Burning Bridges
vox, keyboards

For All Who Suffer
vox, keyboards
The vocals are sometimes heavily layered choral that first came up in a dream of 3 women singing together. In the dream I felt like I'd never be able to come up with things like they were singing, & when I awoke, I laughed at that because it was me. It's very sensually sad feeling to me. It's a love song, a compassion song, a grief dirge, & every good grief dirge can use an Armenian douduk ;-). It's got some bass frequencies that help propel the songs, so I encourage listening with good bass response. Stereo spread is also a nice perspective.

Lyrics:

Wipe away the tears of pain

Let me hear you
Let me see you
Let me hold you
Let me love

I hear your pleading cries
I feel your broken hands
I see your bleeding heart
Hold my hand through this bitter storm

You say you can't go on
You sob into the ground
You wail into the stars
Ah sweet one, we've got you
we'll catch you, we've got you

This world's a living hell
A nightmare that won't awake
The path is fraught with danger
Here's the map, I'll take you through the gate

They'll take your breath away
They'll suck out your life force
They'll hunt you in the darkest night
They'll try to take away your soul

Hold this light within your heart
A gift to light the road ahead
Carry the sacred water of your soul
Let it guide you to love's deep ocean

For all who suffer
I feel you

How It Feels
vox, keyboards
This can be taken literally, or figuratively. I was envisioning a James Bond title when it first came to mind, hence the chromatic 6^th movement.

Lyrics

This is how it feels
to die

you can' see it
you can't taste it
you can't hear

Just look the other way
no need to follow me
Just look the other way
there's nothing more to say
There's nothing you can do
this world is killing me
Just walk away
or you can be
Here
Nows

Joseph
vox, keyboards, hammered dulcimer
Starting with words attributed to Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. The song developed from there with me contemplating what it feels like to watch your culture, & your deep connection to Nature get demolished by colonization. Inspired also by John Trudell's discussions about if we all go back far enough into whatever ancestry we come from, we can find our tribes which were violently colonized. I found my ancestral tribes in Druidic Nature based practices. This is For All Our Relations.

Lyrics

I will fight no more forever

I am the forest, I am the trees
I am the birds, I am the bees
I am the sky, I am the breeze
I am the river, I am the sees

Novos Ordo Seclorum
vox, keyboards

Latin Lyrics

Novos Ordo Seclorum
Sexta massa exstinctionis
Spiritus super omnia
Imperium
Ruina imperii
Natura canit in astra
Novos Ordo Seclorum
Sidera vocant animam tuam

Sunla
vox, piano (L hand), 12-string guitar (R hand), Persian daf, cajon, riq, ankle bells

1. Aegean Dreams
2. Burning Bridges
3. For All Who Suffer
4. How It Feels
5. Joseph
6. Novos Ordo Seclorum
7. Sunla

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 05/28/2024
Beth Quist lives in Colorado USA

Tagged as: New Age, Vocal, Daydreaming, Drone, World Influenced

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2. Future Forever by Ion: clean, crystalline ambient
3. The Airs of Wales by Cheryl Ann Fulton: World-class performer and teacher of Medieval, Baroque, Welsh triple, Celtic and Concert harps.
4. The Once and Future Harp by Cheryl Ann Fulton: World-class performer and teacher of Medieval, Baroque, Welsh triple, Celtic and Concert harps.
5. Angelorum - The Harps in the Trees by Cheryl Ann Fulton: World-class performer and teacher of Medieval, Baroque, Welsh triple, Celtic and Concert harps.
6. Hang by Laura Inserra: the Hang, a new instrument from Switzerland
7. The Ice Castle by Kirsty Hawkshaw: ambient electronica
8. Music from Braid by Sieber, Kammen and Fulton: dreamy music from the acclaimed video game Braid
9. Enchanted Wind by Suzanne Teng: world flute with a serene energy
10. Second Sight by Jami Sieber: enchanting cello compositions
11. Hidden Sky by Jami Sieber: enchanting cello compositions
12. The Depths of a Year by Ehren Starks: piano and cello/jazzy new age
13. Forgotten Kingdom by Ryo Utasato: From wild Electronica to soothing Ambient. From Ethnic Fusion to Epic Rock, Cinematic and beyond
14. Musical Incense - volume two (Hang and Guitar Duets) by Laura Inserra: the Hang, a new instrument from Switzerland
15. Tau Ceti by Robert Otto: Ambient Electronic and Neoclassical Soundscapes
16. Out of Thin Air by Intersonic Subformation: Deep Space auditory exploration as seen through a prism of primeval human emotions
17. Shamballa - Live Archive Vol 3 by Robert Rich: groundbreaking ambient and dark-ambient
18. Passage by Mike Wall: healing music for planetary transformation
19. Berlin by The Kokoon: 1980's style new wave rock
20. Happiness Hurts Me by Self Delusion: darkly addictive electro-pop songs

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