Written & Performed by: Olenka Toroshenko

Choral Music: Rozhanytsia

Recorded by Allara Briggs Pattison on the traditional lands of the Kaurna people

Produced & Mixed by Allara Briggs Pattison on the traditional lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung and Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations at her home studio & at Harmonic Whale

Production & Mixing Support : Daniel J Marquez of Harmonic Whale

Master: Juan Carlos Almao

Artwork: Larissa Poho

A big thank you Allara's Aunty, Karen Briggs, for allowing her home to become our studio.

Acknowledgements to The Orphan Wisdom School for helping me gain my bearings in this mad world.

Hungry Ghost

Allara & Olenka, come together weaving multiple original poems together to create ‘you’re grounded’. From the perspective of Mother Earth to all people she pleads for respect, outlining the ways we each are responsible for shaping the culture we live in. 

The music itself is co-produced by Allara and Narayana Johnson, also known as River Boy, and is marked with his signature drum programming and Allara’s melodic double-bass riffs to intensify the powerful spoken word narrative and raw harmonies. 

Our mother is talking to us, can you hear her?

Photo: Daniel Marks
Co-Produced by
Allara & Narayana Johnson (also known as @River Boy)
Feat. @Stu Patterson - Clarinet
Mixed by  @Russell Fawcus
Mastered by Richard Stolz at @Woodstock Studios

you're grounded - Allara & Olenka

Olenka Toroshenko is a Ukrainian Canadian artist, writer and producer whose life is in service to a saner, meaningful existence. She is a multidisciplinary performer whose mediums include spoken word poetry, dance, clown, song, storytelling, butoh and ritual performance art. Issues of cultural preservation and death are common themes of her work.

Olenka Toroshenko

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