TEMPLO DE LUZ • VOLUME 1

The CD

More than 100 artists from all around the globe have united their voices in this compilation of 22 songs that will uplift the spirit, exhilarate the soul, and in the heart of the Andes, help raise a temple that will shine its light forever!

This CD is dedicated to the Bahá'í Temple of Chile and contains new, unreleased and some previously released material from artists such as Iran's legendary Ahdieh (Farsi), New Zealander writer/artist/musician Grant Hindin Miller, the Caribbean steel drums of Kiskadee, the debut releases from Christopher Faizi, Walter Heath, KC Porter (Spanish), Canada's JB Eckl, Amir Haghighi (Farsi), Tara Ellis and Jamey Heath, Ává, Emma Layli, Behzad (Farsi), Devon Gundry, the Afro-Colombian sounds of Leonor Dely & Millero Congo (Spanish), the samba sounds of The Bahá'í Youth of Bahía (Portuguese), Australia's Calling Waiting Searching, & more.

Temple of Light is available on-line exclusively from DivineNotes.com for the introductory price of $14.95. CDs are also available $15.95 through the Bahá'í Distribution Service in the US, Insignia Records and elsewhere in the new Bahá'í year. All proceeds go the the Bahá'í Temple in Chile.

22 tracks

Playing time: 77:42

Produced by:
Insignia Records
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The Music

• Ray Of Light
  Performed by Christopher Faizi
  Words from the writings of Bahá'u'lláh
  Music by Christopher Faizi
  Sample:
• Mi Lámpara
  Performed by Leonor Dely & Millero Congo
  Words from the writings of Bahá'u'lláh
  Music by Linda Leeb
  Arrangement by Leonor Dely & Millero Congo
  From the CD Talisman
  Sample:
• At the Top of My Lungs
  Performed by Devon Gundry
  Words from the Bahá'í writings
  Music by Devon Gundry
  From the CD At the Top of My Lungs
  Sample:
• Darigha
  Performed by Behzad
  Written by Behzad
  From the CD Hamsar
  Sample:
• Keep on Workin'
  Performed by Eric Dozier & One Human Family
  Written and Arranged by Eric T. Dozier
  From the CD My Prayer ... My Praise
  Sample:
• Mashriqu'l-Adkar
  Performed by Grant Hindin Miller
  Written by Grant Hindin Miller
  From the CD River of Light
  Sample:
• O Son of Man #2
  Performed by Calling Waiting Searching
  Words from the writings of Bahá'u'lláh
  Music by Luke McPharlin
  From the CD Return
  Sample:
• Firmeza
  Performed by KC Porter
  Words from the prayers of Bahá'u'lláh
  Music by KC Porter
  Sample:
• Carry Me Home
  Performed by Ed Vandendool
  Written by Ed Vandendool
  From the CD Counting Waves
  Sample:
• Gimme One World
  Performed by Kiskadee
  Written by Kiskadee
  From the CD Don't Look Back
  Sample:
• Seven
  Performed by Matthew Levine
  Written by Matthew Levine
  From the CD A House Divided
  Sample:
• Bahía
  Performed by Tara Ellis and Jamey Heath
  Written by Tara Ellis and Jamey Heath
  Produced by Jamey Heath for OPOPP Productions
  Sample:
• Ay Bih Sar-i-zulf-i-to Suday-i-man
  Performed by Ahdieh
  Words by Sulayman Khan-i-Tabrizi
  Music by Ahdieh
  Arrangement by Husayn Pakravan
  From the CD The Mountain of God
  Sample:
• He Maketh Victorious
  Performed by Eric Dozier & JB Eckl
  Words from the writings of the Báb
  Music by JB Eckl
  From the CD Badasht Vol. 1 - While the City Sleeps
  Sample:
• Alláh'-u-Abhá
  Performed by The Bahá'í Chorale
  Written and arranged by Russ García
  Produced by Jack Lenz & Tom Price
  From the CD Songs of the Ancient Beauty
  Sample:
• Bird & Tree
  Performed by Kamal Siegel
  Written by Kamal Siegel & Mariya Lincoln
  Produced and engineered by Javier Duhart
  From the CD First Steps
  Sample:
• See My Face
  Performed by Ává
  Written by Mark Masri & Stephan Moccio
  From the CD Turning Point
  Sample:
• Masnavi
  Performed by Amir Haghighi
  Written by Amir Haghighi
  Sample:
• Houses of Worship
  Performed by Walter Heath
  Written by Walter Heath
  Sample:
• Rosebud
  Performed by Emma Laylí
  Written by Emma Laylí & KC Porter
  Sample:
• O Que O Senhor Ordenou
  Performed by Bahá'í Youth of Bahía
  Words from the writings of Bahá'u'lláh
  Music by Bahá'í Youth of Bahía
  From the CD Ilu Bahá
  Sample:
• Out Of The Wastes Of Nothingness
  Performed by Bob Alcivar
  Written by Bob Alcivar
  From the CD Ladder To The Soul
  Sample:

The Artists

• Ahdieh
  
  Ahdieh began her musical career in her hometown in Tehran, the capital of Iran, performing in a children's radio program. From this beginning, Ahdieh's musical career would take her to the five continents throughout her adulthood. She has participated in international conferences, and national fundraising and teaching activities, as well as visiting Bahá'í schools and local communities.
  
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• Amir Haghighi
  
  Amir was born in Tehran, Iran in 1957. He has been learning and singing Persian traditional music from childhood. Living in Canada since 1984, he has studied Western music as well and writes songs for himself and composes for choir.
  
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  Artist's site: www.myspace.com/amirhaghighi
• Ává
  
  Singer/songwriter, Ává cannot easily be labeled. The multidimensional artist has fused the rich melody of traditional Eastern music with the modern chord structure and sophisticated sounds of the Western world. A native of Iran, Ává began to explore many different types of music at a young age. Aside from her love of Eastern music, Ává felt inspired early on by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sting, Santana and more recently by strong female performer-writers such as Alanis Morissette.
  
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• The Bahá'í Chorale
  
  A capella vocal music has a special place in the Bahá'í Faith and The Bahá'í Chorale presents a wide and rich variety of choral sounds styles. The music of the Chorale affirms the value of music in religious worship. "We have made music a ladder by which souls may ascend to the realm on high," Bahá'u'lláh wrote.
  
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• Bahá'í Youth of Bahía
  
  On the occasion of the Encontro Bahá'í de Afro-Descendentes (Gathering of Bahá'í Afro Descendants) at the Albase Regional Institute in Salvador de Bahía, Brazil, in 2003, Istvan Dely was invited to facilitate a two week intensive training program for 25 youth from the Bahia region in the use of traditional performing arts in the activities of the Fve Year Plan. As part of the training, a series of collective compositions were made setting Bahá'u'lláh's Words to traditional Afro Brazilian music styles and then recorded onto the CD Ilu Bahá.
• Behzad
• Calling Waiting Searching
  
  Calling, Waiting, Searching is Australia's Luke McPharlin, Anna McDonald, Jess Reddyhough, Hamish McPharlin, Madeline Dawe, Johnny King, and Pouya Bassari.
  
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• Bob Alcivar
• Christopher Faizi
• Devon Gundry
  
  "A crystalline acoustic guitar/vocal collection of gorgeous music, vocal harmonies, and pop sensibility song writing - all set to the spiritual words from the Bahá'í writings." -Earbuzz.com
  
  Artist's site: www.devongundry.com
• Ed Vandendool
  
  Ed VandenDool is a Canadian singer/songwriter/actor from Southern Ontario. He has performed extensively in the area at summer festivals and concerts, as well as in the U.S., India and Israel. His music is a blend of acoustic and pop often focusing on spiritual themes.
  
  Artist's site: www.edvandendool.com
• Emma Layli
  
  Born into a musical family, Emma Layli Porter’s first vocal recordings began at age 3, in her family’s home studio in Calabasas, CA. Now at the age of 12, she enjoys music, traveling, serving the Faith, and performing with her dad. Her passion for poetry and her love for Baha’u’llah were the inspiration for the song, “Rosebud”, which is her debut release as a recording artist.
  
  Artist's site: www.emmalayli.com
• Eric Dozier & One Human Family
  
  The New York Times has called Eric's music 'rousing!' and this will be apparent from the first song when you realize that you can't keep your hands from clapping, your feet from stomping, and your head from bopping to this highly charged and soul-stirring gospel triumph.
  
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• Grant Hindin Miller
  
  Grant Hindin Miller is a New Zealand Bahá'í who has produced five CDs of original music with Bahá'í themes. He has also written the scripts of three New Zealand feature films, as well as three books. He teaches Creative Writing at Canterbury University and is married to Jenny. Together they have two beautiful children, Rebeccah and Isaac.
  
  Artist's site: granthindinmiller.com
• JB Eckl
• Kamal Siegel
  
  Kamal Siegel was born and raised in Chile. He remembers looking at the Temple site dreaming that some day he'd be able to assist in its construction. He left Chile at the age of 19 to pursue a career in the arts and is now living in Seattle working as CDO for Digital Double. The piece included in this album is titled "Bird & Tree" which is part of his debut album "First Steps", recorded in Chile by Faro Producciones. It was originally composed on guitar by Kamal and later beautifully enhanced by his wife Mariya Lincoln's flute playing.
  
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  Artist's site: www.kamalsmusic.com
• KC Porter
  
  Internationally acclaimed KC Porter is renowned for crossing over top international music artists' work to English-language audiences. KC is widely known for his long collaborative association with Puerto Rican-born superstar Ricky Martin, as well as for his extensive, award-winning work on the legendary Carlos Santana's record-breaking album "Supernatural."
  
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• Kiskadee
  
  Born in England with little eyesight, Kiskadee, a British Trinidadian, is a fulltime singer, songwriter, and producer. At the age of two, Kiskadee learned to play the piano and started singing. By five, she was playing steel drums and singing in the family steel band, the Rainbow Steel Band, travelling throughout the UK and Europe. Now Kiskadee works fulltime as a singer, songwriter, performer, producer and arranger. Her style of music combines her Trinidadian roots with her new school R&B feel, and has a social and spiritual comment.
  
  Artist's site: www.kiskadee.net
• Leonor Dely & Millero Congo
  
  In the Latin music world, some of the greatest emerging talents have come from Colombia, among them budding superstar Leonor Dely. For the past 15 years she has been lead vocalist of Millero Congo, an Afro-Caribbean acoustic fusion group founded by her husband, Istvan Dely and their sons David and Shangó.
  
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  Artist's site: www.leonordely.com
• Matthew Levine
  
  Levine has had classical, jazz, and pop pieces published and has won nine top awards in various competitions, eight for songwriting and one for a string quartet. His music is sold through CDbaby and Special Ideas.
  
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  Artist's site: www.anthemfortheworld.com
• Tara Ellis and Jamey Heath
• Walter Heath

About the Temple of Light

“Light is the fundamental connecting force of the universe. The Temple of Light we have designed employs both translucent stone and the newest glass technology as the means of generating and manifesting both the physiological and spiritual delights of natural light embodied in architecture.

This living Temple of Light, which will glow with a dreamlike serenity, will explore the entire range of the phenomena of light and shadow in continual interaction. Set against the stirring background of the Andes, the new Temple is to be a crystallizing oflight-as-expression, an evanescent structure of white alabaster and glass: a place of pure luminescence.

The revelation of an entirely new kind of space such as that embodied by the Temple is born, like an interweaving of cultures and languages, from the degree to which the building seems to dissolve and then to reappearin light.Within its vitally charged space, the living light describes and articulates both the structure's inner and outer forms...

...The Temple is to be, in other words, highly though subtly structured and ordered and yet capable of dissolving in light.It is to be both monumental yet intimate. It is to take its place as a sister Temple to the other Mother Temples - and yet, as Mashriqu’l-Adhkar, find its way into its own gentle and compelling uniqueness." Siamak Hariri

(extracted from www.temple.cl.bahai.org)