor of working with Valerie and her partner Darryl Thomas in creative collaboration for an evening length post apocalyptic dance work.  This piece calls forth the animistic eroticism of the masters of the savanna as they are drawn together the result being the Pride that faces the next world.

Jungle Love

My son Michael at the age of two stood up in his high chair and proclaimed, "The Mystery of Music Park" -  a phrase worthy of a yet to be born work.  This rendering was recorded Thanksgiving weekend of 1992 as Sandra, my love, listened from an upstairs bedroom.  My fondness for her and the hope for our then new relationship is held in this piece.  Picture the Love of Your Life and sing to them the Song of Your Heart.

High Priestess

The Mystery of Music Park

No Where To Run - melodic bass juxtaposing incidental harmonic colorings all dancing over a chordal pattern repetitively reminiscent of Philip Glass. 

No Where To Run

DEEP - Composed for the great humpback whales which spend their summers in the Hawaiian island chain.  This work utilizes harmony reminiscent of the impressionists a la Debussy and Ravel.  It is set over a 10/4 meter affording a watery base for the flute and vocal tracks. 

Deep

DEEP

All Souls - Composed on Halloween utilizing a pulse designed to create and release tension.  The opening and closing sections are in 11/8, while the middle section in a pulsating four.  The piece utilizes the juxtaposition of the plucked Chinese Zheng against the driving Africanesque rhythmic structures.  The image is that of souls incarnating and returning home, incarnating and returning, again and again. 

All Souls

Uploaded in solidarity with Standing Rock.

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Standing Rock

Unreleased

Caren's Pau Hana

Excerpt from 1984 version of On Angels Becoming Human.  Remixed for performance bed.

On Angels Dark Ambient

Pele has survived as the best-known, most-revered goddess of ancient times, but in legends, she was anything but a kind and lovable being, and she had many competitors. Among those generally considered her enemies were four mythological maidens attired in luxurious white mantles, the goddesses of the snow-covered mountains.  Poliahu, a snow-goddess who loved to cavort with mortals along the eastern cliffs of Mauna Kea, was Pele's primary nemesis. 

Pele and the Snowgoddess

My recording affiliates, my fans, and even some music bloggers have requested a mixtape.  This is my reply:

Toward Love Mixtape by ÆOLUS

Raymond Powers - Dusk in Durabai  0:00/8:27

Kontackto - Mustikkaa Silmissa  8:21/4:59

Kit Ebersbach - The Evil Eye  13:22/3:39

Robert ÆOLUS Myers - Dreamscape in the Night Kitchen  16:54/6:26

Rithma - Builder [Kaskade Let's Make Out Mix]  23:18/4:35

Black Eskimo - My Sky [E39 Downtown Mix]  27:45/4:49

Sat Avtar - Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo  32:29/9:33

She Wants Revenge - Take the World [CREEP Remix]  42:00/6:07

SZA - Supermodel [Explicit]  47:55/3:01

SZA - ICE.MOON (Prod. Felix Snow & Patrick Lukens)  50:55/3:09

Ben Leinbach - Hierophant  53:55/15:13

Daniel Dorobantu - Pamantul Straveziu  1:09:04/5:51

David Elfström Lilja - Floating  1:14:48/4:58

Michel Banabila - Samual  1:19:45/4:04

Sasha - Wavy Gravy (Blue Room Project Mix)  1:23:47/7:42

Devadas - Maya's Waltz  1:31:17/4:35

Devadas - Haridwar 1989, No 1  1:35:47/2:08

DIGY - Tragedy (feat. KIRSCH)  1:37:48/3:36

Laurie Anderson - Freefall   1:41:22/4:36

Angelo Badalamenti - Mysteries of Love (feat. Kid Moxie)  1:45:51/5:28

1:51:36  total

Toward Love Mixtape By ÆOLUS

Chance recording of a lovely moment with Robert & Shubal from a kirtan held at the Portland Recovery Community Center on September 15, 2018.  Pardon the bumps and pops.

Sri Ram Jai Ram

This piece has had a long life and multiple versions first recorded in 1984.  This is one of my favorite versions and not heard for many years.  It was recovered by my friend Roger Bong of Aloha Got Soul Records going through some archived cassettes, property of Kit Ebersbach.  This work is infused with emotional turmoil and the devotional longing, that can only be quelled in the arms of the Beloved.  It was used as the music to a solo dance piece, Beached, choreographed and performed by Cheryl Flaharty of Iona Contemporary Dance Theatre in New York at the DIA in 1987 and again in Honolulu at the Hawaii Theatre in 1993.

I Have Known You

Talisman

Dreamscape from the Night Kitchen

Sunset

Sadhana Environment (Pharaohs Mana Mix)

Environment (Temporary & Indefinite Edit by K. Leimer)

Sadhana Environment (Dreems 'Natürliche Liebe' Remix)

Sadhana Environment (Oahu Suite by Lieven Martens Moana)

Embrace (Live Version, NYC 1987)

From the vault.  Composed and performed at the Honolulu Academy of the Arts at the Man, Myth, and Music show June, 1987.  This work served as an Overture for the evening's show.

Man, Myth, and Music

"The Magician" was recorded as a promo opportunity in an LA studio with a company considering me as one of their roster of artists. They wanted to see if I had the chops so they gave me an after-hours session with a great tech. We knocked this track out in 6 hours beginning to end with no pre-programming or prep. All played live the good old fashioned way - track on track. Not bad for a single nights work. This recording was choreographed years later by Cheryl Flaharty, IONA Dance Theatre, as a solo work. She played the Magician highlighted by an off the platform leap into the backstage darkness.  The story that accompanies this piece is of a hermit making his way up to his mountain cottage to engage in alchemical experimentation leading to direct contact with the Beloved.  The open sections of this work represent his creating and ultimately ingesting his potions, while the dynamic rhythmic sections are reflections of his illumined ecstasies.  At the end he folds up his laboratory into the protective silks and returns to the rain drenched mountain path. 

23/06/1989

The fourth cut from the Magician, recorded some 25 years ago, developed as a treatise about Love, dangerous as it is the one thing that demands real and lasting change.

Dangerous Love

Robert ÆOLUS Myers is a composer/arranger, multi-instrumentalist, and producer currently residing in Portland, Maine. He is a mental health provider--a psychotherapist in private practice.

Robert ÆOLUS Myers

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