Sora
// singer-songwriterSORA is a composer, pianist, singer-songwriter, violinist, and mezzo-soprano vocalist from Calgary, Canada. Her albums “Winds Of Change” (2003), “Light [EP]” (2008), and “Heartwood” (2009) are all available from Corvid Media. Sora’s music embraces an affinity for ancient myths and mystic memories creating a richly sonic world that combines Celtic music with Neo-Classical sensibilities. Sora’s greatest musical influences are Loreena McKennitt, Enya, Sarah Brightman, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, and the Indigo Girls.
Website: www.soramusic.ca
Photo: Sora / SoraMusic.ca
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Music is the language of the sublime, of those thoughts, experiences, and feelings that cannot easily be expressed in words. Where words leave off, music continues, weaving together the threads of what it means to be human; joy, love, sorrow, celebration. It is an extension of the desire to give voice to the deep unconscious realm, and truly is this not what spirituality is as well? Music as spirituality is the search for essence, for truth, and for meaning. It is the journey of interconnection and of finding our place within the vast universe.
On a base level, music is vibration and thus plays us as much as we play it. We are altered for hearing it, and it is altered for interacting with us and not just on an individual level but as a collective of people. It is a joining and transformative force. For me music is a communion of the spirit and nature for the very foundations of life can be found in the harmonic relationships present within music. It is a transcendent medium that can speak beyond culture, race, and religious affiliation to literally bring about new thought, new emotion, and new ways of being.
“Music as spirituality is the search for essence, for truth, and for meaning. It is the journey of interconnection and of finding our place within the vast universe.”
– Sora, singer-songwriter