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Emcees Zen Tempest and Devin Mikel rap on the legendary track 'Lionheart' by @Emancipator.

Check out more of his work here: http://emancipatormusic.com

Lionhearted (Emancipator flip ft. Devin Mikel)

CRG/TZA Superstar

Close Your Eyes... Can You Feel It?

Lyrics written and recorded by Zen Tempest
Recorded and Mixed by James Lutz
Instrumental by Curtis Andreas

In Sight

Patrick Haize from SD/SF & Itom Lab SD/LA converged in Sedona AZ where they gave birth to ‘Auraquencher’ the debut EP for their duo Golden Triangle

Auraquencher

Dream Colors

1 - Dream Colors- Golden Triangle

This track is an ode to the age old language which connects us all: DNA.

It is an ode to the continued growth and evolution of the human species. It is an offering of gratitude and an acknowledgement of the unbroken lineage of life from which we stem and are inextricably linked.

This song was written and recorded to the song 'vines' off the album 'safe in the steep cliffs' by Emancipator, an artist who continually inspires me as a writer and a person. (While I don't have his explicit permission, the song is not for sale and is for promotional use only.)

I wrote, recorded, and mixed the lyrics myself, using GarageBand and a Shure SM7B Microphone. I mastered the track on LANDR.com, a really nifty FREE online mastering service. Considering the track is DIY with incredibly simple and accessible equipment, I believe it's a testament to what we can do in the modern day age with basic tools and resources.

I hope you enjoy. 

Much love,
Zen

Vines

Vines (Beat by Emancipator)

This track is the truth, the medicine, the cure.

Track #4 in my challenge to record, mix, and release a new song every 48 hours for a period of two weeks.

Shoutout to MP Beats on the track.

The Cure

This song goes out to anybody who knows struggle, grief, addiction, and overcoming.
It’s about the journey of purification we all go through in order to remember our higher selves. 

Produced by CHiEF 
Co-produced by Hennessey
Featuring guitar by Jordan Latini

All Time High (Prod. by CHiEF)

This one's for the tea drinkers... 

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It is important for us to remain connected to deeper states of being, especially during turbulent times such as these.

When we access flow states, we experience a unique blend of enhanced productivity and peak performance coupled with a deeper sense of relaxation and a noticeably expanded field of conscious awareness.

This is that sweet spot in which all of life is a dance, where work is not something we do, but rather something that is done through us.

I attain these states through making music, writing, love making, cooking, dancing, yoga, and contact with the natural world.

I've also noticed that I'm particularly prone to this state while in the process of brewing and enjoying tea. I find something about the entire process deeply therapeutic.

This song is a reminder that when life is too much to hold, we can always take ourselves a brief moment of repose, and lay the weight down long enough to enjoy a nice calming cup of tea.

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Beat by Ozo

Brewin Tea

A spontaneous collaboration after a chance meeting at Ecstatic Dance Festival  in Corfu Greece, Producer/Beat-Maker DJ Trotsky and Conscious Hip-Hop artist Zen Tempest created this sonically rich & deep meditation on the beauty and pain of life, death, and transformation.

Dutch improv vocalist Birkit Rietveld's voice weaves and floats throughout the track like incense through air as hearts and minds align, bodies and souls dance, and Cobras and Roses coalesce as one.

Cobras And Roses

~Music written and produced by Random Rab
~Lace, from the album aRose
~www.randomrab.com

~Lyrics written and performed by Zen Tempest...

Resonatin’ the Frequency
Circulation’ the vibe.

Never late, and I’m leaving
Precisely when I arrive.

Hesitated repeatedly,
Now I’m ready to ride.

Levitation is easy,
You need to open your eyes.

Respiration is key,
When you breathe it keeps you alive.

Reiki is a movement of energy,
It’s a vibe.

Reiki is a movement of energy,
It’s a vibe.

Reiki is a movement of energy,
It’s a vibe.

Playful as the fluid
In your body when it slides.

Penetrating, deep in
The arteries as it guides.

Regulating each of
The senses, they never lie.

But they certainly distort
A perfect portion of the pie.

Bored within the
Portal of the mind.

Warping metamorphosis,
Immortal and sublime.

Hopelessly enormous,
Getting gorgeous all the time.

Reiki a movement of energy,
It’s a vibe.

Money is a vessel,
The nectar that gets you high.

Is nestled with the flesh,
Of the melon, lemon, or lime.

If ecstasy is a crime,
I’m done, I don’t wanna try.

Aint gonna play the game that
They tell us should be our lives.

I’m chillin really, I’m fine.
I’m kinda kinky, I lied...

I’m really kinky, I’m kind,
I’m feeling deeply aligned.

I’m peeling back all the layers,
I’m pulling up all the blinds.

I’m feeling deeply aware,
I’m feelin deeply divine.

I feel the breeze in my hair,
I’m feeling heat in my spine,

I’m healing people with care,
With energy, it’s a vibe.

It’s a vibe...

It’s a vibe...

Reiki is a movement of energy,
It’s a vibe.

Temporary entry,
But eternities denied.

Been here every century
As the turning of the tides.

But I’m currently immersed within
In a separate sense of I.

Shepherds led the weak,
And while the predators survived.

Something that was living
Inside of them seemed to die.

Come and test your luck,
Against the 20 sided die.

Have to roll a 7 or
Higher or you resign.

Have to roll 11 or higher for
you to thrive.

Heaven is a 17 or higher,
Don’t be shy.

You seem I’m only
This character for the time...

I don’t really understand why...

All I really get is
That everything is energy...

Everything’s a mother fucking vibe...

Reiki (Beat by Random Rab)

See you in the meadow fam...

~

Improv freestyle flows with the homie Zach Grace!

Every single instrument and verse for this track was recorded in one take with absolutely no pre-prepared material. Just free flows from the soul.

~

Zach Grace on flute, guitar, djembe, and vocals.

Zen Tempest on vocals and production.

In The Meadow ft. Zach Grace

Somewhere in the space between Alan Watts and Aesop Rock, Atmosphere and Allen Ginsberg, Immanuel Kant and Immortal Technique, Kahlil Ghibran and Kendrick Lamar, Rumi and RZA...

There is a special place.

A place where the majestic backdrop of boom bap music is populated by notions of prosperity and peace, where cityscapes and celestial horizons meet in a glorious display of poetic union.

This is where you’ll find Zen Tempest.

In Sight

Zen Tempest

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