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The Ancient Wild

by The Ancient Wild

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Brendan McCormick
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Brendan McCormick ancient and wild and free. just pure bliss from start to finish and beyond Favorite track: The Coming, The Dawn.
Mary Isis
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Mary Isis Being a friend of Kate Wilde, I'm also a big fan! I have all her music, she and Christophe create hauntingly gorgeous magical music. They are part of the soundtrack to my life. Favorite track: Ahh Mama.
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Silence gives birth to sound Holy when it exits your mouth Bitter and sweet, creating melody Altar of fire, ceremony Speak from where you are, here now Speak from where you are, here now Every bone is home in sacred tone No cell left alone, the way, the way is shown Every bone is home in sacred tone No cell left alone, the way, the way is shown Deep inside Ocean of silence Deep inside Ocean of silence Blue and red blood colors of the elements Earthy and deep, embody her to receive Heaven above, sweet lovemaking inside the belly of this land Create with me, Great Spirit is beckoning Create with me, Great Spirit is beckoning Deep inside Ocean of silence Deep inside Ocean of silence Profundamente a dientro El silencio del mar Profundamente a dientro El silencio del mar
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Mornings and Openings Molding this new day, Like sculpting with clay initiate, the contours and the shapes, Activate, like a sky colored with coral rays, then medicate full body thrush and wash away because. thèse challenges, are always awaiting these challenges, are always engaging these challenges, are always awaiting us. Mindfully watch and let exist and then allow awareness to comfortably sit this expression will live and I let live and then I give compassion and understanding that emit like a soluble wave that can create and permeate, even through the thickest of membranes piercing into the heart of the matter the quiet in the chatter the roots beyond the clamor and the glamorous lies and humanity's cries of a truth that lives beyond the lies… Here there is no need to disguise no need to compromise because this awareness contains all of the life, all of the love, all of the pains this is an open book these are eyes that look simply for the joy to see, experiencing, experiencing without any seeds projecting nothing here needs protecting this is an open sea abundant sea that from which flows everything everything, every star, every queen, every king, encompassing due north set course, higher and finer shores are awaiting… these indeed are not uncharted seas but rather they are realities the mystics cries the prophet's pleas in the heart of the mystery….
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Before the light comes, before the light comes... Waiting silent darkened rooms Until my time has come to bloom Pure potential is my name No rush, sit back, let it settle, watch it grow Stone by stone Pure potential is my name And my ocean of patience, tracing my hesitance Back to its source I let go, nothing is forced I let go, nothing is forced Why to run? Why to roam? Why to trade the depths for waves and foam Why to run? Why to roam? Why to trade the depths for waves and foam Give me wholeness lest I walk on as a fractured soul In shadow I am home Yet reaching for that limitless door of transformation I burn it up and become light I could write a book, but I'd rather feel and touch and taste and look I could write a book, but I'd rather feel and touch and taste and look For sense lives not in the thinking mind But in hearts full, rich, robust, and kind Why to run? Why to roam? Why to trade the depths for waves and foam Why to run? Why to roam? Why to trade the depths for waves and foam Yet I honor those moments of pitch black, retract, return to the womb Yet I honor those forget, being death, heavy lead denseness of the tomb In that space where life and death dance face to face Coexisting in impossible ways Bending my logic and growing my grace Bending my logic and growing my grace Defracted rays splinter, shatter, shadow filter cover up what appears to be, you trick me! Yet less and less am I fooled as to not hear music as silence's jewel Love is a ceremony, drink up, we are one, becoming more of what we are Love is a ceremony, drink up, we are one, becoming more of what we are Fully alive Fully alive... Why to run? Why to roam? Why to trade the depths for waves and foam Why to run? Why to roam? Why to trade the depths for waves and foam Before the light comes, before the light comes... Before the light comes, before the light comes...
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The coming of the dawn I can see everything now along with everyone once the nighttime dies so with it then all of the lies that we've based our life upon underneath the sun I hope that we can see that we here are all one what a definitive kiss to bury in your heart The cleansing of our home sparkling mirrors reflecting integrity and soul how we are unique how we are composed how are very substance is more valuable than gold perhaps the natural weakness of suspicious and anxious beings suddenly seeks permanence in time and limits on earth Perhaps the tediums and the ages implacably, accumulated extending like a lunar wave of an ocean newly created NEWLY CREATED Ah, let what I am then be Ah, let what I am go on existing
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To all who came before me and all who are yet to come This is not done, until love is our home To all who came before me and all who are yet to come This is not done, until love is our home Sweet and sour, it is the hour to go back in time Sweet and bitter, the bite of winter I'll watch it unfold, and hold my tongue Picking up the pieces of what I've left behind Rewinding to burst forward The past, it only teaches us to let go Extending what we know, to the depths of our feeling It's a wild world, it's a wild world... Grant me tolerance, total acceptance as I dance between the worlds My home is always shifting and my soul is uplifting As I burn through the blockage Picking up the pieces of careless explosives Now I walk with grace on this road To all who came before me and all who are yet to come This is not done until love is our home To all who came before me and all who are yet to come This is not done until love is our home It's a wild world, it's a wild world... Picking up the pieces of what I've left behind Rewinding to burst forward The past, it only teaches us to let go Extending what we know, to the depths of our feeling Picking up the pieces of careless explosives Now I walk with grace on this road To all who came before me and all who are yet to come This is not done until love is our home To all who came before me and all who are yet to come This is not done until love is our home It's a wild world, it's a wild world...
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Child 05:49
You come to me as the person no one else can be a completely unique happening in the entire universe so wondrous are your gifts courageous yet delicate oh, lovely, lovely, lovely how can I hold you  in every moment  in every way how can I live life more fully  how can I completely portray your beauty as my life your brilliance as mine one in the same gathering the rain So let this goddess coalesce into our hands to lift her to our lips and kiss and drink the spirit  as it gives, as it gives oh how can I open my heart up to you  keep on living  for this Building bridges between our hearts again layers upon layers connect us in trusting  such an open air to breathe refreshing every single part of me I will walk face forward and dead on into shout your blessing  through the room oh how that I am love all here right now oh great spirit you have spoken so loud that finally I hear it
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The Big Dark (free) 05:09
This force has come to claim me And take me for its own This fire burns within me And the flames they rise and grow So open up my fingers, the taking of a hand No flesh will last forever, now I understand I understand My body is a vessel I am a hollow bone What strength will stop the river Of love when it is shown That you were made for loving, and dying at the feet Of some big dark that swallows, of some great mystery That you were made for loving, and dying at the feet Of some big dark that swallows, of some great mystery Release me from what holds me back Grant me courage, I want to feel this Embrace me as I fall into my feeling Letting love leading Oh... letting love leading I watch a boat departing It leaves me on the shore With some greater longing My soul hungering for more But oh the waves that tossed me, and oh the space that's growing I suppose they call this loving, I suppose it means I'm living I suppose it means I'm living, I'm living My body is a vessel I am a hollow bone What strength will stop the river Of love when it is shown That you were made for loving, and dying at the feet Of some big dark that swallows, of some great mystery That you were made for loving, and dying at the feet Of some big dark that swallows, of some great mystery Release me from what holds me back Grant me courage, I want to feel this Embrace me as I fall into my feeling Letting love leading Oh... letting love leading
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Close the distance, I am coming to you Make my heart ready to tremor and shake We will create, painting words with color And I will not wait one moment longer And all I have is what I allow to move through me And all I am is a galaxy revealing Close to me means that I will be seen Intimacy with life and all that it brings I will allow the fires of existence to transform me I won't hold back what's stirring me and calling me And moving me on And all I have is what I allow to move through me And all I am is a galaxy revealing My inner world touches the All, touching the word Hearing the call across the land And I can't stand to keep it inside So I release my deepest dream out into space Trusting the grace that follow through The road of truth That follows through, the road of truth And all I have is what I allow to move through me And all I am is a galaxy revealing And all I have is what I allow to move through me And all I am is a galaxy revealing...
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Human Star 04:03
Adventure unbound losing myself in the heart  and its sounds and I let it carry me deeper and deeper like a personal safari through wild entry points along  as I am captured in the song like a devotee showing up every second always honoring the question of why this chose me why I am choosing every second of my life to be free Unlimiting, honoring our periphery impulse chance opportunity to dance explore the unknown mystery becomes our new home by accepting  what we do not know  and inform the flow and let go  and even more set off and explore follow the contours  as they pass through this human star that we are in every single cell in every single scar and let the grace that carries this song  carry me all the way home my elders my brothers, my sisters, my lovers i share with you the song i want to grow  so clear to walk into your fears and your doubts expanding the range of what can be felt in your house initiating movement to  deepening our groove into know the flow that will carry us  all the way home
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Open wide these open skies, these open eyes to see you Open sea, abundancy, more than enough to please you A myriad of ways to give thanks and praise A myriad of ways to be A myriad of ways to give thanks and praise A myriad of ways to be So I'll listen close to hear... Inviting the muse Come near to me, inspire me, set fire to the water Come near to me, inspire me, set fire to the water Electric elegance, all the elements moving to the rhythm Symphony, cacaophony, birds are awake, I hear them A myriad of ways to give thanks and praise A myriad of ways to be A myriad of ways to give thanks and praise A myriad of ways to be So I'll listen close to hear... Inviting the muse Come near to me, inspire me, set fire to the water Come near to me, inspire me, set fire to the water Dimensional shift, abysmal rift, catching a glimpse of Source So channel it through me, letting it use me, letting it change my course A myriad of ways to give thanks and praise A myriad of ways to be A myriad of ways to give thanks and praise A myriad of ways to be So I'll listen close to hear... Inviting the muse Come near to me, inspire me, set fire to the water Come near to me, inspire me, set fire to the water
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honest eyes look back  reflecting the past passing tradition gather and drop your branches your leaves down to your roots your seeds passing tradition gather and drop flourish me flush me nourish me touch me  speaking to God right now uncorrupt me purge me move me guide me loose me soften the boundaries the bondage the stories allowing  creation informing and how the winds are change constant and re-arrange  your visions decisions listen ancestral revival standing on the shoulders of our collective
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Oceans of traveling soul So many pathways home I live in the unknown I am moving Caress fate and chance Create happenstance This wave is a flow I grow, wandering seeds Abundantly, growing like trees Ship sailing, here to trade Intangible exchange pays our way And paves wide, we dive into the road of the sea Currency flowing, I am open sea channeling Currency flowing, I am open sea channeling From mother's mouth to our sails She speaks that more is available to you If you just move, listen, move, listen Move, listen, move... The ocean screams, release The ocean screams, destiny And falls to a whisper And falls to a whisper And falls to a whisper of tide Light bouncing on the sea Your eyes are shining, we are alive! What's next? Welcoming the rest of this life We dive into the depths of the sea We dive, into the depths of the sea We dive... Release the anchor, we are free to wander Release the anchor, we are free to wander From mother's mouth to our sails She speaks that more is available to you If you just move, listen, move, listen Move, listen, move... The ocean screams, release The ocean screams, destiny And falls to a whisper And falls to a whisper And falls to a whisper of tide Here is nothing Here is empty Here, come reside... The ocean screams, release The ocean screams, destiny And falls to a whisper And falls to a whisper And falls to a whisper of tide
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Ahh Mama 04:59
Taste the wild essence, presence Taste the nectar of flowers, the power of The Great Mother and she turns in me And turns in you Take me to the open fields Yielding, deeply feeling Take me to the open fields Yielding, deeply feeling Ahh, mamama yeah... No other medicine will know you so deeply within Trusting her to go inside, guide darkness into light Fear not those darkened spaces Fear not the demons' faces All comes to dust as the wheels are turning Hearts are burning, souls are yearning Ahh, mamama yeah... Taste the wild essence, presence Taste the nectar of flowers, the power of The Great Mother and she turns in me And turns in you Take me to the open fields Yielding, deeply feeling Take me to the open fields Yielding, deeply feeling Ahh, mamama yeah...

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IN THE RAW.
No loops.
No pre-recorded anything.
Two musicians.
Leading you on a journey of the soul.
May you be stirred, soothed, surprised... <3

Photography by Timothy Allen and Christophe Sunhorse.
Audio mixing & mastering by Christophe Sunhorse & Kate Wilde.
Art design by Kate Wilde.

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released February 27, 2014

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Harp, piano, male & female vocals, guitar, and drums create a unique acoustic-industrial sound reminiscent of Dead Can Dance, Tori Amos, Imogen Heap. The collaborative project between US-based composers Kate Wilde and Christophe Shepperdson.

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