AVAILABLE AT SONGWRIGHTSAPOTHECARYLAB.COM
AVAILABLE AT SONGWRIGHTSAPOTHECARYLAB.COM with tags available at songwrightsapothecarylabcom, songwrightsapothecarylabcom, available at songwrightsapothecarylab, esperanza available at songwrightsapothecarylabcom, esperanza songwrightsapothecarylabcom, esperanza available at songwrightsapothecarylab, esperanza spalding available at songwrightsapothecarylabcom, available at songwrightsapothecarylabcom esperanza spalding, esperanza spalding, concord recrods esperanza spalding, esperanza, spalding, spalding songwrightsapothecarylab
“If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured’
-John Coltrane
“us too…”
-the Songwrights Apothecary Lab
Directed by Matthew W. Hayes III
Art Directed by Rob Lewis
Follow
Lyrics
formwela 1 -
sink into the ground wide and steady while the burning
flickers to a glow out the temple of your ear
while the levy of our predicament’s unyielding -
love come flood through here
in and round the walls of your heavy-minded palace
suddenly the air goes miraculously clear
un-cupping your brim of the never-ending chalice
in rushes love’s atmosphere
body, you’re the bell sounding through the heavy pulling
ringing out a calm from the belly of your sway
all there is to do now is really re-remember
that love is and tune its way
body is your bell sounding through the heavy pulling
ringing out a calm from the belly of your sway
all there is to do now is really re-remember
that love is and tune its way
formwela 2 (feat. Ganavya Doraiswamy) -
re
Remember the works of sun
surrounding
love
all grounding
Doesn’t mean it’s time to
burn it to powder
Doesn’t mean it’s time to
burn
it down
Doesn’t mean it’s time to
burn it to powder
Maybe now we learn to
Ride it out
While we are stuck here
wide atmospheres
Doesn’t mean it’s time to
burn it to powder
Doesn’t mean it’s time to
burn
it down
Doesn’t mean it’s time to
burn it to powder
Maybe now we learn to
Ride it out
While we are stuck here
wide atmospheres
surround you
love
Come ground you
Doesn’t mean it’s time to
Burn it to powder
Doesn’t mean it’s time to
burn it down
Doesn’t mean its time to
burn it to powder
Maybe now we learn
to
ride it out
Love be patient please
We ‘re coming around
slowly
formwela 3 -
I know it’s all thick
With thunder in your throat
The worst storms undead
Unsaid and unchanging
But taking every room inside your head
Wither wither if we don’t find some light somewhere soon
How am I to be
To be at home with all this density embodied
Everybody’s density up on me
well,
you’re home no matter where you stand
or can’t stand
to be
Your be is unchanging
But changing what it means
to be
Home
Figure Figure we’ve been suffering enough now
Between the roof and mythos of autonomy
Everybody’s density up on me
Everybody’s heavy with the zombie consciousness causing this stress Stress unspoken and
thundering
Undead and unchanging
it may be
or maybe
You’re changing what it means
to be
home
Remember the works of sun
Towering within the blue
While we are stuck inside
Wide atmospheres breathe and surround you
Film Credits Continued:
Film Editor: Matthew W. Hayes III
Director of Photography: Matthew W. Hayes III
Lead Producer & Art Department: Eben Hoffer
Producer: Héloïse Darcq
Camera Assistant: Megan Clark
Gaffer: Joe Bowden / Desert Island Studios
Grip: Eirinn Gragson
Makeup/Hair: Abibat Durosimi
Stylist: Shani Storey
Movement Director: Intisar Abioto
Ceramics Artist: Sinda Karklina / Sissy Moon Ceramics
Colorist: Jasmine Vazquez
Produced with support from the Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship at Harvard University
Filmed at Block 52, Portland, OR
A Special Thank You to Koerner Camera Systems
Copyright (2021) esperanza spalding Productions, LLC
Music & Lyrics by esperanza spalding (Due Hope Music/ Kobalt (ASCAP))
Album Credits:
formwela 1
Producer, Arranger: esperanza spalding
Producer: PHOELIX
Producer: Raphael Saadiq
Engineers: Eben Hoffer, Hotae Alexander Jang, Bryan Matheson
Mix Engineer: Fernando Lodeiro
Mastering: Oscar Zambrano
esperanza spalding: Upright Bass, Piano, Vocals
PHOELIX: Rhodes, Vocals
Thrive Choir: Vocals
formwela 2 (ft. Ganavya)
Producer, Arranger: esperanza spalding
Producer: PHOELIX
Producer: Raphael Saadiq
Engineer, Field Recordings, Sound Design: Eben Hoffer
Engineer: Hotae Alexander Jang, Bryan Matheson
Mix Engineer: Fernando Lodeiro
Mastering: Oscar Zambrano
esperanza spalding: Piano, Vocals
Ganavya Doraiswamy: Vocals
Thrive Choir: Vocals
James Greeley: Bone Whistle
LaMont Hamilton: Bells
Chris Sholar: Electric Guitar
Stever Turre: Conch-Shells
Justin Tyson: Drums, Percussions
formwela 3
Producer, Arranger: esperanza spalding
Producer: PHOELIX
Producer: Raphael Saadiq
Engineers: Eben Hoffer, Hotae Alexander Jang
Mix Engineer: Fernando Lodeiro
Mastering: Oscar Zambrano
esperanza spalding: Upright Bass, Piano, Vocals, Synthesizer
Leo Genovese: Piano
PHOELIX: Piano, Synthesizer, Hammond B3, Rhodes, Xylophone, Vocals
Wayne Shorter: Saxophone
Justin Tyson: Drums, Vocals, Percussions
#EsperanzaSpalding #MusicVideo #SONGWRIGHTSAPOTHECARYLAB
