From the "Jest Acid Ash Morn" Feb 2012 session (Magic, Danger, Beauty, Bliss). Featuring Christo McCracken on guitar. Listen to more at http://jestacidashmorn.bandcamp.com/


Timepeace (It's About Time)

Recent bedroom ambient idea... Most effective played loud through big, warm headphones...

Samsara Saturday

A work based on a particularly masterful & beautiful "call to prayer" originally heard and recorded whilst staying in the small desert town of Erfoud (on the edge of the Moroccan Sahara) in February 2011. Other muezzins can be heard in the field recording used here, along with ambient chatter from local boys...

Moroccan Muezzin/ Space Prayer

Continuing the Disco from another Star (or er, country at least...)

MoRAVE-ia

New solo bedroom jangle pop vision to greet the spring...

Lyrics:

Spring has come 
and love has sprung and
helped us find a way.
Thoughts of you are drifting through and 
here I want to stay.

Winters passed, we're moving fast
Everything's OK
You and me, we're pushing through
In Eternal play

No tears
Please no need for.

Spring has come and 
love has sprung and 
helped us find a way.
Thoughts of you are drifting through and 
here I want to stay.

No tears
Please no need
No fears
Please no need for

Spring has come, yeah. 
Love has sprung, yeah

Spring Song

"Sail away on wind-scent of wine"

Lyrics:

Sailing on an open course
The love ship of my mind
It veers and turns and gets distracted
too much of the ti-i-ime
Emptyness is a chronic tonic
Chronically divine             
But hidden in the rigging
is a soul I know is mi-i-ine

Sail away on wind scent of wine
Sailing on a different line
Sail away on wind scent of wine
Sailing in a different time

to a song inside us

Hold me, oh hold me
Oh hold me so tight
Everything, anything burning so bright
Let's live in the moment and ride it so high
and try not to think about how it will die.

And we all, sing along
Yeah we'll all sing it, and all bring it tonight

Drifting on a merry course
through (the) ripples of my mind
I thank the stars for everything 
I see with open eye-i-eyes

Sail away on wind scent of wine
Sailing on a different line
Sail away on wind scent of wine
Sailing in a different time

to a song inside us

Hold me, oh hold me
Oh hold me so tight
Everything, anything burning so bright
Let's live in the moment and ride it so high
and try not to think about how we will die.

And we'll all, sing along
Yeah we'll all sing it, and all bring it tonight
Sing along
Yeah we'll all bring it and all sing it tonight


& we all sing along (repeated)
/Hold me, oh hold me
Oh hold me so tight
Everything, anything burning so bright

Loveboat

My interpretation of a Rainbow Gathering song, originally heard at the wonderful Festival of Creativity (http://roadjunkyfestival.com), sung and recorded here in solidarity with the Dakota Access Pipeline protest and the wider cause. Featuring Veronika Unzeitigová on backing vocals.

Lyrics:

Strong wind, deep water
Tall trees, warm fire
I can feel it in my body
I can feel it in my soul

Heya heya heya heya heya heya heya ho (etc.)

Strong Wind, Deep Water

Lyrics: 

I’m capturing a feeling quick before it gets away
Rescuing a smile and then inviting it to stay 

Modern life is rubbish, let's breathe magic in our day
Wash your third eye sleepy dust, let our spirits play

When it seems the world, coughing sadly, shadows looming, has no hope for you or any mind
Breathe in for today, keep that flame and heart within you fanned with life and all that keeps you kind

Endless, Endless thoughts, can control you, can consume you, eat and eat and eat, and eat you away
Though it sometimes hurts, push on for the truth within you. Drink your cup of truth every day

We’re making up a story with no care for any ending
Dancing in a different time, a future liberated

When it seems the world, coughing sadly, shadows looming, has no hope for you or any mind
Breathe in for today, keep that flame and heart within you fanned with life and all that keeps you kind

We’re dancing in September sun
We’re dancing in September sun (etc.)

September Sun

Lyrics: 

My four leaf clover,
been thinking things over
All that I want is to hold you again

My four leaf clover,
been thinking things over
All that I want is to hold you again

My four leaf clover,
I know it's not over
I promise you sunshine will follow the rain

Will you hear my song
and feel you belong
to a future where your heart is dancing with me

Will you hear my song
Or will I always long
For a future where your heart is dancing with me

With you I am free
Freer than me 
On a good day or bad day
With you, heavenly

Four Leaf Clover

Original song, written and recorded for my "harvest project" at the completion of the beautiful forest therapy course undertaken with ANFT.

Totemic pine martin illustration by visual artist Pia Ravenari.

Lyrics:

Hold the tamed world story lightly
The wild world has a song to sing
There 'aint no need to hold it tightly
Just dance with all that the forest brings

Yeah we're all going to notice the pleasures of presence
with our hearts and ears and noses, then new eyes to see
Yeah we're all going to notice what's in motion
Then we'll be hanging out in liminality

Hold the tamed world story lightly
The wild world has a song to sing
There 'aint no need to grasp it tightly
There's so much more that the forest brings

Yeah we're all going to notice the pleasures of presence
with our hearts and ears and noses, and new eyes to see
Yeah we're all going to notice what's in motion
Then we'll be hanging out in liminality

Hold the tamed world story lightly
The wild world has a song to sing
There 'aint no need to clutch it tightly
Just dance with all that the forest brings

Yeah we're all going to notice the pleasures of presence
with our hearts and ears and noses, and new eyes to see
Yeah we're all going to notice what's in motion
Then we'll be hanging out in liminality

(x3)

Yeah we'll be trippin' out in liminality
Then we'll be sitting down and drinking forest tea

James Zero

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