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The Colors Of Hope

Birth Of A River

"Medicine” is a song-anthem honoring the traditions of folk medicine; plant-based medicine as a tool for empowerment and healing. It is a call to action to support the voices of the herbalists, healers, and teachers… the roots, plants, trees, and stones… the arts, the spirits, and the wild ones. It is an honoring of all the many ways that we can be well, and the radical and traditional ways in which we can steward health within ourselves. 

This song is a direct tribute to the people around the world who are holding and teaching these ways of herbal plant-based medicine, educating us all to know our gardens, our forests, our plants and our own bodies... to bring wellness back into our own hands and communities. It is not a dismissal of modern medicine, but a gratitude and honoring of its ancestry and foundations within folkloric traditions. 

This release comes on the New Moon after the Fall Equinox. As we are moving into a new season, a new time, and a new chapter, we offer this song as a ritual anthem for this transition and time of great change.

"Medicine" Lyrics:

Wise men say that rushing is violence
and so is your silence
when its rooted in compliance
To stand firm in loving defiance,
make art your alliance
give voice to the fire

Move people to the beat of the wind
Gather yourself and begin
to dance the song until it ends
We are winners, champions of the light
forming in numbers and might
keep the truth close in sight...

Chorus:
Medicine Woman, Medicine Man
walking with grace, I know your face, and I trust your hands
Medicine Woman, Medicine Man
walking with grace, I know your face, and I trust your hands

Find your teachers in the voice of the forests
unplug you cant ignore this
wisdom of the voiceless
Remedies are bountiful and surround us
from the garden to the farthest 
prayers made of star dust

Find your healing in the music that calls you
the voice that enthralls you
what do you belong to 
Eyes out theres the setting of the sun
give thanks to each and everyone
the lesson is the...

Medicine Woman, Medicine Man
walking with grace I know your face, and I trust your hand
Medicine Woman, Medicine Man
walking with grace, I know your face, and I trust your hand  
 
Poem:

I believe in bending backwards and extending
in my tracks 
trip back
until the lesson is in action and
your yard is feeding
stop stark the disbelieving
cause the garden holds the shards 
the medicine is in the seeds when

We hold tight to our right to protect and
we know our might is 10-fold in connection
our elders hold them bright lights 
we protect them
the medicine is evident 
the wolf, the hawk, the bear clan

We hold tight to our right to protect and
we know our might is 10-fold in connection
our elders hold them bright lights 
we protect them
the medicine is evident 
the wolf, the hawk, the bear clan...

Medicine Woman, Medicine Man
walking with grace, I know your face, and I trust your hands
Medicine Woman, Medicine Man
walking with grace, I know your face, and I trust your hands

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Medicine

[Verse 1]
I watched your ship fade through Prime’s morning light,
You said, “I’ll ping you past Ellis Nine tonight.”
But the channels are quiet, just static and breath,
And the soft glow of cities that won’t forget.

Your sweater still clings to the back of that chair,
Smells like static, like jasmine, like your hair.
The comm blinks red, but it's just a lie—
“No new messages,” just time passing by.

[Chorus]
And I’m lost in love on Terra,
While your heart’s chasing stars,
Jump points and broken charts,
And I’m stuck in these boulevard bars.
Still singing on Terra,
Still waiting for a sign,
But the echo of you
Is the only thing that’s mine.

[Verse 2]
I walk past the café near Solstice and Vine,
Where we used to talk ‘til the lights cut the sky.
Now the vendors just smile like they don’t recall,
Selling memories to ghosts in the fall.

You once said, “The void’s not cold if you care,”
But baby, it is—when you’re not there.
I write your name in the mist on the glass,
Counting the jumps since you last looked back.

[Chorus]
Yeah, I’m lost in love on Terra,
While your ship burns through night,
Drifting past constellations
I can’t hold or rewrite.
Still grounded on Terra,
Still soft in the sound,
Of a love that slipped orbit
And never touched down.

[Bridge]
Did you mean to vanish, or was it the drift?
Did the distance grow wide, or did you just shift?
Your last message came at 03:04—
I was dreaming of you…
You were closing the door.

[Chorus – Final]
So I’m lost in love on Terra,
While your signal’s gone dark,
Just a whisper in space,
Just a tear in the spark.
Still playing on Terra,
Still caught in your tune,
But this song only echoes
When I’m singing to the moon.

[Outro – spoken, soft, almost whispered]
If you hear this—wherever you are—
Just know I kept the light on by the star.

Lost in Love on Terra

Mary and Martha (1)

Produced by : Ryan Herr Music 

Recorded/Engineered by: Tyson Leonard 

Co-Produced by: Jesse Hendricks 

Musicians/Instruments: 

Tyson Leonard: Violin, Octave Mandolin 

Jesse Hendricks: Banjo, Saxophone, Flutes, Didg, Steel Drums, Percussion 

Ryan Herr: Guitar, Mandolin, Bass, Kalimba, Percussion 

Dayv Cabrito: Upgright Bass 

Krikor Andonian: Accordian, Toy Piano, Melodica, Duduk 

Adam Kapuscinski: Percussion 

Recorded at Tree Top Studios in Santa Cruz, CA 

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02 My Own Medicine

A beautiful combination of clawhammer banjo, haunting harmonies, and fiddle lines, this song is in dedication to all genders of the world learning to heal our collective culture by keeping women safe. Featuring environmental activist, Buddhist scholar, and Rilke translator Joanna Macy. 
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Keep Her Safe (feat. Joanna Macy)

This is remix is an ode to all those hurt by the prison industrial system of the United States, and is dedicated towards transforming the "eye for an eye" retributive justice model towards a restorative justice model - one that strengthens, rather than fractures, communities. 

This remix is based off of two recordings: Rising Appalachia's "Spirit's Cradle" and a reading by the great, late poet Etheridge Knight. "Apology for Apostasy" was one of many poems that Knight wrote while incarcerated, which were originally published in the collection "Poems from Prison." His poems bear witness to the resiliency of the creative spirit. Leah Song, of Rising Appalachia, has been a long time advocate of criminal justice reform and is involved in projects that bring yoga, song and mindfulness into prisons. 

Resources:
"The 13th" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1yJsaFwqDM
The Prison Yoga Project - prisonyoga.org
Etheridge Knight - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/etheridge-knight

Spirit's Cradle

Rising Appalachia & The Human Experience - Sunu

This track is from the album The Sails of Self and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/RisingAppalachia

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