About This:

This CD fuses Celtic Christian songs from Ireland and Scotland with the shakuhachi, a Japanese bamboo flute. Featured Celtic vocalists Jacynth Hamill and Heather Innes weave their voices with the sound of Robert A. Jonas�s Zen flute. Jacynth, Heather and Robert met in October, 2000 at a Buddhist-Christian conference hosted by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Fr. Lawrence Freeman (Benedictine). Sensing a resonance between the haunting melodies of the shakuhachi and their ancient Celtic musical tradition, they performed before 700 people in Belfast City Hall.

In the following two years Heather and Jacynth joined Robert for several concerts in the Boston area, including three days in the studio to record "New Life from Ruins". On this CD, Heather and Jacynth reach down into the musical archives of their countries to bring alive the rich spiritual resources of the Celtic devotional tradition. Rooted in that ancient heart-centered place, they offer several pieces of their own composition.