This song digs deep into the immaturity of humanity - that we are more than just what we were taught throughout our lives. By singing the lyric: "So let it all go and sparkle and shine," I'm gently coaxing each and every one of us to push ourselves to our fullest potential. By keeping our minds in sync with what all of us were born to truly be, we can access a placid mind state (aka "unclutched" state) and, from this, play a significant role within the expanding conscious fabric of which all of us are part of.

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MUSICIANS:

Ian Narcisi - songwriter, drums, keyboards, vocals
Dave Bowers - guitar
Erik Swanson - bass

Recorded co-produced, mixed and mastered by Tim Sandusky at Studio Ballistico

Photography - Ian Narcisi

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LYRIC:

Written by Ian Narcisi 10.1.2008

In the morning it’s cold
Laughter in the catacombs - alone
Blurry landscapes from a lie
Swelling of the bitterness inside
In a waking moment it is gone
Flooding every after thought with song
Baskets woven backwards come undone
Blackened stares and rigid glares to none

Calling all cars - there’s a ripple
Splitting to the wall to a trickle
Out from within bursts a soul
And it must grow
Out from all inner
Sparkle and shine

Sudden awareness from all sides
Meanders through the alley-ways of mind
Your world is now changing
Its path - rearranging
With sun light emerging
Aliveness is surging
Far behind the past dims out of site
In with all new beckons into view
A life once impossible is true
The tide from before recedes from the shore
A sudden, swift current abandons your oars

The time has come
For all to awake
To smell and to taste beyond the divine
So let it all go and sparkle and shine!

©2018 Ian Narcisi
http://www.ianmusic.com

Sparkle And Shine

"Absent Today's" lyrics attempt to enrich the listener to look beyond what most of us think of as the norm in everyday life. With the lyric "behind yourself you know you're really there. Inside yourself you know you really care", I am placing a mirror in front of the listener in hopes they will, in turn, reflect within themselves the true nature of who and what they are and what positive acts they are capable of.

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MUSICIANS:

Ian Narcisi - songwriter, drums, keyboards, vocals
Dave Bowers - guitar
Erik Swanson - bass

Recorded co-produced, mixed and mastered by Tim Sandusky at Studio Ballistico

Photography - Ian Narcisi

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LYRIC:

Written by Ian Narcisi 2.15.2009

Hollowed out between the tree's - you've spoken
Walk away from all you'll ever need
Cave into an empty glass - you've broken

Far too long
Here all gone
Blown far away
Absent Today

Behind yourself you know you're really there
Inside yourself you know you really care

Wake the night
Feel the fight
Glow through the haze
Absent today

All not lost
Any cost
Reach for a ray
Balance today

©2018 Ian Narcisi
http://www.ianmusic.com

Absent Today

This song is for the observer at heart. Nature is incredible and we are surrounded by it to simply enjoy it. This song reflects this.

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MUSICIANS:

Ian Narcisi - songwriter, drums, piano, vocals
Erik Swanson - fretless bass
David Kav - 12-string guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin, harmonica

Recorded co-produced, mixed and mastered by Tim Sandusky at Studio Ballistico.

Photography - Ian Narcisi

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LYRIC:

Written by Ian Narcisi 3.16.2006

Trouble me
A walk in the park after dark
There is sight between dark and light

Trouble Free

In the stillness of it all one grows tall
Once punctured and pitted
An inside glance alters the outside dance

Trouble Free

Reflections both ways keeps the mind at bay
A stitch of time - a rhyme

And within us is what we are

©2018 Ian Narcisi
http://www.ianmusic.com

Burning

This song "Inward" is one of seven songs from CD one of a three-part concept album about the four truths (A.I.R.E) and dedicated to Swamiji and his beautiful Sangha. During Darshan at I.A. in October of 2014, Swamiji blessed the making of this album and allowed for the use of both his voice and Kirtan throughout all three albums. I feel so wonderful sharing this with all of you! Nithyanandam! 

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MUSICIANS:

Ian Narcisi - songwriter, drums, keyboards, vocals
Dave Bowers - guitar
Erik Swanson - bass

Samuel Kirkman - digital illustrations

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Definition of Authenticity:
"Authenticity is you being established in the peak of your capability and responding to life. From who you perceive yourself to be for yourself, who you project yourself to be for other's and what other's expect you to be for them." - Paramahamsa Nithyananda

©2018 Ian Narcisi
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Inward

"Song of the Saints" from my second album ("The Story of Blue: The Journey" [aka the Integrity album]) of my trilogy describes the main character Blue at a stage in his journey of self-discovery where he begins to see and experience the four truths (aka The Four Tattvas [1. Authenticity, 2. Integrity, 3. Responsibility and 4. Enriching]) in his life. (http://www.ianmusic.com)

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MUSICIANS:

Ian Narcisi - songwriter, drums, keyboards, vocals
Dave Bowers - guitar
Erik Swanson - bass

Definition of Integrity: Paramahamsa Nithyananda

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Samuel Kirkman - digital illustrations

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LYRIC:

The dream I’ve been living melts away
Of carelessly living yesterdays
Another mindless day
Another selfish stay
I see my reflection change its gaze
A seed cracks my code and paves the way
Authentic action sewn
Integrity aglow

"Integrity purifies your perception and creates tremendous possibilities."
"Integrity is you fulfilling the word and thought you give to yourself and to others and experiencing the state of completion with yourself and life." - Both quotes by Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Responsibility
Soars with intensity
Claim possibility!


©2018 Ian Narcisi
http://www.ianmusic.com

Song Of The Saints

"Dawn" from my second album ("The Story of Blue: The Journey" [aka the Integrity album]) of my trilogy describes the main character Blue at a stage in his journey of self-discovery where he is literally lifted from his existing physical plane into a foreign plane beyond Maya via a massive vortex comprised entirely out of bioluminescent butterflies. (http://www.ianmusic.com).

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MUSICIANS:

Ian Narcisi - songwriter, drums, keyboards, vocals
Dave Bowers - guitar
Erik Swanson - bass
Dhyananjay Kunte - tabla

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Samuel Kirkman - digital illustrations

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LYRIC:

Hear the rustling
They come alone
Gliding green glow
Winding free flow
Near now - let go fear
Circle round come in
Lifting, crying
Rising higher
Spiral tower
I see the golden base
I feel the open hands
I sense it
No rights or wrongs up here
All me gone
Freedom
Reason
See all
Love in me
I am freedom
I can be reason
All my fear gone
Gone


©2018 Ian Narcisi
http://www.ianmusic.com

The Story of Blue: The Journey

Dawn

Dragonfly "Aylah" (representing Authenticity) comes to the main character Blue who is on the precipice of removing himself from the planet earth. She relays to Blue  that he is so much more than who he thinks he is. Her beautiful approach and intense presence are no match for Blue. He succumbs to her grace and follows.

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Dave Bowers - guitar
Erik Swanson - bass

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Samuel Kirkman - digital illustrations

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LYRIC:

Heal from the pain
On a moon lit  laden building top
Mental overflow
A storm departs to the southern sky
Dampened to the bone
Moonlight finds abandoned
A separated youth
Now shivering to blue
Facing the ground
To wash away
All life around
Relieve the now
A brilliant beam of white wakes up all shattered far aways … and more
The wings, familiar, flicker through the haze … and glow
An endless range of colors pave the way … hello
A most auspicious day
Don’t fly about don’t call my name
Just leave my sight and let me blow away
This time
It’s time
The madness all around
Just float away
My time’s today
To say goodbye
It’s not your time. It’s not your time!
You traveled all this way it’s time to fly!
Just listen to the voice that’s deep inside!
The vision’s that I gave you never lie!

©2018 Ian Narcisi
http://www.ianmusic.com

The Story of Blue: Introduction

Left Behind

This song is all about thinking you're beyond your problems only to find that there were never any problems in the first place.

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MUSICIANS:

Ian Narcisi - songwriter, drums, piano, vocals
Erik Swanson - fretless bass
David Kav - 12-string guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin

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LYRIC:

Written by Ian Narcisi 3.16.2006

Trouble me
A walk in the park after dark
There is sight between dark and light

Trouble Free

In the stillness of it all one grows tall
Once punctured and pitted
An inside glance alters the outside dance

Trouble Free

Reflections both ways keeps the mind at bay
A stitch of time - a rhyme

And within us is what we are

©2019 Ian Narcisi
http://www.ianmusic.com

Weight Of The Words

Trouble Free

Ian Narcisi has always understood one simple truth: If you have a dream, make it happen.

Ian’s dream is to change the world through his music. With a spiritual-humanist philosophy and a penchant for complex synth-based melodic progressive rock, Ian believes in the power of the human race to become their dreams. He seeks to build a better world through music, prodding all who will listen to become the selves they have envisioned.

Ian’s 2010 EP, Phone Call To Infinity brings to light Ian's vocal ability. The edge noted on Feel No Evil is still here, but Ian has polished the rough edges to a fine musical sheen. The song “Behind The Dawn” shows an expansive sound that’s part Queen, part Muse and part Pink Floyd. Similar musical colors dance through “Five Below Nothing” and “Absent Today”. At some point in the recording of this EP, Ian has transcended mere creation into art; at the same time elevating his messages about becoming the best possible you to pure poetry.

Post 2010, Ian began to pursue his lyrical style and how it related to the music. In 2011 Ian's "Come of Age (New Sun)" single sparked his inuitive/spiritual side. The song summed up Ian's recent connection to his Guru in southern India and the incredible experiences he encountered while there.

The spiritual groundwork was laid for a new direction both with Ian's songwriting abilites and multi-instrumental musicianship. The end result was a 21-song, 3 album concept album entitled "The Story of Blue". Included within the concept album based loosely on the four Tattvas (four ancient Vedic truths: Authenticity, Integrity, Responsiblity and Enriching) is the main character Blue and his tumultuous introduction to life which, through many twists and turns, ultimately leads him to the state of enlightenment. Excluding the final of the three albums, the first concept album "The Story of Blue: Introduction" introduces the listener and Blue to a single character Aylah (the first letter of her name representing the first Vedic truth - Authenticity) who appears to Blue at a most critical time in the form of a dragonfly. Next, album two ("The Story of Blue: The Journey") weaves within Blue the second Vedic truth Integrity represented by the character Icarus who introduces Blue to a whole side of life never seen. The final album of the trilogy "The Story of Blue: Beyond" welcomes two new characters: Reia (representing the third Vedic truth - Responsibility) who ferociosly reveals to Blue what powers the mind can truly conjure and Elsa (representing the fourth of four Vedic truths - Enriching) who takes Blue to the highest of vibrations.

Ian's multi-instrumental skills are pushed to their limits within this massive undertaking. "The Story of Blue: Introduction" features Ian's drumming ablilites. "The Story of Blue: The Journey" places his keyboard wizardry front and center while "The Story of Blue: Beyond" pushes Ian's vocal range to its extremes (noteworthy is the song "Resonate".)

In 2017, 2018 Ian released two music videos (both are currently viewable on YouTube). The song "Transcendence" from his first concept album -"The Story of Blue: Introduction" further exemplifies his drumming skills. The song "Dawn" (from his second concept album - "The Story of Blue: The Journey") focuses more on Ian's keyboard and vocal talents. Both videos were recorded and edited by Ian with the creative vision of "Dawn" coming from his wife Cynthia.

It’s difficult to imagine where Ian might go next, but imagine you will. Ian’s music evokes the dreams you never consciously suspected but always understood on some deep, quiet level. This is transcendence. This is art. This is Ian Narcisi.

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