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FREE A NEW LIGHT ON ANGELS PDF Diana Cooper,Damian Keenan | 144 pages | 01 Sep 2009 | Findhorn Press Ltd. | 9781844091669 | English | Forres, United Kingdom Angels of Light / Michael Gira – YOUNG GOD RECORDS Diana CooperDamian Keenan Illustrator. Paperback List Price: The ubiquitous angels of everyday life are introduced in this fully revised and expanded bestseller. Buoyed by the firsthand experiences of regular people who have interacted with angels, the book offers guidance on how to reach out A New Light on Angels the gentle beings who have chosen to serve mankind through help, support, and healing. The identities and purposes of a multitude of angels are explored, from the small angels who care for the slightest daily tasks to the enormous archangels who cast light over great universal projects. By raising consciousness and awareness about these heavenly spirits and the amazing companionship they have to offer, this investigation offers a glimpse into a more evolved world full of peace, light, and joy. Angels can also be called upon to solve practical problems, and there is even an angel of parking spaces! Angels are waiting, ready, willing and able to help. It is our duty to seek them out and collaborate for a A New Light on Angels positive good. A New Light on Angels is a completely revised, updated and expanded edition of the bestselling A Little Light on Angelswith new original color illustrations by Damian Keenan. Diana Cooper is a therapist, healer, author of several books, and the founder of the Diana Cooper Foundation. Her journey started during a time of personal crisis when she received an angel visitation that changed her life. Since then the angels and her guides have taught her about the angelic realms, unicorns, fairies, Atlantis, and Orbs as well as many A New Light on Angels spiritual subjects. Through her workshops and therapy practice she has helped countless people find their life mission, fulfill their potential, and empower their lives. Founding partner in Design Factory, Dublin from to Damian Keenan subsequently relocated to Germany and is currently based in Heidelberg. Buy at Local Store Enter your zip code below to purchase from an indie close to you. [Reviews] New Books, By Lidija Haas | Harper's Magazine Angels of Light is the songwriting project I started immediately after terminating Swans The first album, New Mother, was released in Next came How I Loved You, released in We Are Him was released in August I write the songs on acoustic guitar, then gather musicians and friends, and build up the orchestrations with them in the studio and in live A New Light on Angels. I guide the process, but solicit their creative contributions actively. Each recording contains the contributions of an ever-changing plethora of amazing musicians, whom I thank here heartily! After many years too many to comfortably contemplate! I view the arrangements as little films created to make a context for the words and voice, so that one can drift off into the world the music creates. I produce the Angels recordings, and the production of the recordings is as important to me as the songs themselves. Most of the instruments used in the recordings are acoustic, but not all. Electric guitars, bass and drums etc. On the other hand, just sitting around my house, writing these things, and finally coming up with a statement that I think makes sense, I want to bring them to life as much as possible, in new and challenging ways for both myself and you, so I always strive to present them in a fresh and interesting context. The new works represent 24 years and 28 recordings of stubborn musical and artistic resilience to present vital and more often than not, unrepresented music, as well as, to a lesser degree, a means of fiscal survival within the clutches of a record industry that has undergone what is essentially a revolution thanks or not to the Internet as far as how listeners preview and buy A New Light on Angels music that interests them. It was always meant to be a group of revolving, changing personnel. The songs say what they have to say, then end. Many are entirely acoustic. I set a limitation before recording: there would be no drums one A New Light on Angels contains about ten seconds of drums, but otherwise, nothing —double bass or bass guitar is used instead as the rhythmic base. This had the effect of opening up a lot of space, as well necessarily forcing the songs into focus. They all play about 20 instruments with varying degrees of skill, and their approach was often the exact opposite of what I would have initially thought. Of course, in some cases, they did exactly as I said, and shut the hell up about it—ha- ha! But the best thing for me was the surprise of hearing the songs in a new light… I had a great time making this record. They certainly did just that, but they did it by retreating into a tiny Brooklyn apartment, where they made their own world instead, in complete and stubborn isolation. They proceeded to make several albums worth of recordings on crude home equipment—the material compulsively A New Light on Angels, spliced, and orchestrated A New Light on Angels fractal jewels of song and schismatically opposed atmospheres. Along the way they sent me the increasingly compelling results. Aside from the sprawling and weird arrangements of the music, the vocals were stunning. A few of those are included here with varying amounts of further orchestration. So there was a great deal of work there, before even going into the studio. Then, I helped with the basic sounds of course, and made suggestions about further orchestration. Too many! Like kids in a candy store. So another role of mine, having been in the studio for many years, was to keep looking ominously at my watch! The stage has exceptionally warm and inviting acoustics, the perfect setting for a solo Gira and his acoustic guitar; his presence and semi-formal dress is reminiscent of a backwoods minister, his very countenance and smoldering eyes suggesting that he has walked into the very mouth of Hell and has lived to tell the story He introduces himself with a wry wit, opening the show with self-deprecatory comments about his poor guitar skills Michael GiraFollowing the performance at the Ministry, Michael Gira continues with the role of backwoods minister, personally greeting the outpouring audience in the church foyer and hawking his own merchandise; his energy is not unlike a loving pastor who has just delivered the sermon of his career. Choice is a key concept in relation to attempting to better understand Gira; his personal freedom is perhaps the core, the very foundation of a musical odyssey that has lasted nearly a quarter of a century and shows no signs of slowing or mellowing by any interpretation. The man says and does exactly what he chooses to do, woeful to the point of insolent at any forces outside of his choosing that might attempt to control or carve out his destiny. Out of this resistance to anybody or any institution that might exercise authority or control over his person or his thoughts, one could argue that Gira has forged a meaningful career. That is not A New Light on Angels say that Gira is a closed or obviously temperamental personality these days, though he would be the first to admit that his unpredictable and often caustic behavior A New Light on Angels as a distancing A New Light on Angels early in his career with SWANS; on the contrary, he is capable of demonstrating a very keen sense of humor and is self-deprecating to a fault. I love making music, singing, shaping sound. I am not only trying to make music, but also run a record company, and service merchandise from our website, and other tasks. My supreme goal A New Light on Angels to clear up busy work here, stuff that HAS to be done to keep YGR afloat, so that I can again pick up my guitar, and also deal with aspects of my own career My priority is to first clear up this mountain of nagging junk on my desk and screaming unanswered e-mails in my inbox, which often reaches about e-mails I need to answer I have to clear up basic exigencies first At one point he was jailed for several weeks as a minor for vagrancy, abandoned by his father in hopes of teaching the young boy a lesson. After a stint at a tool factory in Germany which he A New Light on Angels over a prestigious school in the Swiss Alps, Gira ran away, hitch-hiking through Greece and Yugoslavia until arriving in Israel at the age of 15, selling hash first on a collective farm, or kibbutz, and later after a near-bust a hostel, where he was finally taken into custody A New Light on Angels Israeli police. Gira was incarcerated for a month and a half in Jerusalem without formal charges before a civil rights lawyer found out about his case. Released without bail, he hung out in Jerusalem, mostly panhandling or selling his blood before his trial, in which he was sentenced to another two months in an adult prison, where he depended heavily on his luck and quickly acquired shrewdness to avoid being gang-raped. He tried his hand at working at a plastics factory, roofing, and plumbing before jumping back into formal education. It was also around this time that Michael Gira became highly influenced by the DIY ethic of the burgeoning Punk rock scene.