Trippy pop song with driving kick beat maintaining momentum and nice emotive vocal. Has recognisable Leaders’ signature sound. Great track!

The Melissae were the bee priestesses of the temple of Demeter, in ancient Greece, responsible for the pollination of sex magic to initiate the kings and rulers.

Words vocals and cover art by Annie Dieu-Le-Veut

Lyrics:

I don’t know how you
Got through my guard dogs,
My electric fences,
My watchtowers
Sweeping the wastes
With their searchlights,
And my barbed wire
Minefields.

Maybe you tunnelled up 
From the Underworld.
Digging your way
Through The Wasteland
Of the long dead poets
With their yellowed scripts,
The sleeping Rulers
And dried up whores.
Through the bleak nights
Of sorrow.

How long were you down there,
Counting the rhymes
And the reasons,
Casting the Katha and
Catching the cadence
Of the old bards’ drums?
Juggling the genes, and
Scanning a measure,
The apis, the apex
The apogee of the helix,
Or a metre, a ladder
To bring you out
Into the Sun.

That would explain why
I didn’t see you until
It was too late.
I was sipping mead
With Ah Muzen Cab 
When you reared up, 
Hooded, at my lap.
“No mortal man has 
Ever Me unveiled,” I warned. 
“Sup from my jar,
And you die.”
With barely a beat 
You lifted my veil
And took what was yours.

© Copyright Annie Dieu-Le-Veut, Samhain 2023

Music: Meditative Oud 112719 by Daniel Yan on Pixabay 

Further information:
"Bee shamanism may be one of the oldest human religions. The bee, as a shamanic totem, is incredibly ancient. Bringers of honey, the bee's spiritual meaning is beneficence, co-operation and bounty. An essentially matriarchal society, a colony of bees consists of around 50k female bees at the height of summer, with around 500 drones and one single egg layer in the darkness, the Queen. 

"Tantalisingly, a Queen Bee knows how to make the sperm meet her eggs, and some of the most prominent of the Melissae rituals involve fertility enhancing and diminishing meditations and herbs.

"Could it be that these women deliberately grew and strengthened the polis (city-state) studying bees?  Were their actions pro-polis designed to protect them against invasion? (Bees make propolis from wax and tree resins to insulate and inoculate the hive) And when they were left behind when men went off to fight, were they empowered by their ability to sting?" 

Extract from Meeting the Melissae: The Ancient Greek Priestesses of the Goddess Demeter, with kind permission from its author Elizabeth Ashley. Get the book here: https://tinyurl.com/2s3myfeh

The Song of the Melissae Bee Priestess

“INGANNEVOLE” è il primo album di Olimpia Simone. Ingannevole, è il frutto di quasi due anni di lavorazione con il coinvolgimento di molti dei musicisti con cui Olimpia ha collaborato nella sua carriera finora. Arriva dopo molti singoli e rappresenta un viaggio musicale che riflette la sua personalità, artisticamente e musicalmente. Prevalentemente jazz, include sfumature di pop e cantautorato, oltre a brani intimi solo piano e voce. Tra i musicisti: Mario Rosini al piano (che ha scritto molti degli inediti), Paolo Romano al basso, Mimmo Campanale alla batteria, Guido Di Leone alla chitarra jazz, Bruno Montrone al piano, Gianni Binetti al sax, Maurizio Lampugnani alle percussioni. Nei featuring spiccano nomi come Fabrizio Bosso alla tromba, Giovanni Astorino al violoncello, Giuseppe Milici all'armonica, Gianni Rotondo, e Savio Vurchio. Questi sono solo alcuni dei tantissimi musicisti coinvolti in questo progetto. Comprende cover di brani e interpretazioni significative della sua carriera, come canzoni di Sergio Cammariere, Vasame di Gragnaniello, Samba della Rosa di Toquinho, e Mi sono innamorato di te di Luigi Tenco.
L’album, oltre ad essere presente su tutti i maggiori portali di streaming come Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music e Bandcamp, è disponibile sia in CD che in Vinile sullo store on-line https://bit.ly/STRJAZZ

Ingannevole

Io so che ti amerò

Ascolta | Scarica

[Jazz, Piano] Olimpia Simone • Io so che ti amerò [Soul Treasure Jazz™]

"Awakening in the Woods" by Friedrich Burgmüller, beautifully butchered.

Awaking in the Woods (with Burgmüller)

He was just looking for his salvation, and they all came, extending a hand.
We can get you on track, nothing holding you back. Just listen to the plan.
With options so many, he wondered, is what they’re telling me real?
They all gave the steps to take my life back, but nobody asks how I feel.
He rejects everything this world expects.

There were times that the world was all rosy, no one can say where or when.
But sometimes it fell and it all went to hell, fighting those demons within.
And so he avoided decisions. Anything’s fine, I don’t care.
From the outside it sure looked like he tried, but inside the clouds were still there.
He rejects everything this world expects.

Dreams, they say, are a window to the soul
A map to where you’ve been.
When the dreams just take off and leave a hole,
Sometimes you just fall in.

So the lesson to learn, if there is one, is that life is complex, and it knows,
You can plan and predict, control and restrict, label and put into rows.
But all stories are not happy endings, if yours are, rejoice it made sense.
When your story is shared, relived and compared, not all will take offense.
He rejects everything this world expects.

Expectations (Song for Travis)

I was empty before I knew your name
A ghost in the crowd, a flicker, a flame
You walked in like the night took shape
Breath like thunder, hands like fate

And the air got thick, and the world leaned in
Something in your eyes pulled me under my skin
No words, no touch, but I swore I knew
Something in me was starving for you

Oh, hunger, hunger-deep in my bones
A whisper, a shiver, a place I call home
No mercy, no warning, no way to pretend
I was starving before, and I’ll starve till the end

Your voice runs through me like a half-lit prayer
Every syllable laced with the weight of the air
I reach, I retreat, but I never let go
You are the question I’ll never outgrow

And the room stands still, and the night leans close
Something in the dark knows what I know
No words, no touch, but the fire still grew
Something in me was burning for you

Oh, hunger, hunger-deep in my bones
A whisper, a shiver, a place I call home
No mercy, no warning, no way to pretend
I was starving before, and I’ll starve till the end

Oh, I could run, I could hide
Turn my back on the pull, on the tide
But some things, they don't fade
Some ghosts, they don’t behave
And hunger, hunger-it never forgave

Hunger, hunger-deep in my bones
A whisper, a shiver, a place I call home
No mercy, no warning, no way to pretend
I was starving before, and I’ll starve till the end

I was empty before I knew your name...
Still starving now... still starving now...

Hunger, Hunger

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Synthwave / Outrun / Vaporwave / 80s / Retrowave / Darksnth / New Retro

Neon Dreams

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clarity flow-(Burnseych7).

Supernatural

Ciao Dodi

Composer :   Karl Heimgartner Dat : January/ 03/2025  / © Copyright              
Genre:  Chill , Rock , Cinematic 
Single: 2025
Track : 06
Title:    Inspiration / Released / June / 05 / 2025 
Lyrics:  Karl Heimgartner – English 

My workstation with: Presonus Studio One 5 Professional and LANDR Studio Montreal Canada.
MTM has mastered real music production.
Mixed by Christine Sampson
Mastered by Alessandro Giordano from MTM
I sent the finished track and 17 stems to MTM Mastering True Music Production in Spain for mixing and mastering.Hear the desired result from the nice MTM team from Spain.
Thank you for the cooperation, Freddie and Team MTM Mastering True Music Production

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Inspiration

Hold Me

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