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Essra Mohawk's "I Am The Breeze" from PRIMORDIAL LOVERS MM video

Mohawk's jazzy, nature evoking "I Am The Breeze" is about the freedom we all dream of having and is the first cut on the landmark 1970 PRIMORDIAL LOVERS album. www.facebook.com "Certain great lost works of art, no matter how buried or obscured they become, exude such inert brilliance and creative intensity that we're compelled to seek them out, dust them off and again make them a part of our lives," says Rhino Records of PRIMORDIAL LOVERS. "Recorded by Essra at 21 and released the same year as Joni Mitchell's LADIES OF THE CANYON, Neil Young's AFTER THE GOLDRUSH and Laura Nyro's CHRISTMAS & THE BEADS OF SWEAT and is their creative equal." "If Alanis Morissette, Liz Phair or Fiona Apple made an album 30 years ago, it would almost certainly contain themes, attitudes and insights first explored by Mohawk. PRIMORDIAL LOVERS was, though free-form and jazz tinged, perhaps the first album to embody what is now referred to as grrrrl power." PRIMORDIAL LOVERS was called "one of the 25 best albums ever made" in Rolling Stone and David Crosby's "Deja Vu" was inspired by its "I Have Been Here Before" - www.youtube.com I AM THE BREEZE Watching the dew like lights in the trees Dreaming of you and being the breeze I am the breeze I can go anywhere Oh yes - even there I am the breeze I am the breeze Upward I soar on top of the fog I can ignore the soot and the smog I am the breeze I can go anywhere Oh yes - even there I am the breeze I am the breeze O Jesus; why can't you please us? O ...

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