DISCOGRAPHIE

Le récent album "Méditations Harmoniques", du DAVID HYKES ET LE CHOEUR HARMONIQUE est également disponible pour 23 euros y compris les frais de port. "Méditations Harmoniques" a été enregistré entre autres dans une immense citerne souterraine, avec 45 secondes de réverbèration. Il y aussi "The Silent Ground" ("Le sol silencieux"), une commande de la radio à New York après l'onze septembre, et deux pièces que David HYKES a composé pour le film "Voyageurs et Magiciens" du lama cinéaste, Dzongsar Khyenste Rinpoché.

Vous pouvez commander 2 albums pour 42 euros au lieu de 46 euros;

ou les trois albums pour 62 euros ou lieu de 69 euros.

Vous pouvez commander un album plus le DVD pour 50 euros au lieu de 53 euros;

2 albums plus le DVD pour 70 euros au lieu de 76 euros;

ou les trois albums plus le DVD pour 92 euros ou lieu de 99 euros.

Feu LORD YEHUDI MENUHIN:
"David Hykes a ouvert une nouvelle dimension dans la musique. Il nous apporte véritablement la musique des sphères... que chaque auditeur se sent humble et au même temps appartenant au grand Tout....La fondation Présence Harmonique diffuse une forme de savoir où les sciences se joindre à leur niveau le plus subtil, où ce qui semble être matière, se révèle en énergie pure. Cette musique que David Hykes nous apporte de la série harmonique, qui, comme il le dit, est l'ADN musicale, la source de toute la musique que nous connaissons, qui nous donne vie-- elle nous apporte aussi un extraordinaire 'chapitre de genèse' pour l'éducation musicale à tous les niveaux."

DZONGSAR KHYENTSE RIMPOCHÉ:

“La musique de David Hykes vous enchante – elle vous transporte. Elle vous amène comme si totalement ailleurs, dans un autre monde, comme allez au Sahara. Elle vous transporte au Temps Ancien.

“Pendant que je cherchais la musique pour mon film <<Voyageurs et Magiciens>>, j'en écoutais tellement. Mais j'ai toujours retourné à celle de David. Du moment que je l'ai entendu, il n'y avait plus de doute."

Hykes a fondé le Choeur Harmonique, le groupe le plus connu au monde dans le domaine, à New York en 1975. Il existen 11 albums du Chant Harmonique authentique de David Hykes, dont le plus celebre album du Chant Harmonique de tous les temps, "À l'é des vents solaires", vendu à plus de 300,000 copies à ce jour.

" "Hykes explore l'evolution du Chant Harmonique et son univers harmonique de plus en plus en profondeur." " --Le Monde de la Musique, Paris.

Nous vous remercions pour votre soutien du Chant Harmonique authentique par l'achat de nos albums. Nos activités en France sont parrainées par la Fondation Présence Harmonique, qui offre de nombreuses retraites et stages avec David Hykes en France et en Europe. Une brochure sur nos activitées en France est disponible pour téléchargment ici.

LES AUTRES ALBUMS DE DAVID HYKES...

cliquez sur les titres pour voir les pochettes et des textes (en anglais):

"EARTH TO THE UNKNOWN POWER"

BMG Classics/Catalyst (1996).

"TRUE TO THE TIMES (How to Be?)"

New Albion (1993)

"LET THE LOVER BE"

Auvidis (1991)

"WINDHORSE RIDERS"

New Albion (1989)

"HARMONIC MEETINGS"

Celestial Harmonies (1986)

"CURRENT CIRCULATION"

Celestial Harmonies (1984)

"HEARING SOLAR WINDS"

Ocora (1983)

HEARING SOLAR WINDS

David Hykes & the Harmonic Choir.

Ocora/distrib. Harmonia Mundi 1983

Selected among the 10 best recordingsof the year: in Classical Music by Newsweek Magazine; in Pop music by The New York Times; "Choc de la Musique" (Highest rating) in Le Monde de la Musique, France; ffff "Exceptional Event" (Highest rating) in Télérama, France

"In the beginning was the voice... and the voice created space. Here one really has the sensation of a space being created. It is, undoubtedly, something never felt before. In Ocora/Radio France's thirty years of existence, this record has had the most immediate, unexpected and intriguing success. The strangest also: was this cosmic record of the 21st century bought by a horde of extra-terrestrials? All our composers are at the end of their resources. They take refuge in math, machines, and noise. Stealing and copying the "recipes" of African, Balinese, Japanese and Indian music, they produce an indigestible cuisine !! Here we have one who has understood with something more than his head. I will take ONE MINUTE of this music over all the Stockhausens and "Stimmungs" of the world..."

-Alain Swietlik, Télérama, France

CURRENT CIRCULATION

Celestial Harmonies (1984)

HARMONIC MEETINGS

David Hykes & the Harmonic Choir

Celestial Harmonies (1986)

"The text consists of a few sacred words from the Abrahamic religions with most sections involving vocalizing on vowel sounds. In this abbey, two voices sound like ten. When the harmonics focus, it sounds like ten voices more. The overall effect is one of startling majesty. It is earthy and other-wordly at the same time... I can't help but think how the world would change if five minutes of this were played on Top Forty radio several times a day."

-Andrew Fischer, 1/1

"This music offers attentive listeners a great deal - an active, participatory listening experience that can refine and intensify one's conception and perception of beauty... The music, underlined here and there by the droning of an Indian tanpura or the tolling of a bass drum, attains an im-pressive richness of texture despite the fact that there are never more than three people singing at one time... The mood, shape and substance of the performances conspire to draw the willing listener into an experience that is moving in a spiritual rather than a primarily emotional manner. And the deeper one dives into the music's depths, the more one finds to marvel at."

-Robert Palmer, The New York Times

WINDHORSE RIDERS

David Hykes with Djamchid Chemirani, New Albion Records (1989)

LET THE LOVER BE

David Hykes with Djamchid Chemirani, Auvidis (1991)

Studying North Indian classical vocal music with Smt. Sheila Dhar brought forward David Hykes' interest in melody and vibrations "in" the voice, encompassing everything we call ornamentation, tremolo, vibrato. The pieces from "Windhorse Riders" and "Let the Lover Be" result from a collaboration with master percussionist Djamchid Chemirani, based on the connections between Harmonic Chant, melody and rhythm.The latter CD explores poetic text for the first time, with Rumi translations by Coleman Barks and poems by Hykes.

"The improvisations are technically astonishing, with overtones seemingly descending from outer space, and emotionally gripping. The accompaniment is complex and masterful." -Fanfare

"The intonation of the zarb, played here by its master in exile, Djamchid Chemirani, changes as the hand either stretches or loosens the drum's skin. Mixed with David Hykes' extraordinary double voice, in slow, intense, and controlled improvisations, this incredibly sensitive percussion makes one really shiver." -Anne Rey, Le Monde, France

"The music is full of movement, both melodically and harmonically, much more so than the Tibetan-inspired chant, and Hykes plays with vibrations within the voice as much as the overtones he generates. It is still wondrous to listen to the interplay between the main and harmonic voices - you can listen to one or the other, or let your ears wander between the two. And one short piece, "Right at the Time" utilizes vocal samplings, which promises fascinating music to come." -Option Magazine

"These new works are tremendously dynamic... The "Windhorse Riders" songs catch fire early on and sooner or later fairly blaze with kinetic energy." -James Wierzbicki, St. Louis Post

"The record begins with a single sound evolving into a balance between the vocal melodies' deep quiet, and the zarb's sharp rhythms. The overall structure of this album can lead one towards a state of ecstasy and corresponds perfectly to the intensity of listening held by the audience in Hykes' concerts." -Erik Pigani, Psychologies

TRUE TO THE TIMES (How to Be?)

David Hykes with Bruno Caillat and Peter Biffin, New Albion (1993)

"David Hykes has, over the past twenty years, magnificently developed the Harmonic Chant, and now explores its essential nature in an ever-widening musical universe." -Franck Mallet, Le Monde de la Musique

EARTH TO THE UNKNOWN POWER

DAVID HYKES & THE HARMONIC CHOIR

BMG Classics/Catalyst 09026-68347-2

(1996)

Recorded live in concert at The Kitchen, New York City --and simultaneously at Thoronet Abbey, France-- November 10 and 11th, 1995. World premier performances of EARTH TO THE UNKNOWN POWER, BROTHERHOOD RETURNING, AND FLIGHT OF PRAYER. American premier of LE SOUFFLE DU SEIGNEUR, Sufi poems about the Christ.

This recording presents the world premiere of the "Virtual Abbey," developed by John Hobbs and David Hykes. The live sound of the concert was digitally encoded and sent into Le Thoronet Abbey over ISDN telephone lines, played back live through a sound system in the extraordinary Abbey acoustics, then re-encoded and sent back to The Kitchen, placing us "here" within the "Virtual Abbey."

"At Festival in Nice, Contemporary Music Right Before Your Eyes"

"In choosing the theme "Music and multi-media" for the 1995 edition of the Festival MANCA in Nice, the wish of the Festival's director, the composer Michel Redolfi, was above all to underline the strong relationship that has arisen between the two in the past few years. 'Musicians are practitioners of multi-media and interactivity for many years,' Michel Redolfi reminds us; 'in front of this emerging market, the future of sonic creation is more than ever a work-in-progress.'

"Here one could have a glimpse of this indeed vast cultural worksite, hearing and seeing a creative explosion during a week of concerts, presentations, demonstrations and various other forms of sonic exposition. Mention should be made of the very strong presence of a much younger public than usual, curious, hungry for information and contacts with the many artists and media professionals invited for the Festival, from dancers and musicians to programmers. Success!

"In presenting works in many places charged by a strong symbolism or architectural presence, like the gardens of the Fondation Maeght and the Thoronet Abbey, the Festival MANCA realized the importance of going beyond the computer screen to which multimedia works are too often limited, in order to open to much more evocative horizons and spaces....

"The world premiere of the work "EARTH TO THE UNKNOWN POWER" by David Hykes drew several hundred people to the remote Thoronet Abbey for a unique concert experience. Neither stage nor musicians, at least not in the Abbey. The Harmonic Choir, the vocal ensemble directed by the American composer, was in fact some 6500 kilometers away, singing live from "The Kitchen," one of the most prestigious New York venues of the avant-garde. Thanks to a satellite hook-up, the public present in Manhattan could hear the Harmonic Chant enriched by the unique 11-second reverberation of the Abbey.

"Resting upon a veritable technological daring, this sort of concept can reveal itself to be difficult to realize and can involve technological "materiel" awkward to artistically control. David Hykes knew how to avoid both obstacles, giving preference, in an "on-line" concert of a rare emotional intensity, to the "immateriality" of direct communication, connecting directly with the "server" of the Cosmos."

-Denis Fortier, Le Monde, Paris