Dancing To Forgiveness by Tatiana Blanco

She acknowledges the gifts of Richard Fammerée, Peter Wood, Kaiulani Kimbrell, Kate Mays, Manulele Clarke, Jivan Hertzog, Rick Avallone, JP Allen, Humberto Blanco, Visvambhar Das, Radha Dasi, Trey Thompson, Katie Swisher, Genevieve Wood and C. She also gives thanks for her production team of Richard Fammerée, Peter Wood, David Tickle, Paul Massey, Kim Miller and Humberto Blanco.

RICHARD FAMMERÉE, co-producer and co-writer describes the album as “Blanco’s artistic vision, there’s nothing calculated about it. There are a lot of jokes on this album. It’s one of the funniest albums I’ve ever heard because Tatiana’s one of the funniest people I’ve ever met. She is dedicated to the truth. It is for everyone, all ages, within the framework that it is ‘never too late to have a happy childhood.’”

PETER WOOD, co-producer and engineer describes Blanco as “funny, with a full-on stage face but underneath she is very deep spiritually. Blanco’s real gift is commitment and depth.”

DAVID TICKLE, who finally mixed and mastered the album says, ‘I really like listening to this record. It has moments of being really cool, moments I can drift off into. Most albums have one or two moments - this album has many.”

PAUL MASSEY, KIM MILLER AND HUMBERTO BLANCO made up the graphic design team for the cover.

WHO IS TATIANA BLANCO?

Well, in the opening lyrics of the opening song she tells you she is not her body, she is free. So what's her “story”? It started in the 60’s in Mid-Wales… and England… breezed through London fashionably in the 80’s... through India and Pakistan as a travel writer… and to Kauai (Hawaii) in 1997 where it has been unfolding ever since.

Her poetry and writing have been published in Tatler, Wishbone, Paris/Atlantic Review, The Frontier Post Lahore, Zento, We Moon. She was a winner of Poems on the Buses (London) and featured on RAW: Recorded Art Words (Chicago); and is a Garden Island Arts Council Poetry Fest winner. Blanco represents English language poetry from Wales on Universe, a virtual United Nations of Poetry. (www.UniVerseofpoetry.org). She uses her poetry as a vehicle to showcase poetry/theatre/metaphysics.

She studied 'Psychology of Vision' with Chuck and Lency Spezzano and studies 'A Course In Miracles' with Tom and Linda Carpenter. She is a Universal Minister and Counsellor, she performs Hawaiian Temple Bodywork, and practices Ayurvedic medicine and Somatic Learning(sm) Yoga.

Blanco lives on the Hawaiian island of Kauai with her husband. They welcome guests from around the world for vacations, retreats and (relaxed) Kauai weddings. www.retreats.islandenchantment.com.

LYRICS & CREDITS TRACK 1: i am not my body

i i i i i

i i i i i

i i i i i am not my body

i i i i i am free

come here come and do this with me

i i i i i am not my body

i i i i i am free

this is the order I made my bodies in

plankton

fish

mermaid

fin

yeah this is the order I made my bodies in

seal woman

seal man

land woman

without sin

this is just the order I made my bodies in

I just wanted you to see

i am not my body

i am free

© Tatiana Blanco & Richard Fammerée 2007

TATIANA BLANCO : vocals, hot water bottle, water

RICHARD FAMMERÉE : acoustic guitar

PETER WOOD : electric guitar, bass, digital programming

MANULELE CLARKE : vocals

JIVAN HERTZOG : drum

C : hand flute

LYRICS & CREDITS TRACK 2: circus

when I open my eyes I

look out on the world and I {pop]

see nothing makes sense

cos the world denies all

all I’ve learned about love

when I close my eyes I

sink into my soul and I

nothing there has changed

Pam is there and I am there

and nothing there has changed

she is god and I am god and

we are god and she is god

and I am god and we are god

and nothing there has changed

when I open my eyes I

look out on the world and I

see nothing makes sense

cos the world denies all

all I’ve learned about love

unfolding enfolding look into your sky

unfolding enfolding look into your sky

I am a circus pony passing through the veil…

I am a circus pony passing through the veil

when I close my eyes I [cheering]

sink into my soul and I

see nothing there has changed

Pam is there and I am there

and nothing there has changed

she is god and I am god and

we are god and nothing there

has changed

© Tatiana Blanco & Richard Fammerée 2007

TATIANA BLANCO : vocals

RICHARD FAMMERÉE : acoustic guitar, bass

PETER WOOD : electric and acoustic guitars, bass, digital programming

KAIULANI KIMBRELL : vocals

KATIE SWISHER : violin, viola

LYRICS & CREDITS TRACK 3: art

When I asked her what she did she said

I play with words with words she said

I let them come from love she said

in beauty do I walk

o in beauty do I walk she said

in beauty do I walk

o in beauty do I walk she said

in beauty do I walk

Then I turned to him beside and said

What do you do inside? he said

I play with space and light he said

in beauty do I walk

o in beauty do I walk he said

in beauty do I walk

yes in beauty do I walk he said

in beauty do I walk

Then I turned to her beside and said

What do you do inside your head?

I play with love and paint she said

in beauty do I walk

o in beauty do I walk she said

in beauty do I walk

o in beauty do I walk she said

in beauty do I walk

then I turned to him inside of her

and said, When you come out of her

What kind of art will you bring through?

in beauty will you walk?

and from the womb inside of her

I heard his forming waters cry

I’ll sing when I come out of her

in beauty will I walk

Yes in beauty will I walk he said

in beauty will I walk

Yes in beauty will I walk he said

in beauty will I walk

© Tatiana Blanco & Richard Fammerée 2007

TATIANA BLANCO : vocals

RICHARD FAMMERÉE : acoustic guitar

LYRICS & CREDITS TRACK 4: No one

Blah blah blah – Blah blah blah blah blah – blah blah blah Here she is – staggering ragged from a grey tent – wild eye – her hair her hair her womb outworn. Here she is blah blah blah staggering ragged staggering ragged from a grey tent – wild eye wild eye wild eye wild eye wild eye – her hair – ergh – her hair her hair her hair – [cough] [cough] – Here she is staggering ragged from a grey tent – wild eye her hair ergh her hair her womb outworn – O MY GOD! This is me! No

wait a minute. This isn’t me!

This is my story.

I’ve learned better than to upturn the tent or be seduced by empathy.

I’ve learned better than to upturn the tent or be seduced by empathy. Aha. I’ve learned simply to take my glasses off, to take my glasses off and look again. I’ve learned better than to upturn the tent or be seduced by empathy.

I’ve learned simply to take my glasses off to take my glasses off off, and look again.

Who is she? She’s just a story.

She is not goddess in disguise, not illness bearing gift. No. Take my glasses off and look again. This is not goddess in disguise, not illness bearing gift. This is POOF! dandelion fluff, no more real than the world she cuts her teeth on. This is POOF! dandelion fluff, no more real than the world she cuts her teeth on…teeth on…teeth on.

Now it’s time to disappear her……………….watch her body pour itself back into 0000 and the path she walked in time roll itself up like a ribbon into nothing…into nothing.

Now it’s time to disappear her

Now it’s time to disappear her

Now it’s time to disappear her into nothing

Now it’s time to disappear her into nothing

Now it’s time to disappear her into nothing

[steam] for she is no one.

© Tatiana Blanco & Richard Fammerée 2007

TATIANA BLANCO : lead vocal, keyboard

RICHARD FAMMERÉE : acoustic guitar, keyboard, bass

PETER WOOD : electric and acoustic guitars, digital programming

GENEVIEVE WOOD : vocals

LYRICS & CREDITS TRACK 5: Perfect

It doesn’t matter that you forgot

I promise you

You’re already perfect

© Tatiana Blanco & Richard Fammerée 2007

TATIANA BLANCO : vocals

PETER WOOD : electric guitar

RICK AVALLONE : piano

JP ALLEN : harmonica

TREY THOMPSON : upright bass

LYRICS & CREDITS TRACK 6: Ce soir

Sitting at the door of my nostril

deux lampes brulent devant moi

ostrich world clear as green dunes

entre les fenetres nouvelles

ce soir

Girl with light brown hair

écoute les corteges

orange purple wavering blue

aah vierges tissues

ce soir

ce soir

It’s impossible to judge

le parfum ou tu reposes

Purple goats are rising up

le tapis de toujours

offring themselves like a bride

toujour toujours

ce soir

ce soir

To judge is to tumble off

ou ailleurs

to fall in to chaos

ou ailleurs

ou ailleurs ou ailleurs

ou il y a une autre guerre

and I like it here

partout

on the soft edge with the view

partout

partout

© Tatiana Blanco & Richard Fammerée 2007

TATIANA BLANCO : vocals

RICHARD FAMMERÉE : acoustic guitar

PETER WOOD : electric and acoustic guitars, bass, digital programming

HUMBERTO BLANCO : drum

TREY THOMPSON : bass

JP ALLEN : harmonica

RICK AVALLONE : piano

LYRICS & CREDITS TRACK 7: Thin Moon

i have been away four days

o my

time to go out in the sky again

which i am i in?

i am the thin moon

come into my dressing room

help me get ready for sky again

which i am i in?

thin moon

gibbous moon

boom boom

full moon

full moon fat moon

boom boom my womb

full moon fat moon

boom boom my tomb

fat moon

gibbous moon

back to

thin moon

til I go away

four days

when I go between the skies

which i am i in?

when I go beyond the skies

which i am i in?

which i am i in?

© Tatiana Blanco & Richard Fammerée 2006

TATIANA BLANCO : vocals, windchime

RICHARD FAMMERÉE : acoustic guitar

LYRICS & CREDITS TRACK 8: The World I See

The world

The world I see

The world I see holds nothing

The world I see holds nothing that I want

The world I see holds nothing that I want

Beyond this world, there is a world I want

Beyond this world, there is a world I want

Beyond this world, there is a world I want

Beyond this world, there is a world I want

Beyond this world, there is a world I want

The world I see holds nothing that I want

Beyond this world, there is a world I want

The world I see holds nothing

Please help me to see differently

The world I see holds nothing

Help me see there’s nothing wrong with me

Help me please let you see through me

The world I see holds nothing that I want

The world I see holds nothing

The world I see

The world

© Tatiana Blanco & Richard Fammerée 2007

TATIANA BLANCO : vocals

RICHARD FAMMERÉE : acoustic guitar

PETER WOOD : electric and acoustic guitars, bass

JIVAN HERTZOG : vocals

KAIULANI KIMBRELL : vocals

VISHVAMBHAR DAS : harmonium, Indian drum

RADHA DASI : finger cymbals

LYRICS & CHARTS:

TRACK 9: Forgiveness

o mr raison – head to one side/thank you for milking the cows

since forgiveness requires no sin/I see it’s time to let you back in

please forgive me while I forgive you

please forgive me while I forgive you

o mr davis – gun on your arm/thank you for letting me drive

since forgiveness requires no sin/I see it’s time to let you back in

please forgive me while I forgive you

please forgive me while I forgive you

all I want is

all I want is to see truth in you

all I want is to see truth in me

there’s no different you and me

o nanny phyllis – mother of all/thank you for mothering me

since forgiveness requires no sin/I see it’s time to let you back in

please forgive me while I forgive you

please forgive me while I forgive you

o mr raison o mr davis o nanny phyllis it’s never too late to

have a happy childhood - that’s it - it’s never too late

o mr raison o mr davis o nanny phyllis it’s never too late to have a happy childhood it’s never too late to

that’s it

© Tatiana Blanco & Richard Fammerée 2007

TATIANA BLANCO : vocals

RICHARD FAMMERÉE : acoustic guitar, bass

PETER WOOD : electric and acoustic guitars, bass?, digital programming

KATE MAYS : vocals

KAIULANI KIMBRELL : vocals

LYRICS & CREDITS TRACK 10/11: Teatime/Hush of Heaven

so I just remembered! and I want to tell you!

I did sing when I was little and I did dance

because every day we had to go on this walk,

nanny, my brother, my sisters, maybe mummy

(not sure) and the dogs and the pram

and I hated it -- I hated going on walks --

but I just remembered there was this one

part that made it all, all ok somehow

so off we’d go down the drive across the

cattlegrid –- on & on I thought it

would never end and through the gate

and along the road to the llwynowen farm

turn and we’d pick the milk up that mr raison

had put out for us and then when we were coming home

once we’d got inside our front gate

I started to dance in circles -- round and round and

round inviting everybody to tea –-

come to tea with me! please!

I would dance round and round

asking everyone

please please come to tea with me!

all the way up to the cattlegrid

come to tea with me!

come to tea with me!

wont you please please please

wont you come to tea with me!

and my favourite place when we got back

to the house was -- I would sneak out to my special

hedge -- and mr. price he’d cut me a door into it –-

that was my front door to go in from the rose garden

and I’d take my little pink teacup and saucer with me

and who would come to tea with me? let’s see --

the dogs (they always came) spadie anyway (he always came) and maybe some birds and susie (I brought susie) and brown teddy

and we would sit in the hedge and have tea

so much more fun than in the nursery…

o the hush of heaven holds my heart today

o the hush of heaven holds my heart today

o the hush of heaven

holds my heart today

o the hush of heaven holds your heart today

o the hush of heaven holds your heart today

o the hush of heaven

holds your heart today

o the hush of heaven holds our heart today

o the hush of heaven holds our heart today

o the hush of heaven

holds our heart today

holds our heart today

even when we forget

© Tatiana Blanco & Richard Fammerée 2007

TATIANA BLANCO : vocals

RICHARD FAMMERÉE : acoustic guitar

PETER WOOD : acoustic guitar

Tatiana wishes to thank the project's fiscal sponsor -

The Garden Island Arts Council

and the following PATRONS who supported the project with their

faith and kind generosity -

Peter and Peggy Kemp-Welch

Mervyn Bourdillon

The Evan-Thomas family

Beverly Wachtel

Larry and Marianne Paull

Maryhunter Leach

Donna Whitaker

David Dinner

Rocky Reidel

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