Music
Beyond the Known ~ Album
This first mytho-poetic offering of our duo, Keepers of the Flame, is an album of calling songs, magical underworld soul weavings and blessings for the future ones. With beauty, allurement and fierce love, we invite you off the beaten path into the mythic forest out beyond the village. There, you will meet magical, beautiful and shy creatures- including your own wild Soul.
Sara McFarland (Hologram Heart) and Tracey Forest (KeyTurner) have each been catching songs for decades -- gifts from the places we live with and pilgrimage to. Following Mystery's call, we met in our training to become Soul Initiation Guides. While traveling in the depths of psyche, soul and the Wild Earth, we began to write songs together.
Our first single “Come to the Forest ,” kicks off our crowdfunding campaign to raise the monies needed to bring the full album: Beyond the Known (working title) into the world!
Why a crowdfunding campaign? Last fall, we recorded three songs of the 13 or 14 total that are longing to be sung into the world! Like all visionary projects, it is a labor of love. The truth is, albums cost money up front for studio time, mixing and editing, musicians and distribution. Will you support us to conjure worlds anew? No amount is too small or too big! Each cent given with intention carries your blessing and prayers for the full album to be realized.
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this ~ vocal sketches
I am honored to sing my dear friend Steve Hyde's poems - that already throb with so much life and fire and seership - into life's frequencies. This collaboration is one that has 15 years of friendship, shared ceremony and zen meditation, countless cups of tea and hours of conversation feeding it. The alchemy of the shared passion for transformation, Soul, this, all encompassing love, honoring the old gods and goddesses of Earth and the unseen, speaking soul truth... All of this are present and echoing in the collaboration. He sends me poems, I improvise melody and rhythm, like a sketch. The ones I like may someday become an album. For now, it is a soul friendship birthed into the creative act of song. What a blessing.
From Steve
"what is time to the singer in the fragile dark before dawn?... does the darkness have a feel to it, an audible or palpable texture, that this early bird divines, or is it patient and painstaking study of the stars that foretells the breaking of the not-yet broken day?... who or what (if other than a bursting heart) signals that it is the right moment for song?... or does the singer simply follow some old faith in relationship, an ancient and irrevocable collaboration with beauty?... with night, with dawn, with day?... those times when I have truly sung, was there anything more than the singing being, the being singing, any separate awareness that could or did precede song as universe, universe as song?... as measure, rhythm, beat, and being?… and the antiphony of silence, the song of non-being that integrates it all…
… time is not money, a friend once said; time is music… if so, we must be here to sing…
… hope that, wherever you are, however your world looks, you are singing with the whole of your hearts"
Here are three vocal sketches from the album this...