RANN NA FEIRSTE’S adopted son Harald ‘Mór’ Juengst has released a new CD, ‘Handpan Music to Soothe the Soul’.
Harald ‘Mór’ Juengst was behind the beautiful Healing Hands CD for ‘Doctors Without Borders’, which has raised close to €12,000, and featured a selection of top class traditional and folk musicians and singers from Donegal. Among them were Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Manus Lunny (Capercaillie) and Eamon McElhom (Solas, Stockton’s Wing) to name but a few.
The German native is back, and is excited about his latest offering, ‘Handpan Music for the Soul’, which is a collaboration with well-known Tyrone musician Eamon McElhom.
He told the Donegal News: “It all started in west Donegal a few years ago, when I had been invited by Ranafast yoga teacher Nora Graham to accompany with my handpan her sessions in the Rosses and Gweedore. After numerous appearances, Nora suggested to me the production of a CD, which should capture these relaxing sound experiences.
“The album presents a collaboration between myself and a German musician and radio presenter, and my Irish friend the Tyrone man Eamon McElholm of Solas and Stockton’s Wing fame. On this production, I play a C-sharp minor stainless steel handpan with nine strongly reverberant fields, manufactured by Bill Brown from Dortmund, Germany.
“With its 432 hertz frequency, this particular handpan carries mellow, earthy, relaxing sounds to the heart and ears which long to caress the soul – an overwhelming sound escaping from time and space to soothe, calm, and comfort.
“To complement the sound I play a KoMo, a combined instrument consisting of a 13-string in C-sharp minor pentatonic tuned Koto, as well as a monochord with 25 strings all tuned in C-sharp.
“Eamon contributes piano, guitar, keyboard, programming and his enormous creative and magical, professional empathy for arrangements, sounds, engineering and producing.
“There are 10 tracks on this album, all composed in teamwork by myself and and Eamon McElholm.”
The production was recorded at Eamon’s Homeboy Studio, Omagh, Tyrone. The playing time is 58 minutes.
Harald said some local busking events are in the pipeline.
See www.harald-juengst.com for more information
