We wrote this song before we had a name, Sam sent me the instrumental and I wanted to improvise some words over the top.  I was staying at my parents’ house in the mountains. At that time I was reading a book called “The Chalice and The Blade” which spoke about a Goddess, and a peaceful people who worshipped the Goddess. I thought it sounded like a good idea. So I started singing about the Goddess, and I was in the kitchen, so I was also singing about what I could see in there at that moment. Sam put all my ramblings in order and we massaged the lyrics until it sounded like a song. When we save songs in Ableton we often add the date at the end of a working title. This song was called GODDESS, and the date was 9/11/2018, so the file name became GODDESS_911.als … Suddenly what we were doing fell into place. We had a name

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It's a common refrain that humanity harbors a dark undercurrent--that whatever paradises we can imagine will always be sabotaged by innate selfishness and violence. During a recent period of self-inquiry, Alister James Wright (Vlossom, Cloud Control) discovered a convincing rebuttal to that pervasive argument. He came across Riane Esler's 1987 book 'The Chalice and The Blade', which argues that many ancient civilizations did in fact live equitably, with no war, hierarchy, or gender-based oppression. Many of these cultures worshipped a nurturing goddess figure rather than a disciplinarian, paternalistic god, and many produced prolific artists and poets. He had recently begun collaborating on a new project with longtime friend Sam Lockwood (The Jezabels) and together they decided to begin exploring these themes in their work. They named the group  Goddess911: a musical outlet intended to explore what people can become when they dissolve the myths that keep them locked in place.

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