From Asher's back catalogue, "Mystic Heart" was a ground-breaking blend of instrumental pieces...classical, religious, pastoral and visual... mixed with extraordinarily tender spiritual love-ballads. The album was quite unique at the time in the new-age genre, and Asher somehow managed to combine the Baroque with the liturgical, and filmic, epic material with catchy little folk-songs! A best-selling album with great longevity, "Mystic Heart" unravels quixotically to express itself like an Albinoni concerto, meeting Hans Zimmer, meeting the Greek orthodox church, meeting Jesus if he were also a folk-singer! There is a one-world quality to the music and lyric... somewhat ahead of its time... and so the album comes across as visionary and prophetic, too. It was produced with Anthony Phillips, co-founder of Genesis, who plays assorted guitars and ethnic stringed instruments as well, and features the pure, ethereal vocals of Sharon Sage as well as the haunting, deep baritone of Greek born Sufi scholar Aziz Dikeulias. This album topped the new age and ambient charts around the world, and the 'Missa Greca' (Greek mass) remains timelessly popular, as does, indeed, the whole album. There is something about Asher's music which doesn't seem to date, as the content invariably has an eternal quality to it, and the instrumentation and arrangements tend to be natural and pure, with no concession to fashion or fad.