Terry Oldfield Classic Series : Out of Depths ...
and other music by Terry Oldfield

Terry Oldfield
When I start work on a piece there is always the feeling that I can't do it. It seems an impossible task to create something from nothing but over the years I have learned to let this feeling be there whilst making myself available to the muse by improvising on some instrument or other (usually the flute which is my greatest love). If nothing happens then I might go and do something completely different like shopping. This seems to allow the unconscious room to work and usually when I come back there is a tune or something there and I know then that it will soon blossom into a song or instrumental.

When I first started playing the flute on the Island of Hydra when I was 19 I used to go up into the forest and sit for hours just exploring the notes and finding my way around the instrument whilst listening to the wind in the pines and the birdsong and silence in between. I had some Greek friends there who took me to the remains of some of the old temples and theatres that stand there serenely in the ancient landscape. I played my flute there amongst the rocks and trees feeling the energy of the places and expressing my feelings through the magical transformation of breath into music.I had been sad and withdrawn through my teenage years and had set off travelling in order to find some sort of meaning in my life and it was through the flute and my connection with the energies of this ancient Greek world that my own energies began to flow again.

I meditate every morning using Vipassana which is essentially observing sensations in the body. For many years I had meditated with the view that there was something to be gained by leaving the physical and entering into some kind of extrasensory realm where lay all that could be deemed to be spiritual. Now I feel the spirit deep within my bones and the connection with this marvelous Earth is feeding my soul and bringing me the inspiration to play from the heart and connect with the hearts of others. When I disappear and become like the open tube of the flute through which the wind blow it is then that the magic happens. The less I am the the more powerful is the sharing with those who recognise themselves in the magical vibration of music.

What is the essential message of your music?
La la la dee dum dee dum dee dum doo waaaaaaahoooo!!!!!!!

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