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Aye yi yi. Eric Baldoni has gone and made a website for our old band from the 90s "Barely Bipedal" founded by James Jordan and John Mount, what James at the time called pre-millenial post industrial folk music: http://bbp.mockbrawn.com/

Project Bluebird

Barely Bi-Pedal

http://diymusicians.wordpress.com/music/

Thanks Dananjay for putting this together.

There are a wide variety of talented musicians on here. Our song on here is "Once in the Forest"

Project Bluebird

So far this e-album is mostly drum and some keyboards. Maybe some other instruments later and vocals.

Dedicated to Leonard Peltier: http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/

Free Leonard Peltier!


In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Nancy P.

Nancy Drums

Here is also a new video: Smell the Magic





Project Bluebird - Smell the Magic

art and lyrics by Eric Valle
music by Nancy Pontius

guitar and vocals by Nancy Pontius
all other instrumentation and mastering by Eric Baldoni

video collage by Nancy Pontius
with open source and public domain images besides Eric's drawings

Thank you to all who made the wonderful clips I borrowed for this collage. I tried to look up the Wu Wei Woman's video link and I can not seem to find it. The spider comes from Prelinger archives. Most clips and photos come from Wikimedia Commons and Archive.org

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Here is a video for "An Arousing" based on a poem by John Trudell (I just repeat some phrases for the song)

music by Nancy Pontius (guitar and vocals)

remastering and keyboards and all else by Mike Mayo



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John Trudell

Egyptian Violet

An Arousing (Remastered with Mike Mayo)

Smell the Magic
by Eric Valle

My mind is a machine
proficient at assimilation
When I was born
My mind was free
Pure
organic
construct from spiritual magic

Ch: Smell the magic
the magic in the air

The programming brought the machine
to being
The machine keeps the programming running
But the trickster is there
Yesterday he was coyote
Tomorrow he might be spider
But today he is bugs in the machine

Ch: Smell the magic
the magic in the air

Breaking down the program
the virus
is cleansing
is purifying
is teaching
teaching me all about me
tricking me
tripping me

Ch; Ch: Smell the magic
the magic in the air

Break down the programming, abandon the machine
a breath of fresh air
smell the magic?


note: i added in the chorus for it to be a song from one of his lines

music by Nancy Pontius on guitar and vocals

this is a new version of the song with remastering and extra magic added in by Eric Baldoni on all other instrumentation

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Egyptian Violet

Smell the Magic (Remasteredby Eric Baldoni)

I have nothing against California. I miss it there a lot actually and have great family and friends out there, and this could have taken place in any city really. I wrote these words in the summer of 2008.


California Delirium

I need a copper wire
to ground the lightning in me
The city is humming
the sky is neon tangerine

There's an upsurge of chatter
on the radio in my head
it'll be ok--I'm coherent
but I better go to bed

Ch: California delirium
with the sun beating down
I lost my head in the city
wore my shoes out all over town

I am suffocating
there are mannequins everywhere
In a maze of buildings
and something nasty in the air

Leaving behind
prefabricated reality
Leaving behind
the dream factory

CH: California delirium
with the sun beating down
I lost my head in the city
wore my shoes out all over town


I see your spirit
wearing a poncho by the fire
Juniper and cedar
really gets me a lot higher

We flee yesterday's sorrow
follow a trail to the moon
Darling companion
we leave town none too soon

CH: California delirium
with the sun beating down
I lost my head in the city
wore my shoes out all over town

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Egyptian Violet

California Delirium

Three New Ones Uploaded:

Geel - with words by Lizzie Woolfolk and Nancy Pontius (from the Icarus album)
music by Pontius
now added onto by Eric Dahlman and Mike Mayo and friends

Mina's Blues for Gaia - words by Seven, music by Pontius (from the Icarus album)
now added onto by Eric Dahlman and Mike Mayo and friends

We are Not Sick - words by Neal Bilbrey, music by Pontius (from the Icarus album)
now added onto by Eric Dahlman and Mike Mayo and friends


I will get more details on other friends and the instrumentation later. They did a beautiful job adding onto these!

Love, Nancy

Project Bluebird

Project Bluebird With The Erics

Song with Chords: I Am Not Confined
Category: Music
this was written in a situation of being petitioned to mental hospital and not having the energy to contest it tho i am never a danger to self as it said, because i have had a few nde's and really am meant to be here now...so i have been court ordered to take meds that hurt my body for a year in a what i find is a very patronizing situation. while i needed some help, i needed a different kind of help and i am against forced treatment, and am a member of the icarus project and mindfreedom, parts of the ever growing mad pride movement. this was also written with leonard peltier in mind, in thinking how one can sometimes get out of the feelings of confinement through the spirit.

I AM NOT CONFINED

CHORUS: I AM NOT CONFINED (Am, E, Am)
I AM NOT CONFINED (Am, E, Am)
NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT IT (Am, E, Am)
I AM NOT CONFINED (Am, E, Am)

Look out the window (D7, E)
At the visions in the monsoon clouds (Am, E)
They say all of us earthlings (D7, E)
Will find our liberation (Am, E)

Some feel the chains
on the toes and ankles
sometimes around the neck
still slipping off

Sometimes it's a tie
to the mother earth
sometimes it's a memory
of birth

(Chorus)

In the dreadful noise
I'll hear the drums instead
Yes the talking drums
I'll hear the drums, the talking drums

Still leading us to freedom
the singing in the laboring sounds
the chattering of beggars
the clamor of so called mad ones

We bang the walls
we bang the walls
only if we have to
to keep the rhythm flowing on

(Chorus)

Turtles fly, turtles fly
in beautiful ocean in the sky
see her sweet eye
winking bye and bye

She never lies
she never lies
turtle island
promised in the sky

(Chorus)



love, nancyProject Bluebird

Hummingbird Mona Lisa

I Am not Confined