Earth Sessions: Autumnism
How do we learn to dance with complexity, contradiction, grief, beauty, uncertainty, horror and surprise without abandoning the dance-floor ?
Dancing feels like an interesting invitation to me.
It invites us into the body and out of our stuck heads.
It invites us into presence and relationship with life in the moment,
To be present with our bodies, with each other, with other life forms
It’s movement, spontaneity, flow, expression, vibe, response,
Response-ability.
Dancing is aliveness.
And we need alive-ness.
To break the numbness.
So on that, I offer a new Earth Sessions mix: Autumnism
For this season of letting go.
A collection of tunes, that have been moving me of late and that capture for me the feels of this season and these times - the endings, the abundance, the darkness, the joy, the mystery.
I hope they move you in some way.
Tracklisting
Donato Dozzy - Lucrezia
Tiger skin and Alfa State - Slippery roads ( Pablo Bolivar mix)
Zone + - Merino
Skudge - Likemind
Yokoo and Electricano - SFD011
Noosa ( Marshall Jefferson Mix) - Mushrooms
Naughty - World of a woman ( the green men mix)
Brett Johnson - Sigh of relief
Alex O’Rion - Echium
Slam - Eterna ( John Dighweed & Nick Muir mix)
Westbam and Neena - Oldskool
And if you struggle with dancing, it could well be our deep patriarchal programming - you know the voice - ‘you can’t dance’
I offer some words a wise man once said about letting yourself go on the dancefloor…
‘No one’s looking at you and no one gives a fuck’
So stay awake to what is happening, what is ending, what needs to end and tend to what needs to begin.
Look around you, find the thing that speaks to you, find the others and get stuck in.
Love and care at the centre.
And try to stay curious with the trouble, the discomfort.
Do not abandon the dance-floor
REPEAT: Do not leave the dance-floor of life.
As Nena and WestBam said…
‘We are the future, that’s the past
We are the moment built to last
We are the up, that’s the down
We wear the newschool engine crown’
Peace and out