Rising in Love
Words and music by Colin Farish
Dancer: Yaroslav Shuraev
Video Editing: Sudhananda Paul Greaver
A new day is here
That ends the fear
Listen and we’ll hear
Justice rushing near
Where family life is fair
Enough for all to share
Where kindness and care
Answers our prayers
When we stand up!
Keep on climbing
Hearts and minds aligning
No more lying
For love is rising!
With freedom
She comes
Worries undone
Mercies begun
Regaining lost trust
Gaining what’s just
So all who suffer
May recover
From their broken hearts
Good will prevail once more
Our power of love can not be ignored
Our open hearts will point us toward
Where we need to be
To be free
Keep on climbing
Hearts and minds aligning
No more lying
For love is rising!
Rights never stolen
By no one
Rights of being
A life of meaning
Regaining lost trust
Gaining what’s just
So all who suffer
May recover
From their broken hearts
Good will prevail once more
Our power of love cannot be ignored
Our open hearts will point us toward
Where we need to be
To be free
In love
(c)(p) colin Farish winds of the Muse 2024
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-Colin Farish is a composer and pianist fluent in many diverse musical languages. The wide scope of his influences are represented in his forty album discography of original music; including sixteen ensemble recordings, ten albums of his solo piano compositions, three albums of jazz standards and a musical miniseries. For fifteen years Colin owned and operated Stillwater Sound recording studios. For eight of those years his studio was located in the Presidio Chapel of San Francisco where he recorded numerous CDs and produced dozens of concert events.
Farish will be performing three times this year at Flower Piano 2024, 9/15-9/19, in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Two Piano duets, with his longtime musical partner, Jasnam Daya Singh, and solo. “Solo piano, and piano duets, allows me to connect intimately with an audience and share the deep listening experience that so inspires me musically and creatively.” Although Mr. Farish has had countless instrumental and vocalist collaborators over the years, (many of them Grammy award winning artists), composing and writing is closest to his heart.
He toured the West coast and Hawaii extensively from age three to nine, performing solo and accompanying his father, a classically trained baritone. Growing up surrounded by performers, his love for improvisational jazz and the structural complexity of classical music informed his pursuit for innovative musical expression. At eighteen he moved to India for a period of total immersion in the music and culture of the East. “Absorbing the profoundly beautiful and sophisticated rhythms and melodies of Indian music, and learning to appreciate the healing and spiritual dimension of spontaneous music creation, encouraged me to develop a more integrated approach to my playing and writing.”
Farish’s voracious muse has engendered a baffling array of projects. From award winning documentary films (Gifts of Grief, Bringing Creation Back Together, The Salt Song Trail), dance performances (Ocean), compositions for both small and large ensembles (Chanticleer, Worn Chamber, SoVoSo), orchestral and symphonic commissions (Aga Khan’s North American Celebration), jazz trio, quartet and solo piano and piano duet recordings (Grammy winners Paul McCandless, Airto Moreira, Glen Velez, David Darling, Rachel Bagby, John Carlos Perea, Ustad Sulthan Khan, Throat Singers From Tuva, Grammy nominee Jasnam Daya Singh (aka Weber Iago), Farish works in multiple genres, formats, and styles.