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I Think of You
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charting on the Soundclick Charts at #8 Acid Jazz, #9 Pop-Power Pop, #13 Jazz vocals
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2004 winner of Alternative Artist of the Year - newartistradio.net Music Industry News Network 04-29-2003<p><b> MARK AUSTIN BAND In Top Ten Of Canadian Char
Email: npsfunk@aol.com Url: http://www.markaustinband.com For Immediate Release The Mark Austin Band's CD, Cosmic Trigger, has made the Top Ten Jazz CD Chart for Canadian radio station CFBX. This acid-jazz CD has been lauded in music reviews for its outstanding musicianship and innovation. The Dallas-based band has received extensive airplay in the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia. CFBX 92.5 FM Kamloops, BC Steve Marlow, Music Director Specialty Charts for Late April * indicates Canadian Content ** indicates a local artist Top 10 Jazz Albums 1) Richard Underhill* - Tales from the Blue Lounge (Stubby) 2) Byproduct* - Byproduct (Independent) 3) Various Artists* - Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen (Sony) 4) Lyle Lovett Smile (Curb) 5) George Evans* - Eyes for You (M-Swing) 6) Roman Stolyar Credo (Electroshock) 7) Jason Raso* - Transmissions from Planet Bop (Independent) 8) Joni Mitchell* - Travelogue (Nonesuch) 9) Mark Austin Band Cosmic Trigger (Independent) 10) Remi Bolduc* - Tchat (Justin Time)
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Genre
Rock • Progressive Rock
Charts
Peak #1,258
Peak in subgenre #122
Author
words and music by Mark Austin copyright 1994-2001
Rights
1994-2002
Uploaded
August 26, 2002
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MP3 5.8 MB • 128 kbps • 6:22
Story behind the song
It asked, "what motivated you to write this song?" I feel a responsibility for what I think because the arena of choice lives in my mind. What I do comes from what I think. It is there that I experience the consciousness of life; therefore, the need for me to interpret my brother's needs as my own. Every loving response I achieve identification with in my mind brings the remembrance of who I am closer to my awareness. So, for my own sake, I listen -- as if playing music with others. In order to create harmony and play with others, I first had to develop the art of listening with an open ear -- realizing the desire to complement the whole is a powerful expression of the individual. Love is infinitely the most powerful force in the universe -- ultimately, the only power in the universe. Fear is an illusion of the mind designed to conceal love. We are innocent in the sight of God. Whenever I fear it's because I'm trusting in the illusion of my own power, as if I'm (perceptibly) separate from God. We're all in the same big band. Fear is the opposite of love, yet what is all-encompassing can have no opposite. Fear is a symptom of the idea of having lost our own identity -- our Identity being a shared identity with each other and God. If we found our identity, we would be loving and happy. We would have no need of creating a self image. Our identity never left us, we just forgot who we are. Truly, who we are comes from God, trancends our own self image, and is a part of all that is. To learn this knowledge -- which is to experience connectedness beyond our perception -- we need only to desire it and listen intently within. Faith (putting beliefs into action), intelligent effort (expansion of consciousness through daily meditation), and openmindedness (God is bigger than our beliefs) are all tools of the attitude of this desire -- this desire to connect with everything. Why would I choose nothing over everything? Why would I choose an illusion of the mind that I'd been taught to believe is real by others who were taught to believe it was real? Fear? "Fear not." "I speak of things not of this world," but of something you can experience within yourself, now. "The Kingdom is within and at hand," meaning here and now.
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I THINK OF YOU I think of "Footprints" now and wonder in my head one thought has been that of separation upon this shadow illusion of creation the time, the crowd, the fear, the doubt Always has no direction I think of You Time a moving image of eternity mind arena of choice and if there is no journey and only to awake then when, and how, pretend right now Always has no direction - it must be now I think of You The dream the dreamer dreams I think of You I think of You
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