Guide Me Home

by Sivani Mata

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This song is a communion with nature that came through one night (September 2020) in the Heavens valley in Stroud. It is a reminder of our connection to the elements and to come home to yourself. In the summer of 2022 my mother, Nikki Brewster, was diagnosed with a rare and advanced form of leukaemia. She passed 13 February 2023. During that journey I sang for her a lot, particularly in her final days. She requested this song again and again, as well as writing it in her wishes to be sung at her funeral. Through this, the meaning of 'Guide Me Home' was strengthened for me as a yearning to merge with creation, with the natural world. I offer this song in honour of my mother who birthed and raised me with such joy and love, and I am grateful for all who have supported me in its co-creation.

The artwork for "Guide Me Home" is a collage weaving images of the elements with an honouring of my mum. There are photos of her walking in the river, honouring the sunset and carrying a baby me dressed as a bluebell in the bluebell woods. The drawings of the freedom bird and the mandala are both by my mum. Other images are all photos from her altars over the years, except for the fire which is from a ceremony I offered some years back.

lyrics

I am the Earth, I am the Sky
I am the River flowing by
Fire burning in my soul
Hey Great Spirit guide me home
Wakan Tanka Hey Hey Heya Hey
Hey Hey Heya Hey

(Wakan Tanka is the Lakota name for 'Great Spirit')

credits

released February 13, 2024
Sivani Mata Francis: lead vocals, charango, stag drum, maracas
Mark Fisher: guitar, vocals
Jezney Hollis: spirit guitar
Darren Moss: mixing and mastering

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Sivani Mata London, UK

Sivani Mata is an artist who is moved by a sensory and elemental exploration of life through practice that evokes the liminal experience of trance-like states of consciousness (such as Kirtan – Music as Medicine, communion through sound and art as a healing modality) as a way to cultivate a harmonic relationship with the Earth, and to build the relationship of self love and acceptance. ... more