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Lo Xa

This song belongs to Vivziepop! I love this beautiful bond between Stolas and his precious princess Octavia, it really causes a lot of tears on people, so here you are, one upload of this song to Soundcloud coming up!

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Lyrics to "You Will Be Okay"

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It always seems more quiet in the dark
It always feels so stark
How silence grows under the moon
Constellations gone so soon
I used to think that I was bold
I used to think love would be fun
Now, all my stories have been told 
Except for one

As the stars start to align
I hope you take it as a sign
That you will be okay
Everything will be okay

And if the seven rings collapse
Although the day could be my last
You will be okay
When I'm gone you'll be okay

And when Creation goes to die 
You can find me in the sky
Upon the last day
And you will be okay...

You Will Be Okay | Helluva Boss S1 - Ep. 2

Istanbul and Berlin-based producer, DJ and label boss Noema brings a sprinkling of the spiritual, the psychedelic and the down right magical to his musical explorations.

His dynamic DJ sets blend dubbed-out disco with enchanting strains of house music, sounds that continue on his own productions which have been released via The Magic Movement, a label he co-runs alongside Beju and Circus Varghese.

He welcomes us into a new week with his Pacific Poems mix, a spiritual ride through folk rock and psychedelic singer songwriter cuts, recorded during a sunset Bonjuk Bay beach in South Turkey. Let those worries float away for just a moment and remember, there's only one more week of work until Christmas.

@noema
@the-magic-movement

Noema: The 'Monday Is OK' Mix

Notes from the Archive: Recordings 2011-2016

Celadon & Gold

Written and composed in the midst of unordinary wind, 
Refined through high and low tides, 
Accomplished with hearts, 
Created in our bedroom in Aotearoa.



Zane Hawkins - upright Bass 
Simon Van der Zeyden - Banjo 
Leith Sye Towers - Nylon String 
Nikau te Huki - ambient lead 
Mixed & Mastered by Serebii


lyrics
In my garden you move like the leaves, 
falling down to meet the roots, 
Oh my goddess she moves, effortlessly 

Surround me with your sweet melody 
And I’ll ground you in an oasis of bloom 
We dance with the winds in the light of the sky 
Attracting the bees, merging 

You’ve been floating round in my temple 
You’ve been growing wild like emotion 
Fear rolls off like tears under oceans 

I can always become, ever changing rhythm 
I can always be calm, always. 

In this palace you planted the seed 
Willingly to watch them grow 
In my mummas house, settling fees 
I still can’t believe 

The nature you hold allows me to breathe 
Far from the ground touched by the sea 
We gently receive, harmony, flowers binding 

You’ve been floating round in my temple 
You’ve been growing wild like emotion 
Fear rolls off like tears under oceans 

I can always become, ever changing rhythm 
I can always be calm, always

Dahlia ft Serebii.wav

i’m looking for the girl in my dreams oh
she was so good to be with
i’m looking through my pictures to feel
as if she wasn’t made in my head
i hope that i can look in her eyes
and lie on the grass or, stare at the sky
cause i’m putting out a message to the girl in my dreams
oh, won’t you come to me
i wonder if the girl in my head, 
exists outside of it   
i’m trying not to go back to sleep
but she’s so hard not to miss
i’ll pour another drink to feel
a little less shit that I’m not with her still
but I guess that I can’t always live inside my dreams
cause that’d be perfect
but i wish you’d come outside
now you’re lost inside my mind
and though I’ll want, you, all, my life
i guess i’ve got, to, leave you behind
i’m looking for the girl in my dreams oh
i’d love to see her again
i know it was a one time thing but
she feels different
i’ve tried it just by closing my eyes
but she wasn’t there and i don’t know why 
so, i’m asking for the girl that was the one in my dream
oh, please fall in love with me.
i wonder if the girl in my dreams, is really out there
i hope she knows i’m talking to her when, i say that i miss her

girl in my dreams

just, ten more times and I’ll be
ten more times and I’ll be fine
just, ten more times and I’ll be
ten more times away from fine
and I will, hold on for life to something
hold on to keep myself alive
but my, hands will not grasp it properly
I got ten less tries to stay alive
i’ll have ten, more tries
and by then, i’ll realise
When I’m not good for something
yeah I find it hard to sleep at night
When I’m not good for something1
When I’m not good I’m just alright
and I won’t, complain or cry about it
I’ll mend it all with a glass of wine
and when I’m done I’ll try it
try it all again ten more times
i’ll have ten, more tries
and by then, i’ll realise
Everyones doing the same
So I might stop counting times I’ve tried and failed
Then I’ll, overcome what I’ve tried
The last ten times will always be just one
just, ten more times and I’ll be
ten more times and I’ll be right
Then, ten more times will always
be ten more times away from fine

ten more times

Oddrun Eikli: Vocals and vocal composition
Torbjørn Vagle: Instrumental composition, piano, keyboards and mix https://soundcloud.com/tobbenv/tracks
POEM OF EMILY BRONTË , May 1838
Photo: Oddrun Eikli 
Cover layout: Vetle Vagle
Mastering: Njål Frode Lie www.nflproduksjoner.

Thank you to each and every one for sharing friendship, music and support,  during this very difficult year 2020.
Warm wishes to you all, and a hope for a better New Year in 2021!

Thank you so much Torbjørn, for this collaboration that gives me such peace in a troubled time.
It`s a JOY to work with you Torbjørn, and thank you also to your son Vetle for his great cover art for our song.
...

POEM OF EMILY BRONTË 

This shall be thy lullaby,
Rocking on the stormy sea;
Though it roar in thunder wild,
Sleep, stilly sleep, thou bright-haired child.

When our shuddering boat was crossing
Eldern's lake so rudely tossing,
Then 'twas first my nursling smiled;
Sleep, softly sleep, my fair-browed child.

Waves above thy cradle break,
Foamy tears are on thy cheek,
Yet the ocean's self grows mild
When it bears my slumbering child.

May 1838
( The photo is taken in Grasmere.  A village  in Cumbria, England, in the centre of the Lake District. In my imagination it`s EMILY BRONTË`s  "Eldern's lake" from the poem :)

Lullaby. Torbjørn Vagle og Oddrun Eikli.

Another year has passed... and what a year! 

I'm so thankful for all the lessons I had the chance to learn, for that I was able to let go of some of my old burdens and for all those people that shared a part of my way with me, warmed my heart and filled it with love. 

I'm so thankful for that I am healing and I wish all of you the same from all of my heart!

For this occasion I have put together another Follow The Light journey with some of the medicine songs that accompanied me throughout the year.

And the journey goes on... follow the light!

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Follow The Light - 2020

a song for missing someone even when you know that they weren't right for you

lyrics:
i drove past the road sign for Mystic
wearing the same shiny lipstick 
you used to kiss off of me when i was sixteen (and i needed that)
i used to swear we would visit 
three months before we had to quit it
love at the coastline, we thought it could float through the sea 
but you didn’t know me 
no you didn’t know me

i stopped off the turnpike in jersey 
hoped you wouldn’t be there, and conversely
i wanna see if you still wear that thin jacket (it fit too loose)
this mini mall looks apocalyptic 
food court signs read like a triptych
in a different timeline you’d read them with me too
but i didn’t know you 
no i didn’t know you

i didn’t fall in love with you, i just wanted to follow you
i guess I’ve always needed a place to be
so if you miss me please don’t call 
i’m in Brooklyn for the fall 
and I didn’t come here to sit on the phone with a boy who couldn’t love me 

i set straight for New York City
to drink tea and try to be witty
we used to say we’d live here together one day (off 14th st)
now it’s true but we keep our distance
i’ve shed the skin that knew your existence
all the cells i've grown back wouldn’t know what to say
cause i didn’t know you 
and you didn’t know me anyway

i didn’t fall in love with you, i just wanted to follow you
i guess I’ve always needed a place to be
so if you miss me please don’t call 
i’m in Brooklyn for the fall 
and I didn’t come here to sit on the phone with a boy who couldn’t love me 

one day i’ll go visit Mystic
wearing the same shiny lipstick
you used to kiss off of me but now we don’t speak (nothing to say)
sea shells and episcopal bells
whale ships and amateur love spells
can’t change the fact that we’re just not meant to be
cause i never knew you
you never knew me

mystic (voice memo)

Flume (Bon Iver Cover)

🔸Deep Peace Blessings for my Human Family:  through every wave & process, may we find our way back to center and peace 🔸

🔸This 3rd volume of DEEP peace was born from the following intentional threads ::

// from the fallen ashes & dust of emblazoned forests, cultures, empires & illusions, landing softly with grace and surrender

// from the welcoming floods of grief-ridden releases, revealing the essence of what’s really important, the imprint of impenetrable truth, beauty and love

// from the caverns of confusion—echoing fear and despair—while a single candle is lit, leading us back home to the sacred now, our only knowing

// from the sincerest prayers of our ancestor’s deepest dreams, our lives these living manifestations of these tear-stained prayers

// from the vector of our great souls, whispering to us with signs and reminders: hey you, remember to remember to remember...don't doubt this...you chose to incarnate, this is not an accident or rehearsal...you came to embody into this flesh, to awaken into your full human self, in harmony with the Earth under your toes, the cosmic mystery swirling in your cells, in full alignment, purpose and power…do not doubt this: you are worthy, your life has value & meaning, your birthright is to be free and fluid. remember. this. now.

🔸This mix is for the precious, fragile and illuminous human spirit—for us to find refuge and sanctuary in, no matter how violent the storms become outside of us.

May the tapestry of these frequencies be like a quilt, covering and protecting you, embracing you into deeper peace, trust and surrender with all that is unfolding inside and outside of us.

Music is forever our sacred resource and sanctuary: there to saturate our souls with beauty, hope and refuge.

With deep love to all that is being healed inside our human-family, in honor and connection to all sentient beings…May the hymns of our healing guide us back to what is real and true, that which can never be destroyed...

With deep Love, 
Berlin, December 2020 
Alma ∞ Omega

Thank you Elicia Edijanto for this powerful image


🔸TRACKLIST 🔸
Dawna  🔸Morphine
Ten 🔸Phaleh
Havana  🔸Beautiful Chorus
Cover Me  🔸Bjork Family Tree CD2 {Roots}
Rosa 🔸Rainer Scheurenbrand
Sizwile  🔸SPAZA
 Yuxibu Kaya (Ninawa Pai Da Mata)  🔸 George Barker
Viento de Atacama  🔸 Ayla Schafer
Ever New (Live at Le Guess Who?)  🔸Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Silver Forest Spirits  🔸Flako
Dancing Sun 🔸 Intiche & Siti
Danza de la Pachamama   🔸p.r.​​Λ​.​​Λ​.​h Remix 
Inner Peace   🔸 Beautiful Chorus
Stardust  (End of Time Remix)   🔸Poranguí
We Came and Left  🔸Cedric Vermue
Sou Cantador 🔸 Sage and Sun
Ocean Flow Zither  🔸Laraaji
Sacred Chants of Shiva  🔸Urmila Devi
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen Cover)   🔸Nessi Gomes
Passaros  🔸Sjamanic
Yellow   🔸Zeb Samuels Feat. MckNasty
All Related (Mose Heartbeat Mix)  🔸Nessi Gomes
Min By   🔸Bugge Wesseltoft
Please Prepare Me  🔸Beautiful Chorus
Lakota Lullaby   🔸Indian Road
Arcturus  🔸Darren Austin Hall 
Gently Floating Towards the Luminosity  🔸Yoyu

🔸In beauty I walk
In beauty I walk

My eyes see beauty
My thoughts find beauty
My feelings rouse beauty
My words name beauty

With beauty above me, I walk
With beauty below me, I walk
With beauty behind me and before me, I walk
With beauty all around me, I walk

Through the returning seasons, I walk in beauty
On the trail blessed with pollen, I walk in beauty
With mist falling and moon rising, I walk in beauty 

It is finished in beauty
It is finished in beauty🔸


—Diné prayer

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DEEP peace 🔸Vol.3 🔸Hymns For Human Healing 🔸

"i never asked for this" ep drops 12/25
huge shoutout to @nevrfall and @sainttomorrow for the amazing production as always
hope u enjoy <3

lyrics:
i take it back
i was a lost cause, i was far gone
taken aback
remember when no one even counted me in
i sit and i think
where had the time gone, where had i gone
i can’t even think
i look in the mirror and picture u next to me again

looking for what i can’t see
everything i’m meant to be
run away from any feeling
and i know they’re telling me
“i know that you will succeed”
but i’ve been fallin short lately

and you’re right here in my mind
baby i just need a sign
i been losing track of time
feel like im just passing by
all i needed was a lifeline 

tell me baby where’d the time go?
how long i’ve been riding solo
i’ve been missing how this felt
dealing with what i been dealt
and u make me feel like im whole though

and you’re right here in my mind
baby i just need a sign
i been losing track of time
feel like im just passing by
and all i needed was a lifeline 

all i needed was a lifeline x2

look out past the street lights and you might see
the world that i had for both you and me
i can’t stand to feel melancholy after everything we have been through

i keep learning from failures but slipping up
i keep calling ur phone but u won’t pick up
im trying to push through but im still stuck on you like i was that afternoon

tell me baby where’d the time go?
how long i’ve been riding solo
i’ve been missing how this felt
dealing with what i been dealt
and u make me feel like im whole though

and you’re right here in my mind
baby i just need a sign
i been losing track of time
feel like im just passing by
and all i needed was a lifeline 

and you’re right here in my mind
baby i just need a sign
i been losing track of time
feel like im just passing by
all i needed was a lifeline

i never asked for this

lifeline [p. nevrfall x saint tomorrow]

lifeline [nevrfall x saint tomorrow]

Mary's Magnificat. Releasing the demo this year. A friend may cover out next year and do a good job of it!

Magnificat

The Angel came, and sang to her,
Of righteousness and peace on earth,
And all the world will know her baby boy.
The powerful will lose their thrones,	
And he will lift the broken ones,
The suffering, the lonely and the poor.
Quietly she sang along 
Full of hope, she joined the song:
“My soul, magnifies the Lord.”

At his birth, she wept for him,
This little God, this tiny king,
Her tears of joy, this precious baby boy.
His cry rang out, into the night,
She kissed his head, to comfort God,
Carefully she laid her baby down.
Quietly she whispered there,
Full of hope, and loving care,
“My soul, magnifies the Lord.”

Where is he now, the blessed child?
He’s eating bread, he’s running wild,
When he falls, she’s there to lift him up.
He grew into a man, of course, 
He healed the sick, and loved the lost
And prophesied a kingdom drawing near.
Full of faith, full of pride
His mother speaks, now at his side,  
“My soul, magnifies the Lord.”

When he died, she wept for him
Not as a God, or as a king,
Her tears were only for her baby boy.
And though she wept, though she raged,
She gave him up and, in her pain,
She braved the tomb and laid her baby down.
Quietly she whispered there,
Beyond hope, beyond care,
“My soul, magnifies the Lord.”

And when he rose, she wept again,
The garden in Jerusalem,
A reunited mama with her boy.
Mary knows salvations cost,
Redemption born, a mother’s loss,
And once again, she lay her baby down.
Faithfully she sings this song,
Full of hope, she carries on,
“My soul, magnifies the Lord.”

Magificat demo

Made a Christmas song for all my minivans who are alone this Christmas. Love you all so much, you are not alone! <3

@prodbybrody
@sainttomorrow
@twotwntytwo

Lyrics-
My mother said that love is supposed to bring you cheer
so why is it that all your love gives me is tears
and holiday's are hard when you don't have no one to hold
and the ice up on the gutters aren't the only thing that's cold
and I've been in your head and you've been in my heart
so tell me why we can't go back and just restart
if it's something that I said then let me take it back
(I don't want to be apart)

Chrous/
I'm stuck here under mistletoe 
and you're stuck out there in the deep, deep snow
but this time I know you're not coming home
this year I'm spending Christmas alone
I'm stuck where we used to call our home
and he's got you wrapped in his winter coat
and my god I'm sad I just wanna feel whole
this year I'm spending Christmas alone

Two:22-
running out of time, clock is ticking slow
Drunk upon the potion of your antidote
everybody's singing I don't wanna tho
carols and things that I'll never know
and it's so hard to see
with snow falling so heavily
the things that I couldn't be

Chorus/

I'm stuck here under mistletoe 
and you're stuck out there in the deep, deep snow
but this time I know you're not coming home
this year I'm spending Christmas alone
I'm stuck where we used to call our home
and he's got you wrapped in his winter coat
and my god I'm sad I just wanna feel whole
this year I'm spending Christmas alone

this year I'm spending Christmas alone w/ Two:22

this year I'm spending Christmas alone w/ Two:22 (Prod. Brody x Saint Tomorrow)

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Original music from the Fall2020 Creative Repertory Ensemble at the CalArts Herb Alpert School of Music.

Requiem for a Dream (Now We Know)
Lyrics by Peyton Ellis, Alex Ghosn, AJ Haynes, Joshua Sadinsky and Lily Maase
Music by Chad Fitzsimmons and Lily Maase
Arranged by Lily Maase with Alex Ghosn

Peyton Ellis - Voice
AJ Haynes - Voice
Chad Fitzsimmons - Banjo and Mandolin
Maya Al-Soufi - Piano
Alex Ghosn - Electric and Slide Guitars
Insun Blemel - Slide Guitars
Joshua Sadinsky - Piano, Electric Organ and Backup Vocals
Lily Maase - Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Backup Vocals
Dirk Shumaker - Electric Bass
Max Jaffe - Auxiliary Percussion
Vicken Hovsepian - Drumset

Produced by Lily Maase
Mixed by John Baffa at CalArts
Mastered by Evren Goknar at Capitol Records

Requiem For A Dream (Now We Know)  (CalArts Creative Rep F2020)

The latest from Cellar Door, a collaboration project with Nic Evennett and Philip Dupuis (Classical Glass).  You can find other tracks from Cellar Door here: https://soundcloud.com/cdoor

Lyrics:

If we're not one then let's be water,
If we're not flowing we're not real.
I love your colour when you falter,
You're glowing sapphire in the steel.

Step out your world and drape it round me,
I'll slide my arms through what's undone.
We are the could and would and should be,
Where rivers blush under the sun.
Where rivers blush under the sun.

And be that as it may, still, still...
There's something inexplicable
In finding all of me could be all of you.

Just for a while, don't speak.
Just for a while, don't speak.
Just for a while, don't speak
And listen...

I lost the girl in me but caught her,
Your boy was tired of everyone.
They bound together in the water
And shimmered silver in the sun.

If We're Not One Then Let's Be Water (Nic Evennett and Classical Glass as Cellar Door)

As I was growing up, I had a love and fascination of all the great prog rock coming out of the UK. Gentle Giant was like no other group at the time, and I spent hours listening to their music, constantly amazed at the songwriting and musicianship, as well as their totally unique approach. I did my best to cover one of their tracks from the very first album I heard from their output, “The Power and the Glory”. I worked my way backwards through their catalog and to this day, consider this group as one of my true inspirations to try to do something a little different.

By Kerry Minnear & Derek Victor Shulman

Even though this is an instrumental version of the song, I've included the lyrics here as I still think they resonate today.

As the dust settles, see our dreams,
All coming true
It depends on you,
If our times, they are troubled times,
Show us the way,
Tell us what to do.

As our faith, maybe aimless blind,
Hope our ideals and
Our thoughts are yours
And believing the promises,
Please make your claims
Really so sincere.

Be our guide, our light and our way of life
And let the world see the way we lead our way.
Hopes, dreams, hopes dreaming that all our
Sorrows gone.

In your hands, holding everyone's
Future and fate
It is all in you,
Make us strong build our unity,
All men as one
It is all in you.

Be our guide, our light and our way of life
And let the world see the way we lead our way.
Hopes, dreams, dreaming that all our sorrows
Gone forever.

Aspirations | Gentle Giant Cover

My first attempt at a sea shanty, music and words December 2020.

Under the Rolling Waves

A little medley I put together of 2 of my favorite songs. First is a short instrumental pass of Vigilante Man by the inimitable Ry Cooder, and then it moves into a rendition of Give Me Strength my Clapton. Enjoy

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Mohammed Juma