KEN KIMMEL: SONGS ONCE OLD, NOW NEW
Long Whispered In Silence, returning – Carried Upon The Wind
Excerpts from a musical autobiographical fiction
Ken Kimmel
Composer • Lyricist • Jungian Psychoanalyst • Author
Ken Kimmel is a multidisciplinary artist whose life bridges music, psychoanalysis, and mysticism. A composer and lyricist since his teens, he shared North American folk and rock with European audiences during the 1970s, and later co-wrote songs considered for film and country radio.
Alongside music, Ken pursued a lifelong inquiry into the psyche as a Jungian psychoanalyst. His fieldwork in Central and South America brought him into contact with Mayan shamans, Brazilian trance mediums, and Afro-Brazilian spiritist healers. These experiences revealed music’s role in ritual, healing, and altered states of consciousness, where rhythm and voice became vehicles for transformation.
Over his career, he has listened to more than 40,000 dreams — a literal lifetime of listening to the soul. Rooted in Jungian thought, postmodern philosophy, and the mystical tradition of Kabbalah, Ken’s recent musical works mark a return to his creative origins — songs shaped by introspection, deep listening, and the quiet voice of experience.
Songs
Our Songs of Life
Lovers meet in a romantic paradise unto themselves. Life unfolds through its stages
until the aged couple must face faithfully life’s mystery together.
Dove in the Ruins
Ancients describe the Soul of the World that every human soul is a part of. She is
known by many names. Fables drawn from mystical traditions describe Her presence
on our most difficult journeys, and our longing to restore her loss when we have turned
away from Her grace.
Type to enter text Still, Small Voice
The song’s title is found in many places in the Old Testament. Simply and beautifully
put, the voice of the Sacred does not shout or demand, but comes softly to us within our
deepest and most open hearts. Sometimes it speaks to us through the silent voices of
those most wounded.
Suite to Morning Star
I wrote the original poem in 1974 while walking in the early twilight hours along the road
near the border of El Salvador and Honduras, just as Venus was rising from the
darkness. These words more deeply express those liminal spaces in-between; the
becoming but never here; always longing for the thing we can never know or possess –
the enigma beyond our capacity to comprehend.