DEUTER
ILLUMINATION OF THE HEART
Deuter, one of
the earliest creators of new age music with more than 60 albums released, now
offers Illumination of the Heart, a masterful example of the best music
made in this genre -- transcendent, spiritual, transformative, serene,
meditative, blissful and rejuvenating.
With this
album on New Earth
Records, Deuter
finds illumination as both an inner, spiritual, personal journey as well as
light from the cosmos. The tune titles
reflect those feelings -- “Moon and Earth,” “Coucher de Lune” (French for
“Sunset Moon”), “Stern an Stern” (German for “Star to Star”) and “Schein und
Widerschein” (German for “Appearance and Reflection”). Deuter -- who lives and works in the
mountains just beyond the high desert of Santa Fe, New Mexico -- also gets much
inspiration from nature on our planet as shown by the composition “Desert Dream
Green.”
For Illumination
of the Heart, Deuter plays a variety of instruments including the flute,
keyboards, cello, piano and guitar. He
also softly mixes in his own voice as an extra instrument to add humanness and
touch the hearts of listeners.
“I think
I have basically two elements in my music,” explains Deuter. “One is the constant dance on the edge of
silence -- moving into the silence and moving out of the silence. Now every tone and sound does that because
every sound starts and ends, and there’s always silence. When you hear the sound, especially the right
sound, you experience for a moment the silence, which is always there inside us
as well as outside, and which is the big nothing that everything comes out
of. In music I love to create a path out
of the silence, a path to express the joy of being alive, the gratefulness of
being alive, and also a path that reverts back into the silence and the
experience of the silence. The other
element in my music comes from the fact that at the moment everything is going
faster and faster in the world. I think
it is really, really important that we create a balance to this. We need to find a way for every person,
somewhere and somehow, to have the time to experience their inner selves, to be
able to relax, to feel, to question what you are doing, and to feel grateful to
be alive. I try to make music that helps
bring the listener to that place.”
Deuter is one of
the founding fathers of new age music with his first album released in
1971. The majority of his works are
intended to accompany various healing
and spiritual practices such as yoga, Reiki,
meditation, dreaming and massage. Through feeling, awareness and experience,
as well as constant inspiration from the natural world around him, he creates
music that transports the listener to a space of peacefulness and well-being.
Illumination
of the Heart and many of his
other albums can be found as CDs in music stores and new age lifestyle shops
across the United States as well as online, while digital downloads of his
music are available at all the major internet stores such as iTunes and
Amazon. For more information about
Deuter and his recordings, go to NewEarthRecords.com or DeuterMusic.com.
“How does
this music happen? It basically has a
lot to do with love,” Deuter says. “When
somebody loves to do something, they try to do it as much as possible. For me it is making music. I created a working environment that feels
perfect. I created my own studio. It is just an incredible, blissful experience
to go in my studio, play around and start making sounds, noises, music, tones,
then mix them together and see what comes out.
So, any time I can spare, I love going into the studio. It doesn’t feel like work at all. Of course it is connected with work and some
of the stuff is tedious and must be done, but it is fundamentally an expression
of joy and love.”
Born in Falkenhagen,
Germany,
Deuter (pronounced doy-tur) remembers that “one of the nicer memories I have
was the first time I heard someone play the flute. It was like a light coming from the
heavens. For one of my birthdays I was
given a flute and that was the beginning for me.” He taught himself to play the flute, guitar, harmonica and "just about every instrument I
could get my hands on." Deuter
experimented early on with combining acoustic and electronic elements with
ethnic instrumentation and nature sounds, such as whale and bird songs, ocean waves, wind in the trees, and
more. “I was born in the countryside and
my first memories are of nature, of sitting in the woods and enjoying being
alive. I started to record the sounds of
nature, then mix them together. The next
logical step was to play an instrument on top of it. This was the type of music I wanted to hear
-- relaxing, soothing and harmonious -- but I could not find it anywhere, so I
started to make this style of music myself.”
His first album in 1971, titled D, helped define the emerging genre of music known as new age, and showed
the beginning of Deuter’s spiritual path.
During the
1970s and 1980s Deuter, after travelling extensively in Asia in search of spiritual and creative inspiration, settled for a long time in Pune, India,
for spiritual study. While there he
produced a series of music tapes to be used in "active meditations,"
in which he merged Indian classical motifs, fiery drums, loops, synthesizers, bells and pastoral acoustic
passages. In 1985 he relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico where he signed with New
Earth Records and furthered his ascension into the top ranks of new age musicians worldwide.
Deuter’s
recordings are too many to list here, but include early classics such as Kundalini Meditation Music (1975), Tea from an Empty Cup (1975), Celebration (1976), Ecstasy (1978), Silence Is the Answer (1981), Cicada (1982) and Nirvana Road (1984) as well as more recent best-sellers including Inside Hypno
Relaxation (1994), Terra Magica: Planet of Light (1994), Wind & Mountain (1995), Nada Himalaya Tibetan Bells (1997), Reiki Hands of Light (1998), Like the Wind in the Trees (2002), Koyasan: Reiki Sound Healing (2007),
Spiritual
Healing (2008), Notes From a Planet (2009), Mystery of Light (2010), Flowers of Silence (2012), Dream Time (2013) and Reiki Hands of Love (2015).
Deuter
creates his music in his home studio hidden deep in the New Mexico forest that
he shares with birds, deer, bears, roadrunners, snakes and coyotes. The sound of wind chimes and bees fill the
air because Deuter also is a beekeeper.
Between studio sessions, he spends his time reshaping his pond or
crafting zen-like furniture in his workshop.
Deuter describes himself as a hermit/monk/wolf living in the wild and enjoying
it, staying close to nature. He designed
his house using the principles of Feng Shui.
The studio, with its large windows and views of the forest, is both a
sanctuary and a laboratory for music-making that includes instruments from
all over the world. He continues to learn and master an
ever-expanding array of instruments including piano, various keyboards and
synthesizers, guitars, shakuhachi flute, cello, koto, sitar, tabla, Turkish
sasz, Persian tar, santoor, bazuki, Tibetan singing bowls, chimes, drums,
ethnic percussion and more.
“For me all the
instruments I’m using are basically like colors in a painting,” states
Deuter. “I’m not focused on one
instrument specifically. I use many
sounds and instruments so that it is like painting with sound.”
The music
of Deuter might be powerfully energetic on one release, and then quiet and
meditative on the next, but it always makes for a pleasure-filled experience
while assisting the listener in other ways such as relaxation, healing,
balancing, meditation, mental positiveness or life therapy.
“I
traveled for years,” remembers Deuter.
“I went to Turkey and spent time with the Sufis there learning Sufi
music. Then I traveled to Iran and
Afghanistan and India and Bali. Wherever
I went I made connections with musicians.
I think all of those experiences have influenced my music although I
cannot pinpoint what did what. It is the
same way in which every day of our life, every experience, influences our
behavior, our outlook on life and our artistic expression.”
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