Here’s a new song available for Free Download – it’s a vocal / song rendition of the famous Quote by Marianne Williamson:
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Gettin Laid by Inspiration
This Latest Video was a collaboration with Nature Dreamweaver (Find Nature on Facebook) - an amazing artist who creates nature installations & visionary mandalas using natural elements local to each environment. Inspired by Andy Goldsworthy, Q’ero Despacho mesas & Tibetan Sand Painting Mandalas, Nature’s Mandalas are a unique, prayerful expression of spirit.
The Background music was provided by Elijah Ray (Find Elijah on Bandcamp) - an Amazing songwriter, vocalist & sound healer from Kauai.
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Gettin Laid by Inspiration, Written by Wahkeena Sitka, 2011 ©
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Top 10 Albums of 2011
Here is my list of my favorite albums released in 2011. I hope you enjoy these albums as much as I have. Please support independent artists & buy these albums!
1) Akara • Extradimensional Ethnography
Akara’s debut album is my favorite of 2011; its cinematic, orchestral, transcendental downtempo electronica breaks genres and creates its own world – unlike anything I’ve heard before. As an artistic statement, the album is completely cohesive and creates a cinematic sonic realm that is at once both totally unique & yet soulfully familiar. I urge you to take a listen to this amazing work of art! My favorite live music performance this year was seeing Akara perform at Beloved festival; it was pure magic. Check out this interview with Joshua Penman!
Find it Here: http://akaraproject.com/
2) Bluetech • Rainforest Reverberations
I’ve been an ecstatically obsessed fan of Bluetech since 2005, and every album he’s put out has been pretty much amazing. His latest release, Rainforest Reverberations, showcases some of my favorite tracks of his yet, and he co-created several tracks with other producers including Kilowatts & Kalya Scintilla, and featured the voices of both Eve LadyApples & Katrina Blackstone. Personally, I’m completely obsessed with the tracks 667 & Emerald Epiphytes, and I adore the poetic invocations of LadyApples that begin & complete the album. Additionally, this album is part of the Critical Beats series, so proceeds of this album go towards supporting the Amazon Rainforest.
Find it Here: http://criticalbeats.bandcamp.com/album/bluetech-rainforest-reverberation
3) Lady Gaga • Born This Way
The current Queen of Pop has obviously completely won my heart, and her latest album – Born This Way – is her best album to date (and hopefully a sign of her future artistic direction). This is what pop should be: emotional, inspiring, soul-stirring, ecstatic, liberatory, freakish, sexy & booty shaking. The electronic production work for every song is produced & mastered to perfection. Gaga’s videos for Born This Way have been among her best too, with the video for Marry the Night taking the cake for her most epic & powerful music video to date. Even if you don’t get pop music, or have some sort of judgment against Gaga due to your superficial understanding of her, there is no arguing that she is the planet’s current reigning princess of pop. Her music is laden with so many deeply infectious grooves, it’s a pity you’re not loving on Gaga. Have an open mind and step into her Electric Chapel.
Find it Here: Lady Gaga – Born This Way @ Amazon.com
4) Ishq • And Awake
Ahhhh, finally! The follow-up to the most mesmerizing ambient downtempo album ever, Orchid, put out by UK artist Ishq. The new album, And Awake, is similarly transcendental, but takes us to a new plane – possibly even more expansive and nectarlicious than its predecessor. The ocean of sonic expanse is euphoric, blissful, heart-opening and deeply relaxing. An amazing, celestial listen. Dive in!
Find it Here: http://interchill.bandcamp.com/releases
5) PJ Harvey • Let England Shake
As a long time PJ Harvey fan, I was really excited to discover Harvey’s latest album, Let England Shake. It really is her best album in 10 years, and marks a significantly new direction for Ms. Polly Jean. This album is possibly her most emotionally raw, her highest vibe, her most transcendental. I immediately fell in love with this album and put it on repeated listens for weeks. Her vocal styling and her songwriting have dramatically evolved from the years of Dry & To Bring You My Love – and Let England Shake is among her finest albums to date.
Find it Here: PJ Harvey – Let England Shake @ Amazon.com
6) Kaminanda • Year of the Golden Tiger
Ummmmm, can we say Holy Shit, this wins the sexiest electronica album of the year award? Stephen Kaminanda won my heart & my bootay this year at Beloved, and this album is really juicy. I’ve listened to this on repeat for months and only grown more comfortable with the sick polyrhythms and layers of psychedelica. This is music to listen to if you want to float into the ethers of mind-blown ecstasy, which apparently I want to float there all the time!!! Funky, sexy, hot.
Find it Here: http://kaminanda.bandcamp.com/album/year-of-the-golden-tiger
8 ) Kyrstyn Pixton • Embyrs
I randomly met Kyrstyn Pixton in 2002 in Ann Arbor, MI – she was just dropping out of the U of M’s music program and preparing to migrate to Portland, OR. Little did I know that over the years I would run into her hither & thither all around Portland, in different circles & parties. But nothing prepared me for what I witnessed when I saw her perform at Emrg’n'See in 2009 with a keyboard, a looping pedal and an amp on a wheelbarrow. She fucking blew my mind. Kyrstyn is one of the most creative vocalists & innovative pop-electronica artists on the West Coast scene currently. Her debut album, Embyrs, is truly beautiful and features some great collaborations with Auditory Canvas, Lynx, & Eve LadyApples. She is an honest & emotional songwriter, a soulfully luminous vocalist, and a really great live performer. She is up & coming, and I swear she will get BIG. Pay attention now, you’ll be stoked to say you knew her when.
Find it Here: http://kyrstynsong.com/
9) Deya Dova • Remixed
Futuristic Tribal Electronic Dance Music infused with Primordial Ecstatic Chant; perfect for the Dance Dlub or an underground Electronic Rave. This album features the voice of Deya Dova, with her unique celestial tribal polyrhythmic style. Her 2009 album, Burst, has been remixed by a handfull of amazing electronic producers including: Kalya Scintilla, Adham Shaikh, Desert Dwellers, An-ten-nae, & Juno Reactor. This is an album to break out if you want to crack open your Booty Chakra and Bust a move!
Find it Here: http://music.deyadova.com/
9) Azam Ali • From Night to the Edge of Day
Azam Ali has been one of my favorite vocalists for years, and I pretty much own every album she’s released since Vas. Azam’s latest album is perhaps her most meditative to date. Her signature modern Persian fusion album is showcased her in an otherworldly ambient form that is both sedating & uplifting. As a vocalist, she is one of my highest inspirations.
Find it Here: Azam Ali – From Night to the Edge of Day @ Amazon.com
10) Rafe Pearlman • Random Cuts, Unfinished Demos
Possibly one of the most transcendental live music moments of my last year was the first five minutes of Rafe Pearlman’s set at Beloved Festival this summer. His soaring, sweepingly cinematic voice eclipsed everything all at once. Nearly everyone had to drop what they were doing to come sit down and listen to this vocalist explode his visionary soundscapes across the airwaves. We sat there with our jaws dropped and hearts melting. His bandcamp release of “Random Cuts & Unfinished Demos” isn’t a coherent album, but there are some sincerely magical gems & exquisite songs worth melting to – and his voice reminds me of Antony & the Johnsons. Listen to “Morninglight”, “Fly My Sadness” & “Aramaic Prayer”. Looking forward to his new album due out next year.
Find it Here: http://music.rafepearlman.com/
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Total Permission To Say YES To Life
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The Great Quilt
The Great Quilt • A Special Unreleased Track • by Kembwe
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Lyrics Written in 2007 – Song recorded in 2008
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The Visionary Rebirth of the Divine Mother Monster
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In February, Lady Gaga appeared on ‘Good Morning America‘ just two days after her legendary entrance at the Grammy’s in a space-age egg vessel, where she won 3 Grammy awards and performed ‘Born This Way’ live. In her interview with Robin Roberts, she talked about AIDS and ‘safe sex’ wearing an outfit inspired by condoms. When Roberts asked her about her egg entrance at the Grammy’s, Gaga told her she had been in the egg vessel for 3 days. Roberts asked her, “What did you do in there for 3 days?” Gaga responded: “I wanted to have a rebirth, and I think the universe needs to have a rebirth. I think we all need to be inside a vessel for 3 whole days, thinking about how we can love ourselves more, protect ourselves more, live life with more passion, and look not outwards for validation but inwards – look inside of yourself to your spirit and your inner light.” Gaga’s comments about bringing the gaze inwards, to our spirit and inner light is central to spiritual and yogic philosophy, and in that I witness Gaga as a spiritual pop star that is expanding her heart and unconditional love to the world. The first time I watched Gaga’s interview on Good Morning America, tears spontaneously erupted out of my eyes as I felt the authenticity of her sharing on such an enormous global platform.
Lady Gaga is a visionary pop star icon for the 21st century and the emerging new paradigm. She communes with her fans intimately through facebook, twitter and videos with an incredibly open heart, and seems to be saying over and over again that the core of her message is about how to love oneself. Her message to her fans is to inspire them to love themselves more and more fearlessly despite external conditionings that project a message of lack of self worth. Indeed, the chorus of her latest single croons, “I’m beautiful in my way, because God makes no mistakes – I’m on the right track baby, I was born this way. Don’t hide yourself in regret, just love yourself and you’re set – I’m on the right track baby, I was born this way.” When singing the song to oneself, as a catchy pop-song is meant to do, the message is a mantra for opening to self-love. By using the mind-embedding hook of a pop song, she is impregnating every fan with the message that “I am beautiful, God makes no mistakes – I am perfect exactly as I am, I am divinely created, I love myself.” What message could be more important in this world where so many struggle with self-acceptance, depression, hopelessness, loss of soul-purpose – triggered by the messages that we receive from the external that limit and subjugate our self-worth?
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Receiving Resonance Medicine
Written in Response to the essay, “Tuning In!” published in the most recent issue of Conscious Dancer Magazine.
Listen to the sounds surrounding you now. Open your ears. What do you hear? In every moment, we are saturated in a vibrational field of sounds, resonating within the cellular chamber of our body. Our body receives every sound and energy pulsing through it, from the dump truck picking up trash first thing in the morning, to the sound of a bus beeping as it backs up, to the sound of a hummingbird hovering just above us out of reach, to the undulating pulsings of a deep throat singing tone. Every sound registers in our body, and if we are present enough to the sensations in our body as we sit in a Modern Urban environment, we can learn how to become vibrationally aware to the degree that our bodies are being constantly thwarted in its attempt to reside in a peaceful state of homeostasis. Our bodies have the capacity to experience deep states of blissfulness, relaxation and pleasure. And likewise, our bodies have the tremendous capacity to be overwhelmed by stress, tension, pain and irritation.
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Ecstatic Medicine Reflections
This summer I have been facilitating Ecstatic Medicine Vocal Circles as a workshop coordinator at several festivals: Emrg’n'See, Mystic Garden Party, Beloved Festival with the next and final workshop festival facilitating occuring at Symbiosis. This has been an amazing experience for myself as a facilitator, and I feel that I have been learning a lot about how to be a facilitator and guide through these experiences, and have been receiving nothing but amazing feedback and love from my work. For this, I am so grateful – and I am looking forward to returning to next year’s festivals to facilitate more workshops, hopefully to build my practice to include more Qi Gong, and to have an album to be able to offer to all those who have expressed interest.
At Beloved, as I introduced my workshop, I felt exhausted and low energy – I was scheduled in the morning, and I am not a morning person. I did not show up feeling ready at all, and I felt disconnected and nervous as I began speaking in front of the largest group I’d ever seen. Typically, in Ashland, the Vocal Circles have been no more than 8 – and at Beloved, I had a group of perhaps 40+. And as I introduced my work, I explained that I am new to being a guide and facilitator; that I’ve only been doing it for a few months and that I’m still very much in my infancy of learning how to be a facilitator. I’ve always been the student – but to now be the teacher – what a role reversal for me! But one of the gentlemen in the workshop said to me afterwards that I’d gone from “beginner to pro instantaneously”. How sweet; that was gratefully received.
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Boundless Gratitude
I have now successfully facilitated three Ecstatic Medicine Vocal Circles! The third gathering was last night, and it filled my heart and soul full of so much gratitude and joy! A massive, undestroyable smile was etched across my face by the end of the gathering, and the gratitude from the participants was also so sweet and loving.
I have so much to be grateful for, and so much gratitude within me! And in transformational times such as these, I feel it is so crucial to spill out the gratitude, because there truly is a love and peace centered earth in existence NOW and available to all! And for this we should all be grateful! And also, in my experience, I personally feel the living, breathing, tangible presence of the unified field of spiritual wholeness supporting my reality every single day, and without this ‘Health Support System’ from the spiritual or angelic realm, I would be falling on my face. I live because of this interwoven support system, and am completely indebted to it.
Two years ago, I finally had the opportunity to be in ceremonial presence of my most esteemed and cherished shamanic teacher, Martin Prechtel. He had a massive amount of potency to the medicine he brought to all of us, but one thing still sticks with me. That is within the Mayan cosmology, of which he is modern culture hearth-bearer, there is a belief that all beings in the community must become indebted to each other in order to live. There is no idea of becoming debt-less, and the idea of having no debt is audacious to them. The idea is that we are all indebted to life, simply by virtue of being born a human and taking our first human footsteps. We are indebted to the earth, we are indebted to our mothers for carrying us, we are indebted to the plants and food for supporting us and offering us nourishment. And this indebtedness requires great humility and gratitude to all. This indebtedness and gratitude requires that we make offerings to the spirits to maintain wholeness of the interwoven fabric of life, of which we are indebted to.
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Songs are the Key to Heaven
I am guided by dreams. My life’s trajectory has been directly influenced by dreams and visions. Once, several years ago at a party in Portland, I had this very profound psychedelic experience, which had been awaken only through chanting and dancing. I found myself outside next to the curb, feeling this strong sense that in order to be allowed into Heaven, you must learn how to sing a heavenly song. Your heart must feel it so deeply that your heart pours forth, becoming the key, through the frequency of feeling from the soul of the song. That was the sense I received in that moment. This sense echoed through to years later, when I woke up from a dream I had in Cusco Peru, the morning of my first visit to Saqsaywaman and my encounter with a random young Quechuan gentleman who toured me around Saqsaywaman, making Coca Leaf offerings and doing meditations at various sites. That morning, I had awoken from the most profound Lucid dream, which gave to me a clear vision of my life’s work and what my purpose on earth is. I share with you the journalled story fresh from that moment, in June of 2007.
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