Music recorded and mixed in March, 2021 - live in Waterloo, Ontario.
Field recording from Waterloo Park - April, 2020.
Musical inspiration from Ocarina of Time (Koji Kondo, 1998).

Lost Ecosystem (side A) - (Cedarwood Sounds)

Speak to Us of Joy 
Composed By: Sami Anguaya
Text By: Kahlil Gibran
Performed By: The Concreamus Chamber Choir, December Concert 2022 

Text:

Then a woman said, Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow.
And he answered:
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.
Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.
When the treasure-keeper lifts you to weigh his gold and his silver, needs must your joy or your sorrow rise or fall.

Speak To Us Of Joy

*Hunab Ku Great Mystery* Now LIVE on Spotify & All platforms ;) 

A home recording that hermano Dragon Star helped record for me in April 2023!

Lyrics written by me on my guitar, while whistling, soaring & surrendering on wings of grace* 

Available to download here~https://colleenlinseman.bandcamp.com/track/hunab-ku-great-mystery

Lyrics~

Hey Yanna aho, 
Hey Yanna aho..x3

Oh Wakan tanka tunkashila
Sita de corazón aho x2

Oh were flying..were flying, were flying so high, On our prayers in the light to the centre core…

Into the Great Mystery & the Unknown!

Oh we pray that our prayers unite all the tribe relations of the queen of the heart and one soul, 

Higher & Higher on the Phoenix wings of fire
Into the mystery higher, higher

Hey yo Yanna , Yanna heya hey yanna yo x 2

Oh,Nee bee wah bow, En die en, Aah key mis kquee, Nee bee wah bow
Hey ya, Hey Yanna Hey, Hey Yanna yo
(“We sing this song like a lullaby. The song means  the water is the life's blood of our mother the earth. Water is the life's blood of our own bodies”)
— Grandma Nancy

Oh we surrender to the great mystery
We trust in life and the one heart, one mind & spirit

Higher & higher we unite our prayers in the light & love for our 
*Mother/Father*

Hey yana hey yana
Hey yanna hey  yanna yo x 2
OAhwey witchi chai yo witchi chai yo hey yanna aho x3
(Hey witchi chai yo witchi chai yo translates...Fly like an Eagle, butterfly, hummingbird etc...Circling the mother earth with wings of rainbow light...Hey witchi chai yo witchi chai yo...This place is holy & sacred is the ground & Forest mountain river, listen to their sounds/vibrations)

Hey witchi chai yo witchi chai yo

Whistling in surrender on wings of grace*

Higher & Higher, We Unite one heart, one mind, one tribe
OAhwey witchi chai yo witchi chai yo x1

Flying on the Phoenix wings
Hey yana hey yana yo x 3
 OAhwey witchi chai yo witchi chai yo x3

Higher & Higher, Higher we unite in one heart, one mind, one soul
Hey, Yanna x3
Hey yana hey yana yo x 3
OAhwey witchi chai yo witchi chai yo x1

Higher, Hey Yanna ahooooo… 

Flying, Flying on the wings of Prayer
Hey yanna aho

Higher & Higher, Higher, Higher…

Uniting One tribe, One heart, One mind, One Spiritous

Flying & gliding on the phoenixes wings on fire, 

To the centerer core of thy Hunab Ku

Flying…Hey Hey ya, Hey Yanna Hey, Hey Yanna aho
OAhwey witchi chai yo witchi chai yo  x3


Higher & Higher, Higher, Higher…
Hey yana hey yana 

Higher & Higher we fly to the centre core/corozon
Higher & Higher to the great Mystery unknown

Flying so high, One heart, One mind, One higher tribe

Higher & Higher uniting our hearts & souls

Hey yana hey yana  x3
OAhwey witchi chai yo witchi chai yo x6

Were flying, Were flying…Hey yana yo…
With One heart, One mind, One spiritous

Flying…
With wings of light, on the prayers of humanity uniting,
One heart, One mind, One spiritous

Higher & Higher, Higher & Higher

All our prayers of light to the centre corazón Hunab Ku

Higher & Higher
Surrendering into thy great mystery & thy unknown!

Hey yanna aho

Hey Yanna
Hey Yanna
Hey Yanna
Hey Yanna aho

Whistling & surrendering on wings of grace*
For all our relations!
Zikada Ob Dowa 🙏

*For we are thy Hunab Ku...Evam Maya... E Ma Ho*

"True compassion is not forged at a distance from pain but in its fires"...To discover an awakened heart within ourselves, it is crucial not to idealize or romanticize compassion. Our compassion simply grows out of our willingness to meet pain rather than to flee from it"!
~Kuan Yin

Hunab Ku Great Mystery 🙏

Bronwen Olson - Old Gods (Original)

Bronwen Olson - Family (Original)

Bronwen Olson - Human (Original)

Bronwen Olson - Something More (Original)

Bronwen Olson - Wildageeses (Cover)

Oh honey honey, I won't pretend 
I know the first thing about your suffering
But my honey honey, I've watched you close
And some things I might know about your suffering 

Like where you'd go when the moon lit up the sky
Smoking with the music playing and a fire in your eye 
When I'd come around to see you, you'd be swaying in the dark
Staying up to pass the feeling, playing your guitar 

Oh honey honey, there was a time 
I thought I may be born another blood line 
But my honey honey, I won't pretend 
I haven't caught the bug that you were suffering

Now here I am writing verses in the night 
Smoking while I write a lyric and a fire in my eye
But no one comes around to see me, I'm alone here with myself
Staying up to pass the feeling, playing my guitar 

Oh honey honey, it's not your fault 
You never did deserve the lot you landed 
But my honey honey, no one's to blame 
You build home with the lumber you are given 

Now I will tread in the misty morning hour 
And all will be forgiven and then thrown into the fire
And I will come around to see you and together we'll take heart
Singing songs of fellow feeling, playing the guitar

Bronwen Olson - Honey, Honey (Original)

As a baby, clinging on 
To her mother and no one else 
Growing older and heading out 
To take on the world and forget herself 

Baby, baby you 
You need some rest 
Baby, baby girl 
You need to stay here 

I can't let you out, even if you cry 
No, I won't open up, 'til I see you tire 
We need to let sleeping dogs lie 

As a woman, clinging still 
To her lover and no one else 
Coming to and feeling shame 
I needed you when there was no escape 

Baby, baby you 
You need some rest 
Baby, baby girl 
You need to stay here 

I won't let her out, even if she cries 
No I won't open up, until she tires 
We need to let sleeping dogs lie

Bronwen Olson - Sleeping Dogs (Original)

"All this change and I resist 
Holding onto a safe world that doesn’t exist 
All this change and I must bow 
Accepting what I can’t know now"

Bronwen Olson - North Star (Original)

Cedar Wood (Ontario-based musician Evan Pointner) presents his ongoing solo project Cedarwood Sounds: ethereal sound meditations for deep explorations of consciousness - a lush blend of improvised melodies, loops, drones and field recordings - all recorded & mixed from 2019 to present.

This page is an extension of the Cedarwood Sounds page, which features music from 2018 and earlier:
https://soundcloud.com/cedarwoodsounds

Lost Ecosystem (side A) - (Cedarwood Sounds)

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