I’m not Afraid

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Our Duty to Care is a cross-disciplinary music composition based on the legal case Sharma v Minister for the Environment [2021] FCA 560, where eight Australian teenagers (namely Anjali Sharma and Isolde Raj-Seppings, Ambrose Hayes, Tomas Arbizu, Bella Burgemeister, Laura Kirwan, Ava Princi & Luca Saunders) represented by an octogenarian nun (Sister Marie Brigid Arthur) as their litigation guardian, sued the Minister for the Environment (Cth) and Vickery Coal Pty Ltd.
They successfully argued that the Minister owed them and other Australian children a duty of care, which was supposedly breached when the Minister approved the extraction of coal from a coal mine.

Whilst this decision was later successfully appealed by the Minister, this case monumentally established that climate change is legally real – with all submitted scientific evidence un-refuted. This denotes a significant shift, as we are no longer fighting to prove our climate crisis, but rather urging all to fight the crisis itself.

This work sets newly commissioned text by poet, close friend & regular collaborator Savanna Wegman, who has re-interpreted my own legal research about the case into a 3-part poem, which has in turn structured the song cycle. It embodies climate anxiety, the nervous excitement of the trial and its success, and the melancholic yet hopeful transference of ideology: how far we’ve come & how far we still have left to go.
Composed as part of and made possible by a 2022/23 University of Melbourne Wattle Fellowship.

Timing: ~ 18 minutes 
1: Robed in Apocalypse (~6min)
2: they will rise, as birds fall (~5min)
3: The Changing Wilds (~7min)

Written for Bridgette Kelsey and Solstice Trio. Dedicated to all current and future generations of Australians who inherit a climate crisis. 

Bridgette Kelsey, soprano
SOLSTICE
Isabel Hede, violin (guest)
Stephanie Arnold, cello 
Georgina Lewis, piano

Commissioned Cover Art Illustration © by Lucinda McIntyre.

Commissioned Sext Text: ‘Prophecy, as a fire comes’ by Savanna Wegman © 2022 
Text used for 1: Robed in Apocalypse:
No more prophecy 
until the sky begets a softer 
Everlasting sun 
or
the youth unravel 
braided darkness
rushing innocence
all over Earth 

Shadows designed 
for our tired birth places
ghosting the new life 
upon babbling breaths  
 
And so the young are born 
New guardians 
Robed in 
Apocalypse

Text used for 2: they will rise, as birds fall:
Know they will rise
As disappearance is written  
on ancient weather 
become beast
She watches above 
as birds fall 
out of the mother sky 

March into the high courts 
of creators and destroyers
Anjali Sharma and the army 
                  Future keepers
Enter this laced arena 
burning horizons in their bellies 

The Minister surveys the gravity
how deep we may breathe
how quickly we will fall
when the Earth veins split 
and the sanctuary howls 
at its open flesh  

The weather sounds like a whisper 
in these walls that stand for justice 
Lay down a pocketful 
of bird bones
of poison oceans

Text used for 3: The Changing Wilds
They speak for the
forgotten
Their ancestral home-body
Their drowning, burning worlds
for their lands that have lost hope 
together their voices are louder
Becoming suns
Becoming rains 
Becoming rivers multiplied 
Becoming the skyward call 
of protection 

this call
Is honoured
the duty of care rewritten
A first for acknowledging
the changing wilds

Evidence now held
in palms that believe in
collapse
and might begin to
listen
Blessing the horror 
with a soft breath of courage 

Remember how
young sacred tears 
are greeting Earth 
like miracle seeds

Our Duty to Care (LIVE)(song cycle for soprano & piano trio)(2023)(Bridgette Kelsey & Solstice Trio)

Performance/remix by Loper via iPhone/Groovepad app
Loops created by Tjam via Groovepad app
Image provided by istockphoto.com.

EMBRACING MY LIGHT BODY

Synthetic Strings

Written, arranged and produced by Davide Angelini
Vocals & instruments: Davide Angelini
Recording: 2008/2009
Album: RAPTURED BY THE SOUND
Originally: (p)&(c) 2013 Davide Angelini
This mix & remaster: (p)&(c) 2022 Davide Angelini

Lyrics:

MISTRAL
Forget your troubles and open the door
Take the front road, don't delay anymore
The rainbow shows you the den of the sun
Open your mind, let the fantasy run

(Mistral)
The wind takes you away
(Mistral)
To the end of the day
(Mistral)
On the sky's thread you stay
(Mistral)
The wind takes you away
The air supports you protecting your fly
Nomore desires, nomore fears if you try

Leave now your troubles and set free your mind
Dance with the mountains, the sea, the skyline
The rainbow shows you the den of the sun
Don't be afraid and begin now to run

(Mistral)
The wind takes you away
(Mistral)
To the end of the day
(Mistral)
On the sky's thread you stay
(Mistral)
The wind takes you away
The air supports you protecting your fly
Nomore desires, nomore fears if you try

Be happy now, the Creation's for you
Everything is the best thing to do
Open you mind, set the fantasy free
Dance with your feet on the top of the trees

(Mistral)
The wind takes you away
(Mistral)
To the end of the day
(Mistral)
On the sky's thread you stay
(Mistral)
The wind takes you away
The air supports you protecting your fly
Nomore desires, nomore fears if you try

(c) 2013 Davide Angelini

Raptured by the Sound (2022 mix & remaster)

Mistral (2022 mix & remaster)

Bandcamp

MISTRAL - (2022 mix & remaster)

Ateriga [part 1]

A tribute to the late great Lew Lewis with a version of one of his songs I heard on youtube. Don’t know what it’s really called. I added in a third verse. Intended to play it like he does, but ended up just winging it. I think he would have approved of my approach.

Lew's Blues

Spring Stream

Hypnotherapy

Peace is not the absence of sound, but the presence of perfect alignment. Beneath the movement of the stars and the silent hum of existence, every force moves in balance: gravity and grace intertwined. The mind expands, dissolving into a calm light where nothing rushes and nothing resists. In that eternal suspension, consciousness becomes the air itself: vast, weightless, and infinitely still.

Spectrum Mind

Intox - Lumina

Bedroom producer.I have a small setup consisting of an IPad,midi keyboard and studio monitors. I have struggled with addiction for over a decade and music is a passion I lost. I have been clean now for over a year and I’m getting back into my music and love of life.

I’m not Afraid

C4MAN