Prayer (Ambient)

This song is in dedication to my mother, Eleanore Amir, who transitioned to spirit on August 3rd 2013. It was she who gifted me with the language of music. 

This is the first full fledged beat that I have produced (albeit using garageband). The vocals were recorded with my computer's internal mic. A rough draft of something I plan to refine. As a result of the recording quality, this song is best listened to through headphones.

As the lyrics are distorted I include them below. In these lyrics I loosely quote both a Rabbi I heard at Yom Kippur services this year, as well as Ram Dass.

Prayers are carried
On waves of sound 
To the source
You were born of the medicine of
Song 
So now when I seek you
Fill my lungs to full
So now when I seek you
Fill my lungs to full
I call

Music was your shelter
Robe around you
Total release
There you brought me
Into the mystery of rhythm 
And now melody sustains
The mystery of rhythm 
And now melody sustains

Music is
Endless 
So you are everywhere

Prayers are carried 
On waves of sound 
To the source
You were born
Into the work of song

So now when I seek my place
When I feel lost
I fill my lungs
I fill my lungs

The world will wear itself on us
Will be so heavy
Yet you taught me
To find sanctuary
There in the place of sound
Weight be strength 
Weight be light
Weight be song
And we can carry each other home
We can carry each other home

Music is
Endless 
So you are everywhere
You are free

Sanctuary

Hold

One day in late March, 2015, sick got me stuck in my room, sitting still. To my great luck my friend Curtis had recently gifted me a beautiful Mbira, which I by no means know how to play, but I started moving my fingers around on it, as a means to make myself feel better, and found this cute lil melody lurking, that I am sure I did not write. It feels like a hopeful antithesis to the rain and flu; and I don't actually believe in hope, so I'm not sure what to make of that. 

Idle Hands

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Created by mia susan amir & DeLesslin "Roo" George-Warren.

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Welcome,

The songs that you find documented here are in various stages of development, and reflect my many musical influences, and thematic interests. In these songs I aim towards beauty, truth, the unnameable. I eke out harmony, and work in moments with the enigmatic tension and revelation that dissonance provides. I seek narrative through words and structure. I see narrative through sound where words fail. Should you be moved by any of these pieces, do reach. 

With gratitude and light,
mia

Bio:
mia susan amir was born in Israel/Palestine, and currently lives between Oakland CA, and Vancouver, BC, Coast Salish Territories. amir is a writer, performer, vocalist, facilitator, community educator, arts-administrator, and event producer, with a background in theatre and dance. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College, Oakland. She is working on her first memoir, A Memory of Sand and Silence. In this work she explores the way in which large socio-political and cultural events become expressed in small spaces, like the home and body through intergenerational transfer. She is the co-editor an anthology-in-progress entitled, Transforming Grief: Personal and Communal Loss in the Work of Remaking the World. amir was the 2008 Artist in Residence at Neworld Theatre, Vancouver, and is the founder of The Story We Be. storywebe.wordpress.com