gemi

It was a lady 

'companied by goat men 

Her hair held up the earth 

her eyes were dark then 



Wandering and loneliness 

through switchbacks and history 

These frail engines of love 

bound to a mystery 



where are you now? 

I'm falling down 

You've led me to a field 

Under a widening sky 



From time to time the mind runs out 

of steam lacking in energy, 

These frail engines of love 

bound to a mystery 




unexplained in the meadow 

lay the dead bird 

the wind fluttered its wings 

mountains are just mountains 



the rain dismantles every night 

the great wink of eternity 

These frail engines of love 

bound to a mystery 



These frail engines of love


This self-titled debut album incorporates both original phrases and fragments of works by various poets and mystics, including Billy Collins, Ron Padgett, Jim Harrison, Hafiz, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman, and others.

credits
released 24 December 2013 
Written and performed by Ari Gelardin and Jacob Palmer with Jason Slota on drums and Jay Pellicci recording at Tiny Telephone Recording Studio in San Francisco, California. (October 2013)

Throw Us a Dollar

Frail Engines of Love

From the Plum Village dharma talk given on March 20, 2014

Four Qualities of Happiness using Pebble Meditation

Italian Paper Shirt

Liz Martin - Nyctalopia (prod. V A S S H)

Alone Together -  Arthur Schwartz/ lyrics - Howard Dietz
Jennifer Bliss - flute improvisation and voice
Yair Avidor - electric guitar

Alone Together 44.1

Aum Vajra Akshobhya Hum ...

Akshobhya is the embodiment of 'mirror knowledge' (Sanskrit: ādarśa-jñāna; refer Panchajnana). A knowledge of what is real, and what is illusion, or a mere reflection of actual reality. The mirror is mind itself - clear like the sky, empty yet luminous. Holding all the images of space and time, yet untouched by them. He represents the eternal mind, and the Vajra family is connected with reason and intellect. Its brilliance illuminates the darkness of ignorance, its sharpness cuts through confusion.
The Vajra family, to which Akshobhya belongs, is associated with the element of water. This is why the two colours of Vajra are blue or white. Bright white like sun reflecting off water, and blue, like the depths of the ocean. Even if the surface of the ocean is blown into crashing waves, the depths remain undisturbed, imperturbable. And though water may seem ethereal and weightless, in truth it is extremely heavy. Water flows into the lowest place and settles there. It carves through solid rock, but calmly, without violence. When frozen, it is hard, sharp, and clear like the intellect, but to reach its full potential, it must also be fluid and adaptable like a flowing river. These are all the essential qualities of Akshobhya.
Many wrathful tantric beings are represented as blue in colour because they embody the transmuted energy of hatred and aggression, into wisdom and enlightenment.

Aum Vajra

Recorded live for Dutch Radio. Josienne Clarke on BV's. 

Dylan's Truth (LIVE on Radio)

Elaine Claxton's Album

SiulI a run

This is Lymbo. A song I wrote about a Cornish Ghost. Artwork by Vanny Vanwa. Beautifully and gratefully translated into Cornish by Mark Elton and Klass Loundres.

Lymbo

Cornish Music Past To Present
Minko, winner of Kan Rag Kernow 2020, talks to Cornish Music expert Matthi Ab Dewi about the origins of Cornish music. Mathhi then explores what drove Minko to start writing music in the Cornish language.

Cornish Music Past To Present

minko@minkomusic.com
www.minko.bandcamp.com
www.minkomusic.com

Minko is a singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist living in Cornwall. In her garret by the sea, surrounded by a plethora of acoustic instruments, she vanishes for periods of time and writes and records. Her haunting melodies and weaving bass lines wind themselves around peeling glockenspiels, ukuleles, flutes, and subtle rumba rhythms. All tied together with Minko's distinctive voice.  All with a low-fi recording sensibility that harks back to bands such as The Young Marble Giants. 

Before this she had a period of producing electronic tunes, including some remixes for Rephlex artist Global Goon. But she decided to leave behind the samplers and synthesisers, move to Cornwall, and immerse herself in an acoustic sound; rewinding to core childhood influences – French pop, post punk, 1960s psych folk.

Minko also still works periodically with Rephlex/Planet Mu artist Global Goon, recently providing vocals for his avant grade brain dance albums Quonk and Plastic Orchestra.

“This is a lovely jewel of an EP from beginning to end. Minko has clearly soaked up her surroundings, and knows how to pour them back into her music..
“For Folk’s Sake review of ‘Songs 1-4 Sybil of Delphi’.

“Minko is obsessed with “amalgamating sounds”, setting a clear, insouciant voice against cool, softly-layered backdrops of multiple instruments.. and her arrangements show a subtle experimental bent reminiscent of Julia Holter, Gainsbourg and Andrew Bird.”
For Folk’s Sake, New Bands Panel.

“With her captivating voice and obvious skill at combining instruments to compliment her desired theme, Minko has brought us a mesmerising record.”
Aurally Yours on ‘Songs 5-8 Creature’.

“‘Songs 1-4 Sybil of Delphi’ – a beautiful thing it is for Minko blends French chanteuse pop through a myriad of dream woven soft psych centred folk mirages, wistfully pastoral and lightly crushed with a becoming sensitivity that’s lilts with a distinctly alluring faraway framing which to these ears at least fixes like a spectral Serge meets Komeda cutie.”
Mark Barton, God is in the TV (former editor of the legendary ‘Losing Today’).

“Minko’s music draws its inspiration from a diversity of musical idioms but it is unique in the way it always finds the gaps between the genres, constantly steering off the grid.”  Nick Duffy (The The Lilac Time).


Cornish Music Past To Present

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