AjuTowala by Aju begins “Sacred Paths”–the 15-minute title track off the Sacred Paths album–a collaboration with Asia Jazz Project, released by CHiTT Productions, 2009. Download this MP3 – (Right Click and “Save link as”)
Full-leaves waving in vibrant young green splendor under true blue sky. Eye, enwrapped in cool shades of room shadows, wet hair drying slowly. Summer, ’07. A wandering tune, folding into itself like waves, makes its way through my day dreaming, through motions of my right hand and takes shape as scribbles on an open page of my unassuming notebook. My red camera records the fleeting sounds.
Ditty magic is captured and replayed to widening eyes and racing heartrhymes. “…..?????!!!!!” Sounds are interpreted by the context of my being. Excitement flows. Truths unfold through interpretations unforetold. Towala, towala. Mélanguage. Words make meanings make words. You are your wings… I rush to share with my compadre Itsa and conmadre Asuka. You are your light… Words take flight. You are your God. You are your water, your source. Be free in who you are. Eternity now. Life eternal… Towala.
Unfolding like a flower in bloom, Towala came to fruition in airs of ripe ritual. It continues to unveil itself each time it carries through my lungs and through the winds, opening ceremonies and stirring curiosity and inspiration. Towala was inaugurated to the harmonic echoes of a double flute in a school performance of dance and music before 400 elementary and junior high students in New Mexico. Later on, it was sung at an epic symposium on the Day of the Corn, in honor of human rights and the divine feminine. There, Flordemayo, estimada curandera espiritu, shared with me that Towala was a song in sacred language.
We are sacred language. Towala is dedicated to all the loving, living, and the dreaming.
TOWA* ~ eternity, forever (Japanese)
LA* ~ There, here, now (Fran-Spanish)
/or/ japan-ish-ize it and it can mean "Eternify-it" (it = life, this, now). The song begins to make sense though a combination of Japanglish, Fran-Span-Arabic Port-afied Aju-go.
Tu ala, tu ala x 2 Your wings, your wings
La tua, la tua x 2 They are yours, they are yours
(you are your own wings)
La tua, la tua x 2 Yours, yours
Ta lua, ta lua x 2 Your moon, your light
(your light = your love, your passion is you / you are your own light)
Tu Allah, tu Allah Your God, your God
A lua tu-wah, a lua tu-wah It’s your own light x 2
(Your God is your eternal light / you are light, you are your own God)
Tu Allah, tu Allah x 2 Your God, your God
La tua, la tua x 2 Is yours, is yours
(you are your own light, your own God > follow your own light; follow your bliss)
Ta lua, ta lua x 2 Your moon, your light
La tu-wah, la tu-wah x 2 Is your own, it’s yours forever/eternity
(You are your own eternal light)
Tu ala, tu Allah x 2 Your wings are your God
Tu l’awa tu l’awa x 2 Your God is your water
(your wings are your God, your freedom; your freedom your water, your source)
Tu Allah, tu Allah x 2 Your God, your God
A lua tua, a lua tua Your light, your light
(you are your own light, you are your own God / love finds love…)
Tu l’agua, tu l’agua x 2 Your water, your source
la tua, la tua x 2 It’s yourself, it’s your own
(You are your own water, your strength is your own source -> you’re water, you’re light)
Ta lua, ta lua x 2 Your light, your light
la tua, towa x 2 It’s yours for eternity
(You are light, you are eternity)
Ta lua, la tua x 2 Your light, your light
Tu ala, tu ala x 2 Your wings, your wings
(your light, your wings)
a lua tua Go with your light / you are light
tu agua, tu agua Your water, you’re water
tu ala, tu ala You wings, you’re wings
A lua towa You are your eternal light
Tags: Aju, Asia Jazz Project, CHiTT Productions, Divine Feminine, Sacred Language, Sacred Paths, Towala
