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(1986) Choral chants evoke inner temples and ancient lands. An honoring of the Spirit of God in many paths. Includes the first recording of "Heart of the Mother", voted 'Chant of the Year' in 2005, along with an Aramaic rendition of the Lord's Prayer and the pastoral chant, 'Song Universal'. An adagio inspired by Bach's Prelude in C is also included.

Produced by Michael and Maloah for Heavensong, Voices of the Heart remains a classic of contemporary spiritual music. This recording continues to hold a special place in the sacred music collections of listeners everywhere. An innocence and ardor infuses the chants, reawakening primal memories of an undeniable connection.

Total Time: 39:12

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Music by Gary Malkin

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(2008) Thirteen songs created 'in-the-moment' by musical intuitive Michael Stillwater in Honoring Ceremonies throughout Europe and America. These songs have been selected from hundreds, the original live recordings then accompanied by cello, bass, percussion, and vocal harmonies in the studio.

The Honoring provides an experience of the Honoring Ceremony, a program evolved over thirty years of Michael's intuitive song work. By the nature of shared human experience, a song inspired by one individual's request becomes meaningful to many. Themes of healing, empowerment, relationship and awakening are woven throughout every ceremony.

The album features Michael's intuitive lyrics and guitar together with the musicality of West Coast vocalist Holly Croydon (also appearing on the Inner Harmony recordings Feels Like Home and O Great Spirit) and Swiss performers Daniel Pezzotti (cello), Wolfgang Zwiauer (bass), Willy Kotoun (percussion) and Stephan Thelan (guitar).

A Song Without Borders Project
Producers: Michael Stillwater and Leme
Executive Producer: Doris Laesser Stillwater

Additional Recording: Powerplay Studio, Maur, Switzerland
Total Time: 66:00

Special thanks to Ursula Lamberson for her sponsorship of this recording.

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(2012) SongSourcing TrackPack Two provides eight additional tracks to Trackpack One, which addresses one of the deepest, often-unmet desires of the soul- to sing and to create. What if the fear of singing and creating was gone?

SongSourcing TrackPack Two contains two harmonic patterns, minimalist acoustic music without words created in folk and jazz styles to ignite your creative flow.

Would you like to experience the same high that jazz musicians get when they improvise?

"There is a songwriter in everyone. Michael Stillwater helps set that inner songwriter free." -Donny Pike, from The Lettermen

"SongSourcing gives me a daily practice I can do anytime, anywhere. With stunning simplicity it unlocks the intelligence of my own body, using my voice as healing medicine" -Val Cooper, Music Director, Universal Spirit Center, San Diego

Adding up to nearly 20 minutes of music, TrackPack Two is available for instant downloading. Play the tracks through your speakers and participate by adding your own voice. Let SongSourcing, an innovation in imaginative music education, help you reconnect with your inner songmaker.

Young children engage in spontaneous songmaking every day with unabashed ease; now you can too. Using a method bringing together natural expression with being present in the moment, SongSourcing can help you rekindle your inner creative fire.

With SongSourcing, you begin to reclaim your natural capacity for songmaking today- not only for your own healing and creative fulfillment, but as a marvelous way of playfully, authentically, and intimately connecting with others.

"I was completely delighted and surprised by Michael's spontaneous songmaking process, mostly by the fact that I could do it, and, by how it revealed to me hidden parts of my psyche. Engaging the singing voice in verbal free-association makes this a wonderful tool for self exploration." -Shivon Robinsong, Founder, Gettin' Higher Choir 400-voice community choir, Victoria, BC

For forty years I've learned to love my voice, to accept it and release it from judgment. What I discovered, in seeking my own healing and creative release, is a method so simple and effective it called out to be shared.

SongSourcing is designed to unlock your hidden creativity, effective as a musical stimulus and 'permission-giver', regardless of whether or not you believe you can sing or make up a song. SongSourcing catalyzes the re-awakening of the dormant songmaker within.

Could you rediscover yourself through song?

"An incredible experience of letting the inside out." -Dan Siegel, MD; author, The Mindful Brain, Mindsight

For those new to spontaneous songmaking: an exciting adventure awaits. You will soon see where your personal 'edge' is, and feel what is required in order to go beyond that edge. Basically, all that's needed is a curiosity to listen and a willingness to participate with your own sense of attunement- to whatever degree you can right now.

For those already at ease with singing or songwriting: SongSourcing is a robust music application for expanding improvisatory capacity while deepening trust in the present moment.

For those on a path of personal growth and expression: SongSourcing offers a powerful complementary practice which integrates beautifully into solitary, couple or group activitiies.

For those who have participated in my workshops: SongSourcing, Song Sanctuary, or SongLife Training, you already know what is possible using these songtracks! With TrackPack One you now have access to support your continued practice, either on your own or with friends, with no limit on the number of song variations you can make up!

For those who facilitate voice workshops or direct choirs: SongSourcing provides a fun and powerful improvisatory exercise to add to your repertoire- try it out! If students or choir members like, they can download their own copy of TrackPack One and Two to continue practiticing at home. (Thank you for not making copies of this recording!)

For elementary school teachers: SongSourcing is an effective and imaginative way of starting each day- give the class a songmaking exercise, coupling each child with a partner, and then asking them to sing with the music of a track- three to four minutes each, a practice not only in expressing but listening too!

Most of us are already way too familiar with the voice that says something like "you can't sing or make up a song- and better not even try!" Why not take a chance and offer amnesty to the part of you which, while well-concealed by a protective inner critic, refused to release your inner song until now?

Could you actually be a singer and songwriter, today?

" ...to suddenly find myself creating song from a heart-felt experience and in a poetic form was an amazing and liberating experience. Not in a million years did I imagine I could connect with myself - and others- in this extraordinary manner!" -Mel Woolley, Community Development Strategist, Calgary

The most important thing is to let it be OK exactly as it is, wherever your creative capacity is in this moment. Set aside judgment of your expression or anyone else's, and simply allow your feelings to guide your natural songmaking ability.

As you listen to these SongSourcing tracks, you will realize there is no familiar melody to hum, but only an ever-repeating harmonic pattern waiting for your own melody, words or sounds to emerge. If you try to listen as you would to ordinary instrumental music, it may seem something is missing...and it is! It's missing your voice, your expression, your song! In fact, I challenge you to listen to this music in the background for any length of time without a new song finding it's way through you!

This set includes 2 instrumental tracks:

Sanctuary co-produced by Michael Stillwater, Rick Bakken and Dan Alvarez In the Groove prodduced by Dan Alvarez

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(2009) SongSourcing TrackPack One addresses one of the deepest, often-unmet desires of the soul- to sing and to create. What if the fear of singing and creating was gone?

SongSourcing TrackPack One is a unique collection of thirty harmonic patterns, minimalist acoustic music without words created in folk, jazz and rock styles to ignite your creative flow.

Would you like to experience the same high that jazz musicians get when they improvise?

"There is a songwriter in everyone. Michael Stillwater helps set that inner songwriter free." -Donny Pike, from The Lettermen

"SongSourcing gives me a daily practice I can do anytime, anywhere. With stunning simplicity it unlocks the intelligence of my own body, using my voice as healing medicine" -Val Cooper, Music Director, Universal Spirit Center, San Diego

Adding up to nearly two hours of music, TrackPack One is now available for instant downloading. Play the tracks through your speakers and participate by adding your own voice. Let SongSourcing, an innovation in imaginative music education, help you reconnect with your inner songmaker.

Young children engage in spontaneous songmaking every day with unabashed ease; now you can too. Using a method bringing together natural expression with being present in the moment, SongSourcing can help you rekindle your inner creative fire.

With SongSourcing, you begin to reclaim your natural capacity for songmaking today- not only for your own healing and creative fulfillment, but as a marvelous way of playfully, authentically, and intimately connecting with others.

"I was completely delighted and surprised by Michael's spontaneous songmaking process, mostly by the fact that I could do it, and, by how it revealed to me hidden parts of my psyche. Engaging the singing voice in verbal free-association makes this a wonderful tool for self exploration." -Shivon Robinsong, Founder, Gettin' Higher Choir 400-voice community choir, Victoria, BC

For forty years I've learned to love my voice, to accept it and release it from judgment. What I discovered, in seeking my own healing and creative release, is a method so simple and effective it called out to be shared.

SongSourcing is designed to unlock your hidden creativity, effective as a musical stimulus and 'permission-giver', regardless of whether or not you believe you can sing or make up a song. SongSourcing catalyzes the re-awakening of the dormant songmaker within.

Could you rediscover yourself through song?

"An incredible experience of letting the inside out." -Dan Siegel, MD; author, The Mindful Brain, Mindsight

For those new to spontaneous songmaking: an exciting adventure awaits. You will soon see where your personal 'edge' is, and feel what is required in order to go beyond that edge. Basically, all that's needed is a curiosity to listen and a willingness to participate with your own sense of attunement- to whatever degree you can right now.

For those already at ease with singing or songwriting: SongSourcing is a robust music application for expanding improvisatory capacity while deepening trust in the present moment.

For those on a path of personal growth and expression: SongSourcing offers a powerful complementary practice which integrates beautifully into solitary, couple or group activitiies.

For those who have participated in my workshops: SongSourcing, CoreSong ReConnection, Voices of the Heart or SoulVoice, you already know what is possible using these songtracks! With TrackPack One you now have access to support your continued practice, either on your own or with friends, with no limit on the number of song variations you can make up!

For those who facilitate voice workshops or direct choirs: SongSourcing provides a fun and powerful improvisatory exercise to add to your repertoire- try it out! If students or choir members like, they can download their own copy of TrackPack One to continue practiticing at home. (Thank you for not making copies of this recording!)

For elementary school teachers: SongSourcing is an effective and imaginative way of starting each day- give the class a songmaking exercise, coupling each child with a partner, and then asking them to sing with the music of a track- three to four minutes each, a practice not only in expressing but listening too!

Most of us are already way too familiar with the voice that says something like "you can't sing or make up a song- and better not even try!" Why not take a chance and offer amnesty to the part of you which, while well-concealed by a protective inner critic, refused to release your inner song until now?

Could you actually be a singer and songwriter, today?

" ...to suddenly find myself creating song from a heart-felt experience and in a poetic form was an amazing and liberating experience. Not in a million years did I imagine I could connect with myself - and others- in this extraordinary manner!" -Mel Woolley, Community Development Strategist, Calgary

The most important thing is to let it be OK exactly as it is, wherever your creative capacity is in this moment. Set aside judgment of your expression or anyone else's, and simply allow your feelings to guide your natural songmaking ability.

As you listen to these SongSourcing tracks, you will realize there is no familiar melody to hum, but only an ever-repeating harmonic pattern waiting for your own melody, words or sounds to emerge. If you try to listen as you would to ordinary instrumental music, it may seem something is missing...and it is! It's missing your voice, your expression, your song! In fact, I challenge you to listen to this music in the background for any length of time without a new song finding it's way through you!

Includes 30 instrumental tracks (two CDs worth) Categorized by tempo and genre (folk, jazz and rock) Average track length: 4 minutes Easy, repeating patterns inspire effortless songmaking Total Time: 110 minute Tracks with '.2' (i.e. Slow Folk 1.2) indicates key/pitch variation Currently available only in complete edition digital download

Producer/Composer: Michael Stillwater Engineer: Daniel Hobi Guitar: Michael Stillwater Bass: Claudio Strebel, Felix Kuebler Percussion: Willy Kouton, Roland Waeger Recorded at: Sound Development Studios, Zurich Special thanks: Ursula Lamberson and Grant Abert A Song Without Borders Project Copyright 2009 Inner Harmony Music

From 'Song Universal- Voices of the Blue Planet' (1993)
Words & Music by Michael Stillwater
Performed by the World Choir
Produced by Bob Waxman

Peace be to you, peace be to me,
Peace be to you and me and all the world

Light of heaven shine through me
Lighting up the world I see
and shine throughout the universe

Michael Stillwater with Holly Croydon, vocals
A Song Without Borders Production

Words & Music by Michael Stillwater
Co produced with Rick Bakken & Dan Alvarez
Special thanks to Doris Laesser Stillwater & Ursula Lamberson Straumann

Lyrics:

We're one, one part of one great story
Everybody is one, one part of one great song (repeat)

Everybody all around the world
Everybody, every boy and girl

Everybody, everybody is one

Everybody is one, everybody's got a story
Everyone belongs

Everyone belongs, everyone belongs,
Everyone belongs to the Great Song

Sing, sing, sing, sing, sing along

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About the Music:

(2008) Our newest release features Michael singing his chants and songs in concert with Seattle musicians Erin McGaughan (vocals), Holly Croydon (vocals), Sean Bendickson (vocals & percussion), and Rick Bakken (bass).

Included are Michael's classic chants, Heart of the Mother and Shanti Allelujah, plus nine more chants and songs, many not previously released- Raining with Mercy, O Great Spirit, Out of My Hands, We Are The Song, Feel the Blessing, Safe in Your Love, Into This Moment, Give Our Love Away and Rivers to the Sea.

Recorded live at Center for Spiritual Living (CSL), Seattle, Nov. 2, 2007. Eric O'del, CSL music director, Guy Staley, audio engineer CD in production; currently available as MP3 download.

Total Time: 43:06

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(1998) Evocative, comforting, intimate...Songs for the heart and soul... Supportive during difficult times, welcoming during joyful times. A musical resource for those in grief and those who work with people in transition, as well as anyone traversing the world of changes. Superb production, in a ballad/pop/folk style, accompanied by several of James Taylor's musicians.

Many of these songs were originally inspired by the courageous journeys of people facing life-changing transitions, whether through illness, dying, or great loss.

The first edition of this recording, entitled 'Woven', was given as a gift to 10,000 nurses, employees of a national healthcare system, CHI (Catholic Health Initiatives), which recognized Michael's songs as evoking a universal spirituality without a particular denominational religious affiliation.

Whether for listening or singing along, JourneySongs offers listeners a rich spectrum of inspirational music.

Total Time: 51:10

Feels Like Home is a musical portal for remembering we are ever connected, never alone, and already Home. A mantric recitation of the Names of God from a variety of traditions, a Divine Ostinato of essential unity beyond appearances, runs like an underground river throughout.

Born from the shared attunement of Stillwater and Bakken, a Seattle-based musician and visionary producer, Feels Like Home has become a beloved chant for many since its inception in 2006.

Written & Produced by Michael Stillwater and Rick Bakken

Voice & Guitar, Michael Stillwater
Bass & Lead Guitars, Rick Bakken
Harmony Vocals, Holly Croydon

Engineering: Rick Bakken, Stephen Sherrard, Dan Alvarez
Arranged by Michael Stillwater & Rick Bakken
Orchestration by Michael Stillwater & Dan Alvarez
Final Mix by Dan Alvarez

Om Brahma Vishnu Shiva
Shakti Kali Maha Deva
Elohenu Alleluia Adonai Jehovah
Abba Amma Wakantaka Kyrie Rama Om
Buddha Allah La Illaha
Om Mane Pa Me Hung

All the love that's in the world
In every boy and every girl
Is in you, is in you.

O it Feels Like Home,
O it Feels Like Home,
O it Feels Like Home.

'Cause we're not alone now,
No we're not alone now,
No we're not alone. (repeat)

O God, O God, O God Is,
I Am That I Am.
(repeat) Alleluia, Om Namah Sivaya.

'Cause It Is Like Home,
O It Is Like Home,
O It Is Like Home.

Extended Chant Time: 9:56

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(2006) The chants of Michael Stillwater are classics of contemporary interfaith liturgy; inclusive yet universal, simple yet profound, inductive and endlessly singable.

Predominantly English lyrics make their meaning understandable to a wide audience, supportive of awakening whether on an individual path or adhering to a spiritual tradition.

Enjoy this classic recording of Michael's chants, including 9 celebratory, easy-to-sing chants from three ChantWave evenings at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. ChantWave features the sublime vocal artistry of Christina Quinn, the innovative piano stylings of Gary Malkin, the melodic native flute of BlueWolf, and the vocal participation of hundreds together with other musicians.

Total Time: 53:50

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Words & Music by Michael Stillwater (1993)

From the compilation CD, Song Universal- Voices of the Blue Island,

Duet with Cielle Kollander

Lyrics:

My body is a living temple of love (repeat)

My body is the Body of the Goddess
O, I Am That I Am (repeat)

My body is a temple, below just as above
My body is a temple of love

My body is a temple of love
My temple is the body of God

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(1995) Intuitive songs, dedicated to gentle birthing, with songs for each participant and relationship in the birthing partnership: the mother, father, baby, and attendants. Michael's guitar and voice blend in a prayer of invitation and celebration, recorded as the songs are being created.

Produced by Bethany Hays, M.D., obstetrician with Women to Women Clinic in Yarmouth, Maine, this recording relaxes and inspires the best birthing possible. Recommended for expecting couples; makes an excellent shower gift. Also effective for rebirthing and connecting with one's inner child, as well as enhancing creativity. Total Time: 56:25

Words & Music by Michael Stillwater
Choral Arrangement by Gary Malkin
from Unspeakable Grace,
the music of Graceful Passages: A Companion for Living and Dying
Performed by UC Berkeley Choir, directed by Marika Kuzma
Recorded at Skywalker Studio, Marin County, California

Blessings to you my brother
Blessings to you my friend
Blessings to you my sister
With a love that has no end.

Blessings to you you my mother
Blessings to you my friend
Blessings to you my father
With a love that has no end.

Benedictus Amen
Shalom Adonai
Kyrie Eleison
Alleluia

May you live in a love that has no end.

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Enjoy fourteen selections from ten years of Stillwater's heart opening healing music, combining songs that are both calming and uptempo, soothing and exulting -- a radiant celebration from the core of being. Conveying both pop and folk styles with a spirit of ardent devotion. Ideal for listening or singing, enjoyed by adults and children alike.

Albums represented include:

Set Your Heartsong Free (1980)
Celebration (1982)
Voices of the Heart (1985)
One Light (1986)
You Belong To Love (1989)

Total Time: 72:00