Soul House from Soul House by Tim Weed

This song came to me in my sleep.

I was deeply inspired by a lecture I had recently heard by a friend, Ianto Evans. Ianto and his wife Linda have spent decades devoting their lives to the revival of the sustainable mud-mixture house-building method called “cob." Ianto has lived and traveled throughout the world and observed that, in much of the undeveloped-traditional world, the home was considered and treated as a vessel for the spirit - to hold and nurture the soul. Conversely, in the western world, the home is merely considered a place to keep our stuff. He encouraged us to examine our personal perspective.

A short time later, I was preparing for one of my upcoming concerts featuring a special guest, kalimba master Mark Holdaway. I was feeling inspired to write a simple vocal song to be accompanied solely by kalimba and was thinking along the lines of a chant-based song…

Late on one of the following nights, I awoke from a deep sleep with a song in my head. I quickly went to my studio and turned on the multi-track recorder, sang the multiple parts I was hearing in my head, and went back to sleep.

In the morning, I awoke with only the slightest recollection of that experience, believing that I had dreamt it.

When I entered my studio, I could see that the machine was on and when I hit the play button, there was Soul House with all of the vocal parts that I had recorded in my sleep at 3:00am to the tempo of which I had set according to my pulse - the manifestation of Ianto's inspiration and my desire to compose a new song to feature Mark.

Although there are lyrics in Latin, I consider it to be pigeon-Latin as I evidently took some artistic liberties in my slumber.

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