Healing Music

‘I Will Rise’ Single OUT NOW!

On July 24th, 2020 I Will Rise, Jessie and Josh’s debut single, was released on all major streaming platforms. The official music video is listed above. If you’d like to listen to the song here on this page simply click the embedded BandCamp music player below.

Note: If you’d like to purchase our new song, we welcome you to buy it directly from BandCamp.

For a complete list of links to our music, please click this Smart Music URL to go to a page that will direct you to all the places our music is currently streaming and available for purchase: https://ampl.ink/obV0K

What Is Healing Music?

Healing music is the thing that resonates at the deepest and truest part of everyone when we experience sound. I feel this is why so many refer to music as a “Universal language.” It can speak to all people no matter their age, their ethnicity, religion, gender, etc. When it resonates on a certain level it can even cause us to flail our limbs and dance. Talk about powerful! When Healing Music is used in deeper ways it can even help us address old wounds or trauma. In simple day-to-day applications, it has the ability to transform our moods to happy, sad, contemplative states…just look at the effect of soundtracks in movies. Would we experience the same depth and sincerity to the visual story we witness on screen without the music to stir our souls? I think it’s obvious that music and emotions are intrinsically linked to our human experience. It can be a very powerful tool when employed in certain ways. It’s for this reason why I get VERY excited applying Healing Music directly to my songwriting and performances.

Jessie Sawyers & Josh Rawlings
Sound Healing Music Vol. 1

Toward the end of 2018 my longtime friend and music collaborator Jessie Sawyers and I teamed up to create a series of songs that were based on positive, life affirming, self-love focused affirmations. Jessie originally wrote and recorded the affirmations as speaking audio parts and shared them with me. Her vision was to work with me in harnessing the vibe of each affirmation almost the same way a composer might score for a film. The unique ways in which we composed the music included taking the rhythmic cadences of some of her speech patterns to influence underlying rhythms. We also tried matching pitches of her speaking voice with actual melodic notes in some instances. This speech-tone into melodic pitch technique has been masterfully done by Brazilian Composer & Musician Hermeto Pascoal and Bassist Victor Wooten. Jessie and I also found that a lot of the affirmations nearly wrote music for themselves - we simply needed to “get-out-of-the-way” and let the Muse flow through us. It was an incredible experience and process that took about 6 months of weekly sessions to develop and refine. I think the end result of our work is something truly special that will deeply move people. When I listen to the music we created, I am filled with a real sense of peace and connection. I feel the depth of the music when I’m dancing slowly with my eyes closed or breathing and meditating. With full-emersion headphones, I get the maximum benefits of feeling almost transported to another space entirely. The music is that powerful in my own experience. I invite you to take a listen yourself!

Jessie and I hope to release more music from our Sound Healing Vol. 1 collection of songs.

Stay in touch and if you’d like to know anything more about Healing Music. I have more info about the personalized Healing Music I create here: Good Vibrations.

Self-Love Unlocked Coaching Program

I’d also like to note that all of the Healing Music that we created is currently available in a fantastic program that Jessie created as part of her Self-Love Unlocked program. It utilizes each song we created and builds short meditative exercises people can do every day to open themselves up in positive and transformative ways.

Check out Jessie’s course on her website to learn more and access a free trial of her offerings: selfloveunlocked.com.