Helen Anahita Wilson - Bhooma (2018)

Critically acclaimed pianist, composer, multi-instrumentalist and musical explorer, Helen Anahita Wilson released new album. Helen Anahita Wilson is a pianist, composer, multi-instrumentalist and musical explorer based in Brighton, UK and performs multi-sensory, post-genre concerts across the world. In exploring music from across the world she draws inspiration from many Asian traditions, from jazz and from her own background as a Western classical musician. She has performed at major venues and festivals across the world and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Helen has studied performance and composition at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Guildhall School of Music and Drama London, the University of Sussex and SOAS, University of London. A multi-instrumentalist, Helen also plays and performs on Indian santoor, harmonium, toy piano, percussion and electronics. Helen's debut solo album 'BHOOMA' is due for released in 2018. On the process of making and performing music, Helen Anahita Wilson in her own words: "I am guided by pleasure and by the sensation of sound. The felt sense of sound. Being synaesthetic, my senses are blended so I not only hear sound but I also see it and feel it. I feel vibrations inside my body and in the space around me. I resonate. When I play I ensure that the physical act itself is pleasurable and the sounds feel good in my body. I commune with sound and I hope to bring my audience into that communion with me when I play. There is a spiritual connection with sound. I like to build and sculpt sonic space. And I like to colour it, be it by flooding space with sound and resonance or just by hearing one tiny drop of the most delicate beauty being suspended. There are five golden rules that govern and guide all my work: Pleasure, Embodiment, Resonance, Personal Authenticity and Freedom.