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Mercyis the seventeenth studio album by the Welsh musician and composer John Cale. It was released on 20 January 2023 by Double Six Records, making it Cale's first album of new songs in over a decade.[1] It features collaborations with Tony Allen, Laurel Halo, Weyes Blood, Tei Shi, Animal Collective's Avey Tare and Panda Bear, Dev Hynes, Sylvan Esso, Actress, and Fat White Family.[2] It was inspired by current events such as Donald Trump's presidency, Brexit, COVID-19, climate change, civil rights, and right-wing extremism.[3]

Cale has hinted at a new album numerous times over the years following the release of M:FANS (2016), his previous studio album featuring reworkings of old songs, and Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood (2012), his last album with all new songs. When M:FANS was released in January 2016 Cale said that another new album with new songs would be released by the end of the year.[4] According to a November 2017 interview, the album was set for a 2018 release.[5] In September 2018, Cale said it will be released the following year.[6] The album was subsequently completed before the COVID-19 pandemic, but its release was delayed.[7]

On 1 August 2022 the first single from the yet-unnamed album, "Night Crawling", was released along with an animated video by Mickey Miles.[8] The second single, "Story of Blood" featuring Weyes Blood, was released on 19 October 2022.[9] The music video, directed by Jethro Waters, was released on the same day along with announcing the album title and track listing.[10]

Mercy was named the album of the month by Uncut with Tom Pinnock calling it "the most out-there work Cale has made in some time, a hermetically sealed, hallucinogenic journey that's as neon-lit and gothic as its cover art."[14]

THE FULL album of A Great Wild Mercy is now available on all streaming platforms as well as available for purchase through my website store, I-tunes or where ever you get your music! I love what happened with these songs in the recording process, and I hope you do too!

Go for a walk and bring along your smartphone if it has a camera. At some point stop and look at something close up, like I do in my one inch photos. Take a picture, appreciate what something looks like close up and in detail.

Question : What was it like to take your own one inch photo? Did you find you saw the object in more detail than if you glanced at it while walking by? give us a one sentence description of what you saw :-)

On my morning walks with you singing in my ear and surrounded by the Amazing beauty of October in Crawfordsville,Indiana, I am filled with peace and Reflections to begin my day. I found my one inch photo today. Out of the decaying stump new life was bursting forth in tiny mushrooms and little feathery ferns. In the words of my favorite poet-

I hope you take some time to enjoy the trails near our home at Kanuga Conference Center. Our favorite is Rufus Morgan to Geyer Long Rocks, being still at the St Francis Chapel, wandering through the woods, and then gazing at the mountains in the distance from the top.

Share this Spotify link with family and friends you feel might enjoy it too. Just visit the page and click on the three dots below the album image to share with others. You\u2019ll see options to share, download, or create a play list there.

This kind of sharing the really the best way to get the word out and invite more folks into the conversation we have here at A Gathering of Spirits. Its person to person and heart to heart sharing\u2026and thats how we roll here :-)

I\u2019ll be continuing to release occasional lyric videos for individual songs on YouTube in the coming weeks. Here\u2019s the link to my YouTube page. Today\u2019s video I created myself using footage I took while walking in the woods with my dogs.

Its called \u201CA Path Through The Evening Woods\u201D. I love the really beautiful string parts created by Brittany Haas, Paul Kowert and Jordan Tice. And Siri Undlin added the most beautiful harmony vocal. It all felt pretty magical and everyone contributed the perfect compliment to the spirit of this song!

I had been in conversation with my friend Parker J. Palmer, who was accompanying his little sister during her great and tender transition from this mystery to the next. I went for a walk in the woods and this song emerged fully formed while I was walking. It was already there, I just needed to catch it like a feather floating down. So this is for Parker and his little sister Sharon. Here\u2019s the YouTube Link

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Natalie Bergman was already contending with grief months before the pandemic covered the world in it.(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LAST FAREWELL")NATALIE BERGMAN: (Singing) The pain in my chest was blinding. I don't want to live without him. How do I learn how to die again? It all ended with a crash. Tell me, heaven, where was your grace?SIMON: The sudden loss of her father and stepmother in 2019 made her take a fresh view of her faith and her music - the journey that she presents in her new album, "Mercy." Natalie Bergman joins us now from Los Angeles. Thanks so much for being with us.BERGMAN: Thank you for having me. I've been looking forward to this conversation.SIMON: There you were, about to go on stage at Radio City in New York, which has to be a high moment in your life. And you got this terrible news. What was that like?BERGMAN: Well, I got the call from the coroner. And I couldn't really believe it. They said that my father had been killed in a car accident. And my father and I had a tremendously close relationship. He was my father. And he was also my mentor and...SIMON: Musical family.BERGMAN: For sure. My dad was kind of my biggest fan. And he was also my biggest critic. And I found myself in conversation with him many times about my lyrics and about my songwriting. And he was a very crucial person in my life as a developing musician.SIMON: It occurs to me I have to ask you a question that otherwise might be a lapse. You got this terrible call as you were about to go onstage. Did you take the stage?BERGMAN: I didn't. We ended the tour immediately. It also seemed to kind of end my musical ambitions all at once. I felt as though I lost my identity with his death. I just didn't really understand who I was.SIMON: Yeah. I would like for us to listen to some of the song that you wrote, "Your Love Is My Shelter."(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "YOUR LOVE IS MY SHELTER")BERGMAN: (Singing) I miss your blue eyes that you gave to me. I see the white pines that you planted. Out on our last ride what you said to me that you won't be here forever.It's really a love song for my father. And it's the story of the last time I saw him, which was a really beautiful day. It was early fall, I guess. And he had this urgency to see me. I was playing a show in New York. And he called me. And he was like, why don't you just get on a plane and come back to Chicago? I just want to see you. I want to spend some time with you. We went on a bike ride through the forest preserve. And we stopped at a grove of these tall white pines. And he recently planted his own white pines. And he kind of looked up at these massive trees and said, you know, I'm not going to be around long enough to see my white pines grow. And a few weeks later, he was killed by a drunk driver. But I'm thankful that I got to see him and have that last experience with him.(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "YOUR LOVE IS MY SHELTER")BERGMAN: (Singing) Your love is my shelter. Your love is my shelter.SIMON: I want to talk to you about faith. And I make a point of saying faith as opposed to religion.BERGMAN: OK.SIMON: I gather you went on a silent retreat at a monastery.BERGMAN: I did. I sort of felt like I reached the point of complete isolation. And I wondered, OK, now, how can I possibly be more lonely in this world?(LAUGHTER)SIMON: Yeah.BERGMAN: And I was like, oh, I've got an idea. I'm going to go alone to the desert and spend many days in silence. And it was actually a pretty harrowing experience. It was in the Chama Valley in the middle of winter. And it was just very cold. And there were seven ceremonies a day. And I'd walk to the chapel. The first one started at 4 a.m. And I had to follow the moonlight, which illuminated the red clay path to the chapel. And it sounds kind of romantic talking about it now.SIMON: I was about to say it sounds romantic. But I also can't imagine volunteering to do it (laughter).BERGMAN: Well, there are creatures out at 4 in the morning, you know?SIMON: Yeah.BERGMAN: They're all going back to their den. So you kind of encounter a buck with huge antlers or, you know, a family of coyotes. And so, you know, it was a beautiful time for me because I was able to listen. When you have a silent retreat, you're not able to speak. So you...SIMON: Yeah.BERGMAN: I have a lot of answers about death and about heaven.SIMON: Oh, my gosh. What did you hear? Can you clue us in?BERGMAN: I learned that heaven is a place that we don't comprehend. We can't comprehend what our eyes have seen here on Earth and what our lips have tasted and our noses have smelled. That's not what heaven is. We have no idea what it is. But I have faith that it's a place that exists. And I believe that's where my father is.(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "TALK TO THE LORD")BERGMAN: (Singing) Father, when I'm lost, I come to you. You will fail me not. You will not forsake me.Faith has been my greatest consolation in losing the people that I love. It's what I turn to. And it's what allows me to come back to life. I've tried other things. And I found that my faith is the most persistent thing that I have. And it's a healing agent, you know? And I certainly didn't write these songs to sound preachy or impose my beliefs on anyone. But I wrote them because I needed to. I wrote them out of necessity.SIMON: Well, that's - I mean, that's one of the oldest sources of inspiration for art, isn't it?BERGMAN: Definitely.SIMON: What song would you like us to play that captures your parents' best, do you think? - your feelings for each other?BERGMAN: That's a really sweet way of putting it. I think that the song "Home At Last" is one that my dad would really love. I think he would really like the lyrics on this. And it's kind of the mission statement to this album.(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "HOME AT LAST")BERGMAN: (Singing) I come to you to answer my prayer. I long to know about heaven.SIMON: Natalie Bergman. Her new album is "Mercy." Thank you so much for being with us.BERGMAN: Thank you so much for having me.(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "HOME AT LAST")BERGMAN: (Singing) Where does the soul begin?

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