- "At the workshop the
real magic took place when Jill Purce
demonstrated the overtone chanting which was to
become the focus of the weekend. This makes
audible the natural spectrum of the voice so that
flute-like harmonics are heard rising above the
single note. It was a celestial sound, ethereal
and haunting and far more impressive than any
trick of conjuring or ventriloquism I have ever
seen. More extraordinary was when we were each
shown how we, too could make such sounds. By the
end of the weekend I studied the faces of the
group and was convinced by her methods; everyone
looked relaxed and claimed to feel both euphoric
and calm."THE OBSERVER May 7th 1989
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- "Jill Purce is blessed
with radiant, good-humoured self-confidence, as
well as a resilient, primeval quality of beauty
that reminds one of Piero della Francesca’s
madonnas. She can teach you to make a sound which
is like nothing else on earth. It is your
"own" note, and the idea is that
prolonged chanting of this unique sound will
decompose your harassed everyday self (in the
same way that one particular note can shatter
glass) and carry you ‘across the threshold
from the normal to the sacred world’".HARPERS &
QUEEN February 1985
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- "Jill Purce’s
workshop was an extraordinary experience. I felt
I got more in contact with my own sense of
identity, more balanced, and it was a lot of
fun".THE
INDEPENDENT August 22nd 1988
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- "Jill Purce is an
unconventional guru, an intellectual with the
look of a golden earth mother. The sound she
demonstrated is uncanny - piercingly
beautiful."HAMPSTEAD & HIGHGATE EXPRESS
April 6th 1984
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- "Jill Purce’s
brand of "musical medicine" has proved
to be a life changer, helping the pregnant to
give birth easily and enabling other people to
"unblock", relax and grow."HERE’S
HEALTH November 1985
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- "When Jill Purce tells
you her aims are not modest she is speaking the
truth. Her aim she will tell you, is no less than
the transformation of humanity. Can it be done?
She has already started.... The instrument Ms
Purce is using for this purpose is the human
voice, yours and mine. She would set us all
humming and chanting ... you may think this is
fanciful but I have to tell you that when Jill
Purce tells you to hum you hum. She is a most
persuasive woman."EVENING STANDARD
February 20th 1990
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- "I find myself in a
room with thirty other people. We are chanting
chords. Chords! One person calls it the music of
the angels. Certainly it is unearthly. It is all
part of a sound workshop run by Jill Purce, one
of the world’s few teachers of the singing
technique known as Mongolian overtone chanting.
Jill’s workshops are a fascinating
experience."CITY LIMITS February 1991
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- "I
was there. I was producing two notes, the greater
and the lesser, the lower and the higher at the
same time. I can only
compare the exhilaration, and slight shock, with
the notion of some experience that I have never
had: say, discovering a new limb or sense,
finding a bowling green in the bathroom, or being
given instant familiarity with a foreign language¼ it is
hard not to feel that you have tapped yourself
into an awesome and timeless sense of
wellbeing."
- THE TIMES
December 14th 1996
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- "Today, Jill Purce is
Britain’s best known music healer."COUNTRY LIVING
December 1992
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- "Jill Purce teaches
what can only be described as spiritual awareness
through sound."MAGICAL BLEND (USA) Fall 1988
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