These are some of my favorite instrumentals from the last few years available for the Kuya/Griot/Culture Keeper, Storyteller, AlchemistArtivists out there on resonant vibes looking for accompaniments. Some of these are just stems, loops, beginnings, ideas, some are more flushed out, all can be tailored. Let's bring something medicinal to the world.

Music 4 the Kuya

Amani Will / Wa Ama & the Lion Truth

From the southern central mother land, the Shona, the Njuzu (water spirits), the Mbira, Gift Musambwa, Baba Michael, The Attik House, Wa Ama & The Lion Truth.

DAW: Pro tools LE 7 or 8
Composer/Producer/Musician: Amani Will / Wa Ama & the Lion Truth
Mbira, Recorder, Trap Set - Amani

Homes in Bones

Been Here Before

Back when Amani Will was known as iamani i. ameni. 

Our debut solo album ventures innovatively far from our original background with the fast tongued, lyrically gifted, justice minded, tich nhat han meets huey p. newton bay area hip-hop crew 'The Attik'. The Lion Truth keeps it's hip-hop bones while 2 chord strumming on some folk-hop soul experimental shit. Sweet, tender, funky, fun, eclectic, and deeply introspective. Waiting on the Pre(-)sent offers a better day in every song, it's theme music for the grown & growing, for the healers and the healing, & for anyone seeking something closer to ourselves. You'll find yourself singing along before you know it...

download the whole album here:
http://onlyiamani.bandcamp.com/album/waiting-on-the-pre-sent
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/iamani

Grace

'The Ladysmith Black Mambazo Beat Tape' combines 3 time grammy award winning South African accapella men's choir 'LadySmith Black Mambazo' with South African Activist/Poet Lebo Mashile and i.Ameni the BeatMan's base heavy pure percussive beat-tation. An amalgamation of afro beat, dance hall, 808 hip-hop, and something uniquely i.Ameni. It will make you dance, it might make you want to trace your ancestry or learn your native tongue, and you might even start to see ancient zulu kings and queens riding down international while you slap this. 

Download the entire beat tape here:
http://onlyiamani.bandcamp.com/album/the-ladysmith-black-mambazo-beat-tape

Homeless

i.Ameni the BeatMan is the Beat behind many of the favorites from Los Rakas, Ise Lyfe, The Attik, Brwn Bflo, Jennifer Johns, Bambu and more. He keeps us on our toes with an eclectic resume of his own works from folk to thoughtful oakland scrapper music. 

Los Rakas-Soy Raka (produced by Wa Ama & The Lion Truth)

One of my favorite Shapibo Icaros reversed, layered, and remixed to Amani Will's rhythms. 

Produced 2021 by Amani Will on Logic Pro X.


Available for license. 

Song art made with Dream AI art generator.

12/20

Icaro of Peace (loop)

Met this brother Eyesful on the street in Amsterdam on tour with Jonah Matranga in 2009, He was rocking the didgeridoo and beatbox hard, i sat down and we freestyled for a while. it was love at 1st rhyme :) we decided to kick it and ran into method man shortly afterwards outside a laundry mat. We kicked it with him while he did his laundry!!! :) we rocked a show later on and then spent the night riding all over Amsterdam with a crew of beautiful folks freestyling, smoking, feasting, and sharing story. one of my favorite days/nights for sure. The beatbox and sound fx on this track are from Eyesful's track 'Release the Freak'. there is def. More to come soon... 

watch the original magic here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JRSBrtlxa4&list=PLAB95A26AB5339D8B

Follow Eyesful here: https://soundcloud.com/eyesful

bless.

Power Begins Ft Eyesful

What Do U Sing About

You, created only a little lower than 
The angels, have crouched too long in 
The bruising darkness 
Have lain too long 
Face down in ignorance. 
Your mouths spilling words 

today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully, 
Come, you may stand upon my 
Back and face your distant destiny, 
But seek no haven in my shadow. 
I will give you no hiding place down here. 

Each of you, a bordered country, 
Delicate and strangely made proud, 
Yet thrusting perpetually under siege. 
Your armed struggles for profit 
Have left collars of waste upon My shore, currents of debris upon my breast. 
Yet today I call you to my riverside, 
If you will study war no more. Come, 
Clad in peace, and I will sing the songs 
The Creator gave to me when I and the 
Tree and the rock were one. 
Before cynicism was a bloody sear across your 
Brow and when you yet knew you still 
Knew nothing. 
The River sang and sings on. 


The River Sang ft Maya Angelou

good morning!!!

Listen,

Hogan Iyotan Tanka Oyate

This one’s is a gift from the whale peoples and the desert sands where the whale people swam long ago, turns out this desert is an ocean…



I was born in the desert where the hearts were dry
Under the sun where the sons weren’t allowed to cry
We stopped crying for our freedom and we learned to lie
To this dead beat god reigning up in the sky
Born under a sun where the sons where worth more
Both baby and the bath water lost to the war
to a desert un-drenchable
a thirst un-quenchable
so many unmentionable
scars in the core
and i don't ever wanna be afraid again
i knelt down touched the ground and sank in
it's time for the home coming making my amends
embracing my demons just incase their my friends
open up my heart and make some water from wine
papa ya sun is a 2 spirit mama don’t mind
loving me with all that heart of hers
I’m thinking it’s time
To remember that we share a mama and she divine
god isn’t a man
this earth is not mine
this desert is an ocean and this sinking is flying
I’m a free spirit servant while this everything rhymes
When the one make 2 
I’m reflecting the shine






Taku Wakan Tanka Oyate 
the Bodhisaatva of the great mystery
and Mni Wiconi the sacred water fire quickening the great awakening




that lucky old sun keeps chucking the rays
to the lucky old us 
waking us from the days
and the nights de-thrown and leave the armor to rust
welcoming amor 
as more and more adjust
And the waters can’t help but flow to free
may our thirsts be quenched by the powers of peace
may the damned wake up see the spring that is we 
may the drought be cleansed bring the people to sea
I see the fire in the waters
It’s the juice of the sun
I see the overflowing waters wash away what is done
Leaving fertile soil for the changing times that have come
I see the people gathered celebrating beating the drums
In Mali, and Egypt, Ireland, New Zealand
Venezuela, Oakland wherever we’re believing
In The power of imagination
Born of this love
The power of the people who finally have had enough
who remember we’re enough in the still of our hearts
Who can venture in to find the medicine of the dark
Who can grow the new world in the garden of art
Who can steer us in relation-ship to land with this Arc


2 Spirit Sun Ft Tinariwen

Produced 2021 by Amani Will on Logic Pro X

Available for exclusive license. 

Song art made with Dream AI art generator. 

Jupiter's Eye

Made for this informational call to action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjMTRijmeaM

Produced 2022 by Amani Will on Logic Pro X

Available for exclusive license.

featuring Jonn Serrie 'Great Plains'

Song art made with Dream AI art generator.

Great Plains

Produced 2021 by Amani Will on Logic Pro X.

Available for exclusive license.


Song art made with Dream AI art generator. 

Free da... (loop)

Produced 2021 by Amani Will on Logic Pro X

Available for exclusive license. 

Song art made with Dream AI art generator. 

Made on the december solstice 2021. 

Tlazocamati

Produced 2021 by Amani Will on Logic Pro X

Available for license.

Song art made with Dream AI art generator.

Starting Something - Lose My...

Produced 2022 by Amani Will on Logic Pro X

Available for exclusive license.

Song art made with Dream AI art generator.

Simmer Simmer (loop)

Produced 2020 by Amani Will on Logic Pro X

Available for exclusive license.

Song art made with Dream AI art generator.

If You Really Solid

to(o) fly

B/Hollywood Slump

Produced 2020 by Amani Will on Logic Pro X

Available for license.

Song art made with Dream AI art generator.

Voices (loop)

Produced 2022 by Amani Will on Logic Pro X

Available for license.

Song art made with Dream AI art generator.

www.InnerEquity.us 

Dusky Bright

Produced 2021 by Amani Will on Logic Pro X

Available for exclusive license.

Song art made with Dream AI art generator.

Lullaby Humtrumpet (loop)

Hubert Laws (loop)

Make It

First Slapper in Quarantine (loop)

Don't Get Lost In The Magic

this track came from the earthquake at 3am in late august 2014, heart break, reawakening, water in the desert and a good lion turtle friend of mine... what's the sensation?

Slowly

https://iameni.bandcamp.com/album/walk-right-up-to-the-son

Damn this track is deep y'all,
I found my father dead of a heart attack when i was bout to be 7. this is some of the story of my process with this... I found some family video's and the voices are actually my little sister and my papa... 


from: 
Walk right up the Son:
For fathers and the children of fathers, for fatherhood and fatherlessness, for men and manhood, for mothers and mothers trying to be fathers, and for the healing and celebration of our relationships to all of these... 

For my Father Harrison Simms

Walk Right Up To The Son

this is after a night in the studio and i'm watching the sunrise from my 2nd story window in east Oakland and yes there is a gorgeously subtle pink dawn and i feel real good... :)

Pink Dawn

What can i say,
Redemption song is one of the greatest songs ever...

this is my humble attempt to make it swing and knock...



Bob Marley -Redemption Song-(Wa Ama & the Lion Truth remix)

From The Ascen-Dance Dj's medicinal mix "Sol Tree-t" 
https://amaniwill.bandcamp.com/album/sol-tree-t

medicine for the people.

nahko bares
bear heart (bare heart)

medicine for the people.

check em out...

http://nahko.com/
https://www.facebook.com/nahkoandmedicineforthepeople
https://twitter.com/NahkoBear
https://www.youtube.com/user/medicineforthepeople

i'm an open source kinda dude,
i hope it's cool Brother Nahko, that i added a verse 2 this track, put it on a mix, and offered it as a download to a select group of folks...
not tryna steal, only promote...

your music is so inspiring, so good, it pulled the verse outta me.

my humble receptivity,
if that's wack...

all due Respect.

Nahko Bear & Medicine For The People Ft Wa Ama & The Lion Truth -Wash Away - (Sol Tree - T Mix)

and i heard the prayer bell ring in the center of the earth
and i was cracked open.

naturally i found this

the rain-bro A-Natural wrang the bell and set the tone with the silky ass riffs you hear in here 

one of my favorites.

enjoy

My Soul Ft A-Natural

...?Ready.?...

From Amani Will & Wa Ama & the Lion Truth's Up and coming 
'Dilla-Gently : a J Dilla Mixtape'

& the Creative Liberation Network's Daily Q's #CLNatthebend Heyokha new moon #1

www.CLNnow.us/blog



Who are we – ancestor to be! Take us on a tour of our family tree. 

Share a song from the rhythm of our roots, a photo from our Hue-full trunk, writing that represents the reach of our branches, art drawn to leave, a video of our fallen nuts, fruits and flowers. Feel no pressure, just the invitation.

Each offering is perfect – completion IS perfection! Post your response on your social network sites and in the CLN Facebook Group if you are inspired to share. 

#CLNatthebend


Lyrics:

I was an egg in my mama’s ovaries 
when my mama was an embryo in my grandmama’s uterus
pops was 11 years old 900 miles away
with no idea of what their love would do to us
now I’m here again on the planet near it’s end
o-zone brought the black light and the mirrors in
lookin at this blood and this semen
wild nights crazy dreamin’
fat parties exercise the exorcism free the demons
hangin’ from my family tree
fruits like the liberty 
statues of empire 
how’s that from a G.O.D.
politican on that free will
atleast that free labor 
strange cuz that slavery 
ain’t savin me and who’s this savior
jesus Christ 
I love that man
But they used his name in vein
I’m going cold turkey
Giving thanks
gettin off the kane
I’m able bodied
Walking struttin skippin into a dance
How my grandmamma used to do 
In buck skin pants
When the land was getting thirsty
And the people needed crying
Before we drank from bottles
And the spirits started dying
Pour a little sumin out
Feed the tree that grows us all
Winter’s coming then the spring
But 1st we free fall x3
From the land of the free 
Free the land 
Free we

Dilla-Gently : A J Dilla Mixtape

Free Fall

www.IAMMANY.us

Everything that's happened and everything that's happening
is for learning to love myself
ourselves, our self.

Sometimes without the one's and things i wanted for help
speaking in a love's language that i can recognize.

But at the beginning's end, the bend,
it's all for learning to open our eyes,
every little cell in my body can see,
what's love's language when we're free
like completely interwoven entities?...

who am i?

Image from Creative Liberation Deck www.HoodHippieUniverse.com/clnnowdeck

This 1's 4...

A couple days after our Standing rock Benefit concert, at the end of our Standing Rock Ready Training, via Brazil, Oakland, Africa, Europe, Manteca, New York... Band Together CLN jammed for hours while a plane circled just above us the whole time. They're watching. They're Listening. What you got to say to them? who's them? US!!!

I'm finding as i shift the conversation of boundaries to a practice in clarity of my own intentions, needs, desires, and authentic movements the need to defend is eased and replaced with the freedom to move in love in integrity with my own being. With this i do not block out, other, or judge as much. Can we remember this when relating to Trump, the DAPL, Killer Cops, and all the other manifestations of imperialism, capitalism, patriarchy, and systems of oppression? What happens in our movements, and the movement as we do?
#clnWaterMelonMind

Rainbow Bubble

In this song, we simply call the names of the Rose in a few languages from my lineages.

---

Okookoosisi Rosu (Igbo)  
Dh'èirich             (Scottish Gaelic)
Tsistunagiska      (Tsalagi) 
Bilie      (Yoruba)
Ros            (Irish Gaelic)
Waridi  (Swahili - meaning rose and rosary) 

----

The Rose is a special ancestor, 
invoking heart medicine,
a universal teacher,
of one of the core aspects of our humanity.

The Rose is both the fools journey, 
a journey through all the paths of love,
and all the labyrinths of our hearts,
and the Rose is the multiverse, 
offering universal truths, spiritual science,
and awakening into the great mystery,
a re-membering with life itself.

Be wise with boundaries,
so you may bloom your tender petals in all their glory,
so you may forgive and heal in the recognition of self love,
so you may shed your walls and step into the wild, 
free and wise and at the mercy of life. 

The rose, a perennial, speaks of a longer term growth,
root your trajectory in deep cosmic and personal love.

Let the courage of the heart guide you to beauty.
Bloom and let the world be touched by your essence. 


Call upon them Okookoosisi Rosu for the strength we all need right now. 

#CLN8thAir 
#CLNshamelessdemonlover

Okookoosisi Rosu

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lyrics:

4 years in the concrete jungle alone in the shaman training here in the west
blessed with tests to keep me abreast
in the milk of my mama
in the prayers I keep in vest
pocket
rock it in my chest  
cosmic erotic is wet
water is life mni wiconi no phony phonogram for the record
we loop it until we wreck it
check it out of the box
in breath
with life and death
intention directs
energy intersects select mirrors the soul reflects
 
we doing our best
bet, bet, bet
 
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life is a gamble
river ramble to the sea
you sea your destiny
can’t be avoided, voided, voyeur-ed
bon voyage it’s who you be
bee your honey
let it be queen
play write and make a scene
daylight your Hughes can’t differ your dreams
let em be king,

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I know
why the wild bird sings
 
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follow lay lines for the lay man
lay out your tracks on the beats
migrate from my grains
and my game
in my name we gone feast
invite in the angels and beasts
and demons ready to eat
be seated completed
in history
victory of defeat
go back to soil un-soiled
be spoiled
turn to dirt round a seed
forget your words learn to read
the scars and stars as energy
manifest potential as lineage enters me
until you are now me
and I am ewe
follow the sheep
to the wolf with the key
the Apu's calling to leap
they bop you bop you
you cheat
they got you got you
that’s your family
fanning the
flames of the embers of the soul of your self
you are the tender and the light and the heat
you are the wealth
of all of life
belly button of the universe
the source of your sight
 
you and who else?
 
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I know
why the wild bird sings

Journey through the Multiverse

I know why the Wild Bird sings (400 years alone in the concrete jungle)

Amani Will, Wa Ama & the Lion Truth, Wa Ama Ni Um, i.Ameni the Beatman, iamani i.ameni, Anansi, Be Do, The G.ourney, and the Many many, many many more. 
 

Anyway, They bring us a tender vocalist whose heart is heard in every note, a lyrical wizard concocting potions for a new tomorrow, a BeatMan merging bass heavy rhythmic trance with ancient future sounds, and a beaming man who skillfully journeys us to ourselves, Amani Will and that Ascen-Dance Music is music for the Evolution!!!

They, are the Beat behind favorites from Los Rakas, Rakaa Iriscience, Living Legends, Ise Lyfe, The Attik, Brwn Bflo, Coco Peila, Jennifer Johns, Bambu and more. They keep us on our toes with an eclectic resume of their own works from folk-hop to thoughtful oakland scrapper music. 

They have shared stages with E-40, Krs-one, Goapele, Dead Prez, Hamsa Lila, Brett Dennen, Jonah Matranga and more. Their performance, more ceremony than show; is informed by years of grassroots organizing, indigenous ritual and consciousness, and many lineages of resilience. Raised by the social justice and inner evolutionary movements of Oakland and Berkeley, their music is marinated in calls to justice, love and personal inquiry. 


#iammany1
#theLionTruth

Amani Will / Amani Way

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