Gandalf
// composer and multi-instrumentalistGANDALF is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Pressbaum, Austria. “Journey To An Imaginary Land” (1981), “Visions” (1982), “To Another Horizon” (1983), “More Than Just A Seagull” (1983), “Magic Theatre” (1984), “Tale From A Long Forgotten Kingdom” (1985), “The Universal Play” (1987), “From Source To Sea” (1987), “Fantasia: The Best Of” (1987), “Invisible Power” (1989), “Labyrinth” (1990), “Symphonic Landscapes” (1990), “Reflection: 1986-1990” (1991), “Gallery Of Dreams” (1992), “The Stones Of Wisdom” (1992), “To Our Children’s Children” (1994), “Colours Of The Earth” (1994), “Echoes From Ancient Dreams” (1995), “The Shining” (1996), “Gates To Secret Realities” (1996), “Barakaya: Trees Water Life” (1997), “Into The Light” (1999), “Samsara” (1999), “Visions 2001” (2000), “The Fountain Of Secrets” (2002), “Between Earth And Sky” (2003), “Colors Of A New Dawn” (2004), “Der Prophet” (2005), “Sacred River” (2006), “Lotus Land” (2007), and “Live In Vienna [CD & DVD]” (2008) are all available from Gandalf’s website. He plays a wide variety of musical instruments including acoustic and electric guitars, balaphon, bouzuki, charango, piano, saz, sitar, sample-based keyboards, several synthesizers, and percussion instruments. Gandalf has become one of Austria’s most accomplished and successful international musicians.
Website: www.gandalf.at
Photo: Gandalf / Gandalf.at
Interview:
My musical path and my spiritual life can not be separated from each other. Music has the ability to tell us more about our spiritual nature than words ever could. It is hard to imagine a world without music, it is a real blessing, a most wonderful divine gift, helping us to approach the deepest secrets of the universe beyond the limitations of our rational understanding. In most cultures, music has been and still is being used for spiritual rituals and for worshipping and thanking the Godhead. Since I started playing music in the days of my youth, I felt connected to a mysterious deeper region within myself in a very special way. Creating music is like practicing meditation, opening the heart to your never-drying inner source, like passing the gates into a hidden sanctuary. Beethoven said about music: “That what should touch the heart must come from above, otherwise it is only notes – a body without a spirit!” True music can be a messenger of pure divine love, transferring beams of the ever-shining light within all of us into the world, from one heart to many others.
“True music can be a messenger of pure divine love, transferring beams of the ever-shining light within all of us into the world, from one heart to many others.”
– Gandalf, composer and multi-instrumentalist
