Feelin' My Heritage

PALOMX

“I Got the Blues of a Fallen Teardrop”: An Original #BlackEphemera Mix by Lynnée Denise      
                 
“What is there to be heard in the music, lyrics, and voices of early Black blues women singers like Clara Smith, Victoria Spivey, Sippie Wallace, and Edith Wilson, and how does the archive of their work animate and inform the life of a late twentieth-century-character who is navigating much of the same terrain?”
 
–- Mark Anthony Neal, Black Ephemera: The Crisis and the Challenge of the Musical Archive | Chapter Two: “I Got the Blues of a Fallen Teardrop”: Erasure, Trauma, and a Sonic Archive of Black Women (NYU Press)
    
Lynnée Denise is an artist, scholar, writer, and DJ whose work reflects on underground cultural movements, the 1980s, migration studies, theories of escape, and electronic music of the African Diaspora. Denise coined the phrase “DJ Scholarship” to re-position the role of the DJ from a party purveyor to an archivist, cultural custodian, and information specialist of music with critical value. Through interactive workshops, lectures, and presentations at universities, conferences, and performance venues, Denise harnesses music as a medium for vital public dialogue on how to transform the way that music of the Black Atlantic is understood in its social context and beyond entertainment. Lynnée Denise is the Sterling Brown '22 Visiting Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College and lives and works in London.

Tracklist
1.     Intro—Black Kold Madina
2.     Livin’ Humble, Clara Smith
3.     Trouble of the World, Mahalia Jackson
4.     The Party Don’t Stop, Mia X (No Limit)
5.     Who Dat Called Da Police, New Birth Brass Band
6.     Ain’t I Gonna Win Your Love, Rita Wright
7.     I Love Every Little Thing About You, Syreeta
8.     Give My Love a Try, Linda Jones
9.     No Headstone on my Grave, Esther Phillips
10.  Mr. Blue (The Song of Communication), Laura Nyro
11.  Killing Me Softly, Luther Vandross
12.  Let me Have it All, Sly and the Family Stone
13.  Do Lord, Billy Preston
14.  A Foggy Day, Lyn Collins
15.  I Need Somebody to Love Tonight, Sylvester
16.  A Woman Needs to be Loved, Jackie Wilson
17.  A Woman Needs to be Loved, Denise LaSalle
18.  Carrie Mae Weems on the Kitchen Table series accompanied by Billy Preston on the organ (Praise the God From Whom All Blessings Flow)
19.  Over the Rainbow, Patti Labelle and the Blubelles

“I Got the Blues of a Fallen Teardrop”: An Original #BlackEphemera Mix by Lynnée Denise

This track is a thank you to all the magic that melanin mamis yield. GLOW, GROW, GROW!



PROD. VERDE

melanin mamis  ft. metaflow

take up space

Honoring the Divine Feminine energy.  I conjure, I manifest, I heal, I love, I am love, I let love be the light.

"The wound is where the light enters." -Rumi

( Prod. Lexi Banks)
( Mixed & Mastered by palomx

conjure

INSPIRED BY THE CLOUDS, MIXCOATL TRANSLATES INTO "SERPIENTE DE LXS NUBES/ CLOUD SERPENT." THIS MIXTAPE IS A GIFT FROM MY HEART TO OUR COLLECTIVE HEART. THANKFUL FOR THE PRIVELEGES AND BRAVE ENOUGH FOR THE LESSONS. THANKFUL FOR THE ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS, ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT. OMETEOTL. WE DO THIS FOR THE PUEBLO, WE DO THIS FOR THE LAND AND TO HONOR ALL THOSE THAT CAME BEFORE US ON THIS LONG RED ROAD.



Beat by verde

cumulonimbus

Nican Ca

Written and recorded by Palomx
Beat by 3 HEART

This is a Freedom song dedicated to those who came before. Those that honored, preserved and shared these sacred ways.  We are still here. 


In this song I am speaking in: 
Nahuatl, Spanish and English. 
Nican ca translates to “here/ presente/ we are here”
Calling in the deer medicine/ mazatl/ venaditx azul. The medicine of gentleness, sweetness. ometeotl. 
muy sagradx. 

Tiahui.

“I Got the Blues of a Fallen Teardrop”: An Original #BlackEphemera Mix by Lynnée Denise

Soul Expressions 2.0