
Details
- Flutes:
- Paul Cheneour
- Release Date:
- 07/10/2016
- Recorded at:
- Wellesley House, Broardstairs
- Engineer:
- David Robinson
- Edited:
- Marcus Bishop
- Mastered:
- Quantum Leap Studio
- Produced:
- Paul Cheneour
- Artwork:
- Russell Burden
- Cat No:
- NSM1131
- Label No:
- RGM116
Dedicated to the memory of Rainer Schuelein
Way Of Waiting
A variety of solo flutes played in a huge resonant concrete chamber creating multiple sound reflections, enabling the creation of sonic shimmering notes and phrases. Circular breathing enabled long phrases to be sustained. Each piece was the first take. No editing or special effects have been added.
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1. Way of Waiting - A Flute
The Silent ticking of mortality
The shifting sands of thoughtless words
Sharpen your senses
Fear is not accepted here
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2. There is a Fragrant Passion - B Flute
Is it time for the Great Ending?
The turning circle is complete
Be open to new thinking -
3. Stop Your weeping - C Flute
Change every-thing and arrive at no-thing
Listen to the language of the Birds
Tell your stories of this duopoly game
And remember how ‘It’ feels
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4. Out Across the Valley - A Flute
The scented air wafts towards an opening
Your soul breathes in and heaves a great sigh
It looks at you quizzically and asks
What are you doing?
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5. Freezing Sunrise - Chinese Flute
A frost covers thoughts
Deep snow coats your actions
A dancing nymph embraces the water dragon
A beautiful thawing occurs
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6. Blazing Nights - B Flute
We’re strangers under the night sky
There is fire in our souls
We‘re beyond those two imposters, light and dark
The time for fence sitting has gone
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7. Running Between the Raindrops - A Flute
Step silently and leave no prints
A message from water asks…
Why do you come here?
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8. Uphill - C Flute
Closed doors open
When the heart turns towards love
Fall towards that place where everything is music
Savour the joy of disappointment
And rise, like a Phoenix
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9. Fire Walking - B Flute
Where have you been?
Be still in the storm of the eye
The Guardians of this Earth are waiting
Waiting for your roasting!
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10. Clarity and Simplicity - C Flute
Is it so difficult to loosen the knots of your robe
And join the Matzoobs (Crazy wisdom people)
Move beyond cleverness and trickery
Leave your complexity behind
‘It is’, as ‘it is’
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11. Quietness - Chinese Flute
Am I too loud?
Shush…. too loud!
Am I still too loud?
Shush….Still too loud!
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12. Passing Over - A Flute
The veil between worlds is gossamer thin
Snap your fingers, and you move across
Eternity is held in a moment
Don’t squander your time in useless pursuits
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13. Watching - C Flute
The symphony body
Listless in summer’s heat
Tired in winter’s chill
Witness the rise and falling
Am I still too loud? Shush!
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14. Wordless words - A Flute
Amble, arbul, ‘orible,
Bramble, barble, bearable,
Canker, collapse, grimace,
Damsel, demolition, finish
Does my small voice still trouble you?
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15. Inside Solitude - C Flute
Meandering into twilight
Somewhere between dream and reality
The silent tsunami of the Demolition Orchestra is
Creating sound portraits beyond the fighting
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16. Turning - C Flute
The Sandgate sadhu arrived saying there’s an
Incomparable beauty coming and no place to hide
We’ve been waiting for the Time Weaver
Until then we’ll keep turning
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17. Equation=Delusion - C Flute
Does Something + Nothing = Everything?
Change every-thing and arrive at no-thing
We’re sleepwalking our way towards
Bullshit Bingo!!
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18. Torrential Skies Outside - B Flute
Torrential rain inside
Who are these profiteers from doom?
The Green Dragon Society? Or
Handmade people from Pandora’s Box?
Am I still too loud?
Shush….Still too loud!
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19. Who Looks out from my eyes? - C Flute
Stop weaving and see how the pattern grows
Soar like an untethered kite
Consult the 13 Moon Calendar
And become a gardener of beauty
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20. The Long Farewell - A Flute
Meditate on smashing the system
Keep walking Zen flutes of the west
Be disobedient refuse the gulag of servitude
Nasrudin says: It’s The System that’s Insane!