tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76872209123124358572024-02-07T17:47:30.188-08:00SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEDeath of The Single Story.SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-38142814762605457772019-12-30T14:22:00.003-08:002019-12-30T14:30:44.743-08:00Host an Intimate Listening of the upcoming Album, 'Jaws of Life'After several years in the making, my second official full length album is at last ready to enter the world. ‘Jaws of Life’, in collaboration with master beat-maker Serebellum One, is like an audio sculpture, with layers of production and input from an impressive, unexpected team of musicians. Serebellum provided the driving thrust of instrumentation and I went on to write and record the songs. Jason Peterson DeLaire, disciple of the Minneapolis Sound pioneered by Prince, contributed galaxies of synths the collection of anthems and ballads. Finally, classically trained songstress Katherine Parent offered washes of haunting, ethereal vocals. As if that wasn't enough, Dameun Strange adds a bit of other wordly synth on 'Dandelions', and Tish Jones as a poignant poem on 'All Will Be Free'. I would be so honored to share a preview of this new work with you!<br />
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‘Jaws of Life’ takes off with the metaphor of an auto accident with a song written while my papá was in the hospital after suddenly losing his ability to walk. Through the lens of the ensuing wreckage, the album views the crises of our personal, social, and political lives: The fleeting thoughts that pass as everything is smashed in slow motion, the hopelessness of lying in the aftermath, and the possibility of liberation. The album plays as an earnest response to our bleak time, yet is filled with joy, passion, and a patient, realistic, and soft determination for survival.<br />
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Full of moments that range from apocalyptic to booty-shaking playfulness, ‘Jaws of Life’ is a psychedelic death trip that seduces us back into our bodies to fight until our time truly comes. It’s an out-of-body, life-after-death call to hope. The type of hope that makes you spit out blood and reach out to whatever is near to help you out of a dire situation; clawing, kicking, and screaming for life. ‘Jaws of Life’ isn’t an album that will tell you everything’s gonna be ok. In fact, it fully acknowledges that all things will most certainly come to an end, and when that time does indeed arrive, that we can be ok in letting go.<br />
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At these events, an audience consisting of a host or co-hosts and their friends, family, and colleagues will listen to the album, and be invited into discourse about the music, it’s themes, and our lives. The hope is to introduce the album as a facilitation of honest, healing conversation about the challenges we face as individuals and as a people, providing the opportunity to listen and be heard while we ease a little pain and grow a little stronger in our communities.<br />
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Contact me if you're interested!SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-86426088997895030832019-12-30T13:04:00.002-08:002019-12-30T13:08:13.655-08:00Refocusing on Visual a Visual arts Practice: New Energy for an Old Habit<br />
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: #e06666; font-family: "calibri light" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">My life is alotta bass ‘n’ alotta
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canela</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For a poet and musical artist already on the fringe, even lesser known is my upbringing in, passion for, and continuing practice of visual art. This is the visual language of poetry poetry, mind, and spirituality. Working mostly in line drawing and lettering from a graffiti background, my work explores the line between poetry and visual art. Often including language as visual form, messages can be drawn from the words themselves of course, but also the layers and cosmology each piece creates for itself. Intimate details establish rules of engagement with the piece that follow lines of thought, leading the viewer a bit closer to their own moment of epiphany. Sometimes in your face (literally and figuratively; with mirrors becoming a favorite backdrop for for pieces), sometimes nuanced to a point nearing obscurity, every piece is an honest expression of self, the world, and the myriad relationships between. Even more than a reflection though, My work is about intention, possibility, and empathy. I know folks may not catch everything the first time; and that's cool with me. The pieces can be viewed in a glance or returned to for more. It’s art that provides something different to every viewer; something that urges another step toward compassion, self-love, and progress of the human condition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From about as far back as I can remember, I’ve always been led by
art on this path of life. I’ve been moved by the healing found in storytelling,
the strength in creating a voice, and the power of self-discovery. Some of my
earliest memories are of my mother telling stories about the stars and the
universe, or my father’s game in getting me to ask how much he loved me, so
that he could answer, “Hasta el cielo mijo” (to the heavens, my son”). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whether my father’s Mariachi vinyl, his Ranchero tapes, my
mother’s Beatles collection, or the persistent array of radio waves in our home
and in the car, music has been a part of me since birth. That music filled me
with inspiration to discover and create my own narratives - Before I developed
the ability to write poetry, <i>I drew it</i>. I was compelled to tell my own
stories, even without the words to share them. As I matured, those themes and visual
narratives created a universe of imagination, culture, and empowerment. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I grew up alongside hip hop, and eventually we became one as I
continued to marinate in the Twin Cities hip hop scene, and eventually that of Chicago.
I came to live on that thin line of writing and developing my own <i>hand-style</i>,
the hip hop art of calligraphy. My characters (both in terms of lettering and
otherwise) represented aspects of self, culture, personal identity, and what’s
more; everything I <i>hoped</i> for. Hip Hop became my lens, mirror and my
loudspeaker. I’ve labored over the tender swoop of letters in words full of
frus</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">tration and hope. as I practiced this art that reclaims space and refuses
imposed narratives of invisibility. It’s because of hip hop that I discovered I
could be my own artist. I used these words and beats to process and evaluate
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I spend my life studying and practicing my craft within
communities steeped in long traditions hip-hop and poetry. I spend my time
discovering and exercising my voice to create something outside the lines, while
pointing audiences in that direction for themselves. I create inspired art with
purpose and joy. I aspire to open doors of creativity, history, culture,
humanity, and justice. I create to teach, to learn, and to inspire. There’s
always another perspective to see, and I hope to share angles and vantages that
can improve our relationships with our world, each other, and ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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difficulty. At the same time, it’s been full of blessings and creativity. Art
has always been a spiritual practice for me, but it’s continued to become a
deeper way to create living prayer. Pieces dedicated to my cousin who passed
away, my mom who was diagnosed with cancer, and my dying cat, have helped me
focus grief and hope. The day after I spent the day working on a piece as a
prayer for my mom and my cat, I discovered that on that same day, my mom had
been to the doctor and learned that she was in remission. I was able to share
the piece dedicated to my cousin with our grieving family and spark cherished
memories of coffee shops, markers, philosophy, and wild, fun ideas. My dear cat
also ended up leaving us, though the stories and art she’s inspired preserve
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As a working artist I’m always searching for ways my art can be
experienced and acknowledged while making a living. This grant would help
recover from the loss incurred from trying to heal my cat before realizing the
situation couldn’t be remedied. What’s more, this opportunity would help signal
boost the work I do as a visual artist. It can be difficult breaking through
conceptions of the work you do when people put you in a category. This grant
would come at a time where I’m connecting to more opportunities and expanding
people’s view of what I do and offer. I’ve done a handful of commissions
recently, one of which was an indoor mural at a local business. I’m in the
right place and time in my own development and craft to take a step forward and
more deeply connect with reaches of the art community. More than that though, I
am realizing my potential as I continue the journey of embodying the hip hop
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f4cccc; font-size: 12pt;">I'm so delighted to share this news with y'all! December 12th at 6:30pm, I'll be hosting the premiere of a three-part music video suite from the album Sex Tape (featuring beats by Nye), a sex positive EP about healthy sexuality, consent, and burning down the patriarchy. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f4cccc; font-size: 12pt;">The evening will feature the new videos as well as a community conversation with directors SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE and JMaki Maki, collaborators MagnifiKat and Ryan Stopera, and special guests filmmaker/educator Adja Gildersleve and sex educator Jacki Trelawny.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f4cccc; font-size: 12pt;">Moderated by Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre. Arrive early for a community mingling to the sounds of DJ TaliaKnight right at 6:30.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f4cccc; font-size: 12pt;">Each magically real video takes place in a different aspect of the cultural heart/mind/spirit of society. 'Dude Interrupted' shows a conversation between See More and people and places under the influence of rape culture and misogyny. 'Funny Bone' takes place in a religious service of sorts and explores the inner relationships with different aspects of one persons identity and sexuality. Finally, in ‘Our Love', Ananya Chatterjea of Ananya Dance Theatre becomes the divine feminine, re-balancing relationships in our hearts and mind with sexuality, each other, and ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f4cccc;">RSVP, share the event, and invite friends <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/466268170655787/" target="_blank">here.</a></span></span></div>
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SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-10125229212778175402018-12-05T14:51:00.001-08:002019-11-19T12:00:41.882-08:00Mini Midwest Tour: Taproot and Nandi's Knowledge Cafe, DetroitAfter a harrowing arrival and magical first night, I slept in and headed to a nearby coffee shop for way too much bomb, strong coffee and a little writing and admin time before things ensued for the evening.<br />
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I proceeded back to home base at Taproot Sanctuary where one of the house mates was throwing night two of her birthday party. I helped in the kitchen by mostly cutting up some fresh mango and cracking jokes, then hopped in bed for a power nap. When I woke up, I ran a few pieces by candlelight, and slinkied down the stairs into some fresh ponche and a lively group of lovely people celebrating their friend. Word spread that I was an artist and they asked me to share something, so I kicked 'Pyramids'. We then dug into the layers of metaphor of that piece, and chatted and laughed and learned about each other a bit. By the way, Taproot is an intentional community living space where they strive to have a small ecological footprint, hence all the talk about candlelight. They filter rain water and do all sorts of other cool, environmentally conscious stuff there as well. Apparently they're even part of a network of POC homes living somewhere on a spectrum of off the power grid. I can't say enough about how dope it is, but I'll try ;)<br />
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I gotta say how <i>not</i> jarring it is to stay in a place that almost exclusively uses candlelight. It felt so natural meeting people in that intimate, twinkling place. It most certainly had a lot to do with the light in and between the people in that space (celebrating a birthday, no less), but there really is something to be said about social interactions surrounded by candles. I know I'm someone who prefers darker spaces as it is, and that I'm really comfortable wrapping myself in complete darkness, even when I'm not preparing for slumber. Still, I think there's an element of peeling back layers between us, and the bit of magic that feels much more free in that soft, warm light. It's like the little sprites of our auras feel more at ease to come out and play.xsdx<br />
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So with that, I launched into the evening at Nandi's for the tri-video premiere, performance and QnA with Will See and GMAC. Nandi's is a Detroit institution, and recently moved from a much smaller place they had been for over a decade, if I understand it correctly. The new place is a big, open, and welcoming space full of wall to wall books and gorgeous African masks that Nandi herself has been collecting for over thirty years. Apparently, she has a warehouse full of masks that she accumulated through relationships with people who brought them from small towns throughout Africa. Most of them have been used in ceremonies in their respective villages. <i>And</i> they have a kitchen.<br />
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Stepping into that spot was all love as an inter-generational crowd slowly gathered for the video, performance, and conversation to come. Everyone killed the performances, the videos were super on point, and we enjoyed some powerful statements from the crowd about social change. One elder in the house was celebrating his birthday, and honored and humbled us by choosing to celebrate it with us, mentioning that he hadn't enjoyed a weekend birthday in years and years. From his wheelchair, oxygen at his side, Baba Baxter spoke about how inspired he is by the work people are doing and the energy people have right now to make a difference. He said he hasn't seen this type of activism, and community work since the 60's. In fact, he noted that people haven't shown up to vote in these numbers in Detroit since 1968. After the crowd sang happy birthday, he closed by saying that even if he doesn't live to see the change we're all working toward, he'll be with us in spirit when we do achieve it. And on that note, I began my set.<br />
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Performing for a mix of youth, OG activists, and young socially engaged peoples from all over Detroit was one thing...but performing to that crowd along with the collective spirit of the authors and craftspeople (and all that their work represents) was like performing across time to so many past global community members and ancestors. Nandi and her friends vibed with us all night and stayed the latest, smoking in the back and dancing front and center. They were delightful, and I loved chatting with them and learning more about the space and community there. In a way, they also showed what it can mean to be an elder in community with younger generations.<br />
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Prelude:The day before I left I screen printed a bunch of merch and even made a bit of jewelry. After teaching me how to screen print by hand last year, Katherine invited me to her studio at Redeemer (her church and an important part of our community in North Minneapolis), where I helped her put the finishing touches on a screen press build (!). Once we figured that out with any instructions, it made quick work of the printing, and I gotta say, this batch looks even better than the last. I then went home and dove into the jewelry supply box and started creating. I stayed up entirely too late, but really dig the pieces I came up with. It was all a bit of a freestyle, and I'm still experimenting and learning, but I personally dig what I'm comin' up with...someone else has gotta feel it too, right? So the next day, I scraped myself together and barely made it out of the door. I stopped for a bag of sambusa and a burger (from the new spot on Glenwood which is a+), and while I waited, ended up buildin' with the owners Sara and Osman. Sara has been cooking at another spot over south for 17 years, and has lived over North for decades, so she's finally making the leap and running her own kitchen. Osman talked about bringin' art into the space and how he's tryin' put people on from the neighborhood. While that took way longer than I anticipated, the food was bomb and I had what I needed to cover me for the first part of the trip along with some apples and some random jello my pops gave me (lol). It was snowing and rush hour was just getting started...<br />
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Yo...after 9 hours for a 6.5 hour trip through terrible road conditions, a few terrifying moments with semis, and a path littered with spun out cars, crashes, and emergency vehicles, I made it to my overnight stay, and got back on the road yesterday, beautiful cup of coffee in hand and bomb breakfast sambusa (just sambusa for breakfast) waiting for me. *Then I realized I was losing an hour in Detroit and made a harrowing arrival *just in time for a delightful workshop with a dope circle of humans. I did my pyramids workshop on identity and opening up moments of our story through poetry for <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=1916952371874822&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R-R-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARDKx-ZHd3jjct1-eZNSzK4xqODkEu4ZLjk8PnppfrsuO6Xaa2OJM25ijngxo7oyUDm6Woj48f-7k6CP%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D&av=115477083327&eav=AfYEn3gD0pI-Rkiad2cNfePgJx8XJWp_QhGb7N9ktwUTy0pxLMOr2ubWrteJzkNUh0E" href="https://www.facebook.com/RiverwiseMagazine/?__tn__=K-R-R-R-R&eid=ARDKx-ZHd3jjct1-eZNSzK4xqODkEu4ZLjk8PnppfrsuO6Xaa2OJM25ijngxo7oyUDm6Woj48f-7k6CP&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARBaoIKmPYjpU8OMsbq-PKMF0YJobIldikRYr4LHKTuvuGnD3S25kF6jwEhWPeeptjdbqhVWpV02Yq92FMysSAFplFNZRZbb5WSkvhvYhRF_CWw_Q4CJqgVvSf4nN-DQDGzgDogXEPfPH09lVk57fltXbbP0cbJ0DwqAUlvEjJNFfBOqjmR8SmyynDYnNsm1BvrWWC92-iSCsJR8RqEyn0BX5MxtjDC2uBT0Z2o591anbk2dvMoqvBVW_vuNoSF6aYiTRWqcq5Shl3SvhRvk_woCOWJQcojEgG4CpGtsYT2HEQ8dvcWMTXpCQg" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Riverwise Magazine</a> at <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=294666483883402&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R-R-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARDMnq1jZbqieiuVKn5fxPLBlX1VA13iGp0vHM8MtPxX8B0Fro9-2h6dAD9uHEjBoK6szXGMBdRHhGce%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D&av=115477083327&eav=AfaQZ0EufmTqBWsOVQmaRxrvgyN2Eh3AfPoUG6tQveeNsl9QMi7mEQOa1AbWNZZcYck" href="https://www.facebook.com/Cass-Corridor-Commons-294666483883402/?__tn__=K-R-R-R-R&eid=ARDMnq1jZbqieiuVKn5fxPLBlX1VA13iGp0vHM8MtPxX8B0Fro9-2h6dAD9uHEjBoK6szXGMBdRHhGce&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARBaoIKmPYjpU8OMsbq-PKMF0YJobIldikRYr4LHKTuvuGnD3S25kF6jwEhWPeeptjdbqhVWpV02Yq92FMysSAFplFNZRZbb5WSkvhvYhRF_CWw_Q4CJqgVvSf4nN-DQDGzgDogXEPfPH09lVk57fltXbbP0cbJ0DwqAUlvEjJNFfBOqjmR8SmyynDYnNsm1BvrWWC92-iSCsJR8RqEyn0BX5MxtjDC2uBT0Z2o591anbk2dvMoqvBVW_vuNoSF6aYiTRWqcq5Shl3SvhRvk_woCOWJQcojEgG4CpGtsYT2HEQ8dvcWMTXpCQg" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Cass Corridor Commons</a> (connected to me by <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100003747971861&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R-R-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARAGkXBxkNOspXtCtjJMfK7c_tq_-youGOzB5TLK_pv1bdU76meBMVAJR_ZNktfgJlGW-r4ogvwrGpAx%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D&av=115477083327&eav=Afbk3qHp_dRdyA3tjkdvH0qqEdN0wYxrh2Im77voxmMVE2uw24KQiif_08f5EZ-g8Bc" href="https://www.facebook.com/will.poetmc?__tn__=K-R-R-R-R&eid=ARAGkXBxkNOspXtCtjJMfK7c_tq_-youGOzB5TLK_pv1bdU76meBMVAJR_ZNktfgJlGW-r4ogvwrGpAx&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARBaoIKmPYjpU8OMsbq-PKMF0YJobIldikRYr4LHKTuvuGnD3S25kF6jwEhWPeeptjdbqhVWpV02Yq92FMysSAFplFNZRZbb5WSkvhvYhRF_CWw_Q4CJqgVvSf4nN-DQDGzgDogXEPfPH09lVk57fltXbbP0cbJ0DwqAUlvEjJNFfBOqjmR8SmyynDYnNsm1BvrWWC92-iSCsJR8RqEyn0BX5MxtjDC2uBT0Z2o591anbk2dvMoqvBVW_vuNoSF6aYiTRWqcq5Shl3SvhRvk_woCOWJQcojEgG4CpGtsYT2HEQ8dvcWMTXpCQg" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">William Whole Note</a> and <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/collectivewisdomdetroit?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARBaoIKmPYjpU8OMsbq-PKMF0YJobIldikRYr4LHKTuvuGnD3S25kF6jwEhWPeeptjdbqhVWpV02Yq92FMysSAFplFNZRZbb5WSkvhvYhRF_CWw_Q4CJqgVvSf4nN-DQDGzgDogXEPfPH09lVk57fltXbbP0cbJ0DwqAUlvEjJNFfBOqjmR8SmyynDYnNsm1BvrWWC92-iSCsJR8RqEyn0BX5MxtjDC2uBT0Z2o591anbk2dvMoqvBVW_vuNoSF6aYiTRWqcq5Shl3SvhRvk_woCOWJQcojEgG4CpGtsYT2HEQ8dvcWMTXpCQg&__tn__=%2ANK-R-R-R-R" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="font-family: inherit; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: inherit;">CollectiveWisdomDetroit</span></span></a>). A lovely elderly woman incidentally offered the most insightful and profound feedback on the workshop, and I was so honored and moved to be in community there. After everything it took to get here, I knew this was right.<br />
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It's been a slow start today, but I'm enjoying my time and getting a little work done as I prepare for tonight's performance and video premiere of 'So Called Prez' at <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=346045723389&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R-R-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARByVFlpG11smUeBfq-q616PDuA3iznp5Ae6Jxc4Xd1Z1qPMG9TBftJXfW4n_gfhTAXzybKB8IomjqIx%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D&av=115477083327&eav=AfYLF9zfhOJv3PW1ljUdG9WpOVhkqjO_WzH75lcxSsoj4O0oMxDwVxPyN2gu8-WR2Hs" href="https://www.facebook.com/NANDIS-KNOWLEDGE-CAFE-346045723389/?__tn__=K-R-R-R-R&eid=ARByVFlpG11smUeBfq-q616PDuA3iznp5Ae6Jxc4Xd1Z1qPMG9TBftJXfW4n_gfhTAXzybKB8IomjqIx&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARBaoIKmPYjpU8OMsbq-PKMF0YJobIldikRYr4LHKTuvuGnD3S25kF6jwEhWPeeptjdbqhVWpV02Yq92FMysSAFplFNZRZbb5WSkvhvYhRF_CWw_Q4CJqgVvSf4nN-DQDGzgDogXEPfPH09lVk57fltXbbP0cbJ0DwqAUlvEjJNFfBOqjmR8SmyynDYnNsm1BvrWWC92-iSCsJR8RqEyn0BX5MxtjDC2uBT0Z2o591anbk2dvMoqvBVW_vuNoSF6aYiTRWqcq5Shl3SvhRvk_woCOWJQcojEgG4CpGtsYT2HEQ8dvcWMTXpCQg" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">NANDI'S KNOWLEDGE CAFE'</a>. I am so spent, but also feeling so very blessed.<br />
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SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-33910858311975381342017-10-25T10:30:00.001-07:002017-10-25T10:34:17.082-07:00New Video: 'Dude, Interrupted'<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/boE6T1zzVbo" width="560"></iframe></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over the past week, women across the country have shared stories of harassment and gender violence, and one of many important questions to come from that is "what is the responsibility of men to do something about it?" Because there is power in witnessing, in listening, and in critical self-reflection, but there are also limits to that power. At some point, men need to start holding one another accountable, in real, concrete ways, for their words and actions.
"Dude, Interrupted" is not a five-point manifesto for how to do that. Rather, it's a snapshot of what that work can look like, in the moment, in real life. Taken from SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE'S "Sex Tape" album (an exploration of consent, healthy sexuality, and the importance of sex ed), the song models just how important it is for men to interrupt and disrupt sexism wherever and whenever it manifests-- even when it's uncomfortable, even when it doesn't "work" right away. These conversations-- about the connection between "small" thoughts/words/actions, and the larger realities of harassment, discrimination, rape culture, and violence-- are a crucial step in the process. Talk about it and be about it. We can all do so much better.
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<span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Listen to the full album, </span><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://seemoremusic.bandcamp.com/album/sex-tape-or-my-response-to-our-morbidly-underdeveloped-sex-education" title="SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE, TWIN CITIES, HIP HOP, Twin Cities Hip Hop, Nye, Sex tape, Sex ed, sex education, art, saint paul music, Minneapolis music, Minneapolis hip hop, Boom Bap, city pages, top five mn music videos, patriarchy, rape culture"><strong>'Sex Tape'</strong></a> and learn more at <a href="http://www.seemoreperspective.com/" target="_blank">the SEE-site</a></span></span></span>SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-3191411492251739082017-05-17T21:05:00.001-07:002017-10-25T09:43:07.905-07:00A Tale of My Time Traveling CatSo, I'm not feeling well tonight. My body's prolly tellin' me to chill, and today was especially stressful...emotional, really.
Bootsy Cat, my dear friend, copilot, and time traveling cat from the future, went missing and it was really hard on me. I feared she went back to the future and I was. not. Ready.
I woke up and knew something was off. No meowing, no adorable head butts. I didn't trip, she does other things. She has her life. I poured her food, cooked and ate breakfast. She never sauntered in for her meal. Such stillness, such quiet, consumed me.
Afterward with no sign of her whatsoever, I started freaking out a little, but told myself to chill. "Wait it out, big storms are scary, and when she's gotten scared in the past (pun intended---she's a time traveling cat from the future, do try and keep up) from a dog or something, she's found refuge in a nook or cranny.
I looked around the house, got my roommate involved in a search but tried not to trip. Checked out the yard, called out; nothing. I was shook, but still hoped for the best. Got emotional. "I'm not ready to say goodbye". Felt like it was going to be ok, but the thought still scared me...Went to a meeting. Ran mantras all day. Set intention. Scared, yet calm, hopeful.
Got home, called out, looked around; nothing. Looked in the closets, drawers, cabinets, under the couch, the whole deal; nothing. "My life will be totally different without her". But where could she have gone?? Doing the math of the previous evening, there was no way for her to have gotten outside.
Defeated and exhausted, I felt like a nap was in order. Told myself I'd keep praying and wake up and everything would be ok. Fell asleep repeating a mantra.
I woke up heart broken that she wasn't around...checked my phone.
"how long was I asleep now? A minute? An hour?"
Then I heard a knock on my bedroom door. It was my roommate.
"Can I come in?"
"Yeah", heart on the floor.
He opened the door...with Bootsy in his arms!! He says, "she was just there, in the kitchen, eating her food."SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-90911811077835337382017-04-07T09:56:00.002-07:002017-04-27T09:33:16.113-07:00New Video/Project Celebrates Cult Hit Cartoon Samurai Jack
Download the EP <a href="https://seemoremusic.bandcamp.com/album/see-more-eye-jack">here</a> <br><br>.
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In honor of the long awaited fifth season of Samurai Jack, SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE and his brother Nye cooked up a video that puts SEE MORE in the Samurai Jack universe...where he seems to be right at home as the titular character of their forthcoming EP, ‘SEE MORE EYE JACK’. Exploring future wastelands and cityscapes full of “watch bots”, sci-fi updated “chupacabras”, and “chainsaw-handed, fire-eyed peace droids”, SEE MORE draws biting parallels between our world and the world of Samurai Jack, where the shape shifting master of darkness, Aku’s “evil is law”. <br><br>
Coming off their last release SEXTAPE (Or My Response to Our Morbidly Underdeveloped Sex Education), this EP finds this producer/MC duo of Nye and SMP in top form, sharpening each other's talents with an array of sounds, styles, and storytelling. After creating a purple make-over of SEXTAPE, in honor of Prince, SEE MORE was honored with a Cedar Commission with cellist Eric Silva Brenneman. With that project, they blended elements of classical, hip hop, spoken word poetry, new mythologies and social allegories. It seems that some of those themes have followed SEE to this new project, where the action and sci-fi get turned up to epic, Samurai-Jack-like proportions.SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-53312515847616976962016-06-14T17:15:00.000-07:002016-07-15T16:35:57.687-07:00'Sex Tape in Purple' is Here, a Musical Conversation with PrinceIn honor of Prince, I humbly offer you 'Sex Tape in Purple', an overhaul of 'SEXTAPE', rerecorded over Prince music and interviews. Available now for FREE. GIve it a listen and please feel free to share/re-post, etc., those tweets, likes, and shares go further than you think. As always, your support is appreciated!<br />
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The story behind the album:
When Prince passed, I knew immediately that I’d need to create something to honor him. Not a cover, or a series of remixes, but something built off of his work somehow. In the days following his death, the rain came down as we all mourned, danced, and went digging into our memories and record collections. Along with the sun that followed, that rain brought purple flowers almost everywhere I went, even in the most random and unkempt places. On one occasion, as I pondered the poetry of the coincidence, driving away from a place where I had just seen such a patch of flowers, a friend and I needed to find a restroom. Where did we end up by pure chance and convenience? Prince Street. I had never even given the name of that street any attention, much less a second thought. Sure, these were innocent instances free of meaning other than what I was creating in my mourning.<br />
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The next day, on a beautiful sunny day that we all swore was the true beginning of spring, I went to pick up some records from storage. I haphazardly grabbed a stack of 45’s to bring back to the studio and I casually looked them over, having no idea what was in this particular stack, accumulated years ago. Among other things, I found the single for ‘When Doves Cry’, the first single released to promote the coming of ‘Purple Rain’ in 1984. Moved, I turned to my sister to show her what I had found with a frowny face. She asked me what the B-side was and I responded, “17 Days”, a song I was never familiar with (in fact, I had never even listened to this record, it was just one of the many cool records I found that patiently waited to find it’s time again)…that’s when she said, “Prince has been gone seventeen days”.
I brought the record home, admittedly a little in my feelings, and dropped the needle on it, first thing. The chorus? “Let the rain come down, let the rain come down, let the rain come down, now”…the beginning of the second verse? “You’ve been gone seventeen days and seventeen long nights”, *as the gorgeous spring day* outside was transformed into a torrential downpour outside my window. That’s when I knew I had to create this album; a tribute to Prince, a collaboration with The Artist, a collection of remixes exploring themes of sexuality, media, art, and message; all set to the sounds of this great musician.<br />
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I should note just how vital sampling is to Hip Hop history, music, and culture. Not just as a means to create without access to more traditional instruments, but as a way to remake our selves, to add-to and retell our stories, and to build upon and pay homage to the work of those that came before us. In this way, art and artist are reborn again and again. This offering skews the context of its inspiration, allowing us to see it in a new light.<br />
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So here you have it, ‘Sex Tape in Purple’, in honor-of, admiration-for, and tribute-to our beloved, fallen artist. Listen for the conversation between the ideas, sounds and feelings of his work and my last album. Imagine a young boy dancing to those songs, and using them as a sort of trampoline to leap from and land at his album, ‘Sex Tape’, so many years later. In producing, recording, and writing (in the case of the bonus track), this really felt like collaboration. While I knew right away that I wanted to sample his work (and interviews), there were a few moments when I wasn't sure if this project was the right thing. I didn’t want to come off as opportunistic…and how could I possibly pay tribute to an artist of such a unique and singular caliber? As I embarked on the creation of this project, there were signs along the way that made me feel like this was actually...well, I’ll just say it all fell into place. I hope you enjoy it.<br />
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Visit the <a title="SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE, TWIN CITIES, HIP HOP, Twin Cities Hip Hop, sex tape, sex Ed, sex education, education, art, saint paul music, Minneapolis music, Minneapolis hip hop, Minneapolis sound, Prince, the artist, Prince tribute" href="http://www.seemoreperspective.com/">SEE-site</a> for more awesomeness.SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-64928845634158292052016-06-07T13:22:00.000-07:002016-06-14T17:02:52.786-07:00HUGE Announcement/Leak About My New Top Secret Projectvia my instagram @mr_see:
<b>huge Announcement/leak on instagram, @mr_see!</b>
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<script async defer src="https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script>SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-72052629645679768842015-12-15T10:23:00.000-08:002015-12-15T12:23:41.165-08:00'Land of the Sandpeople' Music Video; Produced by Nye, Featuring Guante<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">As promised…a little something to celebrate the coming of the new Star Wars. </span><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Just in time for Episode 7, SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE presents “Land of the Sandpeople”<br /><br /><br /><br /> While there’s no shortage of reference-dropping sci-fi-oriented rap out there, few MCs have been able to bridge an authentic love for geek culture with an authentic love for hip hop like SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE does on “Land of the Sandpeople.” Produced by Nye and featuring a guest verse from fellow hip hop vet Guante, the track samples the iconic music associated with the Tusken Raiders, creating a bone-snappingly percussive backdrop for See More and Guante to trade punchlines that would be venomous with or without the Star Wars references.<br /><br /><br />HUGE shout out to my brother Daniel Rangel aka, "Nye" for producing the music and the video!</span>SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-16720120850375385982015-12-07T20:20:00.002-08:002015-12-31T14:42:29.271-08:00Introducing 'Juan Cholo and The New Millennium'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Having
just arrived through a vibrational lens in an undiscovered Mayan
temple, Juan Cholo and The New Millennium offer a blinding array of
multiversal boom bap. They bring light for the ears, sound for the
touch, and flavor for the spirit. This lyrical death blossom of
funk-driven, electro-fused, and battle tested hip hop is here to jump
start the infinite potential of your heartbeat. With an established
core of artists who've worked with the likes of Rhymesayers, Guante,
Dessa, and their brothers from another universe; Moors Blackmon, these
cats bring the best out of each other to create the crystal for the
lightsaber of your sound system. Featuring Kahlil Brewington on drums,
Ganzobean on sampling/synth duties, and SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE on vocals,
this powerhouse trio builds a laser-sharp-something larger than the sum
of its parts to take your listening experience to light speed. Hold on
to something. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I put the band together (thanks to encouragement from Kevin Haebeom Vollmers), and even I didn't know what to expect, or how this group would click. All I can say is...YO. Come see us.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Catch our first performance December 19th at The Cedar for Rock4Love Battle of the Bands.<a face=""arial" , sans-serif" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/411111565766092/%3Ehere%3C/a%3E%3C/font%3E%3Cfont%20color=" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" title="Juan Cholo and the New Millennium at The Cedar Minneapolis"></a></span><br />
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"A TWO NIGHT celebration of healthy sexuality and SEE MORE
PERSPECTIVE’s latest album! Featuring song, dance, rap, poetry, visual
art, live art, and at least sixteen kinds of sexiness. Come get down as
artists explore the great get down through varied and responsible
expressions of healthy sexuality, consent, feminism, and more. Curated by SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE"<br />
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two night event was smoother, better, and full of more love and energy
than I could have even hoped for. Everyone brought their A-game, and both
nights were so full of passion and talent, that it was amazing how fast it
all went by. How could that much dope art be so succinct?? We performed
to beautiful and generous crowds both nights in packed houses. I even
got a standing ovation! I was obviously doing all new material and I was
so heartened when I was encouraged to rock the pieces I was holding back
on, and felt the love when I missed a beat on one I was still grappling
with. All in all, it felt great and I couldn't have asked for a more
fitting experience to usher in the new album. If you haven't, please
check it out at the <a href="http://www.seemoreperspective.com/" title="SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE TWIN CITIES HIP HOP Twin Cities Hip Hop patricks cabaret Spoken Word Poetry SEXTAPE ">SEE-Site</a><br />
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I can not possibly offer enough thanks to the artists who made such a double event possible. Huge shouts to:<br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="fsl"><span class="text_exposed_show"><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1038002605&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A1632059017045700%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/chava.gabrielle" id="js_ga">Chava Gabrielle</a> </span></span></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="fsl"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span> <br /> <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=117470261615574&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A1632059017045700%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/GuanteSolo/">Guante</a><br /> <br /> <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1523245476&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A1632059017045700%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/Mog9089">Kenny Ngo</a><br /> <br /> <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=1442964139303981&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A1632059017045700%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/moorsblackmon/">Moors Blackmon</a><br /> <br /> <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1274400160&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A1632059017045700%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/trunglenguyen">Trung Lê Nguyễn</a> <br /> <br /> <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=693922195&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A1632059017045700%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/lisalynnberman">Lisa MonaLisa Berman</a> <br /> <br /> <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=13923091&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A1632059017045700%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/aliciaisbrown">Alicia Steele</a> <br /> <br /><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=159095611471&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A1632059017045700%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/kaoz612/">Kaoz</a> </span><br />
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of course so much Love to Mike Curran, Brave Crow, Sara Jo Lehrer, and Scott Artley
at Patrick's Cabaret for helping things run so smoothley, and for always
looking out for the crew and I. </span></span><br />
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<span class="fsl"><span class="text_exposed_show">Last but not least, a million thanks to </span></span>Nicholas Shafer for snappin' pics Friday night! Check them out below. Much Love.<br />
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SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-49005692844914565032015-06-29T11:41:00.001-07:002015-06-30T18:24:18.488-07:00'SEX TAPE': The Sex-Positive Hip Hop Album You Didn't Know You Were
Waiting For<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqjPqQnAxMk0ENnKaiJhA60crA9X0uvZRDsM8CqA9ETVtDvu0kCm8XPLX8P_16hIs8PjjT1ze4-MbTs-WNjbWks59yRonFFmiXU-KflBCApUKf4v1jhyphenhyphen7L95Eh1jowipeLx7aLVhOceCC3/s640/blogger-image--1841830179.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqjPqQnAxMk0ENnKaiJhA60crA9X0uvZRDsM8CqA9ETVtDvu0kCm8XPLX8P_16hIs8PjjT1ze4-MbTs-WNjbWks59yRonFFmiXU-KflBCApUKf4v1jhyphenhyphen7L95Eh1jowipeLx7aLVhOceCC3/s640/blogger-image--1841830179.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE_GI_ajhxxHyvH3VQoFAmc137b9RzZw1i4Zt-E3s_ZbQ-g9MKOP3o3hTAEFq7p3M13ksOB11gEU2RR4DcQeIk7CA9wBib37nJVP7sP64pnuTajBEQ626RBaoV5-1M6gizNm5XR6Uh01xk/s640/blogger-image--13813905.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE_GI_ajhxxHyvH3VQoFAmc137b9RzZw1i4Zt-E3s_ZbQ-g9MKOP3o3hTAEFq7p3M13ksOB11gEU2RR4DcQeIk7CA9wBib37nJVP7sP64pnuTajBEQ626RBaoV5-1M6gizNm5XR6Uh01xk/s640/blogger-image--13813905.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's finally here! After teasing out the smallest bit of information about my latest "Top Secret Project" the last few months (and several years in the making), it is finally available for your aural pleasure!</span></p><div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I’m so thrilled to be revealing the brand new 'SEX TAPE', RIGHT NOW! I seriously can’t tell you how proud I am of this album; The beats, the guests, it’s just too much. I COULD HARDLY STAND KEEPING IT A SECRET FOR SO LONG. If you’ve ever loved me, if you’ve ever cared; or even if you’ve ever hated me, and never cared, give it a listen. If you like it, buy it. If you love it, share the link, and buy it for your loved ones. If you hate it, buy it for your enemies, and send the link to people you have zero respect or tolerance for. Either way, it’s definitely some of my best work yet, and I believe it deserves a shot at your ears, your mind, your spirit, and your imagination. Truly.</span></p></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Read more about the new album, and <a href="http://www.seemoreperspective.com/sex-tape/" style="word-wrap: break-word;">stream/download/share from here.</a></span></div><br></div>SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-72712479507104308982015-04-29T07:46:00.001-07:002015-04-29T07:46:18.946-07:00Addressing unchecked ignorance about the founding and history of the
United States in a comment on Facebook<div>I just saw someone post the following: </div><div><br></div><div>"Isn't looting not really protest? ...anyone lucky enough to have made it to the United States should feel blessed, that's all I have to say."</div><div><br></div><div>Anyone out there agree with that? It was hard for me to grasp that this is a point of view a lot of people relate with...and that's a huge part of the problem.</div><div><br></div><div>I thought I'd post my response in case others might benefit from it. If you are someone who thinks this way, please dig deep. I'm not being condescending, either, our future depends on you. Dig deep, reflect on where this idea comes from, and learn. Really, where do you get these ideas? Did you come to this conclusion by looking at all the facts? By having discussions and figuring out what felt right and what seemed wrong? As people just trying to make it in this world, we simply don't know everything. We can't. It's ok that we don't. But it's important that we listen to those who know about things where our own knowledge lacks. It's vital that we LEARN.</div><div><br></div><div>Enslaved people shipped as cargo to the United States were not "lucky" just to be here. Their descendants, who are murdered in the streets, in public, on camera, *by the very people that have sworn to serve and protect*, #every28hours, are not "blessed" just to be here. </div><div><br></div><div>The little bit of property damage is beside the point. there are literally thousands upon thousands of peaceful protestors out there right now! These peaceful protestors are actually being abused and provoked by police, with almost zero media coverage. </div><div><br></div><div>We have come to the point where people of color are being murdered in the streets almost every day by police without any justice, not even close. It is essentially legal for police officers to murder unarmed people of color in the United States. That's what we're dealing with. That's what we've been dealing with since the birth of the United States. </div><div><br></div><div>Without deflecting, without jumping to a "but..." How does this information make you feel? How do you think it would make you feel to have some understanding of this since birth? To have a cultural understanding of an imminent threat by a deadly force that is supposed to protect society, for generations, since our country was founded? Now tell me about a broken window at a CVS...</div><div><br></div><div>"Q. How would you define somebody who smashes in the window of a television store and takes what he wants?</div><div><br></div><div>BALDWIN: Before I get to that, how would you define somebody who puts a cat where he is and takes all the money out of the ghetto where he makes it? Who is looting whom? Grabbing off the TV set? He doesn't really want the TV set. He's saying screw you. It's just judgment, by the way, on the value of the TV set. He doesn't want it. He wants to let you know he's there. The question I'm trying to raise is a very serious question. The mass media-television and all the major news agencies-endlessly use that word "looter". On television you always see black hands reaching in, you know. And so the American public concludes that these savages are trying to steal everything from us, And no one has seriously tried to get where the trouble is. After all, you're accusing a captive population who has been robbed of everything of looting. I think it's obscene."</div>SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-70443225052024953912015-01-26T20:02:00.001-08:002015-06-29T10:00:14.744-07:00A Seed Doesn't Know It's a Seed<iframe style="border: 0; width: 435px; height: 527px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=3848827519/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="http://seemoremusic.bandcamp.com/track/a-seed-with-katia-cardenas">A Seed (with Katia Cardenas) by SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE</a></iframe><br>
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Katia and I wrote a beautiful track. End of story.
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Just before that, we met at her apartment and brainstormed what we might
want to write about, talked about what we had been feeling and
thinking, etc...and a week later we had this. we tried once recording
and it didn't work out, so this is the second effort and I personally
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A seed doesn't know it's a seed
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it doesn't conceive the possibility of trees
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when a heart rips open and it bleeds
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there's nothing but confusion, the pain, and the heaves (x2)
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the soil spills in and reality shifts
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and just in that moment thinkin' that'll be it
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this is the end, that inevitable death
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and of course it is, when you're settlin' for less
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but for the portion who believe in the stretch
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to somethin' greater than th emoment full of stress
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beyond horizon and the steps to the next
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A seed doesn't know it's a seed
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it doesn't conceive the possibility of trees
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when a heart rips open and it bleeds
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there's nothing but confusion, the pain, and the heaves (x2)
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when you're there, how will you know?
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if you can never make it then there's no where to go
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when you're unredeemed in the dirt alone
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and the discontentment's the grit in between your bones
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if you make it then you made it and it's already done
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against the pressure of the earth to the light of the sun
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reach to the light
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for the light of the sun
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but we don't really know that we're seeds
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we don't perceive the possibilities, indeed
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when a heart rips open and it bleeds
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it must be the end, the fateful moment when we leave (x2)
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the horizon is always the horizon
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unachievable, that's why we keep aspirin'
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once we're "there", there's a new "there" ahead
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and here we are, it kind of messes with your head
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the perpetual here is the desire and the doubt
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the passion and the movement that keeps us reaching out
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stagnation breeds disease when you ain't namin' it
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and stayin' here without a goal can be dangerous...
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Bass line by Katia Cardenas
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SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-33682579446382751422014-12-31T09:04:00.001-08:002014-12-31T09:50:30.954-08:00Auld Lang SEE: A Parting Gift for 2014<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As we approach the end of another year, I can't help but to think of all the successes I've had along the way and all the beautiful people who helped make the progress possible. I won't be able to spend New Years with my favorite people (on the U.S. side of the pond), but I'll be with you in spirit, and I'll be with you as a friend, collaborator, co-pilot, advocate and brother moving forward into another year of *great possibility*. I love you all so much...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A couple gifts as we approach the end of the year...In this blog: a unique sort of year in review with the Critical Darlings Podcast and 'Dandelions', a new song about people of color, immigrants, and "the other" in the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hardly have the patience to sit through someone's year end blog, detailing the exploits of another year gone by, and I certainly don't expect you to read my self indulgent reminders to myself that my work is indeed going somewhere. Mostly, you'll just have to take my word for it. You can jump down to the new audio below, but I will take a quick second to bullet a few of the year's highlights, because, well, I work hard and should at least acknowledge my own small victories.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Joined the faculty of West Bank School of Music and had an excellent six-week class before the summer. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Was welcomed to the COMPAS Arts artist roster and look forward to lots of good work with them this coming year. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Had a smashing year working with youth again over the summer, teaching on the meaning of art, hip hop, and social justice with students from all over the world. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Shattered a personal record of albums sold with my latest work, 'The Cosmos According to Your Closed Eyes' </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Created so much new and vital work that I can hardly stand not releasing it this very instant, but I must wait. I must do it right. But fear not, the new full length album, 'JAWS OF LIFE' really is coming (as is so much more new and exciting work). </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Collaborated tirelessly on so many new songs, side projects, and the like that it'll take some time to organize their release around the next big solo album.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Dropped a lovely little ep with collaborator Dameun Strange as "Strange Perspective", a four song suite we call 'Nobody Sleeps Tonight'</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Enjoyed my first year conceptualizing, recording and producing an new Podcast with friend Mark Mikula and had <i>a lot</i> of fun doing it.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Really wrote some of my best work ever. I still feel like I'm finding my voice, searching for that certain something in my work, and I know that as we approach the end of another year, I am that much closer to attaining that.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 19px;">While I enjoy time with my beloved abroad, I think of the families that had their sons stolen from them all too soon. The families that had love ripped out of their life. Peace torn from the pages of their family holidays. My heart and thoughts are with them. I simply can not imagine what it's like. To have a family member stolen by the people who proclaim to serve and protect. By the human beings who take offense to our protests of unlawful, irresponsible and spineless murder of our brothers, sons, fathers, uncles and friends. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In these times, it is thoughtless to not acknowledge that pain. It is irresponsible as a person to live and love without living and loving for those that we have lost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"We are passing news of death in the streets/told to keep our dignity, accept our defeat/</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">keep our voices down, stay off the air/</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">but we ar dandelions and we are every where"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This episode doesn't present your typical end of year list, rather offers our thoughts on the past year. We look at the things that we experienced and impacted us the most through a free-form conversation for 20 minutes and present a list of 14 statuses from our Facebook timelines over the last year that made us feel something. It's fun, thoughtful and with current events the way they are, also thought provoking.
We talk about everything from Prince to Ferguson to artistic and professional development to having conversations about white privilege to awkward laundry room moments and so much more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Happy New Year, may all of your hopes and aspirations be that much closer to fulfillment in the months to come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For more, please visit www.seemoreperspective.com</span>SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-39746342578292026892014-12-03T22:48:00.002-08:002014-12-03T23:52:08.096-08:00Dandelions (Sad Sic Remix)First of all, I realize that another member of our community here in
the Twin Cities, Dem Atlas, just put out an ep with a song by the same
title. It has a similar meaning. I put this song out nearly two years
ago.<br />
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But that's not the point. I just wanted to clear the air.<br />
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The point is that when I dropped this, I don't think people knew what
it was about. It's about right now. It's about the historical co<span class="text_exposed_show">ntext for what's happening right now. Take a deep look into what's happening in the U.S. right now. Use this song as a lens.</span><br />
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This song is for all communities of color, immigrants, people of the
LGBTQ community, women, folks with disabilities...This song is for the
"other".<br />
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I hope it offers some insight. I hope it makes you
angry. I hope you do something about that. I hope you'll join the
movement for legitimate change in this country, in this world. I hope
this song offers perspective, because, like dandelions, we are indeed
everywhere. I hope. I sing. I teach. I learn...in solidarity, in the
struggle.<br />
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I love you. You're more beautiful than the world may ever give you credit for.<br />
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the gardens that grow don’t happen on accident
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roots run deep and get tapped into madness
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like we’re mappin’ the grandest but we ‘re plantin’ the sadnesses
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steady uproot and be scrappin the tannest kids
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trapped in a land that gives frantic and panicked attacks
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see our seeds rise sayin’ “send ‘em all travelin’ back”
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mad and they adamant that stolen land is owned won’t be handin’ it back
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but couldn’t last in our absences and
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keep us around but won’t be havin’ the classes mix
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roses are reserved for the gardens of palaces
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but what’s a rose by another name?
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just a thorny weed over growin’ the same
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and they out on their own and their outta control
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and they outta they mind and they outta they soul
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and we got stay focused and we gotta keep reachin’
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into earth out in the world til it ceases
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keep reachin’…
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they call us weeds
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…just an inconvenience
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they don’t like the way we grow
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what it means is
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they’re intimidated
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we just growin’
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we ain’t assimilated
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we just growin’
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They call us weeds, they don’t like the way we grow
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Try to cut us down, say we tryin’ to take control
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only growing...diggin’ in the dirt
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pushin’ through the shit, the garbage and the murk
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we’re in your backyard
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we’re at your schools
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we’re in your hoods
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wearin’ the truth
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We are growing through the pain
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We are dandelions, and We are everywhere
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Estranged from our roots scattered from our family
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kept from the truth makin’ magic from insanity
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what we own is insufficient
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but we spread it out like it was butter on a biscuit
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butter on the concrete, draggin’ on the gravel
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they rub it in and tryin’ to drive it home with gavels
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I mean edgers, I mean drugs, I mean pesticides
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I mean fast food, distractions that anesthetize
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I mean the fucked up messages are emphasized
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I mean relationships, sex and violence, desensitized
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I mean prison, I mean slaves they expect to die
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I mean inspect these lies so we can set aside
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And move forward with a present mind
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Bring our seeds to a plot where they can centralize
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on the come up, been workin’ for so long
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not to take control just tryin’ to hold on
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no home, our seeds ride on the wind
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searching for some space where we can begin again
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no home, our seeds ride on the wind
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searching for some space where we can begin again
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They call us weeds, they don’t like the way we grow
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Try to cut us down, say we tryin’ to take control
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only growing...diggin’ in the dirt
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pushin’ through the shit, the garbage and the murk
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we’re in your backyard
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we’re at your schools
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we’re in your hoods
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wearin’ the truth
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We are growing through the pain
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We are dandelions, and We are everywhere
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the hand picked get care in the gardens
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the right food, light, water - we starvin’
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we know what you value, it’s so obvious
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our voices drowned out by media and lobbyists
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come out and say it, you really just don’t give a fuck
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if it ain’t affectin’ you, you givin’ nothin’ up
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willfull ignorance of privilege keeps takin’ in
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countless bodies in the green that you rakin’ in
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you call it gardenin’, we call it genocide
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you call it human rights to kill us off with pesticides
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rights of businesses take precedence to little kids
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we treated foul for tryin’ get our voices in the mix
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We are passing news of death in the streets
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Told to keep our dignity, accept our defeat
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Keep our voices down, stay off the air
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We are dandelions and we are everywhere
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We are systematically poisoned and uprooted
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We are growing through the pain
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SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-12430125754980566662014-11-14T14:29:00.000-08:002014-11-14T14:32:29.608-08:00Strange Perspective: Nobody Sleeps Tonight EP"These two other worldly gentlemen provide a witty and quirky blend of Hip Hop, Jazz and dancy, catchy-yet-soulful song writing. This EP is a collection of remixes from
'Lost Souls Boys' Choir present Jazz Funeral' and from the upcoming
album 'Diary of a Droid'"<br />
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"...but like true geeks anywhere, push that nerdiness far enough and it will
eventually come full circle to be an ironic sort of cool. That's what
you have..." Mike Walsh, City Pages<br />
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Check out this and more at www.seemoreperspective.com <br />
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<br />SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-4984764614379931502014-10-20T13:39:00.000-07:002014-10-20T14:08:00.398-07:00'I Put a Spell on You' and moreHere's a bunch of spooky music videos to accompany your Halloween preparations. Check 'em out. They're fun :)<br />
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The first one is a Strange Perspective rendition of the classic previously performed by such greats as Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Nina Simone. The performance is from Halloween at Hell's Kitchen, Downtown Minneapolis a few years back. This video features Dameun Strange on keys, Chris Cox on trombone, Bryan Berry on guitar and Kahlil Brewington on drums.<br />
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These next two videos are promo for the show that last video was from, and for the album 'Strange Perspective and the Lost Souls Boys Choir'.<br />
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This one was promo for a project I did with Guante, remixing and imagining his debut" Guante's Haunted Studio Apartment'.<br />
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There's more out there if you look, but I thought I'd highlight my favorites here.<br />
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Here's to an awesome Halloween this year!SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-52091455267062008552014-10-06T16:04:00.001-07:002017-10-25T10:03:24.509-07:00Seven Ways to Not Be an Asshole on Halloween<span style="font-size: small;">As Halloween fast approaches and we begin to consider (or in some cases continue the 11 month cycle of considering) what we'll rock to this year's parties, soirees and bar bashes or what have you, here's a few pointers to consider if you'd rather not look like a senseless asshole over the coming weeks. Because no one really wants to look like a senseless asshole...right? It's all gotta just be some kinda misunderstanding...a systemically racist, white supremacist, playing out what we learn from the cycle of socialization kind of misunderstanding. Which of course, is not your fault, but we still need to be accountable for our own actions. Here's seven ways you can help yourself in that never ending quest of not being an asshole.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>1. Use your imagination.</b></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Halloween is awesome because it's a holiday of all the the stuff that floods our imagination. The paranormal, the fantastical, even drawing on history can be a super dope way to come up with ideas for a costume. If imagination isn't your thing, you're going to continue to get more and more uncomfortable at these Halloween gatherings now that we're gaining momentum here in the era of the mainstream nerd. Imagination is our greatest and most under-utilized gift. If you have a shortlist of mexican drunk, indian, and oriental dragon lady, you're in trouble; and in more ways than one. Google super heroes, dig through your movie collection, or maybe (and this could be a stretch) you've read a book recently you could draw inspiration from? Hell, make up a character and their back story. Who says it needs to be instantly recognizable? Also, a unique costume is a great conversation starter, and reveals things about you to say...other potentially <i>interested</i> parties.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>2. Recognize the difference between a character and a caricature.</b></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">...or a type of fictional archetype, as opposed to representing people who actually exist in our world... Wanna be a troll? Tight. Gandalf? Awesome. Gandalf and trolls are both fictional conjurings of the imagination. For example, "Indians" are not the fictional, stereotyped images you see in popular culture and it is not at all awesome to slap on some stupid hippy outfit while brandishing a fake hatchet like you just dropped out of some ridiculous western movie. We are not living in the 1950's where it's cool or acceptable to play "cowboys and indians". People played that game in real life, and it was ugly. It's an especially brutal history, not a stupid John Wayne film. People died, and it was not the way it looked on practically any film you've ever seen. People of the Indigenous Tribes of the America's, or First Nation peoples, or Native American (Or Ojibwa, Dakota, Inuit, or any of well over 500 nations), are <i>real people</i>; living, learning and working all over the world, today. Right now. Remember this example when you think about why you have the impressions you have of certain cultures, and how different people are than how they're portrayed in popular media. If you don't find yourself thinking about why you have the impressions you have about people of color, now is as good of a time to start as any.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>3. Take some time to think about where your ideas of people of color come from.</b></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Seriously. Take as long as you need. Also, consider this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>4. Read a damn book</b></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Look. Intelligence is hot. The more you know, the more out of place you might feel in some ridiculous club where people feel like it's ok to put their hands on others, when it never is (do we seriously still need to say that?)... The plus side is that you'll feel right at home in rooms full of beautiful, smart, and charming muhfuckaz who really know the finer things in life and know how to have a good time without oafing around a room like actual real life trolls straight outta Lord of The Rings. Also, the more you learn, the more you know how to dress up for Halloween without being an asshole.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>5. Think your costume might be inappropriate? It's probably not cool. <i>So don't wear it.</i></b></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ask yourself, "Would I wear this to the Halloween work party or the Halloween edition of my family reunion?" "Would I want to be on TV wearing this costume?" Would I feel less than entirely comfortable wearing this costume at a party who's friendly party-goers are comprised exclusively of people of color?" If the answer to one or more of these questions is no, I feel pretty confident in advising you to rethink it, homies.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>6. Understand that what you intend does not dictate the impact it has on the people, or world around you.</b></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Maybe you're dressing up "as a Mexican" because you're a bigoted ass, but maybe you're a really good person who who thinks Mexicans are funny people that you enjoy laughing with at work. You know, someone who just doesn't get why this is so fucked up. If you're in the latter category, it doesn't mean you should continue with your plan; you don't get a pass. Contrary to the content of the greatest single song of this century, wherein the wise LL Cool J and his enlightened friend Brad Paisley so eloquently elucidate on the idea of "accidental racism", this is not a cute, forgettable offense. Racism is still racism, even when you don't mean it. And you will be called out, and you'd be wise to listen. After all, who can better spot racism than the folks who experience it's salty glare, sour words, and aggressive, micro-aggressive or passive aggressive nastiness on a <i>daily basis</i>?
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>7. Do not "go as" a member of any race, socioeconomic status, or social identity because that, in itself, is a stereotype, and if you're comfortable with this, you're more than <i>kind of </i>an asshole.</b></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"Going as" a person of a targeted social identity is inherently bigoted and totally within the bounds of getting you called out, uncomfortably gawked at, or slapped anywhere you go in public. (btw, here's the definition of a targeted social identity: </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Members of </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">social identity</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> groups who are discriminated against, marginalized, disenfranchised, oppressed, exploited by an oppressor and oppressor's system of institutions without </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">identity</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> apart from the </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">target</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> group, and compartmentalized in defined roles.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">You've been warned. </span><br />
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SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-7879965599477264682014-10-03T14:02:00.003-07:002016-06-14T17:49:49.718-07:00A glimpse of new work: Nunnayoohazzeneekwull from JAWS OF LIFEThis is from a song I dedicate to you. To them. To all of us.
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I’ve done my share of embarrassing things
Been cold, rude, livin’ in some terrible dream
Like the one where you shoutin’ but can’t hear when you scream
Or the one where you’re runnin’ only draggin’ your limbs
Yeah, like that but a real life scenario in
My past, I gotta live with it when memory stings
And no matter how justified it seems the arrogance is
I’ll look back at every moment that I dared to be a dick
and in the last I’ll be haunted. you’ll be there in the mix
Barin’ witness to endless spring we barely sipped
Carelessly flipped book pages that should nary be missed
instead we merrily picked nits from the threads of care and the bliss
And I’m not sayin’ we shouldn’t pick out the eggs of the lice
just that we should take more care with this egg of this life
cuz at the end of the night, we’ll be mendin’ insight
reflected in edges of eyes ‘n’ wish we tended to light
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From a song I finished yesterday that jumped off a hook I wrote like 7 years ago. I'm calling it 'Nunnayoohazzeneekwull'. Another beauty over a Serebellum One beat for the upcoming album JAWS OF LIFE that has been in the works for about two years. We're currently wrapping up post production and filling in the gaps as we lay out the track listing. This is one of the last few songs I'm writing to put the finishing touches on the ebb and flow, and over all vibe of the album. I can hardly wait for you to hear it. We're still plotting the release, but stay tuned for releas details, as we should have things figured out sometime in the next few months! We're hoping it will be a finished product by November, top to bottom, hard copies in hand, by by December as we continue to plot a release!
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Check out the "prequels" to the JAWS OF LIFE album below, a series of seasonal EP's written for, about, and during each of the four seasons in Minnesota.
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<a href="http://www.seemoreperspective.com/51/">FALL FORWARD</a>
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<a href="http://www.seemoreperspective.com/44/">BRAIN FREEZE</a>
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<a href="http://www.seemoreperspective.com/food-for-thaw/">FOOD FOR THAW</a>
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<a href="http://www.seemoreperspective.com/super-hero-summer-camp/">SUPER HERO SUMMER CAMP</a> SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-44264402872562183772014-03-07T20:19:00.001-08:002014-10-07T13:59:54.122-07:00Seven Ways to See Popular FilmThis blog post was originally posted over at Opine Season, from my series over here called "7 Ways Not to be an Asshole" Look 'em up in my past posts, you can even utilize the search bar on this page.<br />
<a href="http://opineseason.com/2014/03/07/seven-ways-to-see-popular-film/"><i>Seven Ways to See Popular Film</i></a><br />
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I went to the movies last night. Guess what I saw? White people.
How do you go out to the movies, watch a series of movie trailers and not say to yourself, “Wow, all these films are about white people”? Sure, I saw white people doing some terribly interesting things, but what did I see more than anything else? Seriously, what do these images say loudest? Especially to people of color? Because really, if you’re not a person of color, you don’t even notice. You don’t have to. If it’s a story about white people, it’s normal. And what’s the implication of that? Well, for starters, if you’re not white, you’re not normal.<br />
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Look, I love movies. I love going to the movies. Not to mention Netflix, VUDU, Redbox… you name it, I’m down. You know what else? I love movies starring white people. I love white actors. I swear, some of my best friends are white. But there is a glaring disparity here in what producers tend to put in front of audiences. In what the norm is. Check out any tv/film award show and take a drink every time you see a person of color…you will not get buzzed. Take a drink every time a person of color actually WINS? Welcome aboard the weak party EXPRESS. Unless of course you don’t drink, then welcome to a very fine evening full of talented white celebrities that may or may not leave you with a tangy feeling at the end of the night.<br />
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Here’s a few examples of the “wide variety” of films you’ll be exposed to at the movies, in your cue, or by the media, in general. This is a list of fantastic, thoughtful and even forward thinking films renamed to express their most basic message. I’m even adding a couple of google image searches for you to do on your own, so you can take a look at what you find for yourself.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">‘White People Are Funny’</span> </b><br />
Google “film comedy” images.<br />
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This one is interesting because you actually see a *few* people of color on the first page! But why is that? Are people of color inherently more funny? How could that be?<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>‘White People Fall in Love’</b></span><br />
Google “romantic comedy” images.<br />
The title for this one could just as easily be ‘Love is almost exclusively for white people’.<br />
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<b>‘White People Save the World’ </b><br />
Google “action movies” images.<br />
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Again, something interesting happens here: Asians! I wonder, does this happen to fall into any stereotypes we may have of Asian culture in American media? Or is that just a coincidence?<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>‘Only White People Survive in the Future/in Space’
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Google “sci fi future movies” images.<br />
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First of all, if it doesn’t actually star a person of color, they’re dying. If the person of color isn’t the lead, and doesn’t die, it’s cutting edge film.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>‘White Savior for People of Color’</b></span><br />
Ok, maybe just google “white savior movies” or “white messiah movies” for this one and see what you find. Start with images, but then go read up on it, too.<br />
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I’ll start here: Dances with Wolves, Avatar, The Last Samurai, The Blind Side, The Help, Lincoln, and every movie about a white teacher in the hood ever…and probably most other movies, too.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>‘Look at How Bad People of Color Have it’</b></span><br />
Now this one gets a little nutty.<br />
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Google has no idea what The fuck I’m even talking about, apparently. Look at the pics that come up when you Google ‘movies starring people of color’ images. Why the hell is there so many pictures of white people in this google image search?! It says quite a bit. Also check out the roles that people of color have actually won academy awards for. Trust, there’s a trend there. See: ‘Precious’, ‘The Color Purple’, ‘Monster’s Ball’, etc.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>‘Smart, Artsy, and White’
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Google “indie movies” images.<br />
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What does it say about a person of color that watches this many artsy films starring almost exclusively white people? That I’m creative, intellectual and searching for something different. What do these films say about the film industry? They are not marketed to people of color, because they do not consider people of color to be creative, intellectual and searching for something different.SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-54155842888197439042013-09-03T14:16:00.000-07:002013-09-11T15:00:35.824-07:00NEW MUSIC/BIG RELEASE SHOW: "Unlike Anything, Ever"NEW/Edit:
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Check out the teaser trailer for the show and the link for discounted advance tickets!<br><br>
Buy your tickets <a href="cosmos.brownpapertickets.com">here</a>.<br><br>
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YES! it has been a long time coming...I know I've been releasing a lot of new music, but this is the big fish. Created last October/November in a maelstrom of writing and music production before a journey to Europe (hundreds of CD's in tow), this is my first ever album of spoken-word poetry. It's almost time to feast your ears on what folks in London, Paris and Rome got hip to over the new year.<br><br>
Full of music, atmosphere, and imagination, this album is quite possibly my best work to date. It listens more like a grand piece of art than a poetry CD...I promise you one thing, it's not what you might expect.<br><br>
The release show will be a multimedia arts experience is not one you'll want to miss. Check out the press release below!<br><br>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br><br>
September 2nd, 2013<br><br>
SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE to release new spoken-word album, “THE COSMOS ACCORDING TO YOUR CLOSED EYES"<br><br>
On Friday, September 13, Twin Cities hip hop artist, poet, activist and educator SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE will release his new spoken-word album, “The Cosmos According to Your Closed Eyes.”<br><br>
The album, made possible with funds provided by the VERVE grant, intentionally breaks from the current wave of Twin Cities slam poets, forgoing the highly structured, sometimes formulaic, narratives associated with the form for a more musical, less regimented approach. Equal parts mythic and working-class, intimately detailed and big-picture-conscious, the project is See More’s first spoken-word project in a long history of quality musical releases.<br><br>
As a producer and as a writer, See More’s influences color his work in subtle and surprising ways. Indeed, perhaps the best way to wrap your head around this project (aside from just listening to it, of course), is to read the acknowledgments/thank yous:<br><br>
“To Rumi and Hemmingway, Miyazaki, Kurasawa, DJ Shadow, Neruda, Castaneda, Pharaoh Sanders, Guillermo Del Toro, comic books, MN weather, quality food and drink, late night conversations on rooftops, undiscovered life forms, and you."<br><br>
The first in a series of shows tagged with the “Super Heroes of Sound presents” label, the event promises to continue the tradition of See More throwing shows that are multidisciplinary, multigenerational, artistically compelling and just straight-up fun. It promises to be a one-of-a-kind event.<br><br>
<b>Show details:</b><br><br>
Super Heroes of Sound presents:
THE COSMOS ACCORDING TO YOUR CLOSED EYES CD release show<br><br>
Friday, September 13 at Intermedia Arts in MPLS:
• SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE
• Dameun Strange leading an ensemble of Twin Cities musicians to back poets Sha Cage, e.g. bailey, Guante, Tish Jones and Lisa Marie Brimmer.
• Hip hop from STRANGERS (Dem Atlas & Tyler Nelson)
• Live video mixing from Nye/Daniel Rangel (Coloring Time, Get Cryphy, etc.)
• Paintings from Veronica Napoli inspired by the album<br><br>
7pm | $10 | All Ages<br><br>
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SEE MORE PERSPECTIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390244936413025419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687220912312435857.post-84501705690605455052013-08-22T16:13:00.001-07:002013-08-22T16:48:42.217-07:00New Music: SUPER HERO SUMMER CAMP<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI8JeHtWSi3zsFN_OplybJyrfxfk2DF2M3JsapXqXei6Qd0WB91uYUB78cKAeovk2ckMXL_5qWtF291dUGjNm8HoufPzrHbpqOAUzi0Ov_kxyHjhn7KlknOfP7MdPAzDs9T2Bzyc1x89tR/s1600/Super+Hero+Summer+Camp+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI8JeHtWSi3zsFN_OplybJyrfxfk2DF2M3JsapXqXei6Qd0WB91uYUB78cKAeovk2ckMXL_5qWtF291dUGjNm8HoufPzrHbpqOAUzi0Ov_kxyHjhn7KlknOfP7MdPAzDs9T2Bzyc1x89tR/s320/Super+Hero+Summer+Camp+cover.jpg" /></a></div><br><br>
At long last, the final installment of the seasonal EP series is here! Yes, it's the EP for the Summer, and yes, it's late. Of course, I was busy living the inspiration for this joint working 24/7 with students from ALL OVER THE WORLD. To say the least, it was amazing. I had the privilege of working with students on social justice themes, current/global issues and of course hip hop and spoken word history/culture. I started in the middle of June and didn't make it back into the Twin Cities until the second week of August, essentially.<br><br>
This album departs from the three EP's that came before it in this series by not thinking so much about summer as a whole but about a particular summer with specific people. On the other hand, this is by no means some insider's account what happened, made only for those who experienced what I did. However, what this album does do, is offer insight into the talent and intention that exists in the world, the power of uniting like minds, and the struggle of searching for who you are in a world that feels like it doesn't care. It's about the exceptional flowers that rise from so much toxic earth and shows how powerful those flowers can be.<br><br>
In a way, this album offers a new perspective on the last three EP's and might just slightly change the way you think about the songs that have come before this collection. If nothing else, these beats bang and the lyrics invite your imagination to come out and play.<br><br>
As the last of this series, this EP goes big and BAD. It's the perfect lead in to the full length LP 'JAWS OF LIFE', due later this year . Again, it shows off various styles that Serebe and I have to offer and gives you another glimpse of what to expect form our full length effort. Get excited. We sure as hell are.
If you feel it, share it. You're the best PR I have, and god knows I need it! This is a completely independent release and I can't tell you how hard I've worked to bring you ANOTHER COMPLETELY FREE RELEASE. I hope you take advantage of this generosity in every way. I hope you love it as much as I do, and more than anything, I hope it speaks to you. I hope it offers you something. After all, everything I do, I do so that you can hear this music and feel something.<br><br>
As always, thanks for reading and for listening. <br><br>
SEE<br><br>
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