Wide Winter's Night (Sound Your Name)

This Song was first freestyled with my Iphone driving my car in my hometown of Santa Cruz. It was a foggy August night in 2014 and my heart was wounded and bleeding. This is a rough draft of that recorded in the studio. My mother had just passed a mere 2 months before, turning my internal and external world into a battle field of unfamiliar pain and darkness one can understand after loosing the one that gave us birth. I was numbing my pain with all sorts of things and found myself in a spider web of a drug addiction and broken heart regarding past failed relationships, love had become my ultimate drug, the unhealthy attachments that lead to me believe I could cure this pain of loss with them. It has taken me two years to share this song publicly. For reasons I may only understand. I invite you to journey to the depths of this raw moment in time for me, and hope to share many many more to come. Singing has always been my biggest passion in life. May i continue to shar these sounds with the world.

Dan Vosko on Guitar
Lyrics, Vocals, and melodies all created by me
From my heart to yours, I love you, Im healing , I am filled with gratitude.

The Drug Called Love

Ayla Nereo’s voice hits straight to the heart. With an array of loop-pedals by her side, she layers vocal melodies into majestic, sweeping harmonies and weaves magical threads of guitar, kalimba, piano, and percussion into each live performance. Her lucid storytelling and lyrical imagery are water for the thirsty soul; sounds embodying the many folds of our own selves. Ayla’s music is both timeless and modern; circle songs and roots music meet folktronica. Crafting an immersive soundscape we can rest in, her gentle intention guides us into a more open and receptive state. Each performance is a journey: an inspired, wondrous experience that holds you by the heart and doesn’t let go. 

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For The Courageous

Who Decides

We are living in some powerful times, with many different perspectives on what is happening and where we are going as a planet. 

Beautiful Mystery is a calling to humanity, to embrace the unknown as beautiful, powerful and benevolent. It's the framework that the direction we are going in can be what we choose it to be. That we can co-create together, as a greater community, guided by something much larger than ourselves. 

This a prayer for humanity to open its heart wider and embrace the global village. This is a prayer for our greater tribe of earth stewards to rise up and lead the way home. This a prayer for the deepest honoring and protection of the sacred. This is a prayer for universal harmony & the great remembrance to sweep across the earth. 

Many of these songs could have been birthed out of standing rock, yet were sewn over the last 3.5 years. Arriving in divine timing to continue to tell the story of our greater movement and support the rise of the peaceful warrior nation. May all who hold the earth as sacred come together in unity. May we stand as one people. May the prophecies be fulfilled. May we return to the one world tree that Black Elk spoke of and enter into the beautiful mystery... 

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85% of this album's songs were originally conceived when I was in my last project Suns of the Earth (ALOKA, Elah Scott & Duke Mushroom aka Tete Bero). I want to acknowledge these beautiful medicine brothers for being part of a profound chapter in this unfolding story, as original co-creators of these songs; as we release the old, and fully birth the new out into the world. 

Deep bows to all of you change makers, artists & way showers out there doing the good work and contributing to making this world a better place. I see you, I honor you, I walk with you, I love you and I support you. 

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Recorded in 432HZ the pulse of Mother Earth 
Suggested donation $13, give what you can or get it for free (limited downloads each month) 
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:: This is for the next seven generations >> 
:: Mini Wiconi ~ Aqua de Vida :: 
<> For all my relations <>
credits
released July 11, 2017 

Vocals by ALOKA 
Lyrics by ALOKA 

Music Production by SriKala 

Female Supporting Vocals by Sarah Naia Soleil 
Guitar & Percussion by Rob Recker (The Heartifact) 

Guest Verse by SriKala on 'Wake Up' 
Guest guitar on tracks 7 & 10 Gavi Grovsky 
Guest Chirango by Ben Harris 
Mastered by Kevin Blackler 

Tracks 1,2,3,4,8 & 9 
Songs Originally Composed by Elah Scott 
Songs Originally Composed by Duke Mushroom aka Tete Bero 

Recorded on Maui at Lion Heart Labs 
Photo credit Logan Oswald 

ASCAP ARTIST : ALOKA® 2017 All rights Reserved

Elementals

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Earth Song (feat. Arabelle & Adam Ahuja)

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Today

Climbing PoeTree harnesses creativity as the antidote to destruction through their award-winning poetry, boundary-breaking music, and multimedia hip hop. Co-creators Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman have independently organized more than 30 national and international tours, taking their work from South Africa to Cuba, the UK to Mexico, and throughout the U.S. including 11,000 miles toured on a bus converted to run on recycled vegetable oil.

Climbing PoeTree has stirred crowds at diverse venues from the Brooklyn Academy of Music to the United Nations, Harvard University to Rikers Island Prison. They have been featured alongside powerhouses such as Alicia Keys, Erykah Badu, Little Dragon, Talib Kweli, Goapele, Rising Appalachia, T.I., Dead Prez, and Angela Davis, who writes:

"Each time I have the pleasure of attending a performance by Climbing PoeTree, I feel
enriched, renewed, and inspired. Alixa and Naima insist that poetry can change the world—and it is true that the urgency, power and beauty of their words impel us to keep striving for the radical futures toward which they gesture."

For The Courageous

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