Empyreal

The Cosmic Reset Button

I thought  love 
Would ease the pain
 it found another way
To turn me  inside out
I was numb
Uncomfortably numb
Lost and found
I never did succumb
I fought back 
Embrace to ease the pain
I found release
Standing on new ground

Healing

The Shaman

Kaya Kaya
Lifter of our spirits
Shifter of Disease

Kaya Kaya
You beautiful flower
You slow my world
Inviting me to notice 
The Wind on my skin
The Sun on my face
How the birds song carries on the Breeze

I breathe you in
I breathe you in
May the laughter begin

Kaya

I don't want  to hold your hand 
If it means I lose myself 

But I want to hold your hand 
If it means 
We can walk side by side 
Strong and tall
Into the future

I lean into you
you compliment me 
I feel so at home
Now we’re going out to sea/see
Without knowing what
The view will look like

Side By Side

My aim with (neo)- psychedelia
Is to be free of formal song structures. 
To allow emotions, both dark and light, to express themselves and reveal deeper images and messages from the subconscious and from soul. (Soul inspired music btw is not always pretty and polite)
I like to create atmospheres in which to hang out for a time
No barriers so I can then hybridise with other genres
I'm open to everything from Bach to Billy Idol (excepting Strauss waltzes and fairground organs... however I'm open to persuasion)
Hopefully to surprise and to disorientate. To use minimalist repeating phrases which build and give a hypnotic vibe or groove
Psychedelia teaches us that there is no rush, it's not the end that matters it's the process of getting there, that is my true goal
But I also bear in mind the imperative to be relevant 
The late 60's early 70's gave us so many great musical gifts (Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa etc the list is very long) and I for one am happy to keep unwrapping them
I highly value improvisation and jamming (but I have a no noodling policy). Instrumental music has a vocabulary of emotions with which I'm always mindful that there is a story encoded. 
I always record the first take as this is where magic, beyond the mind, can instantly emerge. An out of key, "mistake" is redefined as an accidental note or a borrowed chord a "surprise" and can liberate the piece from predictability. A degree of disharmony and musical tension are often necessary within a piece so that the subsequent release into harmony and joy is a highlighted sense of relief and spaciousness 
It's not so much about striving for technical perfection, it's about first and foremost serving the song.
I love that a piece can literally emerge from the tone of a single note, lightly asking "I wonder where this will take me?"
This keeps me guessing and ever curious 
In musical flow states, I am sometimes transcended into subtler realms of spirit. I've met some of my muses there... it can be very ecstatic 
Life on this planet, when observed for long enough, consists of periods of challenge leading to more settled blissful states... but one can only ever acknowledge these and keep on moving through, cycle after cycle.
Sometimes the pain and the bliss are simultaneous.
Psychedelia is here to remind us, usually with a mixture of compassion and gentle non insistent wisdom, that we are all equally valid and as important as one another.
The generation of this music doesn't require me to be in any specific state, prior to playing, in order to engage with it.

The Cosmic Reset Button

Chimera Riddle (alt rock and psychedelia)