Constance Demby
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Biography
[Edit]Constance Demby is one of the few representatives of the New Age movement (in both her music and her personal philosophies) who consistently creates artistic, highly expressive compositions. Demby was trained in classical music as a child, and her artistic spirit led her to also master several other art forms; at the University of Michigan, she studied painting, sculpture, and music. It was her work as a sculptor that led her to new dimensions of sound. As she was torching a sheet of metal, it roared thunderously, and thus was born the Sonic Steel Instruments: the Whale Sail, and the Space Bass, enormous bowed instruments with deep archetypal resonances.
As an innovator in the world of sound, Demby learned a number of ethnic instruments and found ways to use them inventively. She co-founded a unique multimedia group, Central Maine Power Sound & Light, which toured the East Coast from 1971 to 1976 with their "Space Mass" program and other groundbreaking light/sound and planetarium shows.
In the late '70s, Demby began to investigate the spiritual life by following a discipline that was focused on the inner light and the inner sound, or Surat Shabd Yoga. She found a special affinity for the hammered dulcimer and discovered that her "prayers would turn into song." These devotional songs formed the basis of her first album, Skies Above Skies.
In 1980, Demby, a fifth generation Californian, returned to Marin County north of San Francisco, where she received a warm reception and played concerts to overflow audiences. Here, she founded her own record company, Sound Currents, and released Sunborne, an ambitious five-part tone poem that featured her Sonic Steel instruments, world percussion, synthesizers, hammered dulcimer, and vocals.
The mid-'80s brought changes in recording technology with the advent of digital sampled sounds; Demby embraced this electronic revolution to compose contemporary space music using a full range of symphonic instruments, pipe organ, and choral voices. Tapping into her spiritual guidance, she brought through, track by track, Novus Magnificat, the album that many call the most important New Age recording of all time. This album, released in 1986, was one of the first releases on the Hearts of Space record label. Her other albums with Hearts of Space include the devotional Sacred Space Music, the celebratory Set Free, and Aeterna, the emotionally cathartic sequel to Novus Magnificat.
Demby says of the artistry and spiritual impact of her music: "Novus Magnificat reached 'up and out' to catch a galactic beam through space. Aeterna is down and into the heart, here and now. Now our society is in the thick of it, and if people do not handle their feelings, we are in trouble. My music is emotional, but it is always redemptive. If my music stirs things up and takes you down into your feelings, it will then transmute, take you up and out again and redeem. If the listener approaches music with 'active listening,' or with full absorption, and if the music has spiritual commitment and depth, then music can blow your mind. It will make you weep. And you will wonder breathlessly,'God, what was that? It did something to me!'"
In 2000, after release of a few private label albums, Demby moved from Southern California to Barcelona, Spain, relishing the openness of its people for music and the arts.
Title: Novus Magnificat (Alternate Version)
Artist: Constance Demby
Genre: Ambient, New Age, Electronica
Title: Revive
Artist: Constance Demby
Genre: Electronica, Tech House, Hip Hop/R&B, Rock, Death Metal
Title: My Heart Can't Remember - Single
Artist: Constance Demby
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Décodeurs et pixels - Single / Decodeurs et pixels - Single
Artist: Constance Demby
Genre: Pop
Title: White Shores (feat. Jake Olson) - Single
Artist: Constance Demby
Collections
Title: Zouk Hits 2013
Genre: World Music
Title: Louanges de vie, vol. 3 (Femme, loue ton Dieu)
Genre: Gospel, World Music
Title: Louanges de vie, vol. 3 (Femme loue ton Dieu)
Genre: World Music
Title: Tracks Across the Universe, Vol. 2
Genre: Electronica
Title: New Romantics - A Hearts of Space Classic Collection
Genre: New Age
Title: Afrolove / Kizomba / Special
Genre: World Music, Latin
Title: Hearts of Space: Universe 1
Genre: New Age
Title: Hearts of Space: Universe 4
Genre: New Age
Title: Dis moi Zouk by Medhy Custos
Genre: Latin
Title: Liquid Excuse
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Soul
Title: Musica Para Desaparecer Dentro Vol. 1 (CD1)
Genre: New Age
Title: Musica Para Desaparecer Dentro II (CD1)
Genre: New Age
Title: Mbnt: Proto-Ambient Music From Hearts Of Space
Genre: Electronica
Title: Drifter Vol. 5
Genre: Ambient
Title: Francement Zouk (Lorsque Le Zouk S'exprime En Français)
Genre: Pop
Title: COVID-19 (Final Ambient Edition) (CD5)
Genre: Electronica
Title: Just Zouk
Genre: World Music, Zouk
Title: Rock Kids Volume 2 (CD1)
Genre: Rock
Featuring albums
Title: Philippe Monteiro Presents Tornado
Artist: Vários Artistas / Varios Artistas
Genre: World Music
Title: Mbnt: A Recollection Of Proto-Ambient Music From The Hearts Of Space
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor
Title: I Am the Center: Private Issue New Age Music in America, 1950-1990
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: New Age
Title: Voix & voie du seigneur, vol. 3 (Compilation 100% Adoration)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Gospel, World Music
Title: Adorons l'éternel, vol. 2 / Adorons l'eternel, vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music
Title: I Am the Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Ambient, New Age, Electronica
Title: Ça N'a Sens Aucun: Parties 2, 3, 1 / Cha N'a Sens Aucun: Parties 2, 3, 1
Artist: BhamsaDuta
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop