Music & meditations
Listen freely, and help this album into the world
Mantra, bhakti and devotional song, free to keep. Music for singing your heart open, for gathering in circle, for practice, for driving, for the long quiet evenings. Seven new songs are being recorded now, and you can help bring them into the world.
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Songs, live and unpolished
Three from the archive. A duet on the porch with my sister Elizabeth Anura, a prayer to Mother Nature, and a Fleetwood Mac cover, because sometimes that is what wants to come through.
A song carrier
Wise in Her Ways
Seven songs, recorded in 2016.
Wise in Her Ways
Francie La Flow · recorded 2016
Seven mantras and heartsongs, among them Om Namah Shivaya, Lokah Samasta and Agua de Estrellas.
I think of myself as a song carrier. These are mantras and heartsongs that were handed to me and asked to be sung, and my work is to carry them well and pass them on still warm. A love project of expression, creation, devotion and blossoming.
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How I got here
The long way back to singing
For years now I’ve been leading and holding kirtans, women’s circles, song circles, vocal activation classes, sound healings and cacao ceremonies, alongside my own concerts and recordings.
I grew up wanting to be a singer. I was a musical theatre kid, and I was lucky enough to learn the art of harmonising young, which is where I first found the sheer joy of singing with other people.
Then my teenage years arrived and it all went quiet. I stayed close to music from the outside, an avid listener and a constant concert goer, working with festivals like POP Montreal and deep in music and cultural events while I studied psychology.
In 2010 I moved to Bali and landed in a hippy community that turned out to be my soul family, and my on and off home for sixteen years now. That's where I fell in love properly. I picked up the guitar, started singing again, and began weaving music and mantra through my yoga teaching and then through my retreats.
Being so involved with the BaliSpirit Festival, I met musicians from all over the world and got to learn from people who'd been my idols and my influences for years.
Somewhere in there, people started asking me to play. I've had the joy of performing my own sets at the BaliSpirit Festival, at The Yoga Barn here in Ubud, at the Alegria Festival at the Dragon Tea Temple, at the Pachamama Festival, at the Kumbhaka Experience in Guatemala, and at the Wellness Festa in Korea. I've also sung backing vocals on other people's albums, with Lindsey Wise, Mel Dobra and Kevin James to name a few. That's its own kind of gift… standing in a studio holding harmony underneath someone else's song.
Finding my voice and learning to trust it has been a long journey, and it's still going. It's what I've devoted myself to helping other people do, and it's the road I'm still walking myself, all the way to being fully expressed.
Music is like food. When you need it you don't have to explain why, because it is basic to life. Ali Akbar Khan
What's coming
I'm finally recording again
A new album is underway, seven songs. Some are my own, words and melodies that arrived through me rather than to me. The rest are mantras and heartsongs I've carried for years and want to set down properly.
This record is happening. What I would love is to not make it alone.
Each track costs around $1,000 to record, produce and master.
Support my music
Seven songs. One at a time. However it comes.
Every track is already being made. If you'd like your name on one of them, and to hear it before anyone else does, choose whatever feels right below.
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Curious what is inside the songbook? Have a look.
So it comes together one song at a time, as it can. Everything here stays free to listen to.
Every single contribution goes straight into the next track. Whatever you give, and whenever you give it, it genuinely moves this forward.
Leave a love note
If a song has ever met you somewhere, tell me. I read every one, and they go up here for everyone to find.
You can also find me on SoundCloud and Bandcamp.
To rest with
Meditations and yoga nidra
Free guided practices on Insight Timer, for sleep, for settling the nervous system, for coming back to yourself.
Thank you, genuinely
Every one of these songs exists because someone somewhere decided it was worth hearing. That is not a small thing and I do not take it lightly.
Whether you give nothing and just listen, or you help a whole track into the world, you are part of how this music gets made. The listening is the point. The rest is a gift.
I am so deeply grateful for your presence, your support and your encouragement. It carries further than you know.
See everyone helping this album into the world
XOXOFrancie