Life is a challenge. It is ever more challenging as we try to keep our sanity in an ever increasingly insane World. Taking time out to relax, chill, to wind down, with some ambient sounds to help with the mood shift can help our health, physical and mental. I have been there, done that, but left the T shirt hanging on the rack, sometimes we don’t want to advertise.
Born in 1960.. yeah I have seen a few Winters.. seen the good times, bad times and times inbetween. I have been up, been down and somewhere in the middle most of the time. I lived through the Beatles and The Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Bowie, T.Rex, Slade, Thin Lizzy, Kiss and all those others, all worthy of a mention but too many to list. My point here really being I love rock music! So Mark, how did you get to the whole chilled out, relaxing sound of Elliphen?
I have always loved and listened to many different genres, artists that you just would not put together in a record collection, after all does Frankie Laine fit with AC/DC? In my collection yes they do go together. Music is a mood thing. Different music for different moods. Elliphen is my chill out mood thing.
Back around 2010 I met Joanne who at that time was studying Reiki. Naturally I was the test subject for the treatment and totally loved it. I did find some of the random music with the waterfalls and tweety birds a bit of a distraction, so took a couple of weeks out to compose my own therapy tunes, the result was the first album “Cool Aid.”
Since then I have carried on writing rock music but I have also made time for the more relaxing sounds associated with Elliphen. I endeavour to keep the pieces at just over the 3 minute mark which is a Reiki thing but also keeps the sounds moving on. I would add that Joanne has amassed an impressive list of therapies over that time too, which I volunteered to be the test subject for.. as you do.
Let’s do some official sounding blurb..
Elliphen
Instrumental Music to help relax your body and elevate the mind. Whether meditating, receiving a holistic therapy or perhaps simply relaxing after a busy day, Elliphen will help your mind get where you want it to be.
The Elliphen Project is the vision of Joanne and Mark, two people passionate about Alternative Holistic Therapies. Mark is the Musician, Joanne the Therapist. The Vision, in addition to paying clients, is to offer therapy services to individuals through organisations who work with vulnerable adults free of charge.
Music sales not only support Joanne and Mark but also finance these free therapy sessions. By supporting Elliphen, in the form of buying the music, even just by listening on Spotify and adding Elliphen to your playlist, you are a valuable part of the project and are undoubtedly directly helping to offer a valuable service to others when they need it most, thank you.
Mark.. Musician and Meditation practitioner interested in all holistic therapies. Multiple instruments, currently focusing on relaxation sounds. Nothing pleases Mark more than to know that others are enjoying the music and using it for their own voyage of self discovery.
Joanne.. Holistic Therapist with an impressive list of therapies at her fingertips, literally. Joannes passion is helping people, stressed out, pressurised, anxious people, to unwind and relax those tensed muscles and minds.
When the body feels good the mind follows. Joanne offers treatments in the Highlands, Inverness, Scotland area and would love to hear from anyone considering having a Holistic Treatment.