BLOODFLOW/ILLUSIONS - short film / music video Aydra and Emvy are thrilled to release a short film/music video for their last track from Maya, Bloodflow along with secret song, Illusions.
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Maya was released independently in June of 2019. Now in June of 2022 the duo prepares for their 3'rd album, Odyssey, set to be available worldwide in July.
Bloodflow was an original piece Emvy brought Aydra in 2018 and makes reference to Wild Rose, a campsite they camped and created at in Death Valley while scouting for their video, Angel Army.
A beautifully crafted guitar melody inspired the lyrics and structure that Aydra wrote while in Joshua Tree National Park with Emvy on a picnic.
The song begins gently and by design rises into a rock-driven climax that brings Aydra's higher and braver range out and works in tandem with Emvys peaking guitar note. It was infamously performed multiple times in their circus shows at the BigTop in Joshua Tree with performers Zircon and Wish on aerial silks.
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Towards the end of production for Maya, Aydra sparked the idea to write a song about the meaning of the album, and Illusions was born which points to the Maya; Illusions played by Gods and Demons on humanity in effort to attain power.
It was done in one take by Aydra on the keys and effected by Emvy with a vodecoder. The session took no more that 20 minutes to complete.
The songs carries an eerie yet beautiful message of how we take reality to be true when really we are participating in a wonderful display of holographic protons and atoms giving us the impression this life and all the illusions around us are REAL and absolute. In fact may it be more believable we're merely participating in a cosmic play or theater, and we can truly create it to be anyway we like while crafting solutions to the challenges we all face.
Bloodflow alternately pays homage to angels in our life that are like our 'kin' and keep us in the flow and now. Whether they be in-body/on-earth or elsewhere (higher dimensions), we must keep ourselves free of fear, open to other realms and remember, death is natural and eventually we all face our mortality.
Illusions also plays on the capitalistic structure that binds us to believing our stories (and 'theirs') and that in life we must compete to achieve and survive. It's a plea to remember this is illusionary, you may be being played a trick on so stay childlike and know you too can play on these illusions and do.
Now is the time to throwout these dogmas and break the walls the confine us to limited thinking and believing anyone deserves any less than the next. It's time to break the mirror and see that this is a game, ego/money is not the goal, but rather self-love and beauty that can be shared and cherished by all, endlessly to serve humanity.
This energy or chi literally ripples and flows through all things.
LYRICS:
BloodFlow
Lay down, heart queen
Hold wrists softly
Are prayers gone south
Led in the mouth
Wild rose, Bloodflows, like a river
Free birds, take turns, flying home
Fire, ice, rain and thunder storm
Carry me under
Long, live, sisters and brothers
Fallen to you, America
Wild rose, Blood flows, like a river
Free birds, take turns, flying
Wild rose, Blood flows, like a river
Lock the doors and throw away the key
I don't want it to be me, or you their comin for
Just close the door
You're not welcome anymore
No ghosts lie in my bed
I won't be walking dead
Close the doors
And throw away the key I don't want it to be me
Or you baby
Wild rose, Blood flows, like a river
Free birds, take turns, flying home
Wild rose, Blood flows, like a river
Free birds, take turns, flying home
ILLUISIONS
Facing the ending all writing the story
We live for the glory of being somebody
Let them fall if they can't be if that's what will save me
I'm makin the money my worlds nice and lovely, oh oh
Talk about love, about being one but we curse the sun
With the tempature risin, the temapture risin
Oh oh, self-abused, self-used no one to blame take shame
Oh only a game boy, it's only a game
At least that's what they say
Hey
So just play it cool, it's only illusions
Being played on you
Don't play the fool, they're only illusions
You know you play em too
Illusions, illusions
Illusions, illusions
Hmmm ahhh ahhhs
So just play it cool
As the wind, begin to blow
Don't play the fool,
This is how it's go
Just play it cool
IT's only Illusions
Being played on you
Don't play the fool
They're only illusions
You know you play em too
Illusions, illusions
Illusions, illusions
See what you can find
See it in your mind
At the end of all time
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That's the best I got :)
With love,
Aydra J Swan
