Music. Change. The World. Speak Heartlanguage

"Music can change the world". That quote, ascribed to Bono, has already proven its truth. Most of us alive today are vividly aware music has changed the world. We are particularly aware of the synchronous call and response from music to cultural change that has helped awaken the Zeitgeist of our times.

Music's best friend reaching out across cultural and geographic divides, in the last, amazing 60 years, has been electronic media conduits. But, it is the Music itself, that we are alive, and attuned to, that has always been the cause of our atoms dancing with Life. Many anthropologists believe man's first communications in "intelligent" sound were through musical expression.

Modern neurology has shown that music communicates to, and affects, the neo, limbic, and both hemispheres of the cerebral cortex, and consequently, our entire nervous system. Even the deaf have measurable response to external music, and, we know from Beethoven and others, many deaf hear music internally.

We can endlessly dissect and describe it, (some objective scientists can only say it's "hallucination" ) in truth, we cannot say what music is, or where it truly comes from, before it is born on a score sheet, played on an instrument, or sung. For all human beings, Music, like Love, is a universal language. As Love is perceived in our spiritual "heart", so perhaps are the rhythms of music most acutely perceived by the rhythms of our physical heart. To communicate with the unity of our spiritual and physical "Heart", is the precept, inspiration, and purpose of Heartlanguage Music.

This project was born in songs heard internally, later performed and recorded in studios, and finally manifested as a 15 piece ensemble whose first rehearsal was April 3, 2007. Heartlanguage's obvious tag-line began as "the band with the face of the human race". Our members have been Red, Black, White, Yellow, and Brown; Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Native Spiritualists, Agnostic, and atheist. Ages from late teens, twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties-and multiple first languages. We are a living example of humans making harmony, when we choose to express ourselves through "heartlanguage"-love and music.

When, on Inauguration Day, 2009, millions of people gathered in Washington, D.C., I could hear the Sound of our Message.

What kind of music is it? We like to believe it's "good music", first of all. Our young drummer calls it RAZZ-rock, R&B, jazz, reaching past old boundaries, reaching for change, reaching for the world.

—Steven B.