First off, I want to thank everyone for their apparently infinite patience as I try to debug the site since it went live just under a week ago. I appreciate everyone’s understanding and the helpful hands I’ve been getting from all across the globe.
You are the real heroes here.
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As I described in my last post for this series, Towards the Within, I have decided to do a bit of discovery when it comes to music and report back what I found on that adventure. Briefly: I seeded a “radio station” on YouTube Music with several darkwave and experimental folk bands, set it at high discovery and high artist variety. I tried to give preference in my “seed” to non-English-speaking artists to drive the algorithm in that direction. And then, I set off a darkened path and into the labyrinthine woods I had just created.
Did I find something interesting in the deep woods? Or did the monsters eat me?
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burning inside and writhing
with their words spoken
during long ghost nights
carried in smoke on the wind
hey hey sang they hey hey
medicine for the longing within
passing white sage silver
on the circle all around
the pounding of our hearts
the bellows of our winds and
the burning inside and
the burning within
masks we ride rivers wide
banks staring blank, empty
ancestors begging forgiveness --
what have we done?
slipping night waters
at the edge of blood tides
moon mother moon
what have we done?
careless, that whispered jetty
rock dark, broken shore
still that heart's beating
what have we done?
we ever we
on edge turning
forest child lost
her hands her
finger slips
over leaves
over wood
we ever we
can be can be
innocent songs
again—
she cuts she
shadows on wind
shadows on song
of
we ever we