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*2nd edition of 150
*design by Samantha Rehark @birthdae
*words by Eliza Swann,
based on Starhawk’s blessings from her book The Earth Path
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*layout by Brin
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Care Tracts is a new Matthewdavid album of three long-form Mindflight compositions inspired by CARE.
Great Forces of CARE - With your help we will overthrow corrupt capitalistic systems of greed and exploitation in favor of life and love for the benefit of all beings. We will end all war and hierarchy. Love is the gateway to paradise. Love is your way.
We give gratitude to the ENERGY OF CARE that maintains all life in its embrace. We give thanks to the dust of stars that congealed into the body of this planet, our home, and that gives form and solidity to our bones and flesh. We honor the rocks and their long slow cycles. We give thanks to the living soil, and the billion creatures that haunt her caves and pores and chasms, to the belts and the ants and the termites, to the soil bacteria swimming in the slick of water that clings to her mineral archways, to the worms, wriggling, eating, coupling, and transforming within her. We bless the plants, the roots and stems and boughs, the great trees reaching upward and the deep-rooted herbs pushing down, all who contribute to the cycles of birth and growth and death and decay that lead to NEW GROWTH. Praise and gratitude to the sacred waters of the world, to the oceans, the mother of life, the womb of the plant life that freshens our air with oxygen, the brew that is stirred by sunlight and the moon’s gravity into great currents and tides. Praise THE CARE that feeds and sustains life - all the throws, runs, leaps, and flies.
BLEESED BE OUR CARE!
tract
/trakt/
*noun
1. an area of indefinite extent, typically a large one.
"large tracts of natural forest"
2. a major passage in the body, large bundle of nerve fibers, or other continuous elongated anatomical structure or region.
"the digestive tract"
3. a short treatise in pamphlet form, typically on a religious subject
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released May 20, 2020
Conception of this album inspired by "The Resurrection of Care", offered by the Golden Dome School as an antidote to the "Cremation of Care" ceremony performed by Bohemian Grove each year. Our work is love in action. To learn more about the history and permutations of this performance, please visit
golden-dome.org/resurrection
*design by Samantha Rehark @birthdae
*words by Eliza Swann, based on Starhawk’s blessings from her book The Earth Path
*layout by Brin
Thank you to the Golden Dome School and to Eliza Swann for your teachings and community. A portion of proceeds from this album will be donated to the Golden Dome School
golden-dome.org
a music garden; a garden that i can take anywhere, place it on my ears and enjoy its calming ambience. for nature-deprived folks (like me), it's awesome. wolftetsudo
I love this album! It helps me imagine the micro and macrocosms in the earth and in the soil and in space! a multi-scalar, multi sensory experience of ecosystems across time and space. Warm golden light, slow crystal growth over eons, geological forces and deep time, walking through woods, looking at plants and the smell of petrichor (the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil) jen-du-chatsein
With all proceeds going to benefit Ukraine, the latest from Angela Winter is a beautifully haunting work that centers the human voice. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 16, 2022