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)

Recoded By

Piet Dalmolen
Universal Balance Studios
Arcata, Ca
hendriktones@yahoo.com

01 Evolutionary Love

Sharu Mashup - LOYAL by Demarco with Royal Krishna by DJ Drez feat Marti Nikko

Loyal Royal - Sharu Mashup

Tubby Love - Come Back To The Garden

Tubby Love & The One Tribe Movement - IN THIS TOGETHER

DONATE: https://desertdwellersmusic.bandcamp.com/album/stand-with-us-to-bless-the-waters

“Stand With Us to Bless the Waters” is our prayer of solidarity for the Lakota Sioux Nation, & all the Water Protectors who have converged in North Dakota Standing Rock Reservation at the Dakota Access Pipeline. This is the first time in centuries that all the indigenous nations of Turtle Island (America) have come together in unity & guardianship for our Earth. This unprecedented tribal convergence has been catalyzed by the pipeline, but is representative of something much larger & more profound than a protest. 

In support for the situation in North Dakota, Amani Friend (Liquid Bloom) and Summit Jaffe (Numatik) were both separately inspired to create music for water and prayer.  Coincidentally, the two tracks were both finished at the same time on fall equinox and they were also written in the same key, making it ideal to interweave them into a one unified piece of music. While sitting in the New Mexico Hot Springs after Unify festival, Amani and Summit had the inspiration to curate this remix album. Producers from all over the world, like Earth Cry, Mystral, Soulacybin, Martin’s Garden, Ecometric, Gumi, and Twin Shape added their unique psychedelic downtempo flavors. Native elders like Black Fox Pomani, and Yona FrenchHawk imbued the music with intentional water prayers. United together, we humbly offer this medicinal musical journey in support and healing. Water is Life! 

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All of the money raised from this release will be donated to the 
community at Standing Rock, through the crowdfunding 
campaign: fundrazr.com/d19fAf?ref=sh_25rPQa 

To find out more about how you can help and support, 
go to www.SacredStoneCamp.org

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Numatik (ft. Yona FrenchHawk & David Brown) - Stand With Us

The second in a series of remixes of Rising Appalachia songs by band member David Brown. Inspired by the Pacific Northwest and a live collaboration that happened there with Trevor Hall, it's a reflection of the spacious and harmonic performance that happened. There's a subtle nod to Mr Macklemore, as well. Follow CASTANEA here and at /castaneasounds on FB/Instagram/Bandcamp to catch and download next month's remix.

Novels of Acquaintance Remix

We wrote this song 4 years ago and its meaning is even more poignant. it's about the pending natural disaster of the Cascadian Subduction Zone shifting off the coast of Oregon and causing a catastrophic earthquake that could end us all in the NW. The world is currently overtaken by greed and money and natural disasters. As we wrote this song, we imagined a good hearted couple surviving the disaster, starting over from scratch and rebuilding their lives with their own 2 hands, and this time greed doesn't win, and a different world is born. It's interesting to hear this song so stripped down as just a duo, i think it's more about the story this way. ~ Laurie Shook

Shake

Liquid Bloom - ReGen Drumspyder Remixes

The final installment in the Liquid Bloom Re:Generations series comes courtesy of Bay Area percussionist Scott Sterling. A longtime collaborator of Desert Dwellers, and staple in the psychedelic and global bass scene, Drumspyder brings a rich, acoustic warmth and depth to his remixes with layers of percussive snap that makes you feel like you're right there with him in the studio.

Taking on two Liquid Bloom tunes which feature powerful vocalists and fellow deep-rooted members of the Desert Trax community, “Resonant Migration” with Deya Dova pulses with vibrant kit drumming, and “Jaguar Dreaming” with Ixchel Prisma reverberates with each thud of the hand against those taut skin frames.

available on Desert Trax on July 20th

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Resonant Migration(Drumspyder Remix) Feat Deya Dova

Wheel of Time

The Code of the Flowers

Ivory Tongue

Somewhere in the space between Alan Watts and Aesop Rock, Atmosphere and Allen Ginsberg, Kahlil Ghibran and Kendrick Lamar...

There is a special place.

A place where the majestic backdrop of boom bap 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.