The Alquimia band: Alquimia on voice, harmonium, Celtic harp, guitar & mandola. Mark Powell on hurdy-gurdy, guitar, mandola and keyboards William Summers on medieval flutes, kromhorns, recorders Anthar Karahna on percussion
Influences
Celtic, medieval and folk songs, classical music, world music , and anything else with an interesting use of voices."
Sounds Like
Her influences are widely varied, ranging from Celtic, Folk & world, to mediaeval and classical music.
".....her ethereal vocal technique at once exotically seductive and disarmingly eerie." by London Musician's' Collective, U.K.
. From moving lyricism to choral soundscapes. by Auratonemusic, U.K.
Alquimia & band at the Green Man Festival in Deal Kent 2008
Music can take us through unknown dimensions....alchemy of the mind, the time and the space...
Alquimia takes you on a journey to an ancient world of druids, bards, mythological heroes, and maidens yearning for their lost lovers, the ingredients of a Celtic legend.
Based in London, and singing in various languages including English, Gaelic, Latin, and Nahuatl,, she also uses her voice to create multilayered choirs and vocal soundscapes - described as "an ethereal chorale of great beauty" by Audion UK
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Dear Alquimia, Happy New Year! Wishing you much fun and happiness :) May this year be filled with many momments of enchantment and magic and may all of your dreams come true! ((hugs)) ♥ Brandy xx
Hello Alquimia... I just dropped by to listen to more of your mystical magic, and wish you a very happy upcoming New Year. I hope that 2009 holds for you all that your heart desires... Warmly, and respectfully, Doug. d:)
At the break of day he rides this path, and startles me from sleep... the LadyHawk that watches from my perch outside his keep He rides to her! which pleaseth him, to steal her heart away... and knows me not; nor that my love grows stronger every day
He once called ME his only love, but now it seems he's lost... in solitude and longing...and 'tis I who pay the cost! I am but maiden, flesh and bone, whom fate has dealt a blow An evil spell was cast on me! That he may never know... that he alone was my true love. I did not break my vow!
But I cannot convey the truth, for speech evades me now A Warlock claimed me his to hold...and I refused his touch I would not then renounce my love...for I loved him so much So now I wear this feathered veil, my true loves knows me not And though I see him every morn, my image he's forgot
My soul for'er captured here, within this silken cape of plummery and graceful wings, but never to escape Goodbye my love! My heart! My soul! you've gone beyond my glance And I in sorrow dare not go much farther than this branch
There is a tether which holds me here...one no man can see The Warlock placed it 'round my heart, to keep my love from Thee Doomed forever, that I am, to watch you steal away... across the Moors to another...at every break of day
In this knight's latest quest, an enchanted land was discovered beyond the mist
In the darkness of night a beautiful lady appeared to me in the distance
As I galloped toward her, the first rays of dawn broke through the trees and I lost sight of her
I searched for hours but all I could see was a hawk circling above in the morning breeze
May you have an enchanting weekend
Celtic Knight
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Ladyhawke's
~LAND BEYOND THE MYST~
There is a land beyond the myst... Where time doth play a gentle game, A place where magic enters in... And cradles soft a mystic name 'Tis LadyHawke who calls to thee... Across the waters dark and deep, Beyond the place where dragons sleep, Where waterfowl and faeries play Along the shore at break of day 'Tis LadyHawke who calls to thee... Come forth and find thy destiny But shouldst thou turn thine eye away And close thine ear to ancient song, The lady who awaits thee here And to thine own heart doth belong, Shall sleep another thousand years 'Til she be waked by lover's tears
I hope that you & yours had a very Merry Christmas! I apologize for the late comment, but the holiday season has kept me very busy. I kept you all in my thoughts………
Wishing you the best of everything in 2009!!! May the New Year be blessed with new cherished memories, friends, happiness, health, and laughter!!!
Dear Alquimia, wishing you a very wonderful weekend - I hope that you have lots of fun and laughter and may you have many magical moments :) ♥ Brandy xx
Wishing you the very best for the holidays. When the holidays are done I intend to get another one of your albulms. I so enjoy your voice and your music . I wish you the very best for the New Year. Love "forever" Donna
"I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. ~Charles Dickens"
