CD: Colour Healing by Llewellyn

By Louise Green View Profile
A burst of fireworks, a rainbow and a sunset colour the CD's outer sleeve, it reminded me of a holiday brochure and I felt cheerful just looking at it. The set comprises of a CD, with music by Llewellyn and a small booklet on colour by Lilian Verner-Bonds. The booklet introduces colour, how it is used in healing and its influence on us. The ten colours featured on the CD are listed individually with a colour photograph, key words to describe it and the colours' uses. The last section explains how to use the recording during meditation. The glossy, informative and well produced booklet is CD sized; you might need spectacles though to read it as the print is tiny.

I could describe the tracks individually but that would be unfair to you, as I believe you may want to listen to each track and guess the colour for yourself. Llewellyn illustrates each colour wonderfully; the warmer tones pulsate and vibrate with a faster beat. Every time I have played this album I have danced my way around the sitting room in time to the drums, flutes and piano, another track had me swaying my way around with a duster whilst enjoying the Caribbean sound of a steel band, the album's effect in its warmer hues genuinely does energise. The tracks change to cooler colours as the album progresses and the tempo slows. Saxophones, piano and guitar gently lull you into the deeper shades. I could really let my mind drift off and away, I thought of a night sky deepening into darkness, the Moon rising with the first stars appearing.

Llewellyn is a talented artiste; he captures the essence of colour in each track. Anyone who......more