Asher Quinn (Asha) ~ Missa Greca

Download here: The Missa Greca was composed and recorded over twenty years ago, and was a track on the album “Mystic Heart“ (I was Denis Quinn at the time) for New World Music. It is now available through Singing Stone Music. Featured musicians apart from myself on keyboards and vocals are Anthony Phillips (ex-Genesis) on charango, Phil Thornton on guitar, Tristan Maillot on percussion, Greek-born Sufi scholar Aziz Dikeulias singing the Greek Orthodox chant, and Sharon Sage as the female vocalist. The inspiration for the piece came when I heard my spiritual teacher at the time, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan of the Sufi tradition, play the Slavonic liturgies sung by a Bulgarian male voice choir. I had also spent two summers with friends near Thessaloniki, in northern Greece, near to the holy Mount Athos. I had the feeling to link a Kyrie Eleison to the melancholy major/minor chord structures found in the sacred music of the eastern orthodox church. I