Always searching for that special person, place and prose, my giant magnifying glass has finally found you...

Music recorded using multiple memory slots on one JamMan Solo, Vocals tracked on a DigiTech GNX4, loops stitched and massaged in SoundForge.  You can watch me do this song live in my studio, demonstrating my new 5-looper rig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h00aATQAULc

Looking For You

    I am the one
     who’s been looking for you
     all of this time, all of this time…

Hide and I will find you
When and where and why

Try to memorize your eyes
The likeness of your smile

Where you go I follow
Here and there and now

All your life, you’re waiting
Love and peace and song

You are all I see
 so why can’t you see me? 

    I am the one
     who’s been looking for you
     all of this time, all of this time…

From the CD, IDIO, by Rejyna
http://cdbaby.com/cd/rejyna3
c. Rejyna Douglass-Whitman  (BMI)
Published by W.E./Citadel of Cynosure Productions (BMI). All Rights Reserved.  Unauthorized duplication, repurposing, exhibition or performance is prohibited by US and international copyright laws.

Looking for You

Escape on a caravan to the dunes and experience the mirage of an army of mandolins and guitars, gently etching your soul with the fervent power of desert imagery solemnly forged by the heat of centuries filled with gypsy sonatas

Mandolian Mirage

Sand fills the day’s horizon line,
there’s not much time
until the colder nights arrive
and white Winter stars align, a sign…

Enticed mandolian mirage, 
safe passage through the tempest

The sky, the silence
The day, no shade
The night wind violently 
etches furrows in my face

Gitano gently luring 
sweet sounds surround
a solemn sunset in the sands

See what you are
in echoes of an army of guitars
Mirrors from sand,
silvered glass in the nomads land

Dance, dance
Renounce the silence with your hands
Sing, play
Our voices amend night into day

The mind, the vision
The heart in hand
Reflection enduring
Slake essence alluring

The sky, the silence
The day, no shade
The night wind violently
erases footsteps without a trace

Enticed mandolian mirage, 
dream salve soothes chafe and chaff
and strums reflect like water flowing…

http://www.reverbnation.com/rejyna/song/22195111-mandolian-mirage

CD at: http://cdbaby.com/cd/rejyna3

All music recorded on multiple memory slots of a single JamMan Solo, then stitched in SoundForge…vox tracked on a GNX4 thru an SM57 and a Vocalist Live Pro…no midi guitar, all guitar sounds are my Ovation and Yamaha guitars thru a Boss GT3 - - - drums are me playing the Yamaha DD-55 and looping them in on the JamMan - - - Mandolin is an Ovation knock off by Tyler Mountain…

Mandolian Mirage

Persia: imperative and pertinent precursor to modern society.  We often buy into modern propaganda about 'bad' things in faraway lands - but it's tragic that such a diverse, expansive, and influential part of humanity's past is so grossly ignored.  Did you know that Iran (Persia) is one of the oldest continuous cultures on Earth?  Did you know that Persian Zoroastrianism predates and influenced monotheistic religions that came after it, like Judaism, Gnosticism, Christianity and Islam?  

Please read The Book of Kings (Shahnameh) and discover 1) how much of Persian culture is intertwined in yours and 2) the lyrical inspiration for my song casting you as a traveling musician in one of the richest, most colorful and prolific cradles of the human experiment. 

From my new CD, IDIO:  

Gitano en Shahnameh

Shahnameh, Book of Kings, poem sings, 
free will brings hope or disaster
Shahnameh, in that day, they would say, 
choice persuades now and hereafter

Truth or a lie, each path chosen
We’re just passersby in this life
Strive, multiply, to the future be true,
follow hope, follow light
In your days, help the poor, open doors,
stop the wars now and forever
When you play, what you say, show a way,
guiding stray spirits together

Truth unifies, each word chosen
Imply, verify, exemplify, demystify
To the lowest be kind, purify, testify

Love the land, take a stand, lend a hand,
understand all that is noble
Find a true attitude, don’t exclude,
end the feud our family is global

Truth or a lie, each path chosen
We’re just passersby in this life
Strive, multiply, to the future be true,
follow love, follow light

Somewhere out there, on a border,
there are refugees seeking asylum
from persecution, destitution,
retribution for failed revolution…

Truth unifies – Demystify - 

Somewhere inside a conscience denied,
actions forged into cold lies and resides
with obliteration, annihilation,
suffocation and cruel subjugation

Truth unifies, each word chosen
Imply, verify, exemplify, demystify
To the lowest be kind, purify
Edify -

Download the entire CD at: http://cdbaby.com/rejyna3

c. Rejyna Douglass-Whitman  (BMI)
Published by W.E./Citadel of Cynosure Productions (BMI). All Rights Reserved.  Unauthorized duplication, repurposing, exhibition or performance is prohibited by US and international copyright laws.

Gitano En Shahnameh

Ever get the feeling you're being watched by the universe? stalked by destiny? followed by shadows of what others have said or done to you? Maybe feeling this way is more common than we think.  I mean, aren't we all a little suspicious of (or at least intrigued by) the 'forces' we cannot perceive with our 'normal' senses, but that we are told are all around us at all times?  Are we ever really alone?  Isil'Zha veni, stavo, ni Z'ha'dum

Sleeky Slinker

I am followed by your shadow
Night and day, it never fades away

Where you wander, I must go
I walk inside your footsteps in the snow

You are watching by the border
Day and night, your eyes see time

Where you rest and where you hide
Pursue I must, and I always find you

Sleeky Slinker
Destiny Tinkerer
Tick and tock
and slip and slide
Slinking on the
Brink of Providence
Twist and turn
and ride the tide

Time is shallow, life unravels
While I sleep I pray my soul to keep

Dark and fallow secrets travel
Shilouette that I cannot forget

Mask and cover, stalk and hover
Drift and hang and float and fly

Download the entire release, or get a real, actual, 20th century-style Compact Disc (CD) version at: http://cdbaby.com/cd/rejyna3

c. Rejyna Douglass-Whitman  (BMI)
Published by W.E./Citadel of Cynosure Productions (BMI). All Rights Reserved.  Unauthorized duplication, repurposing, exhibition or performance is prohibited by US and international copyright laws.

Sleeky Slinker

So many are searching - for a home, a mate, a dream, a job, peace, love, hope - sometimes out of reach, but other times just beyond our own back door…

Beyond My Back Door
(Long Way Home)

There’s a lonely feeling when I leave,
but I must see if there’s a clue,
enigmas incomplete inside of me 

Don’t put it off
Long way home
Somewhere faraway out there
beyond my back door…

Every time I think I’ve found
a hint to what our sentience means
stealth caveats reveal,
pursuade, pervading resolute dreams

All the while what we seek
and what we say is what we need
Disguised delusion decorates
the doctorate of diplomatic deeds

There’s a lonely feeling when I leave - 

Download the entire CD at: http://cdbaby.com/rejyna3

c. Rejyna Douglass-Whitman  (BMI)
Published by W.E./Citadel of Cynosure Productions (BMI). All Rights Reserved.  Unauthorized duplication, repurposing, exhibition or performance is prohibited by US and international copyright laws.

Beyond My Back Door

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Lila Rasa 2

Composed, arranged, performed and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco

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An instrumental version of Maria Muldaur's Midnight at the Oasis, including the solo.  All instruments played by Mike Neer.  Clinesmith lap steel guitar.

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