Rainmaker

Percolate

deep jungle drums upfront and crystal caves in the rear.

Overunity

Hard Knocks

Eastern inspired dub influence. Instruments include tabla, doumbek, djembe, fiddle, vocals, zills and more. 

Currents Of The Highest

This track is a completely original Totem pre-release. This is the first track off the second Totem album to be released Winter 2016. 

The Sacred Tendril

Primal: Uploading... is a pre-release track of the newest Totem album to be released in Spring 2016 titled, "None of This Exists, But Here It Is." Injoy!

Primal: Uploading...

TheQuickening New Year's Pre-Release

Primal: Uploading::: >>>Re-Bass'd<<<

Studio collaboration with fellow sound wizard, Treaphort. 

>>>Totem<>Treaphort<<<

Aho, MitakuyeOyasin

>>>>TeNdRiL:::Drop D Remix<<<<

She Who Comes with the Rain

This is the first track from this album. Multiple instrumentation in this composition. Credits: Noah Wilson- Dilruba, Eric SugarSnap- N'Goni. 
Written, Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Phoenix Clay Michael 

Ever After

Psychilé is a psydub-salsa inspired mix. Fusing flamenco, salsa and Latin styles with digital highlights, there are many featured instruments including: trumpet, piano, guitar and vocals. 
Written, Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Phoenix Clay Michael

Psychilé

Dendridic is the single from this compilation of tracks. This was the track that inspired the album. Varying elements include: vocals, time stretch, bongo, conga, and piano. Original violin tracking by Samuel Wexler. Written, Recorded, Mixed, Mastered by Phoenix Clay Michael. 

samuelwexler.com

Dendridic feat. Samuel Wexler

This track is comprised of audio samples I created while @Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and Unity Concert in The Black Hills. Red Eagle(Keith) is the singer whom is singing one of the sixteen original tribe songs, this one being a rain song.

Red Eagle's Rain Song

Totem brings a powerful and dramatic new perspective to spiritual dance music. The sonic journey that unfolds as the tracks progress is a fresh new meeting of organic sounds and electronic rhythms and movements. E.A.R. is honored to host this collection of works, and proud to welcome Totem to our humble collective of audio technicians and researchers. Thank you for your support!

Unfurling Mr.Curly

Stellar Fuzz

Infinite Ways

Oak Tree Is You and Me

This track has original field recordings created at Standing Rock in November. Mother drum samples along with tribal chanting make for a tasty combination of organic and digital.

Wopila

First of a three track compilation, Cookie Monsta was the first track written for Globular Incantations. This track takes the listener through a dynamic event horizon of squish and grime until finally delivering one into a thick landscape of deep melodic chord structures with the feels like that of a deep ocean swell. Enjoy, Cookie Monsta. He don't bite..

Composed by Totem
Mixed by Totem
Mastered by Totem

for booking: totemuzikbooking@gmail.com

Globular Incantations

Cookie Monsta

Stella Animus was the first track composed for the Globular Incantations EP. Glitch + Wubz + Harmonic Minor + Tabla/Oud = A chordal galavanting through ancient tribal realms of harmonic fervor untold. Injoy the pineal cleansing sounds of Stella Animus.

Instrumentation/Recording by: Totem
Mixing by: Totem
Mastering by: Totem

Stella Animus

A journey through the nether world of sonic lovins, Globular Incantations is the title track of Totem's newest EP. Strap in for a full throttle tour through heavy glitch, growl and exotic instrumentation.

Is this Totem?! Wait yes, its still Totem. Comin' atcha with a knuckleball from left field. Not the usual tribal midtempo you might be used to. This track is the first of a series of songs that are an experiment in voice, motif, analog and the unknown. 

Lyrics:
A billion lives I've lived
A million times I've watched the sunset in your eyes
So what more must I give?
To set us free, in a new story and to let us be
So now I sing

I sat an watched atop the earth as it was born
I was there when you were made
I am older than the sun, the sky, the night
I am the moonlight on your face

You can see it in your mind, you can see it in the eyes of a newborn child.
You can feel it in the pulse of the earth, you can see it in the eagle as she flies on high
Can you feel it in the roll of the thunder?
Can you feel it in the dead of night?
If you can't, you may never know.

Said, Hey ya ya ya
The sun must shine as it does on you
Said Hey ya ya ya
Were never the same no matter what we do

Chorus:
We don't bow to the people who holdin' out
We don't bend to those that bleed
It comes down to the moment of life and death
Because your eating what you feed
If you know what you must do, you gotta stand up for what you believe
Go and read the writing on the wall
Because your reaping what you weave

Have you thought about the future generations delicate balancing of life
We cannot forsake the land that will feed them pushing out of mind out of sight
To give life to the Mother of the Earth is to give light to a blind eye
For the land I will stand and defend, I am praying unto the most High.
x2

Chorus

We gotta rise up and we gotta dig deep
We gotta feel the ground that underneath our feet c'mon
X4

Said, hey the veil be thinning everyday so we can't give up.
x4

We Don't Bow

A Prayer for Unity in a time of distance.

Prayer Circle

Totem is the solo project of Boulder based producer, Phoenix Clay Michael. Phoenix has been playing eastern-style instrumentation for over a decade(tabla, doumbek, darbuki, didgeridoo, ric, native flute etc). With Totem, Phoenix explores the digital domain with rich melodies, psychedelic synths, and exotic instrumentation. Totem culminates these two passions into a modern interpretation of ancient instruments. The sampling style is deep and visceral. Blending sequences of thick bass and instrumentation with live production. Live production includes: Didgeridoo, vocals, synth, keyboard, percussion, and bass. Phoenix's debut album with Totem is titled, The Bonfire of Life, and was written as a motion of solidarity with the native tribes of North America. Totem sees the immense potency that dance has for healing in our culture, and also sees the reverent nature of ancient and native style music. The ultimate thrill is fusing these two things into a continuous musical experience shared amongst listener and maker. Totem is humbled to bring thy dance medication. Aho

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