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the deeper place

by Owen McAulay

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1.
pondering in isolation 02:56
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2.
responding in isolation 05:20
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3.
resting in isolation (two) 10:21
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4.
the deeper place 04:57
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5.
resting in isolation (one) 07:55
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about

Hello dear reader/listener,

the three tracks 'pondering in isolation', 'responding in isolation', and 'resting in isolation' were written and recorded during the initial Covid 19 'lockdown' in 2020, when I also put together video footage for each track and posted them online.
I envisaged the three tracks being listened to together as one 'thing', and so I am putting them together on this album.
The CD cover is a line drawing done along to a section of 'responding in isolation' in the video.
I re-worked 'resting in isolation' and this is 'resting in isolation (two)', the original is also included – ''resting in isolation (one)'
The song 'the deeper place' was written and recorded Feb/March 2023.

When I posted 'resting in isolation' on 6th June 2020 I wrote the following:

'This is 'resting in isolation' which I see as the third of three related pieces of music and video I have posted here, the other two being ''pondering in isolation' and 'responding in isolation'. I would like to try and say something about the meaning they have for me.
They relate to three of the four 'parts' of the ancient contemplative practice of Lectio Divina (Sacred Reading), which are: reading, reflecting, responding and resting.
In this practice a person reads slowly two or three times (aloud if possible), a short passage of a sacred text, with an attitude and intention of deep listening, openness and receptivity. The person enters into the flow of moving between these four 'parts' in relation to the words, and may be drawn into periods of resting in 'the deeper place'.
It has been said that many of us have a similar experience of being drawn into 'the deeper place', in ourselves, in the lives we are living, and in the world in which we live, by reflecting on or responding to other kinds of 'sacred texts'. 'Sacred texts' such as: a particular line in a particular poem read at a particular time, listening to a particular voice sing just those words in that song, or gazing at a painting that suddenly becomes more 'real', or walking in nature among hundreds of trees and being stopped in our tracks by suddenly really 'seeing' that one individual tree, or looking deeply into the eyes of a person or dog or other animal that we love, and suddenly being overwhelmed by the depth and preciousness in their eyes and being........
I'm starting to go on a bit here, but that's a flavour of where this music comes from for me.
So..... if any of this resonates with you, all well and good, and if it doesn't, all well and good too, but if you are partial to slow, simple music, you might like the tune.'


So, despite the temptation to try and say more, I thought it best in May 2023 to just say the same.

Thanks,

Owen.

credits

released May 6, 2023

All songs written by and performed by Owen.

For Eddie, my youngest brother (8th April 1964 - 18th April 2021)

Thanks to:

Teresa, our daughters Sarah and Anna, and their children and our grandchildren William, Owen and Connell – for all their love and support.

My brothers and sister and all my family.

Michael and Gerry and all my friends in music.

All my friends I worked with for so many years in the Intensive Family Support Service.

All the young people and families I met and worked with.

All my friends at St Columbkille's and in the 'Holy Isle Group'.

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Owen McAulay Glasgow, UK

Owen McAulay is a long time member of Glasgow band Smackvan (previously Passkeepers). He has been writing and recording solo songs and music for some years, his first album being 'six songs' in 2000.

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