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Ammunition

an amazing collaboration with two of the most amazing singers out there! this was one of those on the spot creations. 

I Wanna Believe

This collaboration is featured in Taina Asili Y La Banda Rebelde's latest album; War Cry. Check their work out at http://tainaasili.com/

She Lives

Excerpt from Hurricane Season: the hidden messages and water. Written and performed by Alixa and Naima, music by Fenyang Smith.

Precipitation

This poem combines excerpts of Climbing PoeTree's feature-length 2 woman show "Hurricane Season," composed exclusively for the first ever women's gathering with the International Council of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers at Montezuma Well, Arizona.

Poetry written and performed by Alixa and Naima, Climbing PoeTree
The music behind the lyrics created by E. Oneal Latimore

I Have Witnessed the Water

We Survived is an anthem about the unstoppable power of our people, a reminder of the unfathomable obstacles our ancestors have overcome for us to be alive right now. The song is a testament to our collective resiliency. A battle cry to the descendants of freedom-fighters, to step into our full power, to challenge the injustices of our day.

CLIMBING POETREE, Alixa Garcia & Naima Penniman, featuring Jasmine Burems & King Aswad on vocals, and King Aswad on arrangement

We Survived

CLIMBING POETREE. Alixa Garcia & Naima Penniman, featuring Karma Mayet Johnson, arrangement by Reina Williams

What Time Is It

Lyrics Naima & Be Steady, arrangement Be Steady
original tracks produced by Be Steadwell additional recording Produced by Toshi Reagon

Can't Help But Fly

The second single off Climbing PoeTree's forthcoming record INTRINSIC, “Love Will Triumph” is a timely reminder that love is the strongest force in the universe. As we face the next 4 years governed by a president propped up on a pedestal of white supremacy, capitalism, misogyny and violence, Alixa and Naima remind us that if each of us dedicates that force to embody the transformation we believe in, we can change the story we are walking into. 

Written and performed by Alixa Garcia & Naima Penniman, featuring Leah Song and Chloe Smith (Rising Appalachia) and Toshi Reagon on vocals. Collaborating musicians include Ganessa James (bass), Allison Miller (drums), Rachel Eckroth (keys), and Alex Nolan (guitar)

Love Will Triumph

lyrics & vocal performance by Climbing PoeTree and Be Steadwell, original track produced by Be Steadwell, additional recording Produced by Toshi Reagon

How I Taste

Lyrics and performance by Naima Penniman. Arrangement Juliette Jones

If I Told You What I Know

For The Courageous

They Are Selling The Rain

Dust

Who Decides

lyrics by Alixa, arrangement by Alixa & Naima

Echoes Of Starlight

arrangement by Juliette Jones & Rachel Eckroth

Awakening

Written and performed by Climbing PoeTree. Produced by Francis Phan.

The Shifting

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."

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