Name: Earth My Body
Duration: 2 min 8 s
Channel: Traditional words, Music by Michelle Mays
Description: Earth My Body is the second part to Creation. Traditional Earth My Body Chant with the voice of Mother Earth as heard from outside the bounds of the Planet

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Earth My Body is the second part to Creation. Traditional Earth My Body Chant with the voice of Mother Earth as heard from outside the bounds of the Planet

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Michelle Mays

Contemporary Folk/Pop. Gentle, comforting, joyful and reassuring the heart,spirit and honoring Mother Earth and The Goddess within us all. Singer/Songwriter M

Singer/Songwriter, Michelle Mays is a solo artist with three CD's, Fireleap, a Collection of Beltane song and chant, The Golden Section and The Promise. The music reflects the growing philosophy and awareness of the Earth Spirit, and the Celebration and Sacredness of life. Her original music will touch your heart and spirit, will move you to Joy, reassurance and comfort.. and may even make you smile. Michelle was raised in a family of musicians and singers, and began performing with the family when she was a child. As a teenager, she played in various dance bands around Tulsa,Oklahoma. Later, Michelle played her music at country hootenannies, coffee houses, gatherings and events throughout the US. Within the past few years, her recorded work has been played on independent radio stations across the US, including NPR. Currently, she performs at events and gatherings throughout the Mid-West, and is working on a series of CD's to celebrate the Wheel of the Year.

Song Info

Genre

Pop • Dance-Pop

Charts

Peak #209

Peak in subgenre #91

Author

Traditional words, Music by Michelle Mays

Rights

Michelle Mays

Uploaded

December 15, 2005

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.9 MB • 320 kbps • 2:08

Story behind the song

Earth My Body is a traditional Chant, and beautiful however it is done. I wanted to expand the meaning a bit by creating an atmosphere of music that expressed a trance like inner weaving and unity with the Elements and the Divine Self. And I wanted to give an example of the ancient phrase "As above, So Below". And so, along with the trance like quality of the chant, I added the sounds of the Earth from outer space. Yes, the sounds you hear are not birds and frogs and other things, they are the Sounds of Earth as recorded from outer space. These sounds were recorded by University of Iowa instruments on a variety of spacecraft over the past 40 years. 
The specific recording I used is called the Earth Chorus,  Chorus waves in Earth's magnetosphere are generated in the Van Allen radiation belts by electrons spiraling along Earth's magnetic field lines in this region. Once generated, the chorus waves interact with the moving electrons, disturbing the spiral orbit of the electrons and causing them to fall into Earth's upper atmosphere along the magnetic field lines. 
Chorus waves consist of a rapid succession of intense ascending tones, rising in frequency over very short time intervals, each tone lasting typically less than one second. The frequencies of these rising tones occur in the audio frequency range and sound like a dawn chorus of chirping birds, a sound which gives these waves their name. 
Think of it… from outer space, Our Earth sounds like the different life expressions within it! Beautiful! 

Music, Arrangement and instrumentation by Michelle Mays.
Vocals, Michelle Mays, Phebe Smith

Lyrics

Earth my body,
Water my blood.
Air my breath,
Fire my spirit.

Earth 
Water
Air
Fire
(Also within the song are lyrics made by Earth herself)

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