music and lyrics
Mamalama has been playing with the band Andes Manta recently, and will continue to do so. You may have seen use playing in the Widow Jane MIne in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Here is a recording from the Old Dutch Church show of June 2017. It's a continuous medley of Andes Manta and Mamalama songs:

Flutes, Passion of Cloud, Casui Pacha, Standing on Serpents.

"The World of Color and Light".
Recorded in October 2011 at
ArtFarm by Brian Macaluso of Clandestine Recording, who also mixed and mastered it.

In late October 2012, Upstate Moving Images shot this music video for the title track of The World of Color and Light at Platte Clove and a field near Palenville.



Tracks:
1. The World of Color and Light	
2. Walk the Line	
3. Judas	
4. Music Box	
5. Light From Light	
6. Oceania	
7. Flowers and Blood	
8. Lullaby in Suspension	
9. Pangaea's Lullaby	
10. Giant Yellow Duck	
All music composed and © 2011-12 by Elizabeth Clark and Mamalama.

Elizabeth Clark: harp, voice, music, lyrics
Charlie Schikowitz: violin, guitar, banjo, berimbau
Henry Lowengard: hammered dulcimer, tenor recorder, pianica, bell lyre
Sharon Penz: cello
Recorded at Art Farm, Accord, NY, Thanks! to Sean Boyd.
Mixed and mastered at Clandestine Studios, Rosendale, NY by Brain Macaluso
Cover paintings by Erin Victoria Dinan and Justin Love.
You can hear whole streamed tracks, and buy them on BandCamp! You can get it digitally or order a physical CD.
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Here are a few tracks from this recording, and a few other ones as well....
You can purchase them from BandCamp.
 
The World Of Color And Light (excerpt)
Lyrics

The World Of Color and Light

With this song I'll recreate the 
night the  light the ease of our sa-
cred moment living in the world 
of color and light.

Timeless Time,
 
      Space between,

Wake and dream.

With this song I'll live again 
inside the breath of our brief flight sa-
cred moment sun tucks behind pain-
ted blossoms sky fills our eyes. 

Dusk or dawn,
 
    Space between
Wake and dream,
 
      beyond the veil
of our eyes
     pulled  beneath
Tides of time
    calling us home.

 

This world is not my home.

Inside one sacred moment is life. 

Walk The Line (excerpt)
Lyrics

Walk the Line

The highest heights are rattled by the wind
It's a long way up,
 but a longer,
 longer,
 longer way down
Just holding on to the seams just like a pin
No threads can mend the worlds of love and sin.

Walking the line between
Fall in the mud and get clean.

A virtue holding steady in the wind,

A fragile bliss is taking root within
The holy and the exhibitionist,

The prude,
 the slut,
 the hunger of a kiss

Walking the line between
Fall in the mud and get clean.
Walking between the lines
See the face of death,
 face of light. 

Judas (excerpt)
Lyrics

Judas

I am in the land of Judas
Does anyone know whose truth this is?
As it has been woven
one pull can make it come undone
the Garden lay unkept,
 burning in the sun

I am in the land of Judas
everybody knows we're just a work in progress
one pull of this golden thread
lifts the veil over our weary head
to see the world below where all the silent ugly things are hiding

You who know my hiding place
illuminate
You must come here 
alone.

True love won't run dry.

I am in the land of Judas
fruit in hand 
taken from the Garden
does anyone know whose fruit this is?
it tasted real until a taste of Kiss
to forge the world below----shadows in the sun.
The Music Box (excerpt)
Lyrics

Music Box

Who cast the rhythm of day?
Who moves my hands to play?
Who seed the flowers bloom
Turning the waters with the moon?

Know as everything falls apart
Just to know that the sun will rise
We are thrown in the alchemist's fire
To forge a heart of gold

Who brought me to this place?
Is that who will take me out?
Heavy is the veil on my face
Between where I'm going,
 and where I come from.

Know as everything falls apart
Just to know the sun will rise
We are thrown in the alchemists fire
To forge a heart of gold
And only then will I know to sing
Just to know the sun will rise
It is already Known.

Light From Light(excerpt)
Lyrics
Light from Light (D major)

And the way to your heart is never through your head.
And the way to the sun  is hardly through the moon.
We can drink up the sun as it enters this empty room.
I can open the door.a
I can welcome you in.

Light from light
return to the One who paints these funny scenes.

I can open the door,

 I can welcome you in.
We can smell all the flowers 
beauty underneath our feet
above,
 below,
 a thousand names.
We can feel all the wind
We can drink up the stars as they poke through an empty night.
We can stare in our eyes
We can listen for quieter things.....

Light from light
return to the One who paints these funny scenes.

Oceania (excerpt)
based on a true story.
Lyrics
Oceania

Holding to this grain of sand
Vast expanding meaningless
Oceania where's the pearl?
Nestled deep inside some holding on

Falling down into the heart

Gentle revelation love
Love like blood from whitest bird
Bleeding through we cannot hide
Bleed straight through,
 sun hollow white

Near the ocean where they meet
Crashing waves against their feet
Lovers cavernous and deep
Longing for eternity

Even now you take him from me
Into the arms of love they take their leave

She can feel his loneliness
Scrape across the ocean floor
He can feel her Holy kiss
Healing all that's ever been
He can feel her loneliness
Scrape across the ocean floor
She can feel his holy kiss
Healing all that's even been

Even now you take him from me
Into the arms of love they take their leave
Even now you take him from me
Into the arms of Love?.

Sei la mi anima.
Flowers and Blood (excerpt)
Lyrics
Flowers and Blood

Love is
Flowers and blood.

Runs through the body
Makes our hearts heavy
Gift of the flowers
Open like lovers
Love for the painful
Changes to flowers
Feel how I'm broken
Broke into flowers

La da da da da,
  La da da da da

Love breaks us open
Open like flowers
Feel how we're bleeding
Welcome the flowers
Blood through the body
Love makes us heavy
Heavy like water
Water the flowers.

La da da da da,
  La da da da da
Lullabye In Suspension (excerpt)
Lyrics

Lullaby in Suspension

Moonlight
From the sun
Passes through me.
Hold tight
Let it come
We're not moving.

You're my night
In the day
Like the ocean
We wave.

Sunrise
From a cloud
Look it's blooming.
Your eyes
From their shroud
Push and pull me.

You're my night
In the day
Like the ocean
We wave.

Hold my light
As a phase
Like the ocean
We wave.

You're my night
In the day
Like the ocean
We wave.
 
Pangaea's Lullaby (excerpt)
Lyrics

Pangaea's Lullaby

If I lie here while you are sleeping,

Do you know I am here?
Like a dream upon awaking,

Time will fade into the sun.

Hear the drum of our hearts breaking - 
it is you who is my heart.
My love is everlasting,

Time will fade into the sun.

As you go into the waking
Always know I am here
Greet the dawn the birds of morning
Time will fade into the sun.

Giant Yellow Duck (excerpt)
Lyrics



"The World of Color and Light (Special EP)".
Recorded in October 2011 at ArtFarm by Brian Macaluso of Clandestine Recording, who also mixed and mastered it.

Featuring three tracks from the 10 track album "The World of Color and Light":

1. The World of Color and Light 
2. Light From Light 
3. Pangaea's Lullaby 
All music composed and © 2011-12 by Elizabeth Clark and Mamalama.

Elizabeth Clark: harp, voice, music, lyrics
Charlie Schikowitz: violin, guitar, banjo, berimbau
Henry Lowengard: hammered dulcimer, tenor recorder, pianica, bell lyre
Sharon Penz: cello
Recorded at Art Farm, Accord, NY, Thanks! to Sean Boyd.
Mixed and mastered at Clandestine Studios, Rosendale, NY by Brain Macaluso
Cover paintings by Justin Love.


Willows and Waves. Recorded in early 2010 at Digital Dave's studio by Ted Orr, who also mixed and mastered it and played tabla on the title track.
Hazel Tree
Same Room Twice
Feather and a Dream
Willows and Waves
Sparkle
Tango Del Niebla
Untied
Love Lies Sleeping
Iron Roots
Sparkle (spinning chair remix)

Executive Producer: Digital Dave
Engine-ear'd by: Ted Orr
All songs written and produced by: Elizabeth Clark
(except "Iron Roots" written by Charlie Schikowitz)
Orchestrations by: Mamalama
Elizabeth Clark: harp/voice/compositions
Charlie Schikowitz: violin/djembe/vocals/guitar
Henry Lowengard: hammered dulcimer/recorder/pianica/magyar citera
Sharon Penz: cello/vocals
Kaefan Shaw: flutes/whistles
Ted Orr: Tablas
Zzoe Rowan: hurdy gurdy
"Thanks to Where all the Music comes from..."
© 2010 All Rights Reserved

Here are a few tracks from this recording, and a few other ones as well....
You can purchase them from BandCamp.
 
Hazel Tree
Written under water.
Lyrics
Swim down
underneath the world of green
hazel
your seeds are dropping in the fishes deep

Hazel
follow me down
hazel
to rise above

Lure you
underneath the hazel tree
rise above
open heart receive this seed

Hazel
follow me down
hazel
to rise above

Same Room Twice
A song about particle physics.
Lyrics
You cannot walk into the same room twice
You cannot walk into the same room twice
How you gonna change me?

Feet in the tide wet and dry where the land takes drink
Eyes open wide space and time always receding
Particle light waves inside stars are breathing
Look in my eyes it's yourself that you're seeing

Everything is changing.

Feather and a Dream
Lyrics

Lai,
 Lai ,
 Lai,
 Lai ,
 Lai ...

It was all a sheet of water
Skated around on my feet
To the sky there fell a ladder
And it's shadow underneath
There's nothing really to see here
Just a choice of up or down
Just to choose if you're in or out or in between
If you are silent
If you are sound.

 Lai,
 Lai ,
 Lai,
 Lai ,
 Lai ...

So I skated around on the water
As far as the eye could see
Wave after wave kept crashing in
But my feet they stayed straight
If you only knew how free you were
If you only knew how deep
If you only knew how free you were
You'd close your eyes to see.

 Lai,
 Lai ,
 Lai,
 Lai ,
 Lai ...

Rise in my cloud
Bring the water down
I love you so eagerly.
Your in my heart like a little bird
Flown out to sea.

Willows and Waves
Lyrics
Oh love,
 you're not alone
Under the willows
Under the waves
In the fire where you were forged
Stardust and clay they made your name

If you ever forget your home
Feel how I'm beating in your veins
And when all the world grows cold
Stardust and clay
We are the same.

Always waiting
Always waiting for you
To drop a line
To drop a feather
To leave me something that's true
All it takes is a little lightning to bring me back to you.
A little lightning
A little flood
to bring me back home to you.
I can't go where you are.

Lift the veil.

Sparkle
A song about waking up in the morning.
Lyrics
I'm waiting on the other side
Come see me in the fireflies
I've been here for a long long time
Here watching with the GalaxEyes.

Dew drops gather in the morning light.
Even the grass is listening when we speak.
Tango Del Niebla
Tango of the Mist.
Lyrics
Lying in my bed thinking how did you find your way in here?
Came in through the curtain of a thousand shallow hours
Awaiting deep
Who are you that comes like this?

Lifting up the veil to uncover what's been waiting on the inside
Tango del Niebla can we ever sing the voice of this quiet aching?
Who are you that comes like this?

Only in dreams will we wake
To this mess we're in

Only in dreams is it safe
To lean into this

Wanting to love a mistake
Oh this mess we're in

Only in dreams will we wake
To this flood.
 
Untied
Lyrics
I'm not afraid 
afraid of darkness
it's you whose afraid of light.

How long you've been
hiding behind 
emptiness and pain.

Fleeing the light
the light of Truth and day
fiending control of lives
seething with rage

You've been building a wall all around
burying yourself inside.

Come untied.

It's not I who's afraid of the darkness
See now it's you who won't
step into the light.
Not your offering.
I'm not your puppet string.
Nothing to hide as I
become untied.

Try to pull me in (way down)
where I've already been
long enough to know
there's nothing here.
There's nothing here.
there's nothing here.
there's nothing here.

Love Lies Sleeping
Lyrics
Felt you like the sun
a slowly rising light
look how the day is changing into night again
I know you'd be so warm

My love lies sleeping
tucked underneath the leaves
been tearing your roots out of me
gathering all your seeds

Don't make me look into you at all today
it's burning out my eyes
like I can choose how the waves rise and fall again
like trying to change the tide

my love lies sleeping
only to rouse
all this bloodless weeping
cover me with cloud

The purest love 
is like that cloud
illuminated by the sun.
The purest love
is born of darkness
illuminated by the sun.

All I've ever wanted is love.


IronRoots
by Charlie
Lyrics

Missing Piece
Lyrics
There's a missing piece
That was found in you
Can't I be self contained
Can't I be self contained

Sing through the walls to you
Sing it back to me
Music carries on the trees
Can't I be self contained

Always wanting something outside
Though you seem to be inside
Of my mind
All the time.

There's a missing piece
That was found in you
Can't I be self contained
Can't I be self contained

There's a missing piece
That was never really there
A little crack in a perfect heart
A little break in a perfect heart

Always wanting something outside
Though you seem to be inside
My mind
Holding onto Nothing
High wire walking
On golden strings
All tied to you
Tied to you

St. Mary of the Snow
The end chant is in Hawai'ian describing movement of water
Lyrics

White moths
Touch my skin
Try to open
Try to let them in

One sweep of wing turns the body into snow.

White moths
Fall through darkness to the flame
Snow white body
Pushes darkness from their wing.

One sweep of wing turns the body into snow.

Mary.
Na koo loo Kawaii
Na koo loo koo loo Kawaii