Fortune Pick
from the album "Laws of Nature"
by Gina Ferrera

featuring:
Mario DeCiutiis- malletKAT (water vibes)
Gina Ferrera- vocals, trapKAT, drums, percussion, production, recording.
Mixed & Mastered by Lucas Dutton

Chant:
"Picking up my fortune, 
now
put it in my pocket".

album art by Oluwafemi: www.oluwafemi-arts.com

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6PjCUcnObQ
https://ginaferrera1.bandcamp.com/track/fortune-pick

Fortune Pick

Nautilus Shell
from the album "Laws of Nature"
by Gina Ferrera

Gina Ferrera- production, vocals, congas, quinto, shakers, beats, bass & keys using malletKAT & trapKAT. (ABLETON)
Abraham "Cito" Caraballo Candell- malletKAT, conga rhythm, keys
traditional coro: Gina Ferrera, Cito Caraballo, Shawn Hennessey
mixed/mastered by Lucas Dutton

album art by Oluwafemi:  oluwafemi-arts.com

www.ginaferrera.com
http://ginaferrera1.bandcamp.com/track/nautilus-shell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOfVXfV8NA
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOfVXfV8NA

Nautilus Shell

Meet Me in the Middle
from the album "Laws of Nature"
by Gina Ferrera

Gina Ferrera- drums, percussion, vocals, xylophones, electronic keys, trapKAT, production.
Mix/Master- Lucas Dutton
Voices sampled by Shawn Hennessey in northern Ghana at the Dagara Culture/Music Center.
lyrics and vocals- Gina Ferrera

Lyrics:
Couldn't stand the tune, so they killed the minstrel.
Couldn't stand the message, so they hung the messenger.
Vilified
kissing this,
space goodnight.
space goodnight.
vilified,
kissing this,
space goodnight.
space goodnight.

headway to
hollow earth
two poles
that load the vaults
hollowing
underground
memory 
shows you how
to 
meet me in the middle
meet me in the middle...

To control information is to control the population.
The dissemination of information steers the population.
Desired point...
control control.
Destroying all
at all cost.
Desired point,
control, control.
Kissing this
space goodnight.
Kissing this
space goodnight.

Headway to hollow earth
two poles that load the vault
following 
underground
memory
shows you how 
to 
meet me in the middle.
meet me in the middle...

www.ginaferrera.com
www.soundcloud.com/gina-ferrera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdgBD9stqPA

Album art by Oluwafemi:  www.oluwafemi-arts.com

http://ginaferrera1.bandcamp.com/track/meet-me-in-the-middle

Meet Me in the Middle

Mandoline (Tuck Away)
from the album "Laws of Nature"
by Gina Ferrera

Music production, vocals, synth strings, xylos, trapKAT, drums and percussion by Gina Ferrera
Mixed/Mastered by Lucas Dutton

Lyrics:
Your soul and light paints green circles in my stomach
You fill me up with joy and orgasms in my mouth
You put orgasms in my mouth.

I don't apologize for my curiosity
Artistic amplifier magnetized by your elusive dream.
A portal of sweet tones and lights that make me spin around and around.

Like a humble deviant you have the moon, I have the sky.
I'm a broken song, but you can tune my energy up right.
Should I ask another question
or just give you more of what I've got?

I'll tuck away my secret stories till it's safe to let them drop...

Oh tuck it away 
tuck it away tuck it away tuck it away
tuck it away.
Oh blow it away
blow it away blow it away blow it away
blow it away.

I'm drowning in an ocean of memory, my third eye unveiling.
I'm poetic justice unfathomed and suddenly becoming.
I'm haunted by our magic story
it's suddenly unfolding...

I don't apologize for my curiosity.
I'm a hologram like you a force of nature it's alluring.
I'm undone, I want to come
I'm here I'm spinning around and around.

Your words they carry me through open fields until the morning dawn.
I want to curl into a teeny sphere and pop out in a song.
Should I ask another question
or just give you more of what I've got?

I'll tuck away my secret stories till it's safe to let them drop...

Oh tuck it away 
tuck it away tuck it away tuck it away
tuck it away.
Oh blow it away
blow it away blow it away blow it away
blow it away.

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www.soundcloud.com/gina-ferrera
http://ginaferrera1.bandcamp.com/track/mandoline-tuck-away

album art by Oluwafemi:  www.oluwafemi-arts.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcVdDI2sDTQ

Mandoline (Tuck Away)

Centrifuge
from the album "Laws of Nature"
by Gina Ferrera

Gina Ferrera- vocals, percussion, drums, 4-mallet solo on malletKAT, trapKAT, production.
Mixed and Mastered- Lucas Dutton

Album art by Oluwafemi: www.oluwafemi-arts.com
http://ginaferrera1.bandcamp.com/track/centrifuge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zRwE_c7Hds

Centrifuge

"Chemical Reaction"
from the album, "Laws of Nature" 
by Gina Ferrera
featuring:  Gene Perry (on chapman stick),  Lucas Dutton (drums/production), Anthony Martin/ Subsector- PressPlay (malletKAT), Gina Ferrera (lyrics, vocals, trapKAT, malletKAT, drums, percussion).
Mixed/Mastered by Lucas Dutton
Album Art by Oluwafemi: www.oluwafemi-arts.com
http://ginaferrera1.bandcamp.com/track/chemical-reaction

Lyrics:
"By creative manifestation
biochemical attraction 
we're an astral happenstance
a lotus that blossoms and seeds.

Cosmic fantasy
as real as gravity.
We exist
Let's meet,
We're an astral happenstance, 
a lotus that blossoms and seeds.

we meet again
Feel me, again. 
See me, Again.
We meet.
It's a chemical reaction.

The wind of spirit engulfs us like a twister.
But we remain the epicenter.
we are TIMELESS
and space does not separate us, 
space does not separate us.

By creative manifestation
or a bio chemical attraction.
an astral happenstance.
lotus flower
blossom and seed
cosmic fantasy
as real as gravity
we exist.

we meet again,
feel me again,
see me again,
we meet-
it's a chemical reaction.

Tho I know you're no good for me,
damn baby we got chemistry.
You're no good for me
we got chemistry
Oh AH

Two lights that coalesce
and dance in collaboration 
a natural phenomenon
a healthy attraction
the thought of you ignites a chemical reaction.
transform energy, entrain you with me.
Simultaneously still----- 
and stimulated
with nowhere else to be but HERE NOW (WE)...
HERE NOW (just WE)

by creative manifestation
or bio chemical attraction
astral happenstance
lotus flower,
oh blossom and seed
cosmic fantasy 
as real as gravity,
we exist...

we meet again,
feel me again,
see me again,
we meet.
-it's a chemical reaction".

Chemical Reaction

Radical Ritual for "won Tuo" 
Podcast Mix by Gina Ferrera 

"won Tuo"- The Dagara elders believe that a person who has suffered is a person who has heard pain (won Tuo).  The person hears the pain as a creative action, connecting that person with his or her highest self, which prescribes an alternative to spiritual death. So pain teaches us something.  It is commotion, e-motion, and a call for rebirth.  It teaches that one must return to a mode of living that began with life itself. And it draws from nature the cosmos life-essence that seeks to align itself with the existing powers.  Such living is what ancient tribes have adopted for thousands of years.  And its success can be seen in the fact that in it there is room for the entire person to exist.  This means that the world of progress with its all-consuming tendencies is an essentialist that feeds on anything that lives, turning the human into an indentured servant fed with things material, yet starved for everything else.  In this context, ritual is this return to the ancient with a plea for help directed to the world of the spirit" (Malidoma Patrice Some- Ritual (Power, Healing and Community). 

Track list: 
Passe le Temps -Les Gypsies De Petion Ville 
Severa- Ismael Rivera 
Baba- Salif Keita 
DJonkana- Boubacar Traoré 
Akatambala- Saida Karoli 
Abube Ne Atebe- Koo Nimo 
Afros e Afoxes da Bahia- Filhos de Gandhi 
Un Canto a Mi Tierra- Quantic And His Combo Barbaro- ( J Boogie Remix) 
Bwambwa- Eté 
Ngongo Ya Biluka- Lourdes Van Dunem 
Love Ritual (Main Mix)- Louie Vega vs. Cerrone 
Achhadou Wa La Ilaha Illa Alla- Maallem Mokhtar Gania 
Ataole- Batata (Matt Shadetek Remix) 
Viva- Viva Les Difficiles 
Identity- Oliver de Coque and his Expo 76 
Estaca De Guayacan- Marvin Santiago 
María Rafaela- Yoruba Andabo

Radical Ritual For  "won Tuo"

Moving Sea Between
from the album "Laws of Nature"
by Gina Ferrera

Featuring:
Ben Runyan- guitar
Gina Ferrera- Vocals, Percussion, drums, malletKAT, keys, mbiras
Produced by Gina Ferrera
Mix/Master- Lucas Dutton

Lyrics:

Love
Will you calm the moving sea
between the shores of our love?
Will you let the words come out?
Will you calm the moving sea
between the shores of our love?
Tempt me with your mystery love!
I don't know what's inside in your head.
LOVE.
Will you let the words come out?
Will you calm the moving sea
between the shores of our love?
Or I can keep on waiting waiting.

by Gina Ferrera

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Khalil Gibran

www.ginaferrera.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_enpOE6BMfc
http://ginaferrera1.bandcamp.com/track/moving-sea-between

album art by www.oluwafemi-arts.com

Moving Sea Between

These Petals
from the album "Laws of Nature"
by Gina Ferrera- Production, Composition, vocals, malletKAT, drums, percussion, lyrics.
Mixed and Mastered by Lucas Dutton
www.ginaferrera.com
https://ginaferrera1.bandcamp.com/track/these-petals

Yearning sought the highland.
Heartbreak sought the plain.
I was caught somewhere
Floating in between.
"Gi,
Passing through the city won't you...
Weave that tale back to me."
From city plots to gates where gardens' locked.
The waterfalls, the forest floors.
I'm sifting through your hemisphere.
Just to hear this song.
The misty lane
On which you drive upon
The muddy pool you chose to dive
Into 
forgiving
Is
this 
black hole of time.

Waiting for the sun to split us open.
Waiting for the sun to split us open
waiting for the sun.
waiting for the sun 
Waiting for the sun to split us open.

These boots wiped off from dusty pages
Yesterday's prescription 
left
untaken
still
Waiting for the sun to split us open. (4x)

Lifting up these petals, peachy
push pops, salty tear drops
All collide
a drop that drips
like sap that hits
these roots in grounds that shoot down, 
Grip tight the tool you use to move
and pry
to prop them open.
Arms stretched out to
Arms stretched out to 
wait wait wait

Waiting for the sun to split us open.
Waiting for the sun to split us open. 
waiting for the sun
waiting for the sun
waiting for the sun to split us open.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpVfStyetjY

These Petals

www.ginaferrera.com 
Gina Ferrera is a visionary with a passion for music from around the world most especially traditional rhythms.  Her music performances and teaching projects are influenced by leading edge electronic percussion (KAT) technology and their combined expression with traditional acoustic instruments, the healing power of sound and a celebration of culture. Gina is a seasoned drummer & percussionist, music educator, therapeutic teaching artist, ethnomusicologist, bodyworker and sound designer/producer. Her explosive poly-rhythmic performances feature a hybrid of live percussion and electronic drums, ranging from different styles of global mostly African influenced music to experimental avant and emerging multi-media. She seamlessly fuses beats and rhythms, both intimate and driving, with live production, looping, sampling and vocal effects.  Gina's work embraces our "interconnectedness", has its roots in ancient music and culture, and an intention for healing into the creative expansive future.  

Utilizing a hybrid of organic percussion, the alternate mode trapKAT (custom electronic drum setup), xylophones and a unique rhythmic dialogue, Gina Ferrera weaves her tale: "Laws of Nature". Breathtaking in its sonic range and richly evocative in content, the album seamlessly bridges the ancient and the contemporary, unfolding a world of contrasts and textures that reveals multiple new layers with each listening. 
"Laws of Nature" is a stimulating experience that crosses the spiritual with the sensual to the pure essence of sound. It’s at once a highly intimate statement yet one that crashes through boundaries and speaks to anyone whose path it crosses.

Gina Ferrera (aka) FOXY la TIGRE:
http://soundcloud.com/foxy-la-tigre

https://ginaferrera1.bandcamp.com/album/laws-of-nature

Contact:  Ginaferrera@gmail.com 
for collaborations, stems, downloads or booking

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