Marti West - Voices
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Voices

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Album Credits:
Lee Mirabai Harrington - vocals, arrangement, melody
Ben Leinbach - producer, mixing engineer, piano, synths
Noah Hoffeld - cello
Christine Tulis - Harp

Recorded in various home studios and Tibetan monasteries in San Anselmo, CA; Woodstock NY; Ulster Park NY; and Fleischmanns, NY.

Album Art & Design by Lee Harrington
(image of Amitabha thangkha courtesy of Himalayan Art Resouces)

LYRICS -
Om Ami Dewa Hri
Namoh Amitabhaya!

NOTES
My intention for this song has always been that it be of benefit to people in hospice who are preparing to make their transition into the non-physical state. In the Buddhist tradition, Amitabha is known as the "Buddha of Boundless Light" and this mantra is chanted both at the time of death and for those already deceased. By reciting the six syllables of Om Ami Dewa Hri, the six afflictive emotions are purified and the qualities of the six Paramitas are accomplished. This mantra increases our awareness of our own innate love and compassion and helps us separate from patterns of self-grasping.  In other words, reciting this mantra helps clarify which aspects of "selfhood" are true and which are false. Buddhists believe that when we are fully purified--fully free from attachments to false ideas of self--we are able to see the true nature of mind, which is freedom and bliss. So chanting this mantra brings us straight into our true nature.  And, interestingly, the Buddhist view of death and dying is that we are also offered that opportunity (to see the true clear light) at the moment of death. So this mantra helps us ascend.  
Reciting this mantra for the deceased helps guide their consciousnesses toward the highest possible realms.

OM AMI DEWA HRI: The Mantra Of Amitabha (Radio Edit)

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Chicken Soup

For my dad, Graham, who's been gone too long, and for anyone missing their dad today, or any day.

Dad took us all to Italy in 1977. He borrowed John Selby's Maxi and we drove from Nannerch to Lucca. It took three or four days: three or four days of a leaky tent; little bro Danbles demanding fish 'n' chips from bemused French, Swiss and Italian waiters; me completely refusing to go to the toilet. 

It was the most exciting holiday I've ever been on. Sometimes the smell of the Tuscan hillsides comes back to me, or the feeling of absolute contentment reading my dinosaur book by candlelight in our rickety, leaking villa.

And there were scorpions and lizards... SCORPIONS AND LIZARDS!!

Love you and miss you dad.

There is a new album coming soon. This isn't on it.

Thanks for listening.

Written and played by Adam Walton
Drums by Rachel Williams (Peaness)  https://www.facebook.com/rachelwilliamsdrummer
Produced by Adam Walton & Russ Hayes
Recorded at Orange Sound Studios, Penmaenmawr by Russ Hayes.
Field recording courtesy of Eliseo Di Malto & Roberta Musillami
Artwork by Adam Walton

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