Name: Ankh: The Sound of Ancient Egypt
Brand: Celestial Harmonies
SKU: 42464
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Ankh

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Album: Ankh: The Sound of Ancient Egypt
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Atum: Creator Sun God
2)	Atum: Creator Sun God
3)	Atum: Creator Sun God
4)	Atum: Creator Sun God
5)	Atum: Creator Sun God
6)	Maat: Truth, Balance, Order
7)	Maat: Truth, Balance, Order
8)	Maat: Truth, Balance, Order
9)	Maat: Truth, Balance, Order
10)	Maat: Truth, Balance, Order
11)	Khet: The Physical Body
12)	Khet: The Physical Body
13)	Khet: The Physical Body
14)	Khet: The Physical Body
15)	Shen: Eternity
16)	Shen: Eternity
17)	Shen: Eternity
18)	Shen: Eternity

Album: Ankh: The Sound of Ancient Egypt
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Atum: Creator Sun God
2)	Atum: Creator Sun God
3)	Atum: Creator Sun God
4)	Atum: Creator Sun God
5)	Atum: Creator Sun God
6)	Maat: Truth, Balance, Order
7)	Maat: Truth, Balance, Order
8)	Maat: Truth, Balance, Order
9)	Maat: Truth, Balance, Order
10)	Maat: Truth, Balance, Order
11)	Khet: The Physical Body
12)	Khet: The Physical Body
13)	Khet: The Physical Body
14)	Khet: The Physical Body
15)	Shen: Eternity
16)	Shen: Eternity
17)	Shen: Eternity
18)	Shen: Eternity

Performer Notes

Personnel includes: Michael Atherton (vocals, various instruments); Mary Demovic (vocals); Maria Campbell, Angela Shrimpton, Stephen Clark, Hasan Shanal (background vocals); Mina Kanaridas, Philip South, Greg Hebblewhite.
Engineers: Mark Keating, Alex Cockburn, Craig Abercrombie.
Recorded at Digital City & Studio Nepean, Syndey, Australia. Includes liner notes by Michael Atherton.
Personnel: Michael Atherton (harp, lute, oud); Stephen Clark (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Michael Gissing.
Recording information: Digital City Studios.
The concept for this album came when composer/multi-instrumentalist Michael Atherton was commissioned to produce a creative reconstruction of ancient Egyptian music for an exhibition at the Australian Museum. Atherton took it one step further, pursuing a long-term research project of which this entrancing CD is the result. By studying literary and visual records as well as surviving artifacts, he began to get an idea of which instruments had been used in ancient Egypt, then approached the compositions by drawing on his experience with medieval monophony, Eastern European and Turkish folk music, and a variety of intercultural projects. Scholarly though all this may sound, the music on Ankh teems with mystical passion, with hypnotic melodies that wrap you in their webs and won't let go. Is it authentic? Who knows? But it's definitely effective. ~ Bret Love