Japetus
// Multimedia Artist & MusicianJAPETUS is an award-winning multimedia artist who created 12 albums of inspired New Age healing ‘soundspaces’ between 1983 and 1994. They were channelled using synthesisers and samplers and recorded and produced by Japetus in his own recording studio. “The Great, Great Silence (1983), “Once Around The Sun” (1984), The Mystic Pathways series: “The Kabbalah / The Zodiac” + “The Major Arcana Tarot” + The Egyptian Book of the Dead / Kundalini Yoga” (1985), “Visions of Paradise” (1986), “The Radiant Self” (1987), “Infinity” (1988), “Shaman Journey” (1989), “Tales from Atlantis” (1989), “Crystal Light Awakening” (1989), “The Threshold” (1992), “Deep Space” (1994). The double album, 20th anniversary compilation “Peace & Quiet” was released in 2002. Explore it all at www.japetus.com and on iTunes: www.itunes.com/japetus
Website: www.japetus.com
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To understand music and its relationship to spirit you must first understand how the universe works.
The Moody Blues said:
“This garden universe vibrates complete
Some may get a sound so sweet
Vibrations reach on up to become light
And then through gamma, out of sight
Between the eyes and ears there lie
The sounds of color and the light of a sigh
And to hear the sun, what a thing to believe
But it’s all around if we could but perceive
To know ultra violet, infra-red and X-rays
Beauty to find in so many ways
Two notes of the chord, that’s our full scope
But to reach the chord is our life’s hope
And to name the chord is important to some
So they give it a word and the word is Om”
– Moody Blues from In Search of the Lost Chord.
Then vibrations expand out through feelings and thoughts and symbols, into etheric and astral realms, before we hit the transcendent, refined, psychic realms of the intuition, surrounded by vast causative realms of soul and spirit. In fact, of course, the process of unfolding the material world is more of an evocative devolution from spirit to matter – where spirit is the Reality and animating Light and matter is the shadow that magnetically condenses around that inflow of spiritual intention and purpose according to its colour and vibration.
Music provides both a bridge and an influence on the quality of all those vibrations and levels. Sound is talismanic in its influence over the environment on all levels and can trigger, suggest, qualify and integrate the various levels. It can point to sublime directions of inspiration and also create a resonance in the listener to make them more available for inspiration to flow.
I have described my 12 album catalogue as an evolving journey that takes the listener up through those levels. Each album is also an evolving and transformative journey in its own right on its own level – pointing ever up and out and in and through – as it creates a pathway for greater exploration, expansion and experience into higher and deeper realms. Once open and connected then the energies can flow freely and activate healing and transformation – signposts to a greater reality.
“To understand music and its relationship to spirit you must first understand how the universe works.”
– Japetus, Multimedia Artist & Musician
