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“Geodepédie - Hidden Light” - For Christina Tourin, this powerful, thought-provoking phrase is more than simply the perfect title for the influential, world renowned harpist/composer’s sparkling, magically lyrical new album – her first since 2010’s Iona Inspirations, which capped a prolific and prodigious 20 years of composing and recording.
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1. Geodepédie - Hidden Light

2. Music IS Love

3. Passacaglia - Handel’s Healing Harp

4. Brigid’s Green Mantle

5. Land O’ The Leal 

6. Early One Morning

7. Walk Through The Sunflowers

8. Reminisce

9.Sommarpsalm

10. Icelandic Northern Lights

11. Morning Mood

12. Largo - Vivaldi’s Vision

13. Arigatou, I For You

14. Amethyst of Avalon

15. As Above, So Below

16. Colors Of The Seasons



Brilliant international harpist Christina Tourin presents Geodepédie – Hidden Light, an album title twist on Erik Satie’s beloved “Gymnopedie” composition. In this all-new release, Christina’s crystalline recordings are embedded with meaning from the Callanish Stones of Scotland, embracing worldwide influences from Scottish Traditionals to Japanese & Icelandic lore and Finnish Folktales, all informing Christina’s soothing new music performed on myriad harps; she features Lies Joosten (harp) on Track 1, and is occasionally accompanied throughout the album by vocals (Buvana Gerlach), minimal percussion (Peter Sprague, Guitar), and a hint of synthesizers (Peter Sprague, Suzanne Doucet, Dave Eastoe). The album’s overall feeling is hopeful and uplifting, the Traditional Gaelic, Celtic, and Cosmic flavorings offering an enlightening soundtrack to our lives. One reviewer writes, “Her music is like looking into the crystalline light of a newly-opened geode; one can feel the magical connection to the night sky, filled with glittering stars, planets and galaxies.” 

ARTIST BIO

Christina Tourin

As one of the foremost leading educators of the harp, whose International Harp Therapy Program currently has training centers in multiple countries and languages with Therapeutic Harp Practitioners from 32 countries serving on five continents, Christina truly lives a life "as above so below," experiencing the magnificent and transcendent in small but significant ways.


While perhaps only the start of a list of countless accolades across many musical endeavors, her lifetime of dedication to educating people on the harp has always been her way of making a difference in the world.


From classical masterpieces, Celtic traditionals, and sonic innovations from other cultures to improvisational meditative atmospheres, music has been a constant inspiration throughout Christina's life. Trained in performance both at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and at McGill University in Montreal, Christina's fascinating musical life has taken her around the world from Japan to Ireland, where she's brought the National Instrument of the harp to blind children; she also served as a trained music therapist at the Blind Institute of San Diego. In addition, she performed for 17 years for the Von Trapp Family at their Austrian Chalet Lodge in Vermont, and has accompanied chorales, performed with symphonies and been part of ensembles in off-Broadway theatres.


As thousands of grateful listeners, students and patients can attest, Christina's performances are the sacred, transcendent moments where she is most fully alive. Bringing her harp to magical life, she shares with the world the deepest, most profound truths of the universe, which she rightfully and intuitively credits as the source of all she creates - including this album, Geodepédie - Hidden Light.


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