Jocéan’s mother Julie played classical music for her every night before bed and it soon became a routine that she wouldn’t be able to sleep without it. She has been obsessed with music every since she can remember.

Her mother soon realized how deep her connection with music was. Jocéan’s favorite part of school was music class and she went on to learn violin, silver flute, and tenor saxophone through her school years. She spent hours singing into a microphone as a young child to her favorite Celine Dion for her parents dinner parties.

She didn’t begin to start writing her own songs until her return for Iceland where she realized her soul calling as a musician/artist. She bought a ukulele and with limited chord knowledge and an entire life of music obsession began to write music. This began as a cathartic healing journey through music that progressed into writing songs she felt called to perform and share.

This started her journey Remembering her soul calling-finally acknowledging the deep well of music that lay dormant inside her ready to express.

Soon after she started hearing whispers about this instrument called the handpan. She began watching videos and started to encounter buskers on her travels through Europe and beyond. She was even fortunate enough to meet one of the most well known handpan artists Manu Delago at a festival in Swaziland where he was playing 3 handspans. She even had the fortune of video taping that performance for them. She resonated so deeply with this instrument and felt the calling to learn more.

It wasn’t until she met her partner Burke Mulvany in 2018 who had a original out of tune Hang did her Handpan journey truly begin. She immediately began learning everything she could about this instrument. She could feel the rhythm, melody and harmony of classical music coming through. She is also synesthetic and can “see” music. This means that when she doesn’t have an instrument she composes music using shapes and lines-almost creating a 3D representation of the music in her mind. This can also come through in altered states of consciousness such as those right before or after sleep called hypnogogia. The handpan being such a visual instrument with it’s tonefields helped her to map these illustrations and designs onto it.

The more she plays the handpan the more she is surprised by what each handpan based on it’s timbre, feel, and scale model illicit within her. Each handpan it it’s own being with it’s own energy that draws out a different feeling and therefore music from her. She loves that such a simple instrument can be so complex in it’s nuances.

Much of the music she shares comes through during shamanic or meditative states where she is in the flow. Melodies along with different words or mantras also come through.

Jócean truly believes that the Handpan is here at this time to aid the evolution of human consciousness towards wholeness. She is grateful to be offering her music as a salve for the world at this time.