Mt Sinai Frontier of Byzantium

Early Music America Review

Voices of Byzantium: Medieval Byzantine Chant from Mt. Sinai

The music speaks to a higher self: its target is the divine and focuses on the soul in direct union with God. One of its hallmarks is the luxurious usage of time.

“The music speaks to a higher self: its target is the divine and focuses on the soul in direct union with God. One of its hallmarks is the luxurious usage of time. The repetitions of notes have an almost hypnotic effect, but in this timeless musical system, one does not “space out” but rather holds the musical vocabulary and deeply embedded symbolic intentions in an alert and focused gesture of containment…”

–Paul-James Dwyer