The Goddesses rage against the so called god, who has made himself the arbitrator of humanity.  Killing at will, careless in his indiscriminate abuse of power over the helpless. The god who chooses suffering and evil over kindness and compassion, is not my god. This is not the god that I accept nor the creator of this world that I can live with. Everything in me rejects our existence…that such vile energy exists and was put on this earth.  The suffering of the artist depicted in such anguish and pain…through timeless space…it is too much to bear.  

Born in another time, I would have surely been burned at the stake. It doesn’t escape me now, that I live a very fortunate existence…in a peaceful country…shielded from most direct hits of earth’s horrors. Yet, I travel so fast through space and time…sometimes aimlessly shooting my energy out into the world where it is not being welcomed or received…

Yet to stop, if I stop creating energy, the energy vital for my music to be found and born, then I feel absolutely helpless and devoid of purpose and that’s even more painful to sit in that discomfort. 

Which discomfort should I choose today? I choose the discomfort of burning…feeling the burning eyes and minds of pious humans…burning right through me…and of this god…who has placed burning inside me and inside those I love…those who can’t reciprocate because they are too afraid, or too hurt, or too confused…who’s bravery and voice has been taken away and their love hidden so far away…their energy withdrawing from my sphere…

Adding in the disappearance of my divine twin…could there be more energy driving through me??

Here is all that misplaced energy…from my discomfort…

Not sure you can enjoy this…it is not to enjoy…it is to experience and revel in the power of my energy…

Burn Her…She Burns…

‘Find what you love and let it kill you.’ - Charles Bukowski.

Sh Burns

She Burns

She Wishes

I am moving so quickly through space and time…it is taking my breath away.  I am detaching from any form of attachment…or at least I can see my form disintegrating and running through my fingers.  I can’t grasp onto anything. I am holding my hands open as the world revolves around me.  What I have been fighting, I am now just beginning to surrender to.  It feels both horrible and incredible. 

The music ‘Through Her Glistening Eyes’ is taking me from one space into the next. It all began with the Goddess of Edges and Listen 51. To go higher…and inevitably I meet yet another spirit who maybe cannot hear me…but is listening…but this time, I am not disturbed by the fact.  I am accepting.  

I open up now, as an eagle or a dragon, or a moth…to fly up to find something…the paradox of letting go and finding something is embedded in my bones/wings…

As I lay here…arms open, hands open and relaxed in surrender…I sit still…I await…a cosmic new energy is coming into my orbit and I am positively joyous to discover what it means. I open and open and open and move through and around to explore this remarkable new energy. 

The quieter I sit, the higher I fly…the more my hands stay open and accepting, the more energy I can feel…the more I embody ‘If it comes, let it. If it goes, let it’, then I am ready to fly…ready to be so free…it feels revolutionary…it will now find its way into the music…

My revolutionary new music will emanate…I am simply taken away…gone gone gone… -MM

“When you're deeply sensitive
Love is ecstasy. 
Music is godlike. 
Heartache is a wide, somatic wound. 
Visual natural beauty is jewel-drenched
Wild bliss. 
Tension and conflict are muscle tightening 
And toxic, straight down to the cells. 
So how do you hold it all? 
You rinse
Recenter
And remain clear. 
You recycle your sensitivity 
By propelling yourself and others 
To create waves of change 
In a super starving world. 
Direct your passion 
By spreading your heart 
Only across what clearly matters most. 
Surround yourself with the souls 
And spaces that groove alongside your own- 
The ones that also desire to chase the beauty, 
Courage and freedom 
We're all here to teach each other. 
Choose love over fear 
And let go of the rest
Breathing what isn't best up out of your bones. 
Remember—
There is power in the body. 
Harness it for the greater good
And allow nothing confusing
Peace disrupting
Or harmful stand in its way. 
It is beautiful to feel in a body made for feeling
And exist intensely on a planet exuding intensity.”

— Victoria Erickson

LOVE AFTER LOVE

The time will come 
when, with elation 
you will greet yourself arriving 
at your own door, in your own mirror 
and each will smile at the other's welcome, 

and say, sit here. Eat. 
You will love again the stranger who was your self. 
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart 
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you 

all your life, whom you ignored 
for another, who knows you by heart. 
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, 

the photographs, the desperate notes, 
peel your own image from the mirror. 
Sit. Feast on your life.

- Derek Walcott

Her Heart On A Platter

'Give everything I've got. Give everything.  All the time.  It's great fun. And it is liberating. Absolutely liberating.' Dr. Maya Angelou. 

I will not limit myself to conform, but will be authentic and radically honest in sharing my thoughts and experiences and desires.  I will remain true to my music and to what lies deep within my heart and spirit.  I will be open and more open and then again, more open...to give everything...to be totally present in every moment, so I can give everything I've got...

Thanks JCJCJC for creating this extraordinary energy within me that germinated this music. 

M.

Give Everything

There is a world within me that defies logic, is beyond explanation…it creates and floats and soars, and it is not a part of my mortal physical self. And yet, energies found here on earth can set my inner world alight…where the heavens above are mirrored within.  To catch this energy, so much alignment in the real world is necessary, but it is not impossible.  What does this new energy sound like?  Who has pushed it out of me?  Where is it going next?  

My dear Ángel (my divine twin who passed away recently) said to me, ‘M, the wind doesn’t always blow the sails. There is a time for rest.’ My answer to him was, ‘When the wind disappears, I create it myself. I, and only I, am responsible for my own wind.’

I am the center of the energy, always have been, always will be…but I welcome and am always grateful for those who contribute and make it wild…a wild intense ride…

‘Philosophers teach us how to think. Composers teach us how to love. It is a love lesson.’ Paul Tortelier. 

A Love Lesson 




‘Without solitude, 
Love will not stay long by your side.

Because Love needs to rest, 
so that it can journey through the heavens and reveal itself in other forms.

Without solitude, no plant or animal can survive, no soil can remain productive, 
no child can learn about life, no artist can create, no work can grow and be transformed.

Solitude is not the absence of Love, 
but its complement.

Solitude is not the absence of company, 
but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

Therefore, blessed are those 
who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.

If you are never alone, 
you cannot know yourself.

And if you do not know yourself, 
you will begin to fear the void.’ 

~ Paulo Coelho

‘The art of creating is nothing without the vast ongoing participation and collaboration of the real world, nothing without the thousandfold harmonizing of things and beings; and the creator’s pleasure is thereby inexpressibly rich because it contains memories of the begetting and bearing of millions. In a single creative thought dwell a thousand forgotten nights of love, which infuse it with immensity. And those who come together in the night, locked in thrusting desire, are gathering nectar, generating power and sweetness for some future poetic utterance that will sing the rapture.’

-Rilke (from Letters to a Young Poet)

A Love Lesson

“I am mostly made of scars” she said.

“You spelled stars incorrectly” he replied. 

-Kalen Dion Poetry 

Sometimes I wonder why we live…why all of this?  To live is such a confusing and mysterious endeavour. To fill our time with what? To amass things for what? To create for what?  

Everything we do, is because we have not been given a choice. We were brought here to live from moment to moment…from birth, to old age and then fade away.  Everything we are disappears and yet we carry on in the love we have left behind in the strangest of places…the tiniest of spaces…in the hearts of those we touched. 

So to live is to love…the active sense of love. Love in action, in creation, in sharing, in growing, in offering moments of joy and respite to those we meet along this journey. To smile and laugh and feel the joy of purely being alive…we live for those moments.  

To transform our scars into stars is our destiny…to help those around us do the same, is an even greater blessing. 

Today, I am transforming some scars into stars for myself…and to heal some of the deep wounds inside me. This in turn will resound to those near me and around me…

My blessings are great…I am deeply humbled and crumbled…as I open up to new spaces within and out…my heart cannot contain the gratefulness I feel to everyone and everything around me.  

This music is born of this energy. 

M.

Thank you JCJCJC 😻, for everything.

From Scars to Infinite Stars

From Scars To Infinite Stars

I’m constantly in a state of searching…it’s almost incessant, this cycle that creates my music.  It’s become so second nature to me, but it still takes me by surprise…it hangs me out to dry, every time! 

Alongside happiness and settling into my two homes, lives excitement and intensity, and huge dollops of existential angst.  We are here and then gone…it never makes sense. I’m constantly confused as to why…and why all this music?  

I am meeting new energies head on, I refuse to hide and hold my head up as I bare myself…how painfully intense to just lay bare the soul, the heart of what we are…what we desire…

This music is born of this baring…and I make it so I can dance within it…it is my atmosphere, when everything else makes no sense, the music allows me to breathe…to understand something about life and the invisible entity that we are. In spirit we arrive, inspirited and inspired we live, out of body we die, but our spirit lives on forever…

From this day, the day of this musics’ birth (June 26, 2023, my spirit will live within this music forever…I need not worry where my spirit will go when my body dies. 

M.
Thank you JC 🥰, I and E 💕

The Dancing Pole Waltz

We travel alone in all the important times that we grow. We have our tribe, our friends, our family, to help us along the way. But it becomes so quiet and still when we need to truly grow. Growth and fear and grappling with the unknown in this world and in our next travels, feels highly volatile…the perplexing instability of the human life form that is neither particle nor wave, but a figment of a fraction of our time spent in this human life form. 

I cannot settle my spirit. It had known settlement and comfort, but that illusion dulled my senses, my inner thoughts and knowings. And although it brought me great pleasure and happiness for the time it was present, deep down I always grapple with our humanity and our purpose as a species…time is of no essence…the spirit lives in its own time and space.

So what am I describing in this music? What have I written?  I know exactly what I have sketched out. I’ve sketched out our infinite search for when our spirit will find a home…whether it’s beside a lake, in the eyes reflecting back at us, in the stars, in the wind whipping through our hair, in the smell of the fire, in the touch of a loved one or in the sounds of a song…our spirit dances and soars and takes infinite shapes as we journey and grow…

I write something of this journey…

For JC and his Dad

Touching The Infinite

I’ve collided with a star…it is raining down stars. I am swept away by loving energy…ecstatic love…a deep soulful connection that feels like stars are flickering and shooting all around me. 

Emotions and energy are sacred to me…as they are the source of my creative process. I use them to turn my life into music…and in the music contains the exact emotions that are stored within me. 

Those who give me this energy and are not afraid of emotions, are welcomed as loving stars within my constellation (globular star cluster). 

I go beyond what is touchable to a place where music begins…’go there M, go find your new music’, the stars whisper. 

I go…

Thank you TA for giving of your loving energy.

It's Raining Down Stars

Renowned Toronto soul & reggae singer Tréson has paired up with extraordinary post-classical composer, producer and cellist Margaret Maria to create a pop song, ‘Music Can Change The World’ that they dream will travel around the world. 

The new music that is Margaret Maria and Tréson is as unique as the artists themselves.  The classical world is colliding with the genres of funk, soul and pop, with a fresh new sound and a musical playground for Margaret Maria's creativity and Tréson's songwriting and vocal talents along with contributions from the likes of Canadian jazz legend Mark Kelso who provided drum stems and eminent pop music producer Craig McConnell. 

“As artists, we have the duty to raise our voices in support of peace and love and humanity around the world,” says Margaret Maria. “This song was created from love, and a deep love of the world and all the creatures that inhabit it. Our hearts want to share it with you, for you too: cover it, sing or dance to it, remix it and make a music video to post it up on social media sites around the world.

“No matter how you express it, we want your contribution,” adds Tréson. “Even if it’s singing the bridge and chorus while strumming your guitar, we want your voices to join us. Music saves lives, and it is my mission to send that message to those who are being raised or helped by music. You are not alone in this:’  

Both artists have been saved by music time and time again and believe that music can change the world we live in. Margaret Maria puts this in practice as the co-founder and conductor of the social change through music program in Ottawa called OrKidstra and Tréson uses his platform as one of the lead singers of the beloved Canadian reggae band The Human Rights to share his message of unity and peace.

Media inquiries:
Sebastian Cook
The BEAT Network
sebastiancook@gmail.com
416-573-8055

Music Can Change The World

Music Can Change The World - Mix:master Full

Dance Remix:
Remix Producer: Julian Reig (Argentina)
Vocals: Tréson
Cello: Margaret Maria 
Drums: Julian Reig 
Organ/keyboards: John Roby
Bass: Neil 'NeMo' Morris
Guitar: Francisco Gil Guerrero
Choir Vocals: Vera Garcia Reig, Mariana Pertuso

Original Song Stems:
Music and Lyrics: Margaret Maria and Tréson
Producer: Margaret Maria 
Co-producer: Tréson
Mix and Mastering: Craig Robert McConnell
Singing/vocals: Tréson 
Cello: Margaret Maria
Recording Engineer: Margaret Maria

Emotive Soul/Reggae singer Tréson has paired up with the extraordinary post-classical composer, producer and cellist Margaret Maria, to create a pop song that they dream will travel around the world. 

Tréson and Margaret Maria are raising their voices in support of peace and love and humanity around the world.  This song was created from a deep love of the world and all the creatures that inhabit it. Their hearts want to share it with you, for you to: cover it, sing it, remix it and make a music video to post it up on social media sites around the world. 

The audio stems and the sheet music is provided for free at https://margaretmariamusic.com/music-can-change-the-world for anyone to use and upload onto any free platforms.

Music Can Change The World - Dance Mix

'I rarely make covers, but this one came in May 2023 just after Gordon Lightfoot passed away. My dear friend JC mentioned it was his favourite Lightfoot song, and I decided to make him a special Birthday present. So the cello instrumental was a present at first. 

I met Tréson at another friend's Birthday Party in July 2023. We connected and said we would do music together! We were talking about covers one day, and I mentioned to him that I have one made already!! He was thrilled when I said it was a Gordon Lightfoot tune! Tréson came into my closet studio to record the vocals (my first time doing any vocal recording!) and it was mixed and mastered by my amazing Rage Angel co-creator, Craig Robert McConnell. 

So here you have both versions...which I love dearly.' - Margaret Maria

Composer: Gordon Lightfoot

Vocals- Tréson

Cello- Margaret Maria 

Instrumental Arrangement: Margaret Maria

Mix and Master: Craig Robert McConnell

Producer: Margaret Maria

Recording Engineer: Margaret Maria

Videographer: James Nickle - Cleveland Sound Labs
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Margaret Maria and Tréson COVER GORDON LIGHTFOOT'S 'SONG FOR A WINTER'S NIGHT' 

The new music that is Margaret Maria and Tréson is as unique as the artists themselves. The classical world is colliding with the genres of funk, soul and pop, with a fresh new sound and a musical playgroud for Margaret Maria's creativity and Tréson's songwriting and vocal talents. Being courageous and brave to collaborate and venture into uncharted territories, this duo is set to change the world in a way that will not only surprise you, but delight your sonic sensibilities. 

Their first single 'Music Can Change the World' was released December 15, 2023.
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Song For A Winter's Night

Song For A Winter's Night - Instrumental

Instrumental Version

Song For A Winter's Night - Instrumental Version

Margaret Maria and Tréson COVER GORDON LIGHTFOOT'S 'SONG FOR A WINTER'S NIGHT' 

The new music that is Margaret Maria and Tréson is as unique as the artists themselves. The classical world is colliding with the genres of funk, soul and pop, with a fresh new sound and a musical playgroud for Margaret Maria's creativity and Tréson's songwriting and vocal talents. Being courageous and brave to collaborate and venture into uncharted territories, this duo is set to change the world in a way that will not only surprise you, but delight your sonic sensibilities. 

Their first single 'Music Can Change the World' was released December 15, 2023.

Song For A Winter's Night - credits 

Composer: Gordon Lightfoot 

Vocals- Tréson 

Cello- Margaret Maria 

Instrumental Arrangement: Margaret Maria 

Mix and Master: Craig Robert McConnell 

Producer: Margaret Maria 

Recording Engineer: Margaret Maria 

Videographer: James Nickle - Cleveland Sound Labs
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Song for a Winter's Night - Lyrics  
The lamp is burnin' low upon my table top 
The snow is softly falling 
The air is still in the silence of my room 
I hear your voice softly calling 
If I could only have you near 
To breathe a sigh or two 
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love 
On this winter night with you 

The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead 
My glass is almost empty 
I read again between the lines upon each page 
The words of love you sent me 
If I could know within my heart 
That you were lonely too 
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love 
On this winter night with you 

The fire is dying
Now my lamp is growing dim 
The shades of night are lifting 
The morning light steals across my window pane 
Where webs of snow are drifting 
If I could only have you near 
To breathe a sigh or two 
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love 
On this winter night with you 
And to be once again with you

'I rarely make covers, but this one came in May 2023 just after Gordon Lightfoot passed away. My dear friend JC mentioned it was his favourite Lightfoot song, and I decided to make him a special Birthday present. So the cello instrumental was a present at first. 

I met Tréson at another friend's Birthday Party in July 2023. We connected and said we would do music together! We were talking about covers one day, and I mentioned to him that I have one made already!! He was thrilled when I said it was a Gordon Lightfoot tune! Tréson came into my closet studio to record the vocals (my first time doing any vocal recording!) and it was mixed and mastered by my amazing Rage Angel co-creator, Craig Robert McConnell. 

So here you have both versions...which I love dearly.' - Margaret Maria

Vocal Version

Song For A Winter's Night - Tréson and Margaret Maria

What is the secret of life?  This definitely describes a beautiful part of that secret and it continues my Love Lesson series...to love with a full and open heart...no matter what...the sun shines and the moon beams rejoice in a love that holds no bounds and can never be broken. 'The Goddess of Edges has turned herself inside out and discovered the secret of life itself.'

Secret of Life

My dear friends Mark Maryanovich and Carolyne Stossel had informed me about the passing of their mother, Julie Stossel. I just couldn't simply reply by email and didn't know what to say. In that moment, I felt that I needed to write this for them…it was the angel taking her spirit and passing through to another realm. A realm of great beauty and brightness…it exists…this place I imagine.
 
Written in memory of the life and spirit of Julie Stossel

‘The beauty of the Archangel Raffaele, the bringer of healing, comfort and compassion has been brought to me. This music is full of energy that heals, sings, dances on the edge of winged spirits, and brings such indescribable beauty in colours that shimmer and are full of love.’

Carried By An Angel

Carried by an Angel

Carried By An Angel - Margaret Maria

'What the Goddesses have brought together, no mortal shall tear apart - from now into eternity' - this is just that kind of love. Found here on earth but meant to resonate into eternity.

“Dedicated to all women and girls who bravely live their truth. You are the ones who have and will change the world for the better.”

Each track is dedicated to a Canadian woman who inspires me. Who they are and how the music honours their legacy, visit: www.enchanten.com  Heroines in Harmony Album.

Track 9 - Her Storm (4:19)
Honouring the life and legacy of Dr. Lotta Hitschmanova (1909-1990) - humanitarian and refugee to Canada whose parents perished in Auschwitz.  "Exhausted, with a feeling of absolute solitude in an entirely strange country ... I came with $60 in my pocket. I had an unpronounceable name. I weighed less than 100 lbs., and I was completely lost.” - Dr. Lotta Hitschmanova. 

The displacement of immigrants and the horrors that many refugees have endured is depicted in this music.  It is the storm that emerges from within the female spirit that has been beaten, abused, ignored and in many cases left for dead, without an afterthought.  It is the storm I imagine when I hear stories of cruelty to women and girls all around the world.  This is what that storm feels like. 
 
'As the project developed, it became clear that this album and music was directed towards girls and women who are struggling to be heard.  The struggle for the female voice to be heard is very real. The women I have chosen to honour here  with music have affected my own world.  They are all Heroines for living their truth.  In highlighting their achievements, I contribute in a small way to making the world more aware of ‘Herstory’ that should rightly be represented in History.'

‘My mind still has difficulties comprehending the magnitude of how we have erased, ignored, downplayed and forgotten to honour the feminine side of the worlds achievement.  Women’s voices, especially in music composition and film scoring, has been largely ignored.  Classical music for the concert stage and radio play of female made Classical music is clearly not reflecting the current quality and volume of contributions from women composers around the world.  This is my ode to female voices forgotten, murdered, missing, omitted from History, but perhaps with renewed commitment will create a Herstory that we can be proud of celebrating.’

Heroines In Harmony

Her Storm

Tiny Wings
Honouring the work happening now, in Ottawa by the powerhouse of energy, Tina Fedeski (1962- ) in creating and nurturing the children of OrKidstra. 

OrKidstra creates an idea society by empowering kids within their communities; giving them the chance to learn an instrument and play music together by joining their voices in harmony, love and respect. Tina and OrKidstra are creating magic every day in the underserved communities of Ottawa. This music represents my hope and it shimmers with innocence, children’s voices shining bright, angels and peace. My heart is so full of love when I know that we can make a difference in making the world a better place for our children. 

www.orkidstra.ca

Tiny Wings

Waiting for spring...

From my album 'Enchantress'

Enchantress

Spring!

Inspired by the musical dedication and eternal quest for beauty of the acclaimed pianist and performing concert artist - Angela Hewitt. (1958- ) 

To soar from one moment of musical beauty to another in a life that embodies a true musical path. Overcoming odds to find such a shining, glimmering, sparkling musical world in her fingertips and performing it with love and finesse and sharing this gift with the world. It is this energy and vitality that makes Angela’s life especially meaningful to the world and this piece contains exactly that.

from Heroines in Harmony, released March 29, 2018

A Magical Touch

Exquisite Night

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