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What happens when you mix the heart-melting magic of Jami Sieber's music (Hidden Sky, Second Sight, Lush Mechanique) with the mind-opening power of some of the greatest poetry of all time?

Only Breath is a revolutionary meeting between music and poetry that merges poems from around the world with compositions that flow from the depths of stillness to wild world-beat rhythms. 

Electric cellist/vocalist Jami Sieber reaches inside the soul with her passionate playing and compositions that are contemporary and powerfully evocative.  Kim Rosen's gift of speaking poems has made her a voice for poetry's power to awaken, inspire and heal.  Together they create a startling and beautiful dialogue, where the spoken poem becomes a layer of the music and the music an essential voice within the poem.

Only Breath is a river of sound that carries the listener seamlessly though many landscapes of the heart.  Intricately interfaced currents of music and poetry move from the prayerful ecstasy of Sieber's pulsing cello and vocals as they meld with Pablo Neruda's poem 'Poetry' to the tumultuous flood of percussion, flute, bass, vocals and cello.

Sit.  Feast on your life.

Only Breath is an invitation to rediscover what mystics, poets and shamans have known for centuries:  when you join powerful rhythms with the language of the heart, the mind bursts open to an unsayable 'Ahhh' of pure revelation.

Featuring Steve Gorn on bansuri bamboo flute, Ulali the First Nation singing group, Kai Eckhardt and don benediction on bass, Benji Wertheimer on tabla and esraj and others.

Poems by Pablo Neruda, Rumi, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stanley Kunitz, Marina Tsvetaeva, Kim Rosen and Derek Walcott.