Sound Healing Concert with Matthew Kocel
In anticipation of our upcoming sound healing concert with the amazing Matthew Kocel we wanted to share some of his amazing music with our blog readers.
Matthew’s distinct cosmic throat singing creates a conducive environment for inner travel - it’s a bridge between sound and healing. Since 2009, Matthew has shared his gifts with thousands of people, performing in a variety of sacred and secular venues from cathedrals and concert halls to yurts, caves, ancient temples in Peru, the Integratron, yoga studios, schools, a Himalayan salt room, and planetariums. You can catch him right here in White Rock at Live Yoga September 15 from 7-9pm.
Here is one of Matthew’s latest releases “Valhalla”
Here is the song “Farewell to Atlantis”. You can feel the vibration right to your bones and it puts a new spin on chanting Aum (OM).
“I believe music can give us a direct experience of our existence beyond the confines of time and space,” Matthew says. “Knowing the energy and power of this music and how it can shift perspectives is the driving reason why I do this. I let the music come through me with the intention to evoke love and compassion worldwide.”
The essence of Matthew’s transformative music is based on the fundamental truth that we are surrounded by vibrations, emotionally and physically attuned to sonic frequencies. Science has shown that atoms are not small particles, but are, in fact, vibrating fields of magnetic energy. The planets and stars radiate sound in a constant state of movement, or vibration on the macro-cosmic level.
Using music and sound with specific intention elicits a certain oneness with the universe, and helps people achieve altered states where they can feel and see things they wouldn’t normally be able to access. Throughout time people have harnessed the healing properties of these vibrations, bathing their souls and hearts in sound with spiritual chanting to get into the zone of meditation, or singing songs for emotional catharsis.
While Mathew’s music shares techniques and sonic qualities with Tibetan and Central Asian throat singers as well as European overtone singers, his compositions are more akin to Western music in that they have a pop-rock structure that includes a beginning, middle and end, with touches of improvisation.
Matthew’s songs have achieved the somewhat cosmic aspiration of rock musicians from the 1960s and ‘70s like Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Yes… all who dabbled in spirituality. And yet, Matthew’s work sounds nothing like rock music, using his voice as an instrument without lyrics. Matthew puts his deep throat singing at the forefront of his music, and uses exotic instruments and sonic conventions like drones, layered vocals, and chimes, to accompany his melodically well-crafted compositions.
Don’t miss out on your chance to catch Matthew Perform live in an intimate studio concert setting. Click below to sign up!