Audio: Inner Voice from The Lost Chapter
Copyright 2004 - 2010 Amie Ridley
I first started playing the piano when I was six years old. I never had any formal lessons; I was self-taught. My first song was composed at age fourteen. My first album was released when I was twenty-five. My music has evolved over the years from intricate piano pieces to multi-layered synthesizer melodies, from creating songs through my keyboard to the music creating songs through me. Sometimes it feels like I am in a trance. In fact I think my best pieces are when I am in this state of mind. It's like the world around me no longer exists; it is just me and the wave of sound flowing through me. I can barely breathe and all my energy is completely wrapped up in the music pouring out of my fingers. I become one with the music as it chooses to express itself. And only when the song has decided it has finished telling its story, then my fingers stop, frozen over the keys. I exhale and once again I can move. This trance can last for ten minutes to four hours.
My compositions are always about opening the heart so that one can remember their soul. This is what I refer to as the Indigo Dimension. The Indigo Dimension is a place where man reaches beyond their human world and travels to a realm outside of time, where reality is all about their communion with God and their eternal self. The Indigo Dimension is about identifying with your heart's voice and daring to act only upon that voice, which can never lead you astray from love, and is always in sync with your purpose and destiny, for your heart's voice is part of the voice of God. I channel this message of love and sacredness and healing through my music.