Ever since a near-death experience, Karen Salicath Jamali dreamed of angels. Having no prior musical talent or affinity, Karen suddenly became drawn to, and highly adept at, playing piano, allowing her to create the very music heard in those glistening, angel-filled visions. Now, with several acclaimed albums under her belt (like, for example, Angel Pollination), Karen returns with her latest angel-describing masterwork, Dreams of Angels. Ready to hear Karen’s piano translate the healing music from on high? Let’s listen, and hit the highlights.
Wait. Who does what?
Karen Salicath Jamali plays an 80-year-old Steinway grand piano, and creates music inspired by the tones and signals emanating from higher dimensional beings acting as mostly non-evasive mortal guardians (i.e., guardian angels).
Now, about that heavenly music…
Dreams of Angels begins with “Archangel Metatron” – it describes musically Heaven’s most powerful angel tasked with guiding humanity and guarding the Tree of Life. It begins gently, mournfully. A certain arpeggio creates the foundation as other notes flicker above; its sadness perhaps the result of witnessing humanity’s reciprocal ugliness. It is, perhaps, the song of a mighty angel brought to tears.
“Angel Gabriel – The Angel of Water” describes the renowned angel of hope and peace. It’s another mournful peace reflecting dismay in a floating sea of cathedral-batting reverb. Another three-note arpeggio rests upon the Earth as more crystalline notes hover above, and the song plays a million feelings before they dissolve quietly into reflective oblivion.
“Angel Gabriel’s Heart” is a more uplifting affair. It features a waltz-like arpeggio architecture with expressive, starry higher notes. There’s a strength here while musically proclaiming vulnerability. Excellent track.
“Angel Israfill -The Angel of Music” describes the angel who, per Karen, “embodies the divine connection between music and the cosmos.” And this music speaks of wonder. Of the great unknown that’s known you all your life, and waits patiently to meet you. To remake you. This is a brief track that plays you to sleep – a long, rejuvenating sleep granting ample time, perhaps centuries, to regrow your wings.
“Angel Gabriel’s Halo” is a “musical portrait” of the great angel. It utilizes more chords, granting more emphatic musical detail to Gabriel’s energy and demeanor. Another shorter track, this particular portrait creates an immaculate, lasting image with radiant tones more so than colors and a brush.
“Angel Sandalphon -The Angel of Gentleness” is a splendid waltz. It’s a reassurance. It’s a dancer’s joyous pirouette drilling gracefully in a sunlit corner. It’s bliss and consternation, openness and hesitation. But ultimately, it’s acceptance. It’s an appreciated, approachable resolution.
“White Angel” references a particular sculpture created by Karen – a piece of healing art gifted to those who lost loved ones; those who could use an angel for peace and protection. It’s a darker journey, this song. Yes, the white angel heals – as it successfully healed Karen – but before the healing, the wound gapes and bleeds. This is a song for the wound; this is a song for those who suffer, for those granted the white angel’s immediate attention.
Album closer “Angel Jeramiel – The Angel of Dreams” is another hopeful meditation. It’s music carried by water, gently guided through and over rocks. Music that coasts, concedes, hovers, or holds you weightless in space. It’s the gentle hand supporting you under the sun. It’s the quiet whisper reassuring you: “You’re fine, you’re okay. You’re loved.” It warms your back, loosens your shoulders, and quietly ends while you drift into slumber.
But is it good?
Well, we’re talking about the music of angels here, so “good” doesn’t go far enough. The word that works, that truly fits without trying to be clever, is “divine.” Karen Salicath Jamali plays a brand of pure, transcendent, dream-flowing music that surrounds you, pervades you, and heals you. It’s the kind of music that comes from somewhere else, somewhere higher, whole, and wholly in love with you (faults and all). If you want a taste of Heaven’s super-dimensional spirit language – the sounds emanating from divine beings who prefer music to syllables – you will LOVE Karen Salicath Jamali’s latest, Dreams of Angels. We certainly did, and we’re still quite uplifted by it. Recommended.
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