Freedom Horse

Let go of Time

Let Go Of Time

https://soundcloud.com/02022022/mmxixxviifrstspclm

MMXXIIVXVIIINVRSN

Night Drives

Sleepless

Far Off War

Per incidere questo brano ci ho messo una vita, la mia.
Per tutti gli amici che non ho nominato, perdonatemi!
...o ringraziatemi...

Picture by my friend Andrea Lo Russo, during our fucking job.

Lavoratore dello Spettacolo

Music Box

Home Base Final M111

Auteur-Compositeur : Blue Bijou
Interprète : Blue Bijou
Mastering : Saviprod Studio

Beach Bar And Coconuts

Birth Of Centaurus

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https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/take-action/

We Have More Life by Adam Gottlieb
Lyrics:

They have much more death than we do
But we have much more life than them
They make sacred symbols into 
Weapons of war we condemn

They say bombs protect our homeland 
We say that home could not be mine
They say Zion can be owned and
We cry out Free Palestine!

Here is a new song for the movement for a Ceasefire Now and a Free Palestine tomorrow. With a bow to Aurora Levins Morales who writes in her poem "V'ahavta": 
 
"Thus spoke the prophet Roque Dalton:
All together they have more death than we,
but all together, we have more life than they."

We need songs that offer clarity, that keep us focused in the present while bolstering our stamina for the future. The movement to free Palestine is a movement for the freedom of all peoples and all lands. We need songs that invite all people to identify with the side of history that defends life in opposition to the current system by which a global ruling class profits off of oppression and war maintained through militarized ethno-nationalism, apartheid, and genocide.

This is a moment in history that challenges all of us who care about humanity to imagine organizing ourselves into societies beyond the need for armies, border walls, and prisons, beyond the form of national states. We must realize that decolonization is not only possible but a necessary condition for our collective survival, and that revolution is indeed evolution into a new stage of human existence beyond scarcity-based competition, colonization, war, and exploitation of land and people in all forms.

#FreePalestine is a movement for life over death, liberation over oppression, human beings over states, for a world based on principles of humanity, cooperation, and respect for life. It is an indigenous-led decolonizing movement, an abolitionist movement, a revolutionary movement at the tip of global resistance to fascism.

There is a Jewish tradition about 2,000 years older than what has become known as Zionism, which uplifts the idea of the holy land not simply as the specific land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, but also as all of the places that we can make holy through our living ethically and sustainably on the land and in peace and justice with the people we live on it with. Today, our continuation of that tradition links the idea of Jerusalem or Zion metaphorically to the idea of Olam Haba, the World to Come, which is not an abstract idea but a real future we dedicate ourselves to building: a world beyond all forms of oppression, exploitation, war, and enslavement. A world where no one can own the land, because no one can own life. A world in which we are able to live as we are, inherently free. 

This sense of the word “Zion” is not only Jewish but also resonates across cultures to a great extent through diverse liberation theologies and cultural movements. The term "Zion" has evolved to mean something similarly visionary in Rastafari tradition, for example, and its anti-colonial meaning has even achieved a kind of global cultural influence via the musical diasporas of Reggae and Hip Hop. 

And, as I have recently come to understand, the idea of land being inherently free is contained within the Arabic meaning of "فلسطين حرة" Filastin hurra,” “Free Palestine,” in which the word for “Free” is an adjective, describing the land and the people in their natural state. 

I offer this song as a small contribution to this remarkable community, and to the movement. It's called “We Have More Life.” May it serve as a soundtrack to your work as we rise to meet our historic tasks in this moment.

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https://www.patreon.com/adamgottliebandonelove
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Find the video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/vI6H5MlMQ4M?si=1fetZdGzLrtlELt9

We Have More Life

Unfinished lost project from right before I lost Logic Pro X...
It was done with a midi keyboard in logic and I used their drummer feature for the drums. 

Lyrics:
When modern prophets of metropolis flow through the stream of consciousness
They're skipping like stones across the water
How many times can we bounce this fire
From the stream into the open air
Before it sinks back into the water
To reunite with the all aware

Set the stream aflame
Let spirit illuminate the current
Ignite the living fire within
So we can dance through life and meet its rhythm

Every step we skip across the 
Water leaves a 
Dilating stretch of 
Waves that transfer
Energy from the 
Portals that have opened up in the
Steps that we have taken to
Connect with the worlds of the profane and sacred
In a dance that eternally unravels the soul

Set the stream aflame
Let spirit illuminate the current
Ignite the living fire within
So we can dance through life and meet its rhythm

Namo Amitabhaya
Tathagataya
Tadyatha
Amrito-Dbhave
Amrita-Siddhambhave
Amrtia-Vikrante
Amrtia-Vikranta-Gamine
Gagana Kirta-Kare
Svaha

(Tibetanized Amitabha Mantra for Rebirth in Pureland)

https://namo84000en.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/amitabha-mantra-for-rebirth-in-pureland-2/ 

I like to write music that I might remember one day when I'm dying and transitioning to the bardo - this mantra is one of the things I would like to remember - not because I'm superstitious, but because I would like to be thinking about the “eternal, pure light, which is the source and primordial ground of our being” as I die:

http://eng.namo-amitabhaya.de/mantra/ 

Lyrics before the mantra were inspired by the book: 365 Tao: Daily Meditations by Ming-Dao Deng: http://dengmingdao.com/books/365tao.php 

(None of the links I share are affiliate links - just showing where the inspiration came from)

Image artwork by me :P

Find The Living Flame - 2018

Adam Gottlieb is a musician, poet, and cultural worker from Chicago. He is the leader of the Fusion band Adam Gottlieb and OneLove. Adam serves as a cantorial soloist for Tzedek Chicago, an international justice-based synagogue based in Chicago, IL, and is a founder of the Songs for Ceasefire project.

Adam Gottlieb & OneLove are a Chicago-based Fusion band serving songs for the revolution since 2014. They are ordinary people fighting for survival, justice, and abundance for all, delivering upbeat music that blends Reggae, Blues, Folk, Rock, Funk, Hip Hop, Latin, and more. Their 2020 album “All of You” was nominated for “Best Local Album” in the Chicago Reader’s Best of Chicago awards. In 2022 they performed live at South by Southwest at the AEMMP Records Showcase.

We Have More Life

Adam Gottlieb (& OneLove)

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