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A meeting with Logos.

Logos because of the equivalence with Greek concerning the Bible that means: “In the beginning was the Word”. It’s also a label of a record-production.

The sacred takes a great part in Stephen’s inspiration and work. His purpose is to use music that joins the human being with is divine essence.

His inpiration is combined with alchemy, Bouddhism and yoga. Basically these ways lead to his musical work.

To compose he uses the synthesizer, the sampler and the computer. Thanks to the technology, he plays his music with sound effects (water, birds, crickets, etc …).

The ALCHEMY OF The NOTES interview of Stephen SICARD alias LOGOS7.

Entry “the melody is the prayer which the man addresses to God, the harmony is the answer that God made to the man.” Cyril Scott (1933), Music, Edition LA Baconnière, Neuchâtel.

- Why to have chosen the name of Logos?

- Symbolically it corresponds to the aspect of the Creator.

Concretely, it’s a company which carries out discs and cassettes, such as for example “La Vallée des Rêves” of Charles Cunin.

- With does such a signature spirituality have to play an important part in your work of creation?

- It occupies even a dominating place there: The goal of my work is to bring closer the man his interior divinity thanks to the mediation of the music. This language of the Heart makes it possible to create the magic moment where one feels transported in another dimension to be it, on a spiritual level where one tests a feeling of plenitude and serenity.

- With does the fact, when begin your career from musician?

- I am an autodidact. In 1986, whereas I am student in physics with the Faculty of Orsey, I feel taken by the desire for carrying out a cassette. Before any work of composition, I decide to prepare to me by making a spiritual stage in the Tibetan monastery of Kagyu-Ling. I carry out there “a training course of hell” with amongst other things 50 000 will mantras over the week! This crucible will emerge “the sound colors”, works which will gain a great success. By superstition, I never dared to modify the version on cassette although with the passing, I estimate that it comprises some mistakes of youth. After this first stage, I created the musical accompaniment of two cassettes of meditation of Michel Dogna: “La Boule d’Amour” and “La Source Intérieure”. After this phase, my production was packed: “La Lune des Sages”, “Quintessence – the Sounds of Colors” which is the remastered version for the compact disc of one of my first recording, Heliopolis and then “Eve”. One can wonder whether the public is well informed of my discography because I still often have booksellers who order me “X” exemplary of Logos!

- Which carries out the covers of your albums?

- This work is completed by various artists. For example, Johfra was occupied of “La Lune des Sages”. I find that it represented the concept of death well. The cover of Eve was carried out by Natacha Toutain. Originally it was to be a postcard representing Isis but its symbolism “hung me so much” that I wanted to use it for “Eve”.

- What represents for you the music and the act of composition?

- Above all, there are a life and a healthy thought. Then the music runs. Will mantras play a paramount part in my phase of purification. After that, there are a process of spontaneous creation and where I do not have any more but to play the part of channel.

- Ultimately, where will you draw your inspiration?

- My competences are esoteric, very impregnated of alchemy, Buddhism and Yoga. For example, “La Lune des Sages” was built on the topic of the philosopher stone. In “Eve”, certain titles make unambiguous allusion to alchemy. I am what one could call “a fan of the traditional esotericism”. Esotericism, Buddhism, Alchemy cannot be dissociated from my primarily esoteric advance i.e. hidden and educated by initiation. This unit is useful to me primarily of “food” for musical work. It is an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Alchemy includes the esoteric totality of the knowledge (Yoga, Theurgy, Astrology, operativ Alchemy) since it teaches the physical manner to express the latent divinity of each one of us. Buddhism does not hold a particular role. I feel at ease in each religion (Christianity, Bouddhism, Soufism, etc…). The presence of Kagyu-Ling beside my old Burgundian residence makes me a little more often speak about Buddha. For me all these religions are only the expression in the various shapes of the same divinity. Like one says: “in the monastery, as many monks do as many visions different of God”.

- And which is the place of the technique in your work of composition?

- The synthetizer, the sampler and the computer enable me to carry out an enormous work. For example, in one of my works I use a “Om sampel” which was recorded thanks to the contest of a choral society of my friends. Thanks to the technology of the sampler, I was able to shift this sound sequence of an octave below. I could also have placed this sequence above an octave. It is a revolutionist but not original bus of the discs of quot;techno “were also produced starting from” samplés “recordings. Thanks to the technique I have fun to decorate my music of various sound effects like those of water, the birds, of the crickets…

Body in resonance

Iebele Abel

Public Media PMNL01112003

Site web: http://www.publicmedia.nl

This disc is used for accroîtreet to restore the electromagnetic and subtle fields around the body. We undergo lespollutions of an electromagnetic environment which is generated by lesappareils electric, antennas GSM…. That, obviously, is not without consequences on our physical health and our psychological balance. This disc contains frequences in resonance with the bones and the bodies of the body. They restore our receptivity like our immunizing capacities for the whole physic body. In order to reduce the electromagnetic smog vibrations were interfere with this recordings. This disc can be used to alleviate our mental or to undertake our cerebral activity towards a alpha wave, it perhaps used various manners but played with faibleintensity: background music for a peaceful framework, basic music, salled’ makes an attempt places of care…. As all the relieving musics these sonorities can to be perceived like alleviating or angoissantescar they can appear strange when they are listened to.

MAEV: energy musics with the health service.

As well as fire a direction gives a meaning to the wood which burns and the Sun with the Life, Energies give also a meaning to your body.

Friday November 5, 1995, I had the occasion to meet with the ‘ Marjolaine meeting’ in Paris, Doctor Marchini and his wife Maev originators and producers of the energy musics. He has experience of homeopath and of expert. She is a Doctor in Human relations, Doctor in Industrial Analysis but also painter and musician. They both created a series of recordings of therapeutic use. Their application is addressed to the specialized therapeutists (doctor, kinesist, psychologist, relaxologist…) as to a larger audience. The purpose of these discs or cassettes is to care for diferent parts of the body, certain centers of energy or points of acupunctur.

Where the idea did come from?

Maev and her husband noticed that the negative emotions but also the toxic substances and a not adapted food create decelerations or blockings in the circulation of energy in our body, thanks to her knowledge in Bio-Energy, with her vision and her sensory extra touch. Maev noticed that the sounds could exert a fast and durable effect on the body and psychism of the individual. To raise these obstacles, it would be enough to listen suitably to adapted sounds. She could notice that the low sounds act on the bones and the bottom of the body, mediums on the muscles and the trunk and finally the acute ones on the nerves and the head. She initially tested musics of various authors but that never entirely satisfied hert. More serious, she even noticed that certain ‘ planing ‘ musics exerted a completely disastrous effect. She thus preferred to create her own music. She played already the piano, but she felt limited in particular for the level of the frequencies. This is why, she quickly will collaborate with a sound engineer. This musical ‘ synthetic ‘ research will last 6 years. To achieve the objective, she even will need the collaboration of a whole team. But at the first tests, they could note the spectacular releasings by the treated people. These various recordings are tested by many therapists, I was pleased also to test them, I can affirm that they are perfectly adapted for a deep reharmonisation and that the announce effects are actually felt.

What is energy music?

It is not music of relieving even if it sounds as. To avoid any confusion or copies, the authors made of this concept a trade mark. This music is created according to already stated ideas’ and certain musical ‘ sentences ‘. But it is not possible to know more about it for the authors make a point of protecting certain trade secrets.

Which are the effects of these recordings?

The body is released from the outer elements, from the stress which it contained, the cells of the body are putagain in communication. That is sometimes accompanied by crises of tears or intense emotions, especially if one never really carried out work on oneself. One could make the comparison with a homeopathic treatment, for, at the beginning, there is often an aggravation of the symptoms. Let us specify however that in this phase ‘ of elimination ‘, the music never push the individual further than what he is able to manage. One cannot neither speak about doping or hyperstimulation of certain centers of energy. The only objective is to put the person in a good condition. When certain people do not support sound sequences, that testifies of a weak point. Thus a person who does not support the sequences with dominant acute suffers or suffered from problems on the level of the nervous system. If on the other hand, the same sequences are lived in a pleasant way, it acts then of a strong point.

Which are currently the available titles?

Nowadays, there are the following titles: – DREAM COILS (SMB 91123001) which works on the cardio-solar center, solar plexus like on the emotivity and affectivity – BREATH OF LIFE (SMB 91123002) which acts on the throat, word, unvoiced comment – LHASSA (SMB 91123003) which operates the frontal and the mental – HELIOS (SMB 91123004) which ensures the harmony of the whole being it and very effectively facilitates the sleep of children and babies.

Other titles are in preparation but you must count that the realization of 4 discs takes seven months at least.

How to listen?

For listening well, it is necessary to put yourself in a state of relieving or lying as for sleeping and pass this music on your Hi-Fi installation on a sufficient level of intensity. The sound arrives thus to the heart of your cells. Thanks to this physiological effect, a person who is hard to hearing thus also profits from the therapeutic effects of the music. You can also use these recordings like musical background. However, in this last case, you will not profit fully from the announced effects. Discs MAEV are thus a completely new concept combining a rational step with the alternative medicines. They are carrying future.

Himalaya Meditation.

Eric Aron (SECIM / SECD 9731)

New Age is in fashion and it seems that the very serious S.E.C.I.M. could not resist the temptation.

The official purpose is different : to make us travel in a quietening, exotic world as well as in natural surroundings (brooks, mountain springs, Tibetan bowls,…).

On a therapeutical level, this recording intends to disorientate and thus to help relaxation in an atmosphere far away from this stressed world.

The CD is composed of pieces for deep relaxation and some more dynamical ones following a progression (from first to fourth, and fifth to sixth).

Alpha.

Frank Lorentzen & John Virkman (FONIX MUSIK / FMF CD 1114)

The title of the recording indicates its purpose : to bring the audience to alpha level of consciousness, i.e on the verge of sleep but in a state of deep and conscious relaxation.

It is perfectly adapted for reducing stress and working on the subconsciousness as practised by psychotherapists.

The sound track contains pure tonalities of quartz bowls, ocean sounds, whales and dolphins voices. These components make me inform you of the regressive character (in the psychological sense) of the CD which might be unpleasant in a state of relaxation. In this particular case, after listening to this recording, it is advised to put one’s anxieties into words in the presence of a professional therapist.

If listened to for spiritual purposes, this CD is rather meant for experiencing inner silence and the Self.

Nada Himalaya.

Deuter (New Earth Records / NE-9706-2)

Appreciation : ***. Relaxation : ***** – Originality : **** – Type : Meditation

This record by well-known Deuter is exclusively based on bells and Tibetan bowls. The author has collected all these instruments during trips in Nepal.

The purpose of this recording is physical and psychical healing. Sounds can be defined as soft but powerful as regards their vibratory qualities. They can help creating a serene and calm atmosphere (or sphere)..

I also suggest to use this recording for meditation that will thus enjoy a very special quality. It can also be used for relaxation after stress but only if you are receptive to this particular type of sounds.

Marie, Porte du Ciel – Gregorian chant and monastic zither

Antiphonera group (Marc Raymond / 33.22.07)

Appreciation : *** – Relaxation : * – Originality : * – Type : religious

Marc Raymond is famous for his very good relaxation zither or piano records.

This recording with the singer Marie-Céline Charles gets really out of the ordinary. The themes are religious first and the fans of Gregorian chant will notice a few “musts” there. The choice of voices and the way to use them will also surprise us. The person accustomed to monks choirs will hear solos by Marie-Céline Charles or duets when she sings with Marc Raymond. The experience was worth while trying, has been done correctly but might disorientate the audience.

Elixir

Iasos (Aquamarin Verlag / AQM 7001)

Appreciation : ** – Originality : *** – Reaction : pneumatic.

Distribution : Aquamarin Verlag (Germany) Fax : 49 8092 1614 (Germany) – Oreade Music (Holland) http//ww.oreade.com/ – Bluestar Communications (North America) http://www.bluestar.com/ – Inter-Dimensional Music (international & net) http://iasos.com/

Iasos is one of the famous New Age musicians. He won one of the Crystal Awards.

Elixir intends to be a passage to the celestial dimensions of light (so much !). Such a music should tune us on this channel of light.

The recording has been made so as to write a sound hologram in the thoughts of the audience. It is recommended to listen to it with closed eyes.

The cover widely comments the themes of the different pieces.

It is obvious that a careful listening to this music brings a feeling of “taking off”. Unfortunately the “landing” is missing and we have to stay in mid air.

Considering its efficiency, I suggest to use it for meditation in a quiet place but neither as a background music nor when driving.

The Ancient Secret

Rishi (FONIX MUSIC / FMD CD 1116)

Appreciation : *** – Originality : *** – Reaction : positive or quietening according to the pieces.

Distribution by Goddaert in Belgium and Le Souffle d’or in France.

This CD answers a “request” of FONIX to the author. This music is meant to be used alongwith the Tibetan exercises of long life.

The music is to be used with the book describing each exercise and giving the necessary advice for their practice. If each piece contains the gist of each exercise, there is not an exercise for each piece. Intuition can also guide the choice of the piece. It will not of a very big help to listen to the music without practising the exercises. But the artistic quality of the CD and its quietening or positives qualities will remain.