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From The Desk Of Orenda Fink: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Orenda Fink is known for her quiet, introspective songs and her unobtrusive approach to singing. Her music, both on her own solo albums and with Azure Ray (the band she fronts with longtime friend Maria Taylor), tends to be forlorn and unsettling, albeit imbued with an underlying belief in the ultimate goodness of existence. The songs on her new album, Blue Dream were inspired by the death of her dog, as well as general meditations on the limitations of existence on the material plane. On the LP, Fink goes deep into the primal questions of death and the meaning of life. The lyrics are dark, but the music is bright and buoyant, although still played at the laid-back tempos that are her forte. Fink will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new feature on her.

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Fink: Director, actor, writer, playwright, Psychomagic shaman: Alejandro Jodorowsky has been one of my biggest inspirations these last couple of years. I have always been a fan of his films, especially El Topo, Holy Mountain and Santa Sangre, but it wasn’t until I read The Spiritual Journey Of Alejandro Jodorowsky and Psychomagic that I began to view him as one of the greatest minds of our time.

“Everyone is an immortal consciousness, an exact reproduction of the universe. Your unconscious is a particle and at the same time the totality of the cosmos. And say what they will with respect to your limited body, you are the complete consciousness. Let them tell you what they will about your ephemeral flesh: If you achieve integrating yourself into the divine consciousness, you are immortal.” —Alejandro Jodorowsky

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