Beautiful Bird (Ethereal Version)

by Holly Honeychurch - Adrian Freedman

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Beautiful Bird is an honouring song for the passage of loved ones. It has a quality of sorrow and grief, but also is uplifting and carries a message of strong spirit and eternal love.

The song is part of a suite of 8 songs that Adrian received in 2009 when his mother passed away. He tells the story of how the song came about:

“Beautiful Bird is such a special song for me, as I received it in the final moments when my mother June passed away. At the moment of her final breath, I was sitting with her, and I felt her spirit leave her body. I felt myself begin to journey away with her, then I remembered I had to come back to my body! As I was ‘re-entering’ the room I heard this song fully-formed in my head.

In the days that followed I went into a very deep and solitary meditation where I had many images and insights about this journey that my mother's spirit was making, and about questions of mortality and spirituality. I also received seven more songs to go with Beautiful Bird as a set.

Collectively these songs are called Song of The Pure Land. They are a deep meditation on the nature of death, a set of guidances for both those making the passage and those left behind. A song of mourning also of honouring loved ones that make the passage.

I’ve never made a proper recording of the song before, and I was really touched when I heard this beautiful version by Holly. I love the gentle, ethereal character of her voice and her interpretation of the song”

The original version of Beautiful Bird is song #101 from the Song of the Eternal Heart Songbook, which can be heard here, recorded live in a sacred ceremony:
adrianfreedman.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-bird-live

The songbook itself can be found here:
adrianfreedman.com/product/song-of-the-eternal-heart-songbook/

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released November 18, 2021

Adrian Freedman: Words and Music

Holly Honeychurch: Voice, harp, synthesizer

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Adrian Freedman Devon, UK

Adrian Freedman is a master of the shakuhachi, bamboo Zen flute of Japan. His music is heartfelt and full of subtle dynamics which conjure an atmosphere of rarefied peace, with a deeply healing sense of spaciousness, pristine clarity and delicate beauty. The scope of his music is diverse, including songs was well as instrumental music, but an ineffable sense of the sacred is retained throughout. ... more

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