My take on the Warrior Song by Bear Heart Singer of the Hocak Nation!

Heruska Warrior

Om Shri Sankatmochan Hanuman Mantra

Karmanye Vadhikaraste

Om Mahalakshmyai Namah 108 Times Chanting

This song came through me at Song Village 2025.  I was getting into the very chilly pool on a hot day and trying to let myself get all the way in despite the cold!  The main part of the chant came through in the pool.  This song could be sung in any body of water, or for any situation you need to dive into and submerge before emerging.  May you be one with water!

Lyrics:
Let me be one with water
Let water be one with me
Let me be one with water
Let water set me free

Cold, cold water
Shivering
Clear, clear water
Shimmering

Dive deep down
Surrender, submerge
Dive deep down
And emerge

While I was in the process of recording this, my song sister Dee Wirak came down from Eugene OR for a song circle I was leading.  I invited her to add a guest vocal to this song - nice to have other voices!

Eileen Hazel - vocals, handpan, ipu heke (gourd drum)
Dee Wirak - vocal
Produced and recorded by Eileen Hazel

One with Water

Une pièce dédiée à Irène, une proche amie réunionnaise dont je suis séparé par une mer et un
continent.
Avec Sirène, nous explorons la relation entre son, mémoire et espace. Pensée comme une immersion sensorielle, cette performance associe le jeu instrumental et vocal, créant un dialogue entre présence humaine et environnement sonore.

Je remercie chaleureusement Camille GALLICE pour avoir apporté sa connaissance du domaine électroacoustique (ainsi que le matériel..!), ses compétences d'interprètes et des cafés pendant les sessions.
Vous pourrez visiter l'univers de cette compositrice de musique instrumentale et électroacoustique, et artiste plastique, sur son instagram: camille.gallice
Ce projet n'aurait pas été possible sans toi. Merci.

Co-compositrice et violoniste chanteuse: Camille GALLICE
Composition, électroacoustiques en live et texte: Simon HOARAU-AUGE

Miniature: acrylique sur papier cartonné "SIRENE" de Camille GALLICE.

SIRENE pour violoniste-chanteuse et électroacoustiques (co-compositrice: Camille GALLICE)

Times change. Sensitivity evolves. Nature nourishes me.
Alone, amidst a flower bed, "Les Soucis," (The Worries) I play for them so that they may grow strong and beautiful. And I play for you, so that, as you listen to this set, your worries may vanish and beautiful vibrations may fill you with joy, peace, and love. Let us choose to see the beauty in this world.

I thank Mathieu Cuendet from the bottom of my heart for allowing me to play in one of the greenhouses on his estate, where he practices conscious and responsible farming. A place where Nature shows us how magical, balanced, and beneficial it is when we treat it with love.

Cuendet Market: Market gardeners for three generations, they work the land in an artisanal way without chemicals.

Produce more than 300 varieties of fresh fruits and vegetables year-round. https://www.marche-cuendet.ch

WC_Rino_Live Set pour Les Soucis

♦ Munshid: Abu Al Hour
♦ Institution: Tawwaq Media

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Nasheed | أزف الرحيل (NEW)

Ganpati Siddh Mantra

This track bears the heavy imprint of an arts and history/archaeology collective in which I piloted and performed quite a few of the Doin Different ballads prior to their publication. 'Diggers' achieved considerable things in its one year life through 2012, a sell out gig at Binham Village Hall on July 7 celebrating Boudicca’s Country from the Bronze Age to the Ballad Age combining practitioners in archaeology, theatre, folk ballads, music and visual arts and with a launch on the nearby Bronze Age barrow known as Fiddler’s Hill probably its apotheosis. ( See DD1 track 1). We even published a touring book combining visual art, history and a dramatic monologue the following September, the first (and as it turned out last) of a planned series. The troubled life and fabulous stormy times of this magnificent, doom-haunted ‘Notre Dame of Norfolk’ - Binham Priory - is a fitting memorial for the starry project’s Icarus-like ambitions, the unachieved parts of which the Doin Different project went on to achieve ( or not) with different personnel.
lyrics
The Ballad of Binham Priory

Call their names from the rubble: Alexander de Langley,
Mad as a scholar – ‘here’.
William de Somerton, William Dyxwell,
Priors and bad boys - ‘here.’

A mad monk in solitary, buried in chains,
Tortured to brake his devil;
Alchemy funded by holy sales,
Double and bubble and trouble;

Monks eating bran and drinking rain
Till King John raised the siege;
A wanderlust prior, administ-truant,
Deposed and then reprieved.

Chorus
‘As the green of summer breaks in spring
From hedgerow, field and tree
So let our souls in freedom burst
From the walls of this Priory.’

The peasants were revolting here
In 1381
When Master Lister led the charge
That started all the fun.

‘Enough!’ he cried, ‘of fattened bishops
Fed on Priory rolls,
Enough of tenants, rents and lords
And serfdom’s heavy loads.’


The old order stood another six generations,
Its dead Norms carved in art
Then the ghost of Lister came back to haunt
The Priory’s stony heart.

‘Whitewash these saints from the walls of the nave,
A clear new page for the Word,
Your bishops’ bank is ruined now
There are no serfs to herd!

Chorus

This high Notre Dame of Norfolk shrunk
To a nave-sized Parish Church,
Abandoned wings sold off for stone
To men scarce more than serfs

But when Paston quarried the haunted pile
To build a house in the grounds,
A wall killed a workman and none to this day
Will build in Priory bounds.

Three miles to the West, Roman relics and smoke
Rise again from Celtic Earth
Like the re-appeared saints whose rooted gaze
Reclaims the walls of this church.

‘Let the holy rain of autumn fall
From the solitary tree
And the grass grow wild and the four winds blow
Through the grounds of this Priory.’

© Gareth Calway 2015, first published in the Poppyland volume Doin Different.
credits
released October 31, 2023
Words and music by Peacock's Tale

From our album Done Different https://peacocks-tale.bandcamp.com/album/done-different

The Ballad of Binham Priory

A marriage (and we are actually married, 45 years so far) of melody and rhythm. We do folk, indie, Americana, Norfolk noir, beat poems &  ghazals. Traditional tunes with contemporary beats. Music videos  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb8wV0-DNiFs1R5G2VSytBQ
Maz lead & harmony vocals, acoustic guitar. Gaz vocals, voice, bass, drums & percussion, harmonium, recorders, lyre harp, field recordings.

Film Director, Actor, and artist Rinaldo Marasco started djing to expand his creative aspirations.
Contact : rinaldo@buonasera-productions.ch

Producer/DJ
Founder of Reejú Records
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Sublime songwriter and community song leader, weaving melodies that inspire connection and harmony.

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