For the uninitiated, the liner notes of Brian E. Paulson's
most recent album, Return To Giza, may not immediately make a lot a sense.
When you hear it, it sounds like the brilliant, evocative New Age music that
it is. Instruments and sounds such as whale calls and gourd rattles wash in
and out of the mix in an ethereal fashion. It's both calming and stimulating,
pleasurable either as background or in the foreground. Using advanced studio
techniques, he creates music with digital samplers, synths, and a huge collection
of world instruments, including gongs, Mayan and Native American flutes and
African kalimbas among others. But when you read the album notes, it's described
as being "tuned to the King's Chamber. The high harmonic octave is orange.
Tuned to the Svadisthan chakra and the planet Venus. The Zodiac is Aquarius."You might call it New Age, but I call it more of a Geo-astro Harmonic, which is based on the harmonics found in sacred sites," Brian explained. "The new one, Return to Giza, is based on the harmonics of the King's Chamber, and the resident frequencies of the Great Pyramid."
He's trademarked the term "Geo-Astro Harmonic" and defines it as "sound tuned and correlated with the lower and upper octaves of electro-magnetic radiation." Paulson has released a series of acclaimed CDs on his own label AEON records. The music is intended to relax the body, bring balance to the mind and attune the spirit.
He's utilitarian in the way he approaches his complex, compelling music suites. "Each song represents its own world and whatever instruments I use tell me how to play it," he said. "Most of the things on the new CD are all first takes. Each was written and produced in less than three hours. That's the way I work. I just go. Once I get the seed of the idea, I'm gone."