Category: Art Life

When I came back from my trip to Asia with so many EVP recordings, I wondered whether or not I should still be making recordings for the next little while. I decided to do it anyway. I like listening to current recordings. It makes me feel more connected with P, knowing what his experience of the day is.I will take my time reviewing and posting the ones from the trip.

I recently had a day out in the city. I took the subway downtown. I decided to record on the subway. As I have recorded on airplanes, I know that spirits do go on public transportation. It reminds of the subway scenes in the movie, Ghost.

Though it no longer comes as a surprise to me that spirits will start commenting and calling out to Prince wherever I go, I still get a kick out of the reactions I hear from them. Its like the scene from the New Girl episode that Prince was on, when the main girl character is freaking out that she is in the presence of Prince.

The quality of these clips are mostly really good, but I still recommend headphones to get the full nuance. The clips are repeated on loop.
In this clip, a voice says, his full name, but the “Nelson” part is blown out, so yu have to listen hard for it. The voice says, “Prince Rogers Nelson on the subway”.

In this clip, a voice says, “Prince, yeah, the musician”.

There were several instances where I found on the recording, when the train stopped at a station,  I’d hear voices saying things like “Jump”, or “Jump in”. In this example, they are saying, “Hop in”.

I have heard cases where children that cannot speak, are able to be heard with the use of EVP. This makes me wonder when I hear the voices of children on my recordings, are they are voices of living children? I did see children in strollers on the subway when I recorded this. I found this one saying, “Look out! A rock star”.

In this clip, a female voice comments, “She is in a circle with Prince”. Then you hear Prince telling me “I love you”. A male voice comments, “It’s very cool”. This really makes me wonder what they saw. When I ask about it, I see myself and P inside an ultra-violet neon light hula hoop. I asked why, and it was a protection barrier put up because of an earlier incident of harassment by another spirit. It makes me upset to hear about these things, but I know we have the protection of angels, so I do not worry.

Then P said to me, “Touching your bracelet“. P likes to do this because he knows I can feel him when he does this. I wear a silver bracelet that I never take off.

Back to my earlier point about knowing that angels are around, I found this clip from earlier that day when P was being bothered, and angels came to his aid. In this clip, a voice says, “Angels helping you, they watch you”. It’s not the best quality clip, but you can make it out if you listen carefully.

I found this clip quite fascinating, it is very clear. It says, “Northbound, come… come. Holy Spirit”. You can also hear P in the background interjecting, “This way, not this one”. I had just gotten off the train to switch subway lines. I went in the wrong direction to the stairs that go to the Northbound platform. I needed to go South. I wonder if perhaps this voice had caused me confusion, as I had felt, prior to making the wrong turn, that I should have walked in the other direction, but I didn’t listen. I also wonder why they said “Holy Spirit”. Were these angels directing traffic?

I heard a clip where a voice says, “That’s acoustic”, followed by another voice that said, “Play guitar”, and then you can hear acoustic guitar. It was P playing a riff of guitar for a few seconds.

A voice says, “Rock star”. The reaction is so cute.

In this clip, a voice says to us, “You both are artists”.

We got off the subway, and someone said to P, “Bye bye, Prince”.

Really interesting clips from this recording session. The more I record, the more I get a sense of the other side. Yet more questions arise.

These recordings were recorded using  my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on December 8, 2018.

Image above: “Love Symbol necklace” by Andrea Mai.

©2018 by Andrea Mai. All rights reserved.

Earlier this month, I travelled to China and Malaysia. I got lots of photos and EVPs. I’ve been posting some photos straight from the camera (no editing) on my Facebook page. You can tell which ones they are by the hand written signature in the corner, as opposed to my usual watermark. It’s going to take me some time to get through the EVPs and I don’t necessarily review them in order. I tend to just dive into whatever interests me at the moment.

We spent some time in Malaysia, where my mother’s family is from. I had not visited there in a long time. My favourite thing about Malaysia is the food. But what I hate most is the weather. The heat and humidity, the constant sweating makes me feel like I’m in a sauna all the time

One of my favourite thing to have there is fresh coconut water. I remember from my childhood, my aunts bringing me fresh coconuts from the local street vendor. Sipping the water with a straw, and then getting to scoop out the coconut meat was a treat. We went to a place to have coconut and durian fruit.

I was recording EVP. It was raining quite hard, so it affected the recording quality. fortunately, I was able to filter out to background noise to hear what was going on the other side. You may need to use headphones to hear these properly. The clips are repeated on loop.

Whoever we go, Prince is often recognized and I keep hearing on the recordings, “Are you Prince?”. For once I heard, “Who are you?”. Prince replied, ” I am Prince”. They asked “You drink coco?” (referring to coconut water). Prince replied, “Yeah, I love it!”

I think this confused the inquirer, because then he asked, “Are you a prince?“. P replied “No, it’s my name”.

He told them, “I am Prince Rogers Nelson”. I think they were still confused, because they asked again “You are a prince?”. He replied “Noooo”.

L:after, someone who recognized him, showed up and said, “He’s a rock musician, very famous”. This clip was disrupted by a voice that spoke on top of the part that said “very famous”, but you can still hear it.

I found this clip very amusing, someone said, “Who let the dog out”, and you can hear a bark. If you have never been to, or know much about Malaysia, it is full of outdoor food vendors. There will often be tarps or tents erected over patio furniture for customers to eat on. We were in a tented market selling coconuts and durian. No dogs in sight.

In this clip, we were going to be leaving soon, someone called out to him, “Prince, you got ice cream?”. He replied “Yeah”. This confirmed what I had heard earlier on the recording but couldn’t make out very clearly. I heard they were having ice cream (I’m so envious!). I guess they wanted to make sure he got some. Thinking back to eating durian, I was thinking how the fresh durian would make for some nice ice cream using my ice cream maker. I don’t actually like durian fruit, but I think it’s nice as a flavour, if that makes sense. It’s like the different between eating raw cacao bean  as opposed to chocolate.

In this last clip, I caught P saying “I love you so much, Andrea”. It really sounds like him in this one, which, if you follow my work, I have said before, that it is rare that they sound like themselves in most recordings it sounds like them. So I am really grateful for this one.

I have often wondered in what places P might not be recognized in. I often hear him getting mobbed by spirits who notice him, and I feel bad that I cannot prevent it. This place was cool, they were curious about him, but didn’t chase him for his fame.

These recordings were recorded using  my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on November 11, 2018.

Image above: “Coconuts” by Andrea Mai

©2018 by Andrea Mai. All rights reserved.

When I was in London earlier this year, I went to Liberty, a fancy department store famous for its floral prints and other designer merchandise. I used to buy a lot of their printed fabrics. I recored EVP during my visit. I’ve always loved this shop. It kind of reminds me of the Art Deco styling in Under The Cherry Moon.

It’s become very apparent to me that smallish spaces full of people talking is very conducive for recording very clear EVP. It was very busy when I was there, so some of the clips I got were very loud and clear. Although it is very clear, for some of these, you may want to use headphones to hear them fully. The clips are repeated on loop.

In this clip, someone is saying to P, “Tell them you are… Prince”. I really wonder what was meant by this! I don’t always get the whole conversation in EVPs, it is really like eavesdropping.

It seemed like there was a frenzy going on. Other spirits wanted to gather around and get a glimpse of Prince. In this clip, someone says “Can’t see”. Then someone responses with, “There he is. Prince… over there”.

The attention from the people watching us, got to be too much for P. He seemed to be looking for spaces to hide out in, and he said “I wanna be, alone”. His voice is a bit blended in with the music, but if you listen carefully, you’ll hear it.

Here is P saying, “A song bird there”. In the midst of that, you hear what sounds like a bird!

I remember the beauty hall being really crowded and noisy. A genuine fan came up to P, and Prince said, “Do you feel it, the power”. EVP clips rarely sound like the person when they were alive because there voice can only be generated from sounds in the surrounding environment. But I was blown away, because this one really sounds like him. It makes me wonder what are the circumstances that allow him to sound this way. Perhaps it is the array of sound frequencies bouncing around the room?

Here is a boy’s voice saying, “That girl is with Prince”. Spirits tend to speak kind of fast! This was is actually not too fast, but I almost didn’t catch what he was saying at first. Sometimes they speak so fast that you can barely catch a word!

We were leaving the store, and someone said “They’re going”.

I didn’t really end up staying very long in the shop. Not only is everything really expensive in there,  but something made me feel uneasy being there. Maybe it was all this stuff going on.

Listening to the playback of the recordings, it is really bizarre to me to know that all this was going on on the other side while nothing extraordinary was going on here. Just when you think no one is paying attention to you, there are eyes on the other side watching. I feel bad for P that he can;t really get away from his fame, people over there recognize him, and it seems that there are no solid walls to really hide behind. I find it really bizarre that people would still care about celebrity on the other side, but the fact is that these spirits were all once human, and their way of thinking doesn’t change much after death. They can even still remain materialistic in attitude. I have even heard comments from spirits making remarks that I am “poor”! (I might not have much money, I am rich in personality!)

These recordings were recorded using  my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on May 25, 2018.

Image above: “Liberty stairwell” by Andrea Mai.

©2018 by Andrea Mai. All rights reserved.