"Illumination" genre: Alternative General
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	Indie rock and hippy wah-wah go head on with space age monosynth in this six minute epic. The male vocal appears to be in a moment of reverie while a female voice chimes the chorus refrains.
	CD: Waves in Space   Label: Paradise Row Products Credits: The Mondoshawan
	Story Behind the Song This one started to come to me as I walked along a beach on the North Norfolk coast sometime back in 1997. It was winter and the sun shone brilliantly. I had one of those moments you're really only meant to get when you're on drugs or in India or both! It suddenly seemed as if everything was "one" including myself. Of course daily life kicks back in at some point, you can’t always be in state of revelation, but I was grateful to have had that moment, bordering on a very pleasant insanity. I'm awful for just screwing up when I try to record and I think the rhythm guitar lines (there are two across the stereo spread) took me quite a few takes. The vocals were done in one take. You can hear a slight distortion on a couple of the higher notes if you listen carefully, but I wasn't going to let that get in the way of a moment where I really had the feeling. Lyrics Illumination Alone again that winter, a single figure on a beach Beneath the cliffs, between the waves, The sun warmed me through three layers of freezing clothes My body, at once receptive to its rays Reached out with all its feeling Illuminated first time that day No opium or lovers touch Mantra to chant or psalm to sing Look to the blue horizon, beyond to universal things All matter subdividing, re-integrating once again This was not madness but the clearest sight had ever come to... Let me be LOVE and LIGHT Absorbing, emanating, reflecting, generating I will not, cannot change the world I won't begin to understand Acceptance of limitation Will not prevent a look beyond To those who revel in darkness What day did your nihilism win? So I cry carpe diem, Carpe diem until this one... Let me be LOVE and LIGHT Absorbing, emanating, reflecting generating A passion ever burning The cold and filth of England's land Though many would be my teacher In this moment I was my own God mentor and receiver Of this gift all mine to give To give and to receive love This will be the essence 'Til this one life passes.

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