Light

My third album, Light, is a musical journey inward in search of love, gentleness and light. I called it Light because of the word’s double meaning: light as illumination, and light as the opposite of heavy. As we shed the trappings of the past, we become lighter and more luminous. Stromboli dominates the cover in homage to Jules Verne, a metaphor for a journey to the centre of the self in which a way out can be found from even the most intricate passage: in Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Verne made this extraordinary volcano the route back from the centre of the planet.

Light is a journey through the inner universe. It begins by moving towards light and releasing what you no longer wish to carry with you. You then gather your energy and travel to the sun, to self-awareness, walking the path offered by your inner sun until you see that you are unique in space and time. You travel to the moon, where dreams are always being woven; you feel, and you see your inner star shining with the wisdom that lives within you and makes you unique. Once you have travelled through some of the aspects of light that animate you, you realise that you are light, that you have always been light and always will be. Yet now you shine more brightly because you have released what you no longer wished to carry: you are freer, more authentic, more fully yourself.

Light is an intimate album, one that helps us look inward in order to release and leave things behind. After travelling through it, you may find that you can take flight again with renewed strength and move forward, as Antonio Machado taught us, “lightly laden, almost naked, like the children of the sea”.

I created this album as a form of support, a musical companion for moments of change and transformation, whether everyday or more profound. Throughout life we experience many transitions, and we are often afraid to leave the past behind or to let go, depending on the change we are living through and what it entails. With this album I wanted to offer tools that might help you move through those moments gently and with tenderness, whatever change you may be facing: a change of work, health, relationship, family circumstances or identity, or even the process of physical death. Light is a musical journey through different aspects of Being, intended to help you leave behind outworn patterns and behaviours and encounter a fresher, renewed version of yourself.

Enjoy the journey.