States United - Miraj album notes
- Anahata
- Desert Song
- Seven Sisters
- High Desert Winds
- Sage Dance
- Bhajan/Golden Forest
- Rainbow Mountain
- Moon Goddess
Musicians:
Amory Nathaniel Caetanya Bottorff: violin, cello, percussion
“Amir” Nicholas Adam Baker - marimba, vibraphone, voice, drum set, percussion
“Allaudin” Dean Ottinger - tar (frame drum) on “Desert Song” and “Sage Dance”
Devin McCollum - Electric Fretless Bass on “Moon Goddess”
Song Credits:
“Anahata” (music: Nicholas Adam Baker)
Nick: marimba
Amory: violin, cello
“Bhajan” (traditional) / “Golden Forest” (music: Amory Bottorff)
Amory: violin
Nick: marimba, mahdal
“Desert Song” (music: Amory Bottorff)
Amory: violin, cello, percussion
Nick: marimba, percussion
Allaudin: tar
“High Desert Winds” (music and lyrics: Nicholas Adam Baker)
Nick: marimba, voice, doumbek
Amory: violin
“Moon Goddess” (Nicholas Adam Baker)
Nick: vibes, voice, drum set, shaker
Amory: violin
Devin: electric fretless bass
“Rainbow Mountain” (Nicholas Adam Baker)
Nick: marimba, drum set, voice
Amory: violin
“Sage Dance” (Amory Bottorff)
Amory: violin, cello
Nick: marimba, percussion, vibes
Allaudin: tar
“Seven Sisters” (music and lyrics: Nicholas Adam Baker)
Nick: marimba, voice, drum set, vibes
Amory: violin, cello
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Mark Thies at Markosa Studios, Roeland Park, Kansas City, KS
Nick would like to thank these beings for reasons to numerous to mention:
God, Beth Horned, Jerry Baker, Bill and Margaret Baker, Marianne Horned, Connie Mack Horned, Selena Sanchez, Melinda Baker, Lynn Horned, and the rest of my family - alive and deceased, Peter DeJesus, Frank and Pilar Leto, Allaudin Ottinger, John Currey, James Snell, Nick Petrella, Scott Ney, Amory Bottorff, Mark Thies, Devin McCollum, and all the illuminated souls.
Amory would like to thank:
Lyrics:
“Seven Sisters”
The Stars fill my Heart tonight
as I call on their Love-Light
and ask for Heavenly Sight
I know they’ll make it alright
On this Night
dressed in White
Have no fear we’re given
Divine Flight
Space and Light and Red Earthen Clay
is of what we are made
Here to Love in our myriad ways
I know this is a new Day
Let us play
Hear me say
This is our chance to
Be a Cosmic Family
All across the galaxy
I hear my sisters calling me
I hear their voices singing clearly
I hear my brothers sounding like
A million bells are ringing sweetly
Four Hundred Light Years away
Four Hundred - Forty Light Years away
Light Years away...
I hear my sisters calling me
to fill the galaxy with music...
“Rainbow Mountain”
Travel past the plains
to a higher terrain.
Climb toward the sky.
You will feel high,
like you can fly
Oh, my friend...
We’ll be there at the Rainbows end
on the Mountain
heyeaeheheeyeah
Colors of our souls
mix there and stories unfold.
Breathe in the sounds.
They’re everywhere to be found.
Round and round
this earth-bound spiral
We’ll be there at the Rainbows end
on the Mountain
heyeaeheheeyeah
Imagine a Sacred Space,
a circle of warm embrace.
Sing from your heart,
and Dance with all you’ve got.
Play your part
and Live your Dreams.
We’ll be there at the Rainbows end
on the Mountain
We’ll be there at the Rainbows end
on the Sacred Mountain
heyeaeheheeyeah
“High Desert Winds”
Please let me be
I just need some time to sit alone
Why do you follow me?
Do you hear the wind?
It calls us into sacred quietude.
We must walk our own paths.
High winds blow across the heart of the
Desert blooms and conquers all the sorrow
Spirit flows through the heart of the
Earth she knows and gives us bountiful Life
Listen to the Spaces between the
Mountains of our Souls and you will
Find a Sacred sound that reverberates inside you
We will be Liberated
High Desert Winds
Blow me to the Mountain and
all around the World
I am ready to let go...
I want to cry for the beauty that fills my eyes on this day
You will find me in the empty, crystal clear sky of golden waking dreams
Waking Dreams,
Golden Dreams,
Desert Winds...
“Moon Goddess”
Moon Goddess
Daughter of the Earth
Daughter of the Sky
There’s a sparkle in your eye
y’know you make me feel so high
Moon Goddess
Mother of the Sea
Lover of the Waters inside of Me
There is no place I’d rather be
than before this light you shine on me
Floating so high
In my Heart’s sky
gazing into
your luminous eye
My Heart is so full feeling your pull
on this ocean
of Infinite Dreams
Moon Lover
your soul shines so bright
on this clear Autumn night
y’know this Love, it feels so right
and I’m so grateful for this Life
Moon Shadow
Calling me out to play
Loving me in every way
I awaken more everyday
and I just want to say
Thank you, Thank you - for all that you have done
Thank you, Thank you - for all that you have made
Thank you, Thank you - for your Lunar Light
Thank you, Thank you - for your Lunar Love
Hu ooo eee
All lyrics by Nicholas Adam Baker
Copyright 2015