All Are One by Sophe Lux & The Mystic HD

TINY MIXTAPES October 25, 2016 Folks; sometimes, you gotta think big. And, well, sometimes, you gotta think BIGGER. In the case of Portland, Oregon’s Sophe Lux & The Mystic a solo vehicle for Portland-based “impresaria” Gwynneth Haynes (former front person for a band similarly-called Sophe Lux), I’d say that it’s definitely the second thing, except that BIGGER doesn’t quite feel BIG ENOUGH. Her super-ambitious new album, which shes co-produced along with Larry Crane (Elliot Smith, Pavement, Decemberists, Sleater Kinney, basically everyone from the Pacific Northwest) and which dropped this past August via the super-ambitiously-named Zarathustra Records, is called All Are One. It’s a veritable art-glam Space Mountain roller coaster that has a little bit (“little” used loosely) of everything jammed in: pianos, B-3 Organs, synths, vintage drum machines, psychedelic loops, Fripp/Eno e-bow haze, all whirling at a million miles per hour around Haynes’ operatic and retro-futuristic vocal treatments and heavy metaphysical lyrics (she sites the writings of “Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Bucky Fuller, and mystics Rumi & Aurobindo” as lyrical and thematic influences) about nothing less than mankind’s ultimate place in the cosmos! (Whew, I’m tired out just writing all that. Gonna take a quick power nap over here. . .) Okay, I’m awake again! So yeah: today, Haynes is premiering the psychedelic new video for the album’s titular track, “All Are One”, an otherworldly gospel tune in which a “robot shaman” narrator croons her neo-soul robo-ass off concerning the birth of a new and glorious world world, eventually climaxing in an orgiastic, cosmic call-and-response sermon: “We need your love! To help us find our way! To earth’s destiny!” I DARE you: gaze into this lady’s ecstatic theater-of-the-future and go freaking mad from the transcendent incommunicability of the sublime prophetic vision you receive! Or, maybe I should say: I dare you NOT TO. All Are One We are the healers we are the teachers of truth the collective messiah the ones to guide the innocence of youth beaten hearts will rise again with agape’s sacred kiss on the wings of a silver dove to the vision of the inner wilderness Here, here comes creation riding on your soul lighting up your heart here come the changes with a love to heal these mistakes all beings grow in wisdom and beauty when treated with respect, justice and equality the earth longs for the love of all beings all beings long for the love of the earth free the prisoned animals let them live a life of dignity and worth here come the changes riding on your soul lighting up your heart here comes creation with a love to heal these mistakes Preacher: “And a time will come when the people of the earth will join together to create a brave new world! Seeing past differences of race, religion and class! Uniting in the wisdom light and truth that We Are All One!” Chorus: “When you realize” / Preacher: “It has been written” Chorus: “When you know”