The Journey III:Soul Path and Philip Gardiner

The missing something was about to make it's presence known and create Soul Path the phenomenon and it didn't take long thanks to a wayward internet host!
We had created our first CD and called it Soul Path and spent the weekend at a local holistic fayre promoting it. In the meantime I had updated the website and added details and samples of the new CD as well as emailing a few folks to tell them about it.
Monday Morning and everyone was very excited because we had sold half a dozen CDs over the weekend and we had decided to go into town to a couple of local shops and see if we could get them to stock a copy or two of the CD.
In the mean time I had gone on to the internet to see how much interest the site had developed only to find an inbox full of emails (ok, several emails) telling me the site wasn't working. I contacted my host, who always take a minimum of several hours to respond and in the meantime I sent emails to everyone apologising for the downage and including a 40 second sample of one of the songs, Amrun Kalima.
What followed next was one of those sequences of events you hear about in urban-internet legends and it only took a few minutes. I got an immediate response back from a friend who was organising a conference in Stoke on Trent. She loved the music and wondered if we could play at the conference and had passed it onto the guy who was running it. Whilst I was contemplating who this we was that might be booked to play for a national conference featuring many distinguished authors and broadcasters I received an email from this guy saying he was in awe of our music and would we be able to write music to accompany his DVDs. Whilst thinking about that development another email arrived. It turned out that his DVDs were being distributed by one of the largest record labels on the planet, namely Reality Entertainment and that not only did they love the music but they wanted to distribute it alongside the DVDs as a separate CD in its own right.
By this time I had got a phone call saying that a shop or two in town may be interested in stocking our CDs. I don't think it sunk in for at least a day or three that we had got world distribution and Mike was still buzzing when I spoke to him later that day because he had sold another CD to a friend!
The conference was of course the Forbidden Knowledge Conference organised by world renowned author Philip Gardiner. He has given us permission to quote what he had to say at the time about us;

Within minutes of listening to their music I had come up with the term "voice of the universe" and ever since then I have been constantly in awe of the beautiful, sensual, provocative and diverse music that these three people draw from the depths of the soul. Steve feels the music in a way I can only say classical composers have. Julie sings with an angelic and adaptable voice that puts all others to shame and Mike Stone writes lyrics that Sassoon himself would cry over. Together they are a unique band that far surpasses the majority of the mindless popularized rubbish that we are constantly bombarded with. In short, all too often this band is too good for a world divided. I wholeheartedly back these guys and in fact one of the largest record labels on the planet were themselves so impressed that they have been signed for not only several album deals, but to also write and perform the music for my own DVD's. If you ever wondered just what the voice of the universe sounded like, then listen to Soul Path.