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New Soil Song, performed at Dat Bolwerck in Zutphen as part of a evening of ritual and music and storytelling. Text and track created first for #EARTHRAVE earlier in the year, then updated for this liveshow. Text by Jasper Griepink & Victoria McKenzie.
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Soil, I thank you, soil, as when I hold you
I’m holding the world, in my bare hands
SOIL, POCHVA, TURANG, GRUNT, AARDE, TIERRA
I am alive in your body
alive in your body
Soil, you Nurture us
I am alive in your body
alive your body x 3
Manganese
Magnesium
Phosphorus
Potassium
Sand, and silt, and dirt and soil
The clay beneath your feet
Oh Soil,
I confess for the ones who call you ‘territory’ or ‘terrain’
or a little Piece of earth on a silly little paper colonial map
They don’t know you, They don’t know you.
- They don’t know your Nameszzzz
I confess for the ones who ravished you, abused you,
taken you ,
Those who earn by ending our relationship: kinship:
– Commodification, Corrrrrrr-uption, and bloody sad sick
war that are happening all over this Earth
Oh soil, The ones who hurt you—hurt themselves,
cus They don’t know your nameszzz,
They don’t know your nameszzz,
Oh soil, Tell me?
What is sacred but your bodyyyy-yyyy-yyy-ahh?
What is sacred but your bodyyyy-yyyy-yyy-ahh?
What is sacred but your bodyyyy-yyyy-yyy....
Like leaves on the Tree and Water on the Bark of the
Treee-yeah
Oh Soil, you Nurture us
What is sacred is your bodyyyy
I am sacred like your body Soil
I am sacred like your body
Cus my body is your body
and your body is my body
Oh SOIL, please
— teach us the Sacred - NOW
the inter-fungal, multi Social
more-than-human species-zzz
all that you are
Hold us tight tonight, soil
hold us tight tonight, soilll
I wanna lay down on you tonight soil,
I wanna go to bed with you tonight soil
Spirit, Fungi, Words and Worms
We are your body
human bodies
We are your body
Soil,— to learn from you I needa be with ya
Deep within your deep dark com-m-munity -
Oh, hold us tight tonight, soil
Hold us tight tonight–taah soil x2
Soil to Soul and Soul to SOIL
You know what they say?
So in the land, so in the body
So in the body, so in the land
Desires & vitamins
trauma & memories
Composition, Decomposition –
Speculations on the Future
It's all right here below the soil
Its all right here in our soil
So you better treat her right
you better treat the soil fucking right
Did you hear me?
Treat the fucking soil right
The Ground,
The Earth; the FLESH
We are alive in your body
alive in your body
Oh Soil, You nurture us
Oh Soil,, you nurture us…
We are alive in your body
alive in your body
Oh Soil,, you nurture us…
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Track: Soul Venuxx
Vocals: Jasper Griepink
Cello: CelloWercken Zutphen
Photo: Hanneke Wetzer
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