(Jocelyn West (formerly Jocelyn Montgomery) is a Scottish musician and actress; she was one of the founding members of the band Miranda Sex Garden. After leaving the band in the early 1990s she joined the medieval music ensemble Sinfonye. In 1998 West sang songs written by Hildegard von Bingen* for this album Lux Vivens, that was produced by David Lynch.
In the fall of 1996, Jocelyn and co-producer Heidrun Reshoeft took a
trip along the Rhine river valley to explore the historical sites of
Hildegard von Bingen's life: Disibodenberg, the convent Hildegard
entered at the age of eight; Eibingen, the second convent she founded,
where today nuns still live and work in the monastic daily routine of
Hildegard's time; Rupertsberg in Bingen, where in her late 40's
Hildegard founded her own convent, and lived and worked until her death
in 1179. It is at the monastery after a performance of Hildegard's songs
by Jocelyn that the idea of producing an album of Hildegard's music
from a unique, modern perspective takes shape).
[*Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 1179), was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath. She is considered to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany].
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