Music
Devi (1996)
Sura (1998)
There Is Some Kiss We Want With Our Whole Lives (1999)
Inside You
3 songs of human-divine love for the New Millenium
Sound Awareness (2000) An everyday singing practice
Fierce Wisdom (2002) 
Singing Field (2003) Anthem for the world
“In A” (2004)
Music for meditation
Modal Awareness 1 (2004) A daily vocal practice
Your Naked Voice (2007) 3 CDs 
Awakening Through Sound (2007) 5 CD + DVD
Devi
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Devi – Divine Feminine or Goddess – brings together many of my favourite devotional chants spanning the Hindu, Christian, Buddhist and Sufi traditions. Such chanting is vibrational medicine, a simple yet profound means of awakening the singing heart while side-stepping the everyday mind.
I have endeavoured to bring a fresh contemporary interpretation to each chant – especially 'Kyrie' and 'Ave Maria' – by improvising around the central melodic themes. These improvisations are spontaneous invocations of the heart as inspired by the original music.
Sura
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Grammy Nominee 1999!
SURA is sanskrit for a meditative vibration or musical note, and like Chloë's last CD DEVI, this album employs a devotional vibration to unveil the beauty of the human soul. SURA evokes our deepest thoughts, longing and deviotn with this inspired colleciton of chants, mantras and mystical songs drawn from the spiritual traditions of the world. Spacious, impassioned, fierce and gentle, SURA reveals Chloë's evolving musical style with a much stronger rhythmic and percussive presence than before.
See Reviews on Sura.
There is Some Kiss We Want With Our Whole Lives
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Coleman Bark's translations of Rumi have make Rumi a best-selling poet in the USA today. Coleman and Chloë Goodchild met in November 1997 and began recording the spoken and sung versions of Rumi's poetry almost immediately. They have given performances with world musicians in Canada, London and Ireland.
“There are no words to explain,
no tongue
how when the player touches
the strings, it's me playing
and being played
how existence turns
around the music, how stories
grow from the trunk.”
Rumi
The ecstatic love poems by the thirteenth century mystic, Jelalludin Rumi, from Konya Turkey, were meant to be read with music. Music was part of the practice of the Sufi Dervish learning community that these poems spring from. In Persian, the poems can be sung as well as read. Music is a metaphor for that which connects us to the Divine Music. It is a remembering that there is no reality but God. There is only God. This poetry came out of the great friendship between Rumi and his master Shams of Tabriz. Their friendship became a way. These poems are an expression of that way.
They were written 700 years ago but the mystical message hidden within holds a powerful contemporary ring for seekers after truth today. There is a mystery called the glance the gift 'nazar'. They conjure a universal language which has touched a pulse in our world and responds to our personal and collective longing for union, Spirit, God, the Beloved.
Chloë and Coleman Barks have now made two CD's:
- There is Some Kiss we Want with our whole lives
(Maypop Books Summer 1999) - The Glance
(Viking Books, October 1999)
Inside You (CD Single)
Three Songs of
Human-Divine Love for the New Millennium
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Chloë Goodchild's first CD Single, featuring the acclaimed “Listen” (Voice
Inside You), “Friend”, and “Beauty”, the musical re-mix
of Rumi's, “I See My Beauty in You”, read by Coleman Barks.
Chloë's work is based on the ‘naked voice’, the sound
which bridges form and formlessness, lover and Beloved, and brings the
singer into the presence of the unnameable One.
“How can I be separate and yet in union at the same time?”
Enjoy these three inspired expressions of human-divine love, to awaken the heart into the unique spirit of the human soul. LISTEN, FRIEND and BEAUTY pave the way for Chloë's next album, the sequel to DEVI and SURA.
Sound Awareness
An Everyday Singing Practice
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Introducing the Six Modes
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Ultimately the subtle musical intervals of these modes, enable us to access and to transform our unconscious emotions into musical food for the soul, and to bring the treasures of true human feeling into consciousness through sound.
Fierce Wisdom
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PART TWO
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“THE GREAT MOTHER is the origin of creation. When the desire arose in Her to play the game of life, She divided Herself into two, namely MAHA (Great Mother) and MAYA (illusion) and entered the stage of the world concealing Herself in many forms of Maya.”
Chloë's New CD (2002) is a profound musical journey bringing together Chloë's gentle-fierce vocals with a superb ensemble of world musicians, interweaving saxophone, violin, percussion, bass clarinets, guitars, cello, piano and electric keyboards. Together they create a landscape of sound spanning a wide field of human feeling, from serenity to sensual longing, from contemporary devotion to impassioned wild joy, and all with an instrumental texture and dynamism, that arrests the heart. Fierce Wisdom is a response to the naked cry of our world for the return of peace, honour and respect for all living beings, inspired by invocations to the Divine Feminine, ecstatic chants and love poetry, spontaneous improvisations, and hymns celebrating this beloved Earth. Fierce Wisdom is a wake up. May compassion sound in us. Thy will be done.
Singing Field (CD Single)
An Anthem for the World
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Singing Field is composed by Chloë Goodchild, and is inspired by the ecstatic love poetry of Sufi mystic Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi. (translated Coleman Barks) This anthem arrests the heart and invites the audience into a wide landscape of human feeling and deep listening.
Singing Field is a call to the beauty that we long for. It is dedicated to the transformation of suffering and to the revelation of the compassionate heart in all beings.
Singing Field is an invitation to individuals, communities and nations worldwide to re-awaken our respect, honour and compassion for ourselves and each other. May it inspire unconditional love beyond all barriers of culture and creed.
Learn more about The Singing Field Project
“In A”
Music for Meditation, Relaxation and Vocal Improvisation
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Chloë Goodchild (Voices), David Lord (Keyboards), Sonia Slany (Violin)
Modal Awareness 1
A Daily Vocal Practice with the 6 Musical Modes
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PART ONE – with percussion
PART TWO – no percussion
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Chloë Goodchild (Voice)
David Lord (orchestral arrangement /sound engineer)
60 minutes
Your Naked Voice
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Listen to "Your Naked Voice" Introduction.
3 CDs, 3 hours, 28-page study guide
On Your Naked Voice, Goodchild invites you to:
• Remember the real sound inside you, as a language of self-knowledge and wisdom
• Heal the divide between silence, speech, and song
• Embody your voice as your own Self through the daily vocal practice of The Seven Sounds of Love
“It doesn’t matter whether you are a highly trained musician, a singer in the bath, or a total beginner,” explains Chloë Goodchild. With Your Naked Voice, now you can restore and deepen your compassionate expression, as you continually celebrate your unique sound in creative and liberating ways.
See Reviews on Your Naked Voice
Awakening Through Sound
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Listen to "Awakening Through Sound" Introduction.
Watch footage from the Body Practices DVD included in Awakening Through Sound.
Whatever stage you are at with The Naked Voice practice you can be sure that "Awakening Through Sound" will support and enhance your daily practice.
It will also deepen your understanding of the music philosophy and principles behind the Naked Voice practices. Divided into 5 sections, it covers a wide-reaching vocal territory, whilst challenging and quickening your own epistimological and ontological self-inquiry. It will also enable all those who are geographically too far away to have a direct experience of the work, to open the door on their own Naked Voice and Sound experience.
The spiritual masters from East and West traditions have known for centuries a truth that most of us typically overlook: we each possess a built-in mechanism for spiritual awakening. What is it? The sound of your own voice. On Awakening Through Sound, internationally acclaimed singer and sound healer Chloë Goodchild presents a five-CD-and-DVD program that will teach you how to harness the transformational power of
your individual voice and sound.
Your “naked voice" is the deep song of your heart that contains all your longing, joy, grief, and passion—the “raw truth” of who you
are. With Awakening Through Sound, you will learn how to fearlessly engage with your own naked voice —to listen to yourself and others with “unconditional ears,” to integrate heart, mind, and body, and to release your full creativity. In five stimulating CD sessions and a 40-minute DVD, Chloë Goodchild draws from 30 years of teaching thousands around the world to gently guide you through a full range of vocal and physical exercises. Discover sacred chants and mantras rooted in the mystical
traditions of India to unveil a wisdom “deeper than the polarity of all conflict.” Sing the “Seven Sounds of Love,” a full-body practice to open your heart to the expression of love in all its forms. Learn six musical modes to express and transform your negative emotional energy into positive human feeling as you unfold into new dimensions of your Self.
“The naked voice is our most untapped human resource,” says Chloë Goodchild, “and the aim of Awakening Through Sound is to restore honour to our most neglected wisdom tool: the ear.” Join this pioneering sound healer for a daring curriculum that will help you breakthrough your vocal limitations, access latent insight and intuition, and bring the gift of your true Self to everyone around you.
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