Asha ~ Sacred heart

Asha (aka Asher Quinn & Asha Elijah) ~ 'Sacred heart' from "Open Secret." CD/download available here: http://www.ashaquinn.com/opensecret.htm

This was the very first track on my very first album, back in 1987. I began writing proper songs and pieces in about 1979, but got 167 rejections from record companies and publishing companies over the next few years, before New World Music took my instrumental pieces on. After that I began to add vocals. "Open Secret" became very successful, and I stayed with New World until 2004, selling over a million albums. Since 2005 I've been independent.

As a child I loved the mournful Italian baroque composers like Vivaldi, Albinoni and Scarlatti. 'Sacred heart' was a kind of inverted adaptation of Pachelbel's Canon, but in a minor key.

I invited my young music student friends to play on it, back then... the violin by Ivor McGregor, cello by Jemma Siddel, flute by Cynthia Robertson, and oboe by Anthony Freer. There were no keyboard samples used! It was all 'live' in the studio of my friend and mentor Anthony Phillips, of Genesis.

Finally I've filmed for it... footages of sacred places in Budapest, a city I love with a passion.

Видео Asha ~ Sacred heart канала Asha