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‘Je pars’-original song and video

Vidéo créée, chanson écrite, composée et interpétée par Natacha Dauphin en hommage à Patrick Bagarry qui nous a tragiquement quittés il y a un an.
Il y a des personnes comme ça qui touchent des milliers de vies sans s’en rendre compte, qui amènent du soleil sans s’en rendre compte. Patrick était une de ces personnes.
Et malgré le fait que je n’habite plus à Aups, j’ai grandi avec la présence de Patrick partout dans le village.
Pour tous ceux qui ont eu la chance de croiser son chemin, il est parti bien trop tôt.
Par cette chanson je lui envoie tout mon amour, ainsi qu’à sa famille.
On a tous différentes façons de gérer le deuil et toutes les émotions qui s’y rattachent. Moi j’écris des chansons….


“Je pars
Dans le silence
Je pars
Sans révérence
Je pars
Vers l’innocence
Je pars
Si la vie m’entend
Je voudrais lui dire
Prend soin de mes enfants
Prend soin de mes parents
Tous vos hurlements
Qui me viennent
Portés par le vent
Qui m’entraine
Maintenant c’est votre peine que je ressens
Elle est dans vos coeurs
Dans vos veines
Cette douleur
Comme un anathème
Je veux la prendre
Et jamais vous la rendre
Et vos larmes
Belles, fragiles, vulnérables
Vos seules armes
Face à un monde cruel
Un vide hostile
L’impensable
J’aurais voulu être plus
J’aurais voulu ne pas être
Celui qui fait naître
Tant de larmes
Tous vos hurlements
Qui me viennent
Portés par le vent
Qui m’entraine
Maintenant c’est votre peine que je ressens
Elle est dans vos coeurs
Dans vos veines
Cette douleur
Comme un anathème
Je veux la prendre
Et jamais vous la rendre
Que comme mes cendres
Elle se disperse
Qu’au lieu d’attendre
Elle disparaisse
Et ne laisse
qu’une trace d’amour”

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‘The Echoes of Stars’-original song/video

Dear friends,

Following my previous post, I have needed to retreat in my cave and tune into all the grief and losses I have experienced this last year so that I could truly witness, acknowledge and honour the feelings with an open heart and find a way of moving forward.

So yes I have felt deeply and it was overwhelming at times. However, this process has allowed me to tap into even more gratitude for what is and more awe for the life that has been given to me. To feel loss means we have connected deeply. To accept what cannot be changed means we are neither fighting ourselves or the universe – which is such extremely liberating, to say the least !

So here in my cave, there were moments of inertia and feelings of drowning but also moments of revelation and light.

Today I want to share my song ‘The Echoes of Stars’ that I posted a couple weeks ago on my youtube channel. I had so much fun making this video. I hope you enjoy to too.


“Come and dance with me
Swirl, fire burn,
Echoes of dreams calling, calling, calling
Fields of gold growing
Then the dance…

Trust the space inside
Swirl, fire burn
Echoes of stars falling, falling , falling
Fields of gold glowing
Then the dance…

Melt the fences defences
Swirl, fire burn
Echoes of freedom soaring, soaring, soaring
Fields of gold flowing
Then the dance…”

So will you come and dance with me?….

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‘Flow, Feel, Fly’ – original song video & more!

So….

I survived my first official dislike on youtube! Hurray !!!

And you know what, it wasn’t that bad. It was quite funny actually to observe myself and see how my brain was trying to make sense of this small ‘INconvenience’!

Going through the full spectrum of thoughts in just a few seconds:

-Shock : ‘Oh NOOOO someone must really hate my song and video so much that they go to the trouble of pushing the dislike button…”

-Self criticism: “You must be shit at this Natacha, definitely not good enough… Who do you think you are posting stuff on here?” Etc…

-Disbelief/attempt to feel OK about it: “Hang on a minute, someone must have pushed that dislike button by mistake while trying to push the like button on the small screen of their phone. That would explain it.”

-Looking for whys: “They probably have issues, childhood traumas blablabla…”

But really… what it comes down to is: Someone just didn’t like what I created. And so what!?

I am relieved I could genuinely witness myself and laugh at the whole thing. I now know at a deeper level that fear will not stop me from showing up and that I will never compromise on being myself no matter what people think – which you have to admit is a pretty big revelation for such a small ‘thumb down’?

This gives me hope and wings for the future. The truth is, when you put yourself out there, you are going to push people’s buttons, you are going to be disliked. And that is totally fine.

I am happy that the reasons why you would go and judge someone else’s creation with negativity are beyond me and that I would rather put my energy into creating something, supporting someone’s gifts than putting someone else’s offerings down. Unfortunately there is a lot of this destructive kind of behaviour (to much bigger degrees) in this world.  Because let’s face it, as people, we can be a bit screwed up.

But what I do know is that there are more kind, caring, supportive people than the ones who will spend their time judging and criticising your brave creative input in this world.

So here is THE song video.

You can read the lyrics and more about the song and video once you click on it – and see the text below the video on youtube ;o)

What are you going to put out into this wild world today?

With much love, as always

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‘Rock with Me’ – Original Song video

I am really excited to announce that I will be more present on this blog very soon. Many seeds have been planted and projects are emerging which I will tell you about in my next post.

In the meantime I have a song video I posted on youtube a few weeks ago which I haven’t shared with you here and want to share with you now :O) So here it is. With much love always ????

Original song and video by Natacha Dauphin with medicine drum, Tibetan bowl and voice.
Grief takes you to strange places – some difficult places, some beautiful places. This summer I played my drum until its soothing heart beat reached mine and brought me comfort. I felt my dear friend Keith by my side and inside my own heart. And this song came – with this phrase over and over again “Rock with Me…”
…. I rocked until the tears stopped flowing.
The footage is a big mixture of clips I have taken over the last few months. The gnome sculpture from a garden in Gloucestershire, umbrellas in Coppergate in York, the High Force waterfall in the Dales, the candle from a Diwali Festival, me on the swing in the middle of nowhere on a walk in the Dales (Thank you to Jonathan Tapp for filming this one), The Tree full of ribbons and colourful pieces of cloth in Lithuania.
Writing on a bench in Rowntree park in York (Thank you Jeanne Chanet Garcia for filming this one)

“Rock with me
‘Till our loving tears are set free
Rock with me
‘Til you feel my heart in yours beat
Rock with me
For as long as you need
Rock with me
I am gone but I will never leave
I am with you, always
I will never leave
I am with you, always
I will never leave
I’m holding you tight
Lifting you up – higher
Into all forms of being
I’m holding you tight
Holding you tight
Deeper
Separation’s far from real
Hear me
I am with you, always
I will never leave
I am with you, always
I will never leave
Rock with me
Through those dreary days and rough sea
Rock with me
‘Til you feel my spirit laugh and be
Rock with me
For as long as you need
Rock with me
I am gone but I will never leave
I am with you always
I will never leave
I am with you always
I will never leave
I’m holding you tight
Lifting you up
Holding you tight…”

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‘Dancing in the Moonlight’ (Original song and video)

Post-flu hibernation. Writing, trying to sing without coughing ;o), weaving little videos I took recently into my new song. May we all dance in the moonlight.

“I’m dancing in the moonlight
I’m dancing in the sun
Whatever happened to that sweet song
Has it really been that long?
I’m dancing in the moonlight
I’m dancing in the sun
With our tune inside my head
It happened to come back
I reclaim it all
The wild, the uncertain
I reach out for more
I lift up the curtain
The veil is getting thin
Strong pulse under my skin
I stamp feet I dare
The ground’s fully aware
That I’ll be flying, flying
I’m dancing in the moonlight”

The full moon was taken in December in York, the fire clip in the south of France at a family Christmas gathering(they al thought I was completely mad videoing the fire!!!), the bird in India, the leaves in York, the candle at aa Diwali festival near Leeds. I love capturing life’s beauty and gifts and weaving them into my songs.

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