A groundbreaking CD of spiritual and musical fusion in which a solo female artist creates a magical web of voice, poetry, sounds from nature and music. Join Irina on a passionate and lyrical journey into a woman's soul.

27 MP3 Songs in this album (60:51) !
Related styles: Spoken Word: Poetry, Spiritual: Inspirational, Solo Female Artist

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âWOULD THAT I COULDâ

New Release of the MusicFusionPoetry CD by âWord Dancerâ, Irina Kuzminsky

Breathing New life into Poetry with Dance
Australian âWord Dancerâ Irina Kuzminsky
launches her groundbreaking poetry CD of
spiritual and musical fusion, Would That I Could

In this new way of experiencing poetry the
listener is given a unique insight into one
womanâs personal quest to achieve spiritual
insight into a world graced by the feminine soul.

The music is eclectic, both meditative and engaged, drawing on a common human past, and yet profoundly fresh and new.
Musically the CD encompasses classical and world influences, ranging from Celtic and Indian to medieval chant and contemporary, against a backdrop of sounds from nature. Searing original vocals and spoken word blend in a unique style to create original settings of Irinaâs poems. âIt was each poem that gave me the clue as to the musical setting it wanted to have,â says Irina.
The words draw their inspiration from various spiritual traditions of the world, from Sufism and the Whirling Dervishes, to Christianity, Sophia, and the Devi in Her many forms.

Listeners have found the CD âexoticâ, âdifferentâ, âmesmerizingâ, âuniqueâ ¬â âthe balance of all the elementsâ is âan alchemy that somehow you have managed to concoctâ

âYour voice and music have a healing qualityâ SBS Radio interview 22 Dec 2010


âIrina is absolutely a voice for our time, a voice in which the feminine is exquisitely and burningly present in rage, depth, eroticism and tendernessâ
Jay Ramsay (poet, author, healer)

âTo you poetry is a vehicle of the truth and that is something I value greatlyâ
William Anderson (author, poet, broadcaster)
It Started in Childhood

âAs a child the first poems I remember were sung â voice, melody, words and rhythm all working together. There was not much separation between the rhythm of the words and the rhythms of the musical voice,â says Irina. âSo, extending poetry into the realm of music was simply to follow what was already there. Each artform illuminating the other â and showing another way into the same space.

It is the space which is the key to it, the space I seek to contact â or which contacts me â when I write. And itâs the same space I look for when I dance or when I hear or make music. This space transmits â an â experience, a feeling, an intangible knowing â it might come initially in the form of a rhythm or an image or a phrase â or even a gesture. My work is to remain clear enough to sense it as purely as I can, and then to give it form.

Like movement and sounds, words are themselves vibrations, part of the whole spectrum of vibrating energy which deep down is our reality. Poetry â poetry is like the dance of language â words dancing â and pointing beyond themselves, offering a portal onto the mystery which lies beyond. It is there that that space is found where we touch the universe and are touched by it in turn, nourishing our senses and our souls â and poetry helps open a road there, a road then travelled by the musical voice.â


Would That I Could grew out of the publication of Irinaâs first poetry collection, Dancing with Dark Goddesses, published in the UK by Awen in 2009, and launched at the Heavenâs Gate festival celebrating William Blakeâs birthday.

As part of the launch Irina performed a set from Dancing with Dark Goddesses, combining dance, poetry and music, which was acclaimed as âbreathtakingâ, âan incredible dance-recital tour de forceâ and âa performance of complete commitment, passion and technical brillianceâ.
Audience comments included: âspecial and different â like no-one elseâ, âuniqueâ, âotherworldlyâ, âit feels very ancient what you doâ, âlike nothing I have ever seen before â fantastic!â


Dancer, Poet, Singer, Pianist, Academic
Irina is a dancer, poet and singer with wide-ranging performance experience in dance, recitals, opera, cross-arts collaborations and dance theatre. Living the dance through performance, poetry and music remains for her a lifelong discipline and exploration of the fusion of the physical and spiritual aspects of the self. At the most personal level her art - and life - are centred around the desire to rediscover and reconnect with the Divine Feminine. Poetry, dance and music are both a part of and an expression of that journey.

Upon graduating from Melbourne University (Arts and Music), Irina won a Commonwealth scholarship to Oxford where she wrote her doctorate on the Language of Women, and was elected Junior Research Fellow in Humanities at Wolfson College.











For more INFORMATION please see

Irinaâs WEBSITE:

www.irinakuzminsky.com

Would That I Could CD and Dancing with Dark Goddesses are also available from Irinaâs website, Awen publications, Thomasâ Music (Melbourne), Waterstones (UK), WHSmith (UK) and selected bookstores