"She was playing the tin whistle down the phone at 1 am!"

This week on 'Talking Flutes Extra', Jean-Paul speaks with the fabulous London based Irish and folk flute / guitar player Philippe Barnes. 

During this longer than usual podcast they talk about the effects of catching Covid and the devastation that Coronavirus has inflicted on 'live' music.  Philippe also gives lots of playing tips for anybody wanting to learn to play Irish flute music on their silver flute and also speaks about his exciting new Patreon page www.patreon.com/philippebarnes for those wanting to really delve down in to playing Irish and Celtic music.

'Talking Flutes' and 'Talking Flutes Extra' are podcast productions by the TJ flute company.  For more information visit www.trevorjamesflutes.com

Learn to play Irish music on your silver flute - Philippe Barnes

Floating On Air - Extended Version

Although Andrea "Fluterscooter" Fisher is best known for her popular line of flute and instrument bags, she has also released 3 albums of meditation and medicine music (Ayatunes), which are played in healing sessions and ceremonies throughout the world.  

The second collection of ceremonial music, Deer Magic, is inspired by powerful animal spirit guides: the deer. In medicine circles worldwide the deer are known as the Messengers Of The Gods and revered for their strength, grace, awareness and serenity. They are both spirit guides and life givers to the first people and their transcendent beauty is everywhere in the energy of this music. 

Andrea created this music after sitting in ceremony and realizing that music has the power to truly heal and to take the listener on a journey either during meditation, yoga practice, or just to provide introspection and peace.  

In late 2021, Ayatunes will be re-released as an app for 3D sound and spatial audio and will include Andrea's most recent project which was recorded in Belgrade, Serbia during the pandemic.

Andrea plays a TJ alto flute and is a Powell flutes artist

"Kuna Lullaby" was created after taking an excursion during the Panamá Flute Festival.  I've always been intrigued and inspired by indigenous people, and I had heard about the Guna Yala people of Panamá, so I took a taxi three hours from Panamá City and then a ferry boat to visit San Blas Islands and then a paddle boat to their remote island.  While walking through the Guna Yala village, I heard the most beautiful and pure sound of a child singing a kind of lullaby.  I walked down the dirt roads, following the voice and recorded it on my iPhone.  It still remains the purest voice I've ever heard, and I structured the song around it, adding flutes and India-based singer Mahalakshmi.  I've been told the song has healed many people in ceremony because the voice takes them back to their childhood and a time of innocence.

AyaTunes: Volume 2 (Deer Magic)

AyaTunes - Kuna Lullaby

These tracks are aimed at all musicians of any age who are experiencing moments of self doubt, nerves, anxiety or burn out.

This completely free new project based in the website The HappyFlutist.com, TheMindfulFlutist.com and TheMindfulMusician.co.uk encourages each and every one of you to take just 10 minutes out from the hustle and bustle of modern day life.

With "Breaking Free'  by New York based flutist Dr Melissa Keeling, the aim of this track is for you to 'break free' from anything that is currently preventing you from moving forward with your music or in your life.

When the music begins, close your eyes notice your breathing, allowing yourself to gently relax at the sounds enter your space... then when you are ready...just let the music take you where it takes you...any negative thought that enters your conscious mind, let it simply come and go.
Then when you are ready, focus on what you believe is holding you back from achieving or doing something.  Is it self doubt, a situation or just being unsure?  Notice how it is making you feel and how something is preventing you from moving on.  As you do so, notice some helium filled balloons coming in to your awareness.  Imagine hooking as many negative thoughts and feelings on to these balloons...watch them as they hang there.  Then when you are ready, gently allow them to float upwards.  Keep watching until they are no longer in your eyesight. you see you can break free.  You are strong.  You can and you will!

At the end of the audio, come back to your breathing and hold on to all your positive feelings, then gently open your eyes.

You can listen and meditate to any of these tracks whenever you wish. Just allow judgement and negativity come and go...this is your time!

Breaking Free

These tracks are aimed at all musicians of any age who are experiencing moments of self doubt, nerves, anxiety or burn out.

This completely free new project based in the website The HappyFlutist.com, TheMindfulFlutist.com and TheMindfulMusician.co.uk encourages each and every one of you to take just 10 minutes out from the hustle and bustle of modern day life.

'Moving forward with joy'  is by New York based flutist Dr Melissa Keeling and is aimed at giving yourself permission to move forward in your life, with joy and without any prejudice or anxiety.

When the music begins, simply close your eyes notice your breathing, allowing yourself to gently relax at the sounds enter your space... then when you are ready...just let the music take you where it takes you...any negative thought that enters your conscious mind, let it simply come and go.  Knowing that life is always bout today and never what has gone, you now spend the next moments letting you mind bring in what makes you really happy and reminds you that nobody has the right to make you feel bad about anything.  You have the choice to move forward with joy or to stay lost in the past.  

So just spend the duration of the audio focusing on the words 'I Am and will move forward in my life with joy - It's my decision and for me only! 

At the end of the audio, come back to your breathing and hold on to all your positive feelings, then gently open your eyes.

You can listen and meditate to any of these tracks whenever you wish. Just allow judgement and negativity come and go...this is your time!

Learn to play Irish music on your silver flute - Philippe Barnes

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