43 | Finnegan Tui | Echoes of the Old One: Following Songs Through Glowing Lights and Rolling Thunder
“Make me a melody, Old One, make me sure, remind me I’m the animal who dances for the dawn. I think we’re fading, Old One, lost indoors. We give our lives to glowing lights, it’s lonely like you warned. So I’ll be leaving, Old One, I can’t stay. Are there others who hear thunder rolling in and run out in the rain?”
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A video version can be found below.
Finnegan joins us for a soulful exploration of music as an artful practice of presence, myth, and remembering. We begin by reflecting on what it means to be a wild creature in a wired world—and how that tension shapes his creative process.
We discuss the lyrical roots of some of his music, the role of attention and curiosity in creation, and the journey from disenchantment to re-enchantment. Finnegan shares insights into how he tends to soul and beauty while engaging with the demands of visibility and digital culture.
What unfolds is a conversation about creativity as care, songwriting as devotion, and the longing to live in rhythm with something older and wilder than the modern world often allows—while still remaining rooted and responsive within it.
Find Thematic Show Notes Below
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Thematic Show Notes
Wildness, Civilization & the Call of the Old One:
Living as a wild creature inside a technological society
Lyrics and longing: meeting the “Old One” in song
Disenchantment and the journey toward re-enchantment
The paradox of fading indoors while longing for thunder and rain
Cyclical return to wild places as soul sustenance
Curiosity, Presence & the Alchemy of Song:
Honesty as the most exciting aspect of songwriting
Attention as a sacred commodity in the creative act
Curiosity as a synonym for care and soul-tending
Attentiveness as the doorway to musical emergence
“The soul is made of what we attend to”
Soulcraft, Sharing & the Marketplace:
Tending beauty while navigating visibility and social media
Life as a mutual flourishing: sharing like a flower with the bees
Questions over answers as a creative ethos
Creative rituals and the ‘courting’ of inspiration
Living mythically and letting the music speak what’s yet to be known