Vsnaya

Classically trained from early childhood, Josie Phelan's emotive music is a synthesis of styles from ancient to modern, as well as from around the world. Imagine Celtic, Experimental and World Fusion woven into an exotic tapestry of harmony with ambient bliss throughout. Her music will draw the listener into places that feel carved on the soul, and wistfully remembered, yet that are also new frontiers. Josie plays a unique electric, 5-stringed, Jensen cello with incredible range and tone as well as a rare, bowed, ancient Chinese instrument called the ‘rijak’. "To play totally in the moment," Josie reflects, "is a real leap forward in feeling and channeling creative energy." Her eclectic career includes years of intuitive energy work, body mechanics for musicians, teaching cello and composition. Josie relocated to Nashville, TN in 2000 and released her latest solo project, "VSNAYA, Siren Songs of the Electric Cello," on the summer solstice of 2008. She is now, since December of 2009, a happy resident of the creative and 'green' city of Portland, Oregon. Her newest project is the blending of her musical compositions & healing energies ! Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.