"Full Moon Tonight"
From the album entitled "Anti-Gravity Dinosaurs" from 2008.
Produced by Wonder Keys.

Happy Fullmoon!

Full Moon Tonite

SACRIFICE (Mature Content)

This is a traditional/contemporary song I composed for our warriors to keep focus on our intent of being PROTECTORS and not psychopathic killers. This is a co-ed song so the value of warriorship is transcended in how we contribute to society as a protector of children, elders, the handicapped, the less fortunate, the animals and the environment. This is a work in progress, but I hope it will help out in these tense times. Eyes on the prize...always on the long term. Let's sing this together someday! O SIEM. 

NOW DOWNLOADABLE...ask for stems.

Stō:lo Protectors

Heart Land produced by Wonderkeys
I wrote this song after I was nominated for the Aboriginal People's Choice Awards in 2009. This was my response to how I felt about it.

Heart Land

Indigenous Summer by Ostwelve
Dedicated to those whom have fought for the survival of our rights to culture, freedom and justice on this Great Turtle Island.

Indigenous Summer

This song was written for the Moccasin Flats television show in 2003. I get asked a lot about this song. I reflected upon a lot of my own pain and darkness to create this character I played on the show. There were elements of me within the character...but mostly within my own exploration was an intense reflection upon myself as a man and artist as well as how I dealt with death and addiction. I got the part for the Moccasin Flats television show just months after losing my Grandmother (Mama) who raised me. My grief was played out in a LOT of my music from that period in my life and I used the TV show as an outlet to explore that. Some of it helped...some of it was painful and damaging...but educational none the less. I realize the content of this song may be intense...but hopefully with this context in which I've never really spoken about...listeners can understand this piece with a little more clarity.

Thanks to all who've inquired about this song and continue to support my music and narrative after all these years. Of course thanks to Big Soul Productions and especially Laura Milliken for giving me the chance of a lifetime so many years ago to share my art and give me a start in this industry. I was never a perfect angel at that age...I was a loose cannon with a ton of cash and no direction. But they helped me maintain and create some of my best work in my life which helped me to be where I am today and given me the inspiration to continue and create FOR LIFE. 

Hychga,

Ronnie Dean Harris aka Ostwelve

Downward Spiral (from Moccasin Flats - 2003)

This track was written and recorded in 2005. The focus was the Highway of tears and my experiences in Regina, Saskatchewan. I had been traveling to Moricetown to perform shows and spent time in communities along the Highway of Tears and also while living in Regina, once talked to a young girl about 13 years old, who one morning around 9 am was working the streets. I never forgot that moment of a REAL experience. I felt so helpless. This song is sort of what I would've told her if I had my head on straight. I also speak of a cousin of mine who was murdered in 1997. Her murder was never solved. RIP Cassandra Antone.

Young Girl's Tears

This track is from 2004 and focuses on the plight of indigenous women in urban situations. It comes from a conglomerate of stories I've heard and been a part of. Produced by the Bro Bro Wonderkeys.

Friday's Child - Produced By Wonderkeys

A spoken word piece about how fashion can be statements of sovereignty by Ostwelve.

***NOTE: Revised, re-recorded and new file replaced on June 20th, 2016. O siem.***

Fashion Acts Of Sovereignty

Remix to the 2008 song from Anti-Gravity Dinosaurs "Here We Go" by Ostwelve

Here We Go (remix)

Light Inside by Ostwelve
Video link: http://youtu.be/Df1vlbEPr4g

Light Inside

Ostwelve featuring Kinnie Starr
This is a remix of a song originally written and composed by Kinnie "Roadblock" Starr remixed by The Oswaldian Theory 12.

Right Away feat. Kinnie Starr

This track is based on the ancient aliens story of conquest. My little take on the legends.

Produced by Wonderkeys

World So Green

Where I Belong feat. Kinnie Starr

Song I dedicated to the All Nations Healin' Thru Artz youth group I worked with in Regina, Saskatchewan.

http://www.anhta.org/

Life Has No Sequel - (All Nations Healin' Thru Artz)

A spoken word piece performed for:

thirstDays No. 4
love, intimacy and (com)passion, in a geopolitical context
A monthly series of video, film, performance and ceremony events
Project curator/artist-in-residence Jayce Salloum

Cultural Resurgence: From This Point in Time and Space 

Curated by Irwin Oostindie + Ronnie Dean Harris
https://www.facebook.com/thirstDaysVIVO 

Written and performed by Ostwelve aka Ronnie Dean Harris

Gentrification Is Re:Colonization

#TBT This is the FIRST studio track I was ever featured on.
A track produced by Darian Obey aka SPL. This recording comes from an archive tape from When Spirits Whispers on CFRO from July 6th, 1995.

Circa 1995. It's my first recording. Go easy on me. lol.

Sound Pressure SPL+Os12 (1995)

Here's a throwback to my first radio interview with Gunargie O'Sullivan on When Spirits Whisper on CFRO COOP RADIO 100.5 FM (formerly 102.7 FM).

#TBT - When Spirits Whisper Interview - Gunargie O'Sullivan + Ostwelve (1995)

I found a letter from Leonard Peltier today and decided to read it aloud and record for those whom might want to hear it. 

I am not entirely familiar with the politics and narrative around the entire story and the actions of the movements of this time. Most of this stuff happened before I was born...and my entry point of awareness only begins around the early-mid nineties. 

I read this letter with full awareness of the controversy around the incidents and with empathy and compassion for ALL the lives lost and affected still to this day by this tragedy. My intention is to bring to light an important letter on an important anniversary and provide anyone with some assistance in hearing and understanding the letter.

With reverence and respect,

Ostwelve

A Letter From Leonard Peltier - June 26, 2016

This is a remix of the Sto:lo Protectors track. 
This is dedicated to the land defenders and protectors of matriarchy that connect us to this land.

#HandsRightUp

Sto:lo Protectors/Defenders - REMIX

This is a reading of some writing my by Great-Grandfather, Vincent Raymond Harris who was a founding member and Grand Chief of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.

As I move forward into my own understanding of my manhood and personal reflections on governance and leadership, I look back to the words of my own role models who stood up and fought for rights & title while creating a vision for the future sustainability of our next generations.

I am thankful to have these words to learn from and want to honour them in the best way I can...by sharing them with the world.

O siem.

"Land Claims To Settle" by Vincent Raymond Harris - 1995

A remix and renewal of a track from my Anti-Gravity Dinosaurs album.
Video:
https://youtu.be/1LyfOnTETlI

Hope you enjoy!

"12 Signs" RE:MIXX (video link in description)

This is a piece I wrote shortly after hearing about the Mount Polley Mine disaster. 

#ImperialNoMore
#StopMtPolley

The River Cries Out

This is a reading of a document from 1910. From the Shuswap Nation website: 
"In the summer of 1910, Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier set out across the country on a “non- political” pre-election campaign tour. On August 25th he stopped in Kamloops where he was met
by a delegation of Chiefs from the Secwépemc, Nlaka’pamux, and Syilx Nations, who greeted
their guest with an unequivocal message. They enlisted the help of their “secretary,” a Scottish-born ethnologist and long-time ally, James Teit, who had put their words onto paper, and French priest Father LeJeune, who translated the verbal presentation
and presented the written English document (“the Memorial”). The Interior Chiefs asserted the persistence of their Aboriginal Nations’ title and sovereignty over their respective territories, vowing that they would continue to struggle for a just and reciprocal relationship with the government until it was achieved." 
http://shuswapnation.org/to-sir-wilfrid-laurier/ 

I have done theatrical performances with Savage Society of a variation of this piece...and the more I do the performance...the more I think this document is important. So I've read it aloud for myself to have a better understanding...and anyone that would benefit from hearing it.

Hope you enjoy. O siem.

Ostwelve

1910 Sir Wilfrid Laurier Memorial

A poem I wrote for the 3rd Annual Ghost Story Slam at Cafe Deux Soleil in Vancouver on October 25th, 2017. 

I am happy to say I placed first. This is a re-recording of the poem.

Written and performed by Ronnie Dean Harris aka Ostwelve

The Night ALL The Wooden Indians Came To LIFE

Sasquatch Funk

Thieves On The Trail

A little story about two galaxies.

Music by Clayton Brown
Words written + performed by Ostwelve

Spiralling Together

Ghosts N' Aliens by Ostwelve
Written & Performed by Ostwelve
Beat produced by Mat The Alien
(remastered 2017)
©2008 Ostwelve

Ghosts & Aliens produced by Mat The Alien

Stand For You

A track inspired by the Teddy Pendergrass classic "Love TKO"

Let It Go TKO - Produced by Wonderkeys

Ostwelve - Indigenous Hiphop out of the Coast Salish Territory now known as New Westminster BC near the Salish Seas. I rap for sovereignty, protection of matriarchy and to clear ways for future generations. Check out my site for more music: ostwelvemusic.com

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