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Anael is a Canadian born and based New Age vocal artist whose musical offerings focus primarily on Spirit-inspired compositions of melodies and lyrics, which are mindfully created to be used as energetic instruments for the enhancement of the greater human potential.

Born Annie Tremblay on February 1, 1964, Anael hails from Jonquière, a small city on the Saguenay River in the northern region of Quebec, Canada. She started singing at age 2 and knew 30 songs by heart by the age of 5, yet it was in her teen years that she began to take her musical gifts more seriously. At the age of 12 she took a few piano lessons, and at 16 she started playing acoustic guitar and writing her first songs. At 18, after winning one of several local talent competitions, CBC Television made a studio recording and video for her song, Hymne à la Paix. Years later, this song would be re-recorded and featured on her 3rd album, Language of the Soul.

She continued to sing her own songs mainly in private functions for the ensuing years, and finally took a leave of her musical aspirations to have a child in her young adulthood.

At the age of 28, she met composer/poet/producer and musical visionary Bradfield, who would become both her mentor and partner in life. Together they founded APSIS Music ~ Music for the Human Spirit, an independent Canadian label dedicated to the utmost exploration of the human experience. Her musical vision had at last found its heart and home.

Since meeting in 1993, they have collaborated on 12 albums - Light of Refinement (1998), Unconditional (1998), Language of the Soul (1999), Spiritual Beings on a Human Journey (2003), Once Upon a Dream (2005), Buddha Spirit (2006), Within Our Reach (2006), Buddha Spirit 2 (2007), Light & Love (2007), Greatest Gifts 2 (2008), Sacred Signs (Spring 2009) and Exhilara (Spring 2009) - and one philosophical overview DVD - Greatest Gifts (2004) for the New Age genre; while to date Bradfield has one popular album - Harmony in the Chaos (1995) and two piano instrumental albums - Virtue (2001) and St. Peter’s Gate (2005) to his own credit. The 16 recording projects between them, spanning the past 14 years, show their prolific work and passion for their cause.

Beginning with the 1998 release of her own Light of Refinement, Anael has experienced a slow yet steady climb into the public awareness. Each of her first three albums garnered significant airplay on New Age radio throughout the world, reaching the top 20 in the now defunct trade publication New Age Voice. Her third release, Language of the Soul, was a finalist for the 2000 New Age vocal album of the year in the same publication.

In October of 2005, her album Once Upon a Dream reached #4 on iTunes’ top 100 New Age music chart, and spent over 2 years among their top sellers, igniting further interest in her music internationally as well as closer to home.

Conceived and produced for the Fire the Grid worldwide meditation, Light & Love - a compilation assembled in a highly specific manner suggested by Shelley Yates as led by her Light guides - peaked at #5 across all musical genres in the Quebec Loisirs Spring 2007 Catalog.

At Amazon.com in July 2007, her albums Light & Love and Spiritual Beings on a Human Journey reached #2 and #4, respectively, and Light & Love peaked as the #1 most popular item in their New Age music section.

Fire the Grid

By far, the most ambitious and farthest-reaching – and closest to their hearts - of Anael and Bradfield’s joint projects to date has been the Fire the Grid worldwide meditation which they co-founded with Shelley Yates. At Shelley's request, they donated songs for this monumental effort (Sky Sent (Disclosure) and Be Still Thy Soul – both to be found on the albums Spiritual Beings on a Human Journey and Light & Love) - which have now been downloaded for free over twelve (12) million times, combined, from the Fire the Grid website. It is conservatively estimated that ten million souls participated in the meditation which took place on July 17, 2007 at 11:11 GMT across the globe.

Shelley experienced an extraordinary NDE (Near Death Experience) event after a car accident which resulted in the drowning near-deaths of both herself and her young son, in which she was introduced to spiritual “beings of Light”, who explained to her the energetic nature and needs of the planet and all life upon it, and presented her with the first steps in a plan to help alleviate the societal, environmental and spiritually energetic problems we all face. The meditation thusly created was designed to bring together people to pray, meditate, or just ponder upon loving and healing thoughts directed towards the heart of the planet, in order to affect the beginnings of an energetic healing process for Earth and all her inhabitants. As Shelley Yates describes it herself in the liner notes of the Light & Love album, she “was directed to perform a massive energy (ed. - Energy (esotericism)) transfusion for the earth and her inhabitants (ed. - just as had been performed on behalf of her then-dying son after the drowning accident in which they had been involved, only on a far grander scale) by assembling a mass meditation globally with hundreds of thousands of loving humans each contributing their energy to heal the earth and catapult it into the new time of Aquarius (ed. - Age of Aquarius). This is the dawn of a new era where we, as a dedicated group of humans will forge a sharing mentality that will change the earth’s course and its outcome.”

There is a second phase to the FTG plan, known as Project Cause, which has been highly anticipated by the participants of the meditation, and will include education and calls for action, slated to be commenced sometime in the summer of 2009.

Fire the Grid Detractors

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The Life Intended

Godlike Productions

Starfire Tor

The Message Within the Music

In the larger picture, though, Anael’s music is constantly leading her listeners towards this end, (and has always been doing so, since her advent on the musical scene). Through the means of the songs which remind us of the high personal standards each person would seek to embody and exude, we can realize this healing for the planet and for the world community at large. Commencing with the healing and balancing of ourselves and our intentional continuous output of positive energies into our personal environment and interpersonal relationships, this healing will naturally radiate out into the world by way of our thoughts and deeds.

Anael does not just sing her message, she most definitely lives it. In one such manner by example, she embraces Homeopathy (Homeopathic medicine), recognizing its energetic nature in connection with that of the human body and its potential imbalances – knowing, in fact, that all of existence is comprised of varying vibrations and densities of energy. Being so highly attuned to the subtle effects of energies at play upon each other, she seeks to express systemic (wholistic) healing and spiritually uplifting energies within her music, as well. It remains the single most important element of her and Bradfield’s joint creation of their songs. Between the carefully considered tones and the deeply pondered lyrics, each song is a world of energetic information unto itself. In recently developed studies performed by Dr. Andrew Colyer, while the average positive message popular song playing on the radio will register somewhere between 150-300 on this scale developed by Dr. David Hawkins, several of Anael’s songs measure in the range of the high 400’s to low 500’s. Her music is exemplary expression for extraordinary effect for the person looking for music that is designed specifically as a tool for spiritual expansion and development.

Though many of their songs seem to embody a sort of religious nature, they do not endorse (nor exclude) any single religious tradition, but rather strive to create a synthesis of many traditions in an attempt to bring to the fore the best attributes of many of the world’s various faiths and beliefs for the mutual benefit of all who would listen. Their music seeks to find the common ground on which we all may stand and do our good work together in a harmonious manner, for the specific purpose of jointly birthing and creating the New Age of Peace and Love ~ or, as they might say, of “Light & Love” ~ for all of Mankind, regardless of systems of beliefs or any other seeming separation between diverse types of people.

The basic message is simple: we, as a world community, stand poised at an unprecedented point in time - when our general understanding of the mechanisms of the physical world along with our rapid development of technology, combined with our quickly growing comprehension of spiritual concepts and their inherent tools, is advancing at an ever-increasing rate - in which we can affect powerfully positive change and transform our world into the beautiful and productive and abundant space it could be for each and every one of its inhabitants. The music begins the building of the reality of this vision by restructuring the inner man, whose energy then radiates out into his world through his now more conscious efforts, and the physical creation can begin.

Their Musical Creative Process

Their music is created in a wholly intuitive manner. The majority of the material is composed by Bradfield, who completely follows the inspiration of Spirit in the creation of a musical piece. Utilizing meditation and prayer to maintain a healthy communion with Source Energy, and deeply inspired by various spiritual concepts and human experiences and emotions, sometimes a melody will begin to take form or a lyric will develop which he then expands upon and refines. In the course of developing a song from the time of its inception to the that of the finished recording, Bradfield might hear the same piece 400-500 times. There is generally a theme in the process, a type of overview of a spiritual philosophy or ideal at play in the creation of a song and compilation of an album – from its particular arrangement and choice of words to the small embellishments included in the finished musical composition to the order of the songs on the album itself. In this manner, Anael’s albums have a very easy flow about them, one song’s thought leading seamlessly and effortlessly into the ideas of the next.

Album Overviews

It is difficult to provide overviews to these albums without waxing poetic about their content, but in the spirit of the fact that they seem to follow themes of sorts, it could be a useful effort to show Anael’s diversity within the realm of her own unique sound and the definite direction of her intentional message.

She is often compared to Enya – most likely because her music is generally soft and melodic. It is “New Age” music in its form and flow, but it affects a more decisive mental and emotional impact when it comes to the deeper meaning behind the music. Though there are select songs that might be likened to having a sort of “Celtic sound”, there are no songs that seem designed to showcase it in particular. The songs run a wide gamut of styles, however, from the familiar feel of modern soft pop to sounds reminiscent of Classical Baroque music or Renaissance music periods, with cultural influences from many places across the globe. In some instances, the songs are deceivingly simple in their construct and performance, and then in others the orchestrations are rich and full and sometimes almost overwhelming in their scope and beauty. And, almost always, Anael’s clear, heart-centered and thoughtfully delivered tones are the fulcrum of the movement of the entire sound.

Light of Refinement Unconditional Language of the Soul Spiritual Beings on a Human Journey Once Upon a Dream Buddha Spirit Within Our Reach Buddha Spirit 2 Light & Love Greatest Gifts 2 Sacred Signs Exhilara

Greatest Gifts DVD

Harmony in the Chaos Virtue St. Peter’s Gate

Selected Song Lyrical Analysis

2. all albums referenced:
5. The Life Intended
6. [Godlike Productions
7. Starfire Tor
8. Dr. Andrew Colyer - Consciousness Calibration