Happy full moon friends! 🌕
I have new song release update! 🤗🎶
It was a hot summer night several years ago, in my sweet West Marin home. I had just completed a deep and powerful evening of meditation and felt a strong desire to be out in nature, under the full moon.
I hiked up the hill near my house and was struck by the most gorgeous, brilliant full moon! Its radiance filled my heart and soul with magic and inspiration. A Mercedes Sosa song celebrating the full moon beamed into my mind. I barely knew it and hadn't thought about it for years, but there it was. It arrived with a clear calling to learn and sing it. At that point, I just knew one line of it, so kept singing that line over and over again to the moon, creating other parts around it.
I went home, pulled up the lyrics, figured out some chords and created a rendition of it, very different from the original, but one that rang true to what I had heard and felt from the moon that night.
May it bless your soul! 🙏🏼💖
lyrics
Era la luna llena
Que asomaba su carita en la cordillera
Eran los mil colores
Que tenía tu carita en la noche aquella
Era tu color lo que sentía
O era que tal vez ya no sería quien soy
Era la luna llena
Que asomaba su carita en la cordillera
Eran los mil colores
Que tenía tu carita en la noche aquella
Era tu color lo que sentía
O era que tal vez ya no sería quien soy
Era la luna llena
Que asomaba su carita en la cordillera
Eran los mil colores
Que tenía tu carita en la noche aquella
Era la luna llena
Que asomaba su carita en la cordillera
Eran los mil colores
Que tenía tu carita en la noche aquella
Era tu color lo que sentía
O era que tal vez ya no sería quien soy
Quien soy
It was the full moon, radiating blessings, upon the mountain range
She had a thousand colors and a thousand sounds emananting from her grace
I offered her sage and a prayer for healing of the human heart
A prayer for the women the children and the men
She told me here is where to start
I received of her light deep into my soul x2
The light of the one, the light of the one….
The full moon, the full moon, she helped me remember, the full moon
The full moon, the full moon, who I am, the full moon…
credits
released June 13, 2022
Vocals and guitar: Ali Maya
Backup vocals: Lauren Arrow
Violin: Ari Langer
Percussion: JonJon Alevizaki
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Song writing: Meredes Sosa, English verse by Ali Maya (It's so liberally and creatively translated, that it wouldn't be accurate to call it a translation, but it is inspired by the Spanish lyrics).
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