Clementine Moss is a dynamic creative force—a drummer, songwriter, singer, musician, and writer whose artistic journey continues to inspire and evolve. Her latest work, Nothing Will Keep Us Apart, is a 7-song pop/folk album that beautifully showcases her songwriting and vocal talents. The first single, “Your Love,” is set to release on December 10, 2024, and offers an intimate glimpse into her reflective, soulful sound. “Most of my songs are about love, both for the other and the divine,” Cl ...
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Clementine Moss’ new album showcasing her songwriting and singing skills is the 7-song pop/folk release NOTHING WILL KEEP US APART. This is the first single released, “Your Love,” on December 10, 2024.“Most of my songs are about love, both to the other and the divine. Where do we find light when so much feels dark? It’s only in love that we find fr…
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Clementine Moss reads this blog post from her blog Bliss and Drumming, about what songwriting means to her and how to proceed in a world fraught with chaos.__The way music unites us, binds us, erases divisions, connects us at a cellular level, reminds us of our compassion and empathy, this is what I can speak rapturously of forever. In my life, I h…
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From the blog BlissandDrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece.Autor: Bliss and Drumming
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From the blog http://www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece.***We map out how we want it all to look, and we have a picture of the outcome. We create this picture based on the past, and it is through fear we speak. Fear of not having enough, fear of it not working out in the way we vision, fear of pain or sorrow, fear of change. I th…
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From the blog http://www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece.***Airports have lost their charm, at least for the time being. It seems as if everyone is discombobulated. Humans have forgotten their easy flow of being, and there is a kind of uptight scrabbling and agitation that sets everything on edge. People have been cooped up in the…
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From the blog http://www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece. http://blissanddrumming.com/2021/03/the-question-of-not-enough/ ***I settled into life without the scramble of the constant travel of my music career. In the new stillness, I recognized within me a welling up, a kind of panic of not doing enough, not getting enough done. W…
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From the blog http://www.blissanddrumming.com, Clem reads this piece.***I have spoken to many people during the pandemic who have made the best of the situation, and who feel guilty about the fact they are doing ‘okay.’ Our society has become a place in which to say that all is well makes us feel ignorant or guilty. I think it is important for us t…
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From the blog http://www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece.***A young man started showing up late nights, a sleight of hand artist who would entertain the patrons with card tricks. I’m not sure he was quite 21 years old. He was quiet and pale, with a sweetness to him. His talent was astonishing. The customers would get overwhelmed w…
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From the blog http://www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece.***I spend a lot of time thinking about the ways in which human consciousness is transforming. For one thing people even a generation back didn’t grow up with the idea of “global community.” This concept is new in my lifetime. Once we were connected, first through the ease o…
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From the blog http://www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece.***The drum begins. I begin my journey on a bluff, overlooking the Pacific. Rolling grassy hills, the coastline rippling side to side, and the big birds delighting in the marine updraft. There is an opening to a cave there, to my left. The first time I entered this cave, a w…
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From the blog http://www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece.***For the most part, the past week of quarantine has looked much the same as it has for the past couple of months. The preponderance of birds, riotous flower bloomings, quiet streets. Then, a warm spell in San Francisco sending folks out to the parks.Overnight, it seems tha…
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From the blog http://www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece.***It was funny, really, and later it brought to mind the article we had both read about the spike in divorce rates after the quarantine was lifted in China.We had to venture out to the laundry. Harsh words were spoken after perceived carelessness. Then, escalation after a r…
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From the blog http://www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece.***We deep clean the house. We retrieve things from storage to sell. Now that we are out of work for months we start thinking about things to off-load in order to keep the lights on. We make tense financial plans. I order dry goods for just in case. We check in with family a…
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From her blog http://www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece.***I also see this in the people I work with. I see that sometimes they don’t even realize that the patterns of misery they are caught have gradually let go in subtle ways, and when I ask after a few sessions about these old ways of being, it’s almost as if they’re surprised…
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Laguna Main: Published by Memoir Magazine
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As a special edition of the Bliss and Drumming podcast, Clementine reads this piece, recently published at https://memoirmag.com/nonfiction/laguna-main-by-clementine-moss/.***Sharona bleats from a nearby radio and I close my eyes and imagine Sharona, object of adoration. I imagine Jim Morrison, on a beach with a guitar, writing about his LA woman. …
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Meeting Barbara Stanwyck, The Drover, Omaha
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From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece.***The Drover is like a cave, with low ceilings, brick walls and round stucco fireplaces built randomly into small rooms. The lighting is yellow and warm, and the chairs are low wooden ones with rounded backs that set you perfectly to the table. There is a vaguely Spanish feel in t…
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From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece.***It’s funny how naming something, really sitting and allowing the pain to rise and give it space and form, it’s funny how much gets released. In fact, when I look at how I felt then and how I feel now, I see just how much I’ve let go, just how much lighter my outlook. I sat in th…
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From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece. image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aussiegall/ ***And what kind of limitations do we project on others in order to keep ourselves feeling safe and knowing? I had a dear friend once who was 30 years older than me, and I was a chameleon, changing daily in my direction. Ever…
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From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece.***It’s an intangible thing, this feeling of belonging to place. I have always reveled in being peripatetic, and my life as a musician is a glory to that. For years I have traveled down roads and spent time in cities new to me. I have played in all states but one, and as I arrive i…
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From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece.***First off I will say, so there’s no misunderstanding, I love you. This is not love that needs something from you, or is some sort of burden or expectation you need to carry around with you. I love you with our common heart. Common molecules, common history, common planet, common…
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10 Minute Meditation - Releasing Pain
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This is a short meditation to let go of physical pain that arises.Please visit www.patreon.com/clemthegreat for weekly meditations and other personal meditation and energy healing resources.Autor: Bliss and Drumming
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A quick 10-Minute Meditation! Check out www.patreon.com/clemthegreat for these to be delivered to your inbox weekly!Autor: Bliss and Drumming
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From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece.***When I first arrived 18 years ago I saw pretty clearly that one day the little town would become a quaint art community in the middle of suburban sprawl, and that’s what is happening, as Omaha has annexed its Western edge and development is razing the 20 miles of cornfield that …
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From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece: http://blissanddrumming.com/2018/06/awakening-the-cosmic-joke/.***Music provides a great illustration of this. I am on stage, playing drums in front of an audience. My thoughts float through as I play the song: the stick in my hands, the flutter of worry about something tricky com…
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From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this piece: ***Of course, as I experienced Cuba and this different way of seeing the world, I realized that everything I see, I see through my own history and DNA and bias, and that nothing I see exists the way I think it does. I am a political moron, a humanity-lover and a cosmic idealist. I…
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The Rock-Addled Brain Goes On Repeat
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From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, Clementine reads this post: http://blissanddrumming.com/2017/11/rock-addled-brain-goes-repeat/. She also mentions www.awakeningthetrueself.com***Years ago, I spent some time meditating on on my inner critic, and an image of a woman in a gray suit and a tight bun on her head emerged. I have no idea where the i…
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From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, this post: http://blissanddrumming.com/2017/10/deeper-feeling/ is read by Clementine. She also references www.awakeningthetrueself.com.***This week I wrote a treatise on this idea, of finding the field of bliss energy beneath all the light and dark, but really, the discussion of bearing suffering feels trivia…
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Ten Ways To Be An Awesome Studio Musician
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From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, this post http://blissanddrumming.com/2017/10/ten-ways-awesome-studio-musician/ ? is read by Clementine. ***As someone hired for the session, the primary thing that matters to me is that I get in and get out as quickly as possible. In most sessions with Rob, there is a feeling of celebration. The studio is ha…
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The Lonely Gong Bath And A Wrinkle In Time
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From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, read by Clementine. She also refers to www.awakeningthetrueself.com.***Who is the Clementine who gets sad and lonely? Just a fabrication, a ball of DNA and energy and an ever-changing mass of molecules that rearranges millisecond to millisecond. Somehow, I have woken in this plane of existence in which I beli…
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This is a 30-Minute meditation for you to enjoy. From Clementine at www.awakeningthetrueself.com and www.blissanddrumming.comAutor: Bliss and Drumming
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From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, read by Clementine.***When I fall into the true self, that infinite stillness that I find in the center of my being, it is just that, infinite. I don’t have to be in meditation to experience it, sitting on my little bench, wrapped up the corner of my room with a singing bowl in front of me and my Buddhist mon…
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From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, read by Clementine.***When I’m sitting in meditation and an emotion rises up out of nowhere, out of no thought or story, it’s as if a storm is passing through my body. Maybe first my stomach feels heavy, and I’ll watch as the heaviness starts to spread. I can usually name it: “Oh, here’s sorrow. Let me invite…
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From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, read by Clementine.***Fear is such a funny thing. I don’t mean funny-strange. I mean funny- ha-ha. When I am in a hole, I forget that I have tools to get myself out of the wallowing. I guess that’s one definition of being in a hole, that you forget that you are actually able to crawl out. When I remember that…
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From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, read by Clementine.***I am going to accept that you will believe what you want to believe and I’m going to say, you are right. I don’t know anything. I don’t know what is best for people, except that I know in my soul that compassion and empathy and love is what makes my whole body sing. It’s what makes my li…
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From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, read by Clementine.***It should be pretty apparent by now, if you have been reading or listening to these blogs of mine, that I believe we are all One. Connected by one consciousness, a unifying energy of love. I have spent my life on a kind of spiritual path, following a deep intuition that my goal is to ope…
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From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, read by Clementine.***I love the quiet. I guess I’m in the minority, judging from how there are screens speaking to me pretty much as soon as I go outside: TVs in cabs and elevators and restaurants. I went into a beautiful restaurant over the holiday, and sat at a bar that was made of pale golden marble, lit …
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A post from the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, read by Clementine.***I have traveled and played music in every state but one (Alaska). I have slept on floors and been cared for by music fans. I have been invited into strangers’ homes and hung out with people from every walk of life, united by music. I do not believe that our divisions are stronger …
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