THE CONSCIOUS FLOW OF DREAMS
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DESCRIPTION
1)
IN THE BEGINNING (1:36)
Babaji Bob Kindler - cello
Carlinhos de Oliveira - vocal sounds, whistles and rain stick
Steve Rosenthal - bamboo flute and wind chimes
A primitive forest landscape alive with sound reflects
the primordial beginnings of time,
out of which all things arise.
2) NEW LAND
(8:47
Gerardo Miguel Maza - keyboards
Sulubika - flute
Daniel Paul - tablas
Greg Pai - trap drums
Rolando Sanches - timbales
Kola Robinson - congas and shekere
A bright tapestry of keyboard tones like dancing lights morphs in and
out of an upbeat Caribbean bebop groove
3) HUA LELE WA LEIWA
(a
chant to life) (2:02)
Eje’ Lynn Jacobs, Renee’ Sykes, Kola Robinson,
Yana Lehua,Gerardo Miguel Maza - vocals and hand claps
A timeless tribal chant with multi layered parts.
4) MOUNTAIN JIG (1:54)
Gerardo Miguel Maza - acoustic guitar
Fumiko Wellington - violin
Babaji Bob Kindler - cello
A finger picking foot-tapping piece with Cajun
overtones and a breath of fresh air
5) THRESHOLD (6:19)
Tokiko Desola - vocals
Gerardo Miguel Maza - keyboards
Sulubika - flute
Sean Jones - bass
Greg Pai - trap set
Kola Robinson - congas and shekere
Carlinhos de Oliveira - surdo, tambourine,
pandeiro, cuica, agogo and caxixi
A late night rain pours down on urban city streets. Dark , sensuous
Japanese vocals perfume the air while a ground root sophistafunk groove
holds all together.
Later, we climb aboard the Rio’ carnival
express as we are carried of dancing into the distance.
Gerardo Miguel Maza - keyboards
Greg Pai - trap drums
We descend our train at a grand outdoor market with
traders calling out their bargains as they compete with
each other to capture the attention of passers by .
A beautiful dance of structure and chaos
ensues as synth leads and jazz freestyle drumming play around musical building blocks that go through a
process of putting themselves together
and then taking themselves apart.
7) HEART SONG (4:03)
Gerardo Miguel Maza - acoustic guitar and keyboards
Eje’ Lynn Jacobs - vocals
Babaji Bob Kindler - cello
Daniel Paul - tablas
With the call of the wild we return to the wilderness.
Imagine a secluded log cabin, a wood fire in the fireplace. We experience nature’s presence more strongly and it nurtures our heart. At last we enter and meet the Beloved.
8) GRACEFUL HEALER (5:28)
Gerardo Miguel Maza - acoustic guitar , keyboards, caxixi.
Rolando Sanches - timbales
Kola Robinson - congas
Daniel Paul - tablas
Through the heartbeat we plunge into the river of
life and in it we are healed .
9) SUNRISE (8:17)
Eje’ Lynn Jacobs - vocals
Kwama Thomson - vocals
Yana Lehua - vocals
Gerardo Miguel Maza - marimba, caxixi,
bongo, bendir, djembe, agogo, berimbaou
and various gongs, chimes and bell’s of
different shapes and sizes.
Babaji Bob Kindler- cello
Daniel Paul - tablas
Carlinhos de Oliveira - pandeiro
In working together there is unity we rejoice in
praise for the light and truth we have found .
10) GHOST TOWN (2:23)
Gerardo Miguel Maza - vocals and percussion
James Pallett - vocals
Steve Rosenthal - jaw harp
We honor the life of the places and spaces where people once lived . We hear their echoes in the spirit world.
11) ANCESTORS (5:24)
Gerardo Miguel Maza - keyboards and drum programming
Daniel Paul - tablas
Steve Rosenthal - various percussion and
shingmiau mouth organ
The ocean’s waves carry us in majesty as we honor all who have come before us in the diversifying and unifying elements of time. The musical structures here follow a varying pattern of time signatures. This pattern repeats each of the following signatures once before returning the initial 9/4 measure .
( 9/4 , 8/4 , 7/4 , 6/4 , 5/4 ,4/4 , 3/4 , 2/4 , 1/4 -- 9/4 , 8/4 , 7/4 , 6/4 , 5/4 ,4/4 , 3/4 , 2/4 , 1/4 etc.)
12) WATER CAVE (2:22)
Gerardo Miguel Maza - keyboards
Sean Jones - bass
Greg Pai - trap drums
As a kid growing up on the island of Mallorca
in the Mediterranean I used
to love to explore underwater caves . In that
space between the earth and the
sea there is a unique energy . This piece begins
in this yin space and then takes
off into space.
13) EARTH LAMENT (1:09)
James Pallett - vocals
Tokiko Desola - vocals
Gerardo Miguel Maza - caxixi and voice
As we connect with the earth energy
we feel her cry out for all the pain we
have inflicted upon her.
14) SEVEN DOVES (4:14)
Gerardo Miguel Maza - acoustic guitar and keyboards
Sean Jones - bass
Greg Pai - trap drums
Daniel Paul - tablas
Kola Robinson - congas
Our piece here is a ritual in 7/4 time .
It takes flight with ethereal synth leads,
finger-picking guitar and hypnotic percussion.
Our flight is guided by the dove,
a symbol of love , purity and the holy spirit
which is joined here with the mystical
number seven. Seven a significant number in
numerous paths of the spirit is also
the fusion of the yin element in 3 and the yang
element in 4.
15) SAILING AWAY (5:57)
Tokiko Desola - vocals
Gerardo Miguel Maza - acoustic guitar
We stand on the shore and wave to our loved ones
who are waving back to us from the ships deck.
They become smaller and smaller as the ship moves further and further away towards the distant horizon .
Here we have a melancholy duet of guitar and
voice about moving out of past denials and illusions
and into a unknown future. It is sung in Japanese
and done in a unique classic style.
THE CONSCIOUS FLOW OF DREAMS / STORY
My second recording, The Conscious Flow of Dreams, was made over a three-year period between 1994 and 1997. I had recently become a father, and that experience gave me renewed energy for creative work.
After working with Loren Lewisohn's script for Rainforest Awakening, I felt that I was ready to create another visionary album in which each piece flowed from the previous one. This time, though, I had complete artistic control. I wanted to work on a much grander scale. In other words, I was ready to take some chances and experiment with an even wider range of moods and styles.
I was creating my own reference map for this journey.
I spent the first year composing some of the main pieces and, as usual, looking for investors to help finance the project. I was also looking for the right musicians, and sometimes composing pieces with specific performers in mind. All in all, sixteen musicians participated in the recording and can be heard on this fifteen-track CD.
Although I was often only able to get into the studio once a month, by now I was learning patience, and I found that the essential inspiration of the music was so strong that it took on a life of its own. At that point, some of the reference points on the map began to change as I learned to go with the flow and trust in the unfolding process. I could foresee the final outcome by now, but even in the final stages of the work I was surprised by unexpected creative happenings that enriched the CD.
The Conscious Flow of Dreams originally appeared in 1997. For this reissue, I worked with a photo depicting Kilauea Iki crater on the Big Island of Hawaii and superimposed a drawing of a Hawaiian healer to match the shamanic force of the music. In the summer of 2001 I hiked through this volcanic crater and meditated at its center. While I was there, I experienced an awesome feeling of stillness and sensed the earth's potential to suddenly spew forth molten rock, destroying
the old patterns of life as we know it and creating new ones.
