Last page of this trip journal regarding Ilha das Flores and it is celebrated with an amazing woman that happens to live  in Flores (where she's developing an amazing work with a group of people who are helping to reinvent live in Flores with a new sense of community, sharing trough arts, cultural partnership, sustainability and regenerative relation to nature, and other holistic approaches) and that has welcomed us during stay. Nina (check her amazing music at @nina_musicalmas) shares the words with me in this song about being Islands, and Jörg (that you already know as @joerxworx) helps us our mind meet our bodies in this joyful dance with his flute! 
Really happy with the song, the video and even the lyrics (which are mostly improvised in the moment and sometimes can work as loop game :D )

||credits||
joão sousa (Svayam) : guitar, vocals, sampling, programming, mix and master
Nina (@nina_musicalmas): vocals
Jörg (@joerxworkx): flute

|| lyrics ||

I feel the Air
I feel the Earth
I feel the Fire
I feel the Water

The wind is strong
And it blows my mind away
The Earth beneath my feet 
Is just like a nourishing mother
And I feel all the fire inside me
Burning every time, but there’s also this
Blissful water where I’m reborn every day

I feel the Air
I feel the Earth
I feel the Fire
I feel the Water

And I feel all the fire inside me
Burning every time, but there’s also this
Blissful water where I’m reborn every day

(Jörg Flute Solo)

There’s nothing like feeling like an island and
feel surrounded by sea everywhere and
every when understand that you are what you are

There’s nothing like looking at other people and see
that they are also islands surrounded by see
everywhere in the Universe Vast Ocean

And if I close my eyes and let the words flow
In my mind there will be this huge waterfall and
all this ocean that surrounds this island

And each drop of that icy water in my skin
will be just like a word or a note of your flute and I am
here, I am now, looking at myself, so high with myself

High with Myslef

Watch VIDEO

High with myself | feat Nina and Jörg

In the deepest core of your heart, chant composé par Eduardo Agni, interprété par Dunne Laading et David Cima.
De l'album Chant de la Nuit, produit par Jérémy Chatelain.
Droits Réservés.

In The Deepest Core Of Your Heart

This track is from the album Machu Picchu o Segredo dos Incas and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/carloscarty

QUENACHO [ ANDEAN FLUTE SOLO]

Kolibris,die schönsten Vögel der Karibik

Deep Down In Carribean Sea

I wrote “It’s a Hold Up” in the quiet hours of the night while everyone else was asleep. The song poured out like a secret — part confession, part metaphor. At its core, it’s about what it feels like to be cornered in love: hands up, heart exposed, not knowing if the person you trust will embrace you or pull the trigger.

It’s both dark and playful, mixing heartbreak with irony. The holdup isn’t just about a gun — it’s the way love can rob you of safety, demand everything, and still leave you wanting more. This demo captures that tension in its rawest form — unpolished, but alive.

Lyrics – “It’s a Hold Up” by Alexander Rivers

Oh, I know it's been so long
Since you've been here

And I can never see quite
Why you disappear

And I watch over my whole damn life, I see
Nothing changed when I choose a side, I just be

And now I know it's a hold up
Would you please just stop and put your hands up
And now I'll tell you to go home
Just turn around and chase your tail

Hide from the shadows, hide from the dark
Don’t let the light bleed through
And go outside, just look at the sky
Maybe it won’t hurt to look up too

Wish I could say I love you
Oh, I said I wish I could, that I love you too

And now I’m held up with my hands up
Sitting up against the wall
Just press your gun into my chest
And make all of your demands

Oh, I thought I could (you)
I thought you wouldn’t shoot
Oh, I thought I could lose you
No, I thought you wouldn’t shoot

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

It’s a Hold Up

This is a 5 song EP about a girl.

1. What Could've Been One Day
2. Why Are You So Far
3. Almost Had A Dream
4. fork in the road
5. beyond lost without you

fork in the road (prod. michael harrison)

pacha mama Samasati 8

Snake woman shedding her skin
shedding shedding shedding her skin

She changes everything she touches 
and everything she touches changes

Change us, touch us, touch us, change us...

Snake Woman ~ Shedding her skin...

This project matured over five years, from our first exploratory flute improvisations, and through sharing and experimenting with arrangements of each other’s songs, to this finished suite of pieces. Our collaboration grew from our shared love for traditional flute music, and for songs of Earth and Spirit.

The album is a dance between the ancient Japanese shakuhachi flute and the Native American style flute, woven together with songs of the elements. A musical journey that moves between the simplicity and spaciousness of the flute melodies, to the intricacy of the songs that dive deep into the roots of humanity and soar high with the flight of the eagle.

Lua Maria sings and plays Native American style flute, guitar, charango and frame drum.
Adrian Freedman plays Japanese shakuachi flute, guitar, harmonium, frame drum, shakers and temple bells.

Home Page:
☛ https://adrianfreedman.com
Itunes Music:
☛ https://bit.ly/adrianfreedman
Bandcamp:
☛ https://adrianfreedman.bandcamp.com/
Facebook:
☛ https://www.facebook.com/adrian.freedman.shakuhachi/
Instagram:
☛ https://www.instagram.com/adrian_freedman_music/
Spotify:
☛ https://bit.ly/adrianfreedmanspotify

Dawn Call

Kirtan with Govinda Kai, Julia Chants and Ákos Várnai in YogaArt Műhely, Budapest Hungary, 18th November 2017.

Om Namoh Narayana

Medicine Buddha Mantra

Om Bekhandze Bekhandze Maha Bekhandze

Bekhandze Randza Samudgate Soha

The Medicine Buddha Mantra calls to the Medicine Buddha to eliminate the pain of illness and suffering. The mantra is repeated several times with increasing intensity imploring the Medicine Buddha to hear and relieve the depth of suffering. It then hails the enlightenment of the Medicine Buddha and offers profound respect as the prayer is relinquished to the Medicine Buddha.

Translation:

As with any poetry, song or chant, there are many possible ways to translate the Medicine Buddha mantra. This is one way to translate the specific words literally.

OM (this is not a “word” but the intonation of the sacred vibration of the universe)

Bekhandze O Healer (of suffering)

Bekhandze O Healer (of the true cause of suffering)

Maha bekhandze O Great Healer (of subtle defilements that cause suffering)

Bekhandze Randza O King of Healing

Samudgate perfectly liberated auspicious being

Soha I offer this prayer and now relinquish it … (to you Medicine Buddha)”

This is one English version of the meaning and intent of the Mantra:

May the sentient beings that suffer across space and time

May their illness and the causes of illness be quickly removed.

And may this illness of body, speech and mind forever be gone.

In The Deepest Core Of Your Heart

David Cima

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