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Carlos Voight

Impermanent are all created things

About Me


Dont Forget to check out Carlos on DonkeyPunk's Latest Album"White Lies And Black Hearts"For more information, please visit www.donkeypunk.com or www.myspace.com/donkeypunk
Carlos Voight was born in Invercargill Southland New Zealand.
He was surrounded by music from a very early age, due to the influence of his Grandfather an Electric Bassist and his Father a Electric Guitarist, Producer and Sound Engineer.
Due to this Carlos developed an ear for music and was constantly inspired in his youth by artists such as, Steve Vai, Toto, Chicago, Dream Theater, Steely Dan , Jordan Rudess, Sting, and Joe Satriani just to name a few.
Carlos progressed through the years with Credits from the Royal School Of Music UK as well as the Auckland School of Music and experimented with several other instruments such as Electric Guitar, Drums, and Electric Bass , ultimately returning to the black and whites and the power they can impact upon the soul.
Carlos is currently recording his new EP " Dual World Prophecy" a blend of Progressive Synth Based Rock and Melodic Modal Piano Solos. The album is a concept attempting to identify the dualism of human society.
Expected release date in New Zealand is February of 2008
Prophecy in a broad sense, is the prediction of future events or the speaking of divine words (divine Revelation) through chosen human messengers (prophets). The etymology of the word is Greek, from pro- "before" plus the root of phanai "speak", i.e. "speaking before" or "foretelling" (proclamation). Prophecy is a general term for assertions presented as the revelation of divine will. Sometimes the Greek word mantikê (divination) is translated as prophecy.[1]
In religion, a prophet (or prophetess) is a person who has directly encountered the numinous or the divine and serves as an intermediary with humanity. Prophets existed in many ancient cultures, including the Sybilline and Delphic Oracles in Ancient Greece, the Völuspá in Old Norse, Zoroaster in Persia, and many others. In Abrahamic religion, a prophet is seen as a person who has encountered, and speaks as a formal representative of, God; some are understood as founding or revitalizing a religion based on their teachings.
False prophet is a label given to a person who is viewed as illegitimately claiming charismatic authority within a religious group. The individual may be seen as one who falsely claims the gift of prophecy, or who uses that gift for demagogy or evil ends.Prophets are particularly important figures in many of the world's major religions. In particular, this article will focus on false prophets in Judaism, Christianity and Islam and the specific interpretative and theological models each religion uses in order to determine a true prophet from a false one.
THE DUAL WORLD PROPHECY
-Fulfilled -2008BR
"When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But at last his heart changed,--and rising one morning with the rosy dawn, he went before the sun, and spake thus unto it:Thou great star! What would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!For ten years hast thou climbed hither unto my cave: thou wouldst have wearied of thy light and of the journey, had it not been for me, mine eagle, and my serpent.But we awaited thee every morning, took from thee thine overflow and blessed thee for it.Lo! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that hath gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it.I would fain bestow and distribute, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.Therefore must I descend into the deep: as thou doest in the evening, when thou goest behind the sea, and givest light also to the nether-world, thou exuberant star!Like thee must I GO DOWN, as men say, to whom I shall descend.Bless me, then, thou tranquil eye, that canst behold even the greatest happiness without envy!Bless the cup that is about to overflow, that the water may flow golden out of it, and carry everywhere the reflection of thy bliss!Lo! This cup is again going to empty itself, and Zarathustra is again going to be a man.Thus began Zarathustra's down-going"
Intolerant minds seeking deposit for nihalistic dictators,
Dramatists bluring grey lines with red, calculated envy , Apportioned remorse
Free Mind Idealists, spent in currency slavetrades,
Shallow minds rule hollow spaces, with full pockets and empty souls

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/21/2006
Band Website: carlosvoight.com
Band Members: Carlos Voight- Pianist/Keyboardist/Synthesist/Composer
Sam Polwart- Album Vocals+BV , ( DonkeyPunk, Hometown Advantage)

Influences:

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring—
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow—I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I loved—I loved alone—
Thou—in my childhood—in the dawn
Of a most stormy life—was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still—
From the torrent, or the fountain—
From the red cliff of the mountain—
From the sun that round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold—
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by—
From the thunder and the storm—
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.

Edgar Allan Poe March 17, 1829

Pianist/Keyboardist Influences-

Jordan " The Wizard " Rudess, Bruce Hornsby, Art Tatum, Herbie Hancock, Ahmad Jamal, Scott Cossu,Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, George Duke, Chick Corea ( Elektric Band), Evgeny Kissin, Alfred Brendel,Russell Ferrante,Michael Cretu ( ENIGMA ), Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson, Jason Rebello

Musical Influences- Bands, Composers etc

Steve Vai, Dream Theater, Joe Satriani, The Smashing Pumpkins, Toto, Sting ( Nothing Like the Sun, Bring on the night), Steely Dan, Joe Jackson, Spyro Gyra, Miles Davis ( 1980s), Chicago, Eric Clapton, Earth Wind and Fire, Yellowjackets, Rage Against The Machine, Third Eye Blind, Tool (Early 90s Undertow etc), Genesis, Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Peter Gabriel, Liquid Tension Experiment, The Dixie Dreggs, Level 42, The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, T-Square, Massive Attack , Jamiroquai, Average White Band, The Electric Band, John Coltrane, Simon and Garfunkel, Phill Collins, Incognito, The Brand New Heavies, Ahmad Jamal Trio, John Pettrutci, The Range, Tori Amos, Paco, Dizz and Monk, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Goo Goo Dolls, Seal, Keane, Muse, Machines of Loving Grace, Stone Temple Pilots,Rollins Band, For Love Not Lisa, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Medicine, Clanad, Crash Test Dummies, Deftones, The Eagles, Enya, Fleetwood Mac, Fiona Apple, Garbage, Iron Maiden, Hendrix, Lennon, Live, Matchbox 20, Metallica, New Order, R.E.M, Talking Heads,

Sounds Like: Disambiguation
Record Label: Slipstream/Adamatium Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Album Sessions

Hi All, Just and update for you, the album sessions are going well so far Icarus, Freewalk, Tears for NYC and Itopia3016ad are recorded mixed and ready to go. Now im on to the acoustic tracks , ...
Posted by Carlos Voight on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:02:00 PST

The Purpose and the Reason - The Long Way Home

Sometimes in life its easy to walk away when no ones watching,Sometimes the voices in your head are telling you the truth.Sometimes the ones we love, are the ones who cause us the most pain.I began wr...
Posted by Carlos Voight on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:17:00 PST