From 'Songs from the Bardo', out 9/27/2019

https://folkways.si.edu/laurie-anderson/tenzin-choegyal/jesse-paris-smith/songs-from-the-bardo

Songs from the Bardo

Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith - Lotus Born, No Need to Fear

So I've been thinking. Like, a heart turned upside down looks like a bum. Right? A bum drop. Can you even imagine? If it was raining bum drops?

fight the bpm egemony
improvise your dreams

a caress on the verge of becoming a blade
bookings : eguerid@protonmail.com

(silknife)

And go past the forest 
where you can slowly wake up
or you can take your time 
and let the seasons catch up
slip off your shoes 
and feel the earth 
your ears will start to ring
and life will sing.

You've just got to swing past the 
forest 
where colours can blind you 
and everything finds you 
it can drive you insane 

You've got to slow down now
or you'll grow cold.
Leap past the flowers that sleep,
The hours that spring those old 
Shadows confuse you 
and the silence is loud 
your're reaching for the light
your're losing sight 

You've just got to swing past the
forest
where colours can blind you 
and everything finds you 
it can drive you insane

and go past the forest 
where you can slowly wake up

The Factory "Path Through the Forest" 1968

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hommage a Ryuichi Sakamoto

tak    tak    tak
i   tak
i   tak
taktaktak

jeszcze raz tak

Love is stronger than thunder! ❤️🏋🏻‍♀️⛈️

As a trained dancer, I understand music through my body,  I feel its poetry and potency kinesthetically,  decode its language silently in the surging of my blood,  the strength of my bones, the shedding of my skin,  in the ephemeral trails of light my limbs leave as I weave through the sonic atmosphere.  Thank you to those who create the sounds that ignite my fire,  that keep my heart strong,  that entrance me and call my body into the dance of life.  You are shamans, standing between worlds,  spinning cosmic frequencies  into the rhythms of creation, invoking the spirits, awakening the medicine of the anima mundi. You help me to remember that I am alive!