I Am My Mother

I Am My Mother (Live at Royal)

Orbit

My Guitar is too Loud (Instrumental)

This song was born in Alentejo, Portugal, by the Ocean and the incredible stillness of the land. I felt this deep inner peace occasionally over the last year or so, and I enjoy it immensely.
I’m deeply grateful for all the beauty and the nourishment this land (Portugal) has gifted me, and for my beautiful friends there.

Thank you to all who sang it with me.

🦋💛🦋


Lyrics are:

Ocean of peace I feel your waves 
Ocean of peace I feel you sway

And I breathe in all that is
And I breathe out the highest peace

And I breathe in peace
And I breathe out peace

And all I feel is peace
And all I am is peace

And all is peace

All is peace…

Or something similar - will still be evolving, swaying, dancing from version to version.

2023-10-07

Abi - Ocean of peace 2023-10-07

Peyote is a medicine used by indigenous people in North America, in the US and Mexico. I was fortunate to participate in a peyote ceremony held in a tipi in Essex with elders from Mexico. When I returned home, this song and its lyrics arrived fully formed, telling the story of the peyote ceremony and following morning, a gift from the sacred peyote.
It has gained in popularity in the past decades and the plant is in decline. The Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative protect this important plant that provides such beautiful connection. Indigenous people were forbidden from using this medicine in the US until 1994.
You can read all about this conservation work and donate here:
www.ipci.life
lyrics
Far out, in my mind.
Soften the harshness inside.
See the rainbows coming down,
As we sit by the fireside,
We sit, transfixed, as our roots
Touch the earth.
We sit, picking out thoughts
That disturb
Me.

Tears are pouring down my face
I will forgive,
But never forget.
Try to forgive you
So I will be saved again
But I laugh and laugh
Until the next phase

Thought I heard a buffalo,
Rising in the bushes, ready to go.
See the birds flying over and into my head.
Not a thought was kept,
Cos we were not
Not going to bed.

She said,
All things must come to an end.
The only thing with 2 ends is a sausage.
So we laughed, and cried
And looked in to each others eyes
Sisters and mothers and brothers and fathers
Again.
credits
released December 1, 2023
Recorded and mixed by Felix at Tigersonic Studio, London
Mastered by Chris at Blacklisted Mastering
Received from Peyote by Pandora's Diary

Peyote (Song for the Fire)

Malinalli  

Saw him standing on a mountain in Mexico 
after we met some years ago
with him there
was our child in a babysling
here`s the story that I sing 
for her:

I was born, early on a day
Tlaloc seemed to drown the earth with rain 
from the sky

around my tiny neck was coiled
the umbilical cord, the midwife took
for a sign

from Quetzalcoatl, god in form
of a wriggling snake I was born
The winged serpent that unites
the concept of the earth and the skies

The day my memory set in 
she looked at me and smiled 
her enfolding love had been 
my shield as a small child

Man was made from maïze of white and gold 
In a heartbeat dawn of life unfolds
you`re the gift
in my myth
of creation that I bear
in my womb, in the wound
of a nation that we share

They reached the waters of our shore
on vessels we`d never seen before
they brought

sixteen horses - beautiful,
godlike creatures, towering tall
on board

Of my childhood I`d been deprived
forced to leave my home when I was five
It tore my heart my mother gave
me away to strangers as a slave

I tried to fit in perfectly 
wherever I was sent
I`d turned fifteen before the day 
they first set foot on land

Coloured glass beads 
were traded in for gold 
In our heartbeats
history unfolds

In his eyes
I saw the demise
of our people and the fall
of our sites,
temples and rites,
all we believe in after all

The many allies that we made 
on our way, sealed our fate 
Along a path of blood they shed 
forcibly, they moved ahead
my gift of language made him strong 
I put the words like weapons on my tongue

We won great fame then 
He wore my name when 
I talked for peace and war 
negotiating
trying to persuade them
I even spoke of their saviour

to Tenochtitlán they were drawn 
it seemed the battle
had only just begun

Man was made from blood and powdered bone 
shaped and sharpened like obsidian stone
The skill of speech
that I had reached
was a blessing and a curse
I had no choice
but to be the voice
in his story, mine went unheard

Me abrió un nuevo mundo aun así
Me abrió un nuevo mundo aun así
Mi amor por el conquistador era 
atracción y fatalidad desesperada
Me abrió un nuevo mundo 
en que yo fui
única y casi libre



iphone voice memo kitchen demo recording

This is rather a story put in a song. 
The woman in the story is "Malinalli", "Malintzin" or "La Malinche", a probably Aztec woman born around 1505. 
She was the interpreter, slave and lover of Hernán Cortés, who conquererd Mexico in 1519. Without her, he would have never been able to put his plans into practice. She remains controversial in Mexican history to this day.

Malinalli

Lunch

Never gone

Never gone (solo live)

"Cacaocito", a very beautiful song by Philipp Ham Kuman

You can find his recordings here: 
https://soundcloud.com/user-280485879
or on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=6fjnNDNBQOg


Thank you, Philipp,  for letting me play/and help uncover this beautiful song! Its a pearl :-)

SatSingKreis 2024-03-16

Abi - Cacaocito (T&M: Philipp Ham Kuman)

SYLVIA

CANCIÓN ORIGINAL DE: Para Crear Mujer de @ineslolago
Foto: Gabriela Cardona Walther


Has creado muchos niños
has criado muchos fuegos
has plantado y cosechado
has llorado en el desierto

has vivdo muchas vidas
que te gritan en el pecho
donde aullan las mujeres
que quemaron en el fuego

para crear mujer hay que abrirse hacia dentro
para crear mujer en lo oscuro tus sueños
para crear mujer el vacio completo
para crear mujer recibir es tu rezo

no hay lugar donde ir
no guerra que ganar
tus armas no son de aqui
vienen del mas alla

en la ondura de la noche
en lo oscuro incandescente
brama la luz de tu nombre
hada y bruja pa tu gente

la tierra necesita tus ofrendas al cielo
los hombres van buscando nacer profundo de nuevo
el cielo esta esperando verte desplegarte en tu vuelo
tu alma pide a gritos que te abraze sus ruegos

no te escondas de tu luna
no te prives de tus sueños
no te alejes de los mapas
que se guardan en tu cuerpo

mira con tus miles de ojos
como baja el mundo nuevo
trepa, corre, baila, salta 
sobre lo que te da miedo

en el templo de tu cuerpo vas descalzo en silencio
en el trono de tu alma mandan tu vientre y tu pecho
en la rueda de tu vida eres la reina y el reino
en la escuela de los tiempos, despertar es tu reto

Para Crear Mujer (Inés Lolago)

Singer/Songwriter
New Album coming soon...stay tuned
Album "Glowing Seas here: 
https://annepe.lnk.to/glowingseas

Malinalli

Anne Pe.

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