The Entire CD Song By Song - Liner Notes

Land of 1,000 Chakras




The title is a nod to the classic Wilson Pickett soul jam "Land of a Thousand Dances" but that's where the similarities end, really.  "...Thousand Chakras", like most of  "One Mystic View" is an evocative and sexy meditation, heavy on mellow percussion sounds.  Trance-inducing, gentle, peaceful and, ultimately, powerful on many dimensions, if your head's in the right place.  And if not, lay back and get in the mood.  

Traditionally we're told we have seven main chakras up and down our bodies, from the top of our heads (crown) downward.  If we attune to them in meditation,  imagining them in light and color we can balance and restore ourselves in many ways.  I like to think we're far more than seven and that we have multi dimensional chakras, all throughout our physical and astral bodies.  

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Sing to the Birds



The title comes from a line in Rob Brezsny's book "Pronoia is the Antidote to Paranoia" - it was a suggestion about doing something different and fun and inspiring.  I enjoy singing to the birds, with the birds, getting them stirred up with my own whistling.  I once had a bird bring me a worm!  No, I didn't manage that on purpose.   It just happened after I was out whistling to the birds and this little compassionate one must have thought I was hungry. 

The song itself starts out with a lot of sound effects working together.  It almost sounds like a rocket ship taking off but if you listen closely there's wind, ocean waves and more.  It quickly turns into a playful Bolero style march, with some added "underwater" sounding effects.  Someone said they imagined they were scuba diving to this song, visiting underwater worlds.  

(Perhaps that's where we encounter the "Psychedelic Manatee" found in song 3.)

One of these days I'm going to make a 90 minute version of "Sing to the Birds".  I think it'd be fun.

 

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Psychedelic Manatee








What can I say?  I love Manatees.  And I love psychedelic culture & 60's style hippie art.   Put the two together and here's what we get.  I think eventually, if we can find the right artist, we'll have a cool Psychedelic Manatee toy, or series of toys, similar to those nifty Grateful Dead teddy bears we all love.  

By the way, I think the Psychedelic Manatee has more life in him than this one particular song.  We'll likely revisit the old boy in future volumes of Subliminal Erotica.

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Fragile Little Line








Chorus:

World keeps hangin' by a thin little string

Keeps right on turnin' round no matter what we bring

World keeps on spinnin' by a fragile little line

Let's keep on livin' for the ones we leave behind

Politicians are not our friend

well, they can be, if they choose

But if I place my faith in them

I'm surely bound to lose

(repeat chorus)

Some say we're sure to fall

Some say that we'll be fine

No matter who you listen to

It's the blind leadin' the blind

(repeat chorus)

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