I am a singer/songwriter who began by being an instrumental new-age composer back in 1987, recording several albums for New World Music , some of which topped the new-age/ambient charts around the world, like "Open Secret", "Mystic Heart", "Wings of Fire" and "Concert of Angels".
My early recordings were produced by my footballing and cricketing buddy Anthony Phillips , who was a co-founder of Genesis, and my later new-age offerings were produced by chillout arch-wizard Phil Thornton , at his "Expandibubble" studio in Bexhill ("Phil's shed" to me).
I started to add lyrics from a spiritual perspective, which at the time was unique in the new-age field, and now am more of a mainstream balladeer singing love songs in the great troubadour tradition... songs of romantic, courtly, spiritual and mythic love. Some of my imagery and feeling spiritual inspiration is drawn from the mystical aspects of major religious traditions... Christian, Kabbalistic, Sufi, Daoist and so on... also from mythology and Jungian psychology, all of which take me closer to some kind of inner transcendent relationship with a greater reality, but I wish to stress that I'm not a Christian in the ordinary sense, despite the preponderance of Christian imagery in some of my songs, which is really more of a cultural phenomenon. If anything I'm a 'universal soldier' as Donovan once sang!
My albums are now starting to be distributed in the UK by Voiceprint Records , and a smaller subsidiary company called Camino Records . Since 2005 I have been with Wolf-Eye Records , who distribute many of my titles in mainland Europe from their base in the Netherlands.
I began to improvise on the piano and play by ear aged 3, and there are some piano tracks on my albums, hence I can also be found at newagepiano.net
Apart from music, I work as a Jungian psychotherapist and lecturer in depth psychology, and am engaged in shamanic studies and practices; see asherquinnpsychotherapy.co.uk I am married, have two young sons and live by the river in south west London.
You Tube video : A promo clip for the forthcoming Voiceprint Records release of the 2 CD collection FORGOTTEN LANGUAGE OF THE HEART
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A promo clip for the Voiceprint Records re-issue of my debut solo album OPEN SECRET.
