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Saturns Moon
The word depression is used over sadness and melancholy . But five to six hundred years ago Melancholy was identified with the Roman god Saturn and a person chronically disposed to melancholy was known as a Child of Saturn.
Saturns Moon
Nothing feels right
When I am in this melancholy mood
Alone in my room
In the dead of night
In the cold blue light
Under the glow
from Saturns Moon
And I tell myself that everything will be okay
It won’t be long before this
Dark cloud fades away
And I tell myself there will be a new dawn coming soon
When I break the spell I know so well in the glow from Saturn’s moon
Nothing feels real
When I am stranded in this world of illusion
No where to hide
In the cold blue light
Under the glow from Saturn’s Moon
And I tell myself that everything will be okay
It won’t be long before this
Dark cloud fades away
And I tell myself there’ll be a new dawn coming soon
When I break the spell I know so well in the glow from Saturn’s moon
Cause thats the way I feel
In the glow from Saturns Moon
Written By L Sharman/ R Pettinato . Copyright 2007 ( APRA)
On The Edge And Beyond
Get to know your carbon footprint and do your bit for deforestation
Carbon Footprint
Ethnobotanist Wade Davis an his article about the plight of the Penan rainforest people of Sarawak (Borneo)who have been robbed out of their lands without appropriate compensation .The same process is very much a part of similar tribes in the Amazon and other parts of the world. This in turn effects us all as it comes back to bite us by Global warming
Here is an extract from Wade Davis (The Serpent and the Rainbow)
In the language of Borneo’s Penan tribe, there are forty words for sago palm, and no words for goodbye, or thank you – or thief. The Penan are a nomadic people who view the entire rainforest as their home. They are an “eco-village” on the move, one with a history many thousands of years old. If we all knew and loved the natural world with the intimacy of the Penan, we would not be destroying it willfully. But the Penan way of life – and the incomparable knowledge they have amassed about how to live in community with the forest and with each other – may soon disappear. In the time it takes to read a paragraph of this text, another three hectares of the Borneo rainforest will have been cut down (as late as 1983, Malaysian logging provided 58% of all tropical log exports on the world market).
“The following is excerpted from the book Penan: Voice for the Borneo Rainforest”
When I wrote the Lyrics for On the edge and beyond these issues were crossing my mind including the deforestation even in our
own little part of the world Lets start a new mindset plant one or more trees in your backyard . I strongly support eco-sustainability. Sadly indigenous community’s of the rainforest are discriminated against and are suffering the destruction of their eco enviroment due to deforestation by unsustainable logging without consideration.
On The Edge and Beyond
On the edge
you were looking out
On the frontier
In the decay of the forest
Burning of the land
Dance in a circle
Under trees of green
Watch the world from a faded sunset
And rise up
From your broken dreams
On the edge you were running from
The last frontier
In the decay of the buildings
Turning of the land
Dance in a forest
Under the sacred green
Save the earth from
Greed of gold
Rise up
Let the weeping willow be
On the edge and beyond
You were standing there
Looking out
In a changing world of decay
Save it now
On the edge and beyond
You were standing there
If they could only see
There may be hope for another way
There’s so much hurt
There’s so much pain
Why do we do it to each other
Can’t seem to make no sense of it
On the outcome
And in the end
Who pays the price
In this Dilemma
On the Edge and beyond
On the edge you were looking out
On the frontier
In a view of the twilight
Where the fireflies fly
Dance in a forest
Under the twilight sky
Save the earth from greed of gold
Rise up
Let the Rainforest man be
To chorus:
On the edge and beyond
You were standing there
Looking out
In a changing world of decay
Save it now
On the edge and beyond
You were standing there
If they could only see
There may be hope for another way
credits
from On The Edge and Beyond, released 31 December 2008
Lenny Sharman : Vocals and all instruments
Written by Lenny Sharman
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The General Assembly
United Nations Declaration
UN Declaration
A review on smooth Jazz Therapy
Listen to the song :-
Fallen Angel
LA based R & B songstress Aysha recently caught the attention of Smooth Jazz Therapy with her latest recording ‘Stay With Me’. At the time I described it as ‘a tight and extremely personal collection that includes notable input from several smooth jazz superstars’ and now she has re-emerged as a featured vocalist on the seven track CD ‘Taking Time Out’ from adult contemporary collective Firefly Soul. All the more surprising for the fact that the band’s two central figures, Lenny Sharman and Ben Meeking, are based in Melbourne, Australia, this liaison sits comfortably with other guest appearances from singer Tepaeru (from New Zealand) and Australian sax-man Justin Hall. The resultant fusion of vocals, orchestration and harmony makes for very interesting listening
In fact ‘Taking Time Out’ is arranged around a gentle construct of cool grooves and this is particularly noticeable with ‘Island Town’ that features Tepaeru but which paradoxically has something of a Van Morrison flavor about it. The Steely Dan like title cut benefits from tender sax from Justin Hall and while the hypnotic ‘Energy Flowing’ is among the album’s best tunes it is Aysha’s performance on ‘Fallen Angel’ that steals the show.
This smoothly flowing and decidedly soulful number (which can also be found on Aysha’s 2006 project ‘Love Is A Rock’) can only help to widen the appeal of Firefly Soul from what some call ‘down under’ to the rest of the world
