A collaboration between Solar Sound brothers Kaleidofox and Zen Tempest.

Based on the 'Kaleidofox - Purple Flame' submission for the Cymatics' Zodiac beat contest.

Follow: @kaleidofox

Lyrics:

See, If ascension had
A sound then it would
Certainly be this…

Surfing on the
Streamlined currents
Of my bliss...

Currently immersed
Within my purpose
Which is this:

Serving the emergence
Of eternity
With gifts…

That were given
Of the infinite
Delivered back in kind…

Mastering of heart
Proceeds the mastery
Of mind…

As it’s lower
On the totem pole
That’s stacked within the spine…

Which originates
Deep within the base
That we climb…

Like a vine
That arises
With a hunger for the sun…

Something like
39 lives til
I’m done…

Since I’m
Undead, I’ma live life
While alive…

Battle cry sounds
Summin sorta like
Like thrive…

-

Thrive...
Everybody thrive with me, thrive…

Vibes...
Everybody vibe with me, vibe…

Tribe...
Homie if you vibe then we tribe…

Everyone alive with me thrive with me… Thrive...

-

See, I’ve lived my life
On my own terms
And I don’t have regrets…

I sit and watch the
Ashes burn,
And laugh with every breath…

I’ve had my share
Of challenges
And everyone I’ve met…

With a certain sort
Of balance that’s
Demanding of respect…

And I’ve had it
With the madness
That is rampant in these streets…

It’s absolutely plastic,
And I’d rather
Be a beast…

Rather be a rapper
Than a pastor
Or a priest…

So I sit beneath
The canopy and
Gander at the leaves…

As they fall down,
Bathe me in serenity and peace…

Willingly Submitting
To the seasons, I release…

Every single side of me
That isn’t worth the cost...

Child of America,
You know that I’ve been lost…

But I’m not that,
Or at least that isn’t all I am…

Every single prison wall
Was built upon this land...

Integrate my visions
With the rhythms of the dance…

That is older than the
Sickness that we have....

God damn...

-
 Thrive...
Everybody thrive with me, thrive…

Vibes...
Everybody vibe with me, vibe…

Tribe...
Homie if you vibe then we tribe…

Everyone alive with me thrive with me… Thrive...

🙏

Zen Tempest X Kaleidofox - Thrive

Welcome to the Ship...

Instrumental by David Michael Tardy / DMT / Sees The Day

Starship Zero

The latest collaboration between lyricist Zen Tempest and producer CHiEF, featuring guitar by Jordan Latini, this track is a window into the mind of a man during his personal journey of transformation. 

This track draws heavily from the wisdom of indigenous peoples and plant medicines from Central, South, and North America. It speaks to the ways these cultures and their knowledge impact, guide, and transform seekers of health and healing today.

The song asks us to consider what legacies we come from and what legacies we seek to perpetuate through our actions, lifestyles, and mentalities. 

Hope you enjoy family. 

Much love,
Zen

<3

Zen Chief Hennessey

Time Capsules (Prod. by CHiEF)

Yo!

What's up family.

I don’t know about all of you… 
But I am feeling inspired right now! 

🔥 🔥 🔥 

It feels like I’ve been sitting on a near infinite wellspring of artistic and creative energy.  So much so that I just gotta do something with it. So, I am.

I’m going to make music.

More specifically, I’m going to record an album, one track at a time, and release it in real time.    This track is the first track in that series of releases. {Credit to MP Beats on the track.}

For the next 16 days, I’m going to record, mix, and release a new song every other day, such that by the end of this month I will have a brand new album of music.

~~~

Why am I doing this?

Because music is awesome. And I am a musician. A rapper to be more specific.

Or at least, I say I am, haha.   But the truth is, that even though I feel like I am constantly creating new music, I’ve been in a bit of an artistic rut.

Too much of my my time, money, and artistic energy is going into the processes of coordinating with mixing and mastering engineers, listening to mixes again and again, working with graphic designers, making beats, etc.

Now, don’t get me wrong, these things are important! But the truth is, I’m impatient. While I have A LOT of good things on the way, there is a part of me that just wants to give you all something to hear right NOW.

I’m ready, willing, and present to do the damn thing I’m here to do, which is not only to create music, but to share what I have created with the world, so that it can be received and cherished.

I want to inspire and move you with music. In order to do that though, I have to put it out there.

I want you to hear what I make. I want you to hear what I make as if I am a small child who just wants to show you the painting I made at school today, yes. A part of me wants to be seen and appreciated for the beauty I create.

But I also want you to hear the music I am making FOR YOU.   

Because I believe the music I make has VALUE to offer the world. Because I believe music can actually help you, heal you, uplift you, inspire you, rekindle something inside of you, or stoke that flame which is already burning brightly.

~~~

So, it goes like this.   I responded to a call from the universe. I bought a mixtape of beats from a producer online (at an incredibly reasonable price, I might add) and I am about to let loose on it. I’m about to paint my heart out.

I am going to do my best to bring you a polished product, yes, but I will also be allowing myself to fully disregard the over analytical inner critic that so often sabotages my creative nature. I am going to allow myself to express myself in an inhabited fashion, and share it with you all in its rawest most pure form.

~~~

So, if you love me, if you love music, if you love the unfolding of the artistic process, then come on this journey with me. Listen to what I put out there in the coming two weeks.

Like it. Engage with it. Share it with somebody you love. And, if you don’t like it, that’s cool too.

I can’t expect to hit a home run every time. I accept that what I make may not be medicine for everyone out there.

Thanks for your time, attention and energy.  Wishing you love and alignment on your life journey.

Peace,  ZT

Source Codes

And the saga continues…  

This is the 3rd installment in my challenge to record, mix, and release a new song every other day for a two week period. 

And I gotta say, this is the first song so far that has actually felt like it was a 'challenge' for me.   

This song was definitely a journey for me to create, but I feel really stoked about what ultimately emerged.

This song isn’t perfect… But fuck it. 

  My goal in this life is participation, not perfectionism. 

That’s the whole point of this challenge in the first place -

To simply create.

~~~

Without further ado, may I present to you:  

The Magician

~~~

{Shoutout to MP Beats on the track.}  

~~~

  Much love y’all.

🙏 ❣ 🔥

The Magician

This is track #5 in my challenge to record and release a new track every 48 hours for a two week period.

{Shoutout to MP Beats on the track}

Osmosis is a term describing a tendency in the molecules of a solvent, such as water, to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one, thus equalizing the concentrations on each side of the membrane.

It is a chemical process that occurs in order to achieve balance, stability, equalization, and harmony.

Since we are mostly water, this term applies to us. As living beings, we are constantly inhaling and exhaling hydrogen and oxygen, losing and gaining appropriate molecules in order to find equanimity within our constantly shifting human organism.

The term is often applied in regard to our capacity as human beings to absorb knowledge and information from our surrounding environment.

In a metaphoric sense, it speaks to our longing and desire for proper alignment with the universal force that has been described as the Tao, or the ever evolving flux of the present moment. To exist in harmony with the natural order of the Tao is to be constantly engaged in this dance of harmonious equilibrium.

We receive, and so we shall give. We live, and so we shall die.

This is an inherent and natural process that occurs in an essentially perfect and coherent manner, one that the logical mind can scarcely comprehend... but it is constantly happening none the less.

🙏

Osmosis

This track is an ode to the nomad inside all of us.

Because every one of us is on an odyssey...

{Shoutout to MP Beats on the track}

Odyssey

The word Apotheosis refers to the highest point in the development of something; the pinnacle, apex, culmination or climax. 

It often refers particularly to a human being having a direct experience of their divinity or God/Goddess Nature.

Visual Art:
'Apotheosis of Hope'  by Michael Divine

Apotheosis

Almost every CD I loved growing up had a bonus track on it...

A hidden gem, a special extra moment at the end of the 'actual' album as a treat and surprise for everyone who made it to the end of the record.

This song, a molten meditation on the beauty of life, is the 'bonus track' from my forthcoming release 'Zenith' which I recorded this past November. (Watch out for it on all major platforms soon...)

I hope it blesses your day and your life.

Love, 
ZT

Miracle

You are the one infinite intelligence masquerading as a singular separate self.

May you dream vividly, powerfully, and beautifully.

May you remember.

🦋

Instrumental ~ Like Water by Colbert

A New Dream

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.

Odyssey

Zen Tempest

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