The Hills Are Alive ..with the sound of boom bop(Spearhead/ Michael Franti) and yellow mustard grass, lupin, oxalis and .. via worldOneradio mixology …
Orb + Lee Scratch Perry Tracy Bonham George Harrison Napalapalai Arto Lindsay The Orb w David Gilmour Augustus Pablo Cheevers Toppah Stevie Wonder AOMUSIC David Wax Museum Phil Ochs Bobby Womack So Pacific sntrk Francois Couture Byrne + Fatboy Slim Raquel Bitton Bill Evans (Bluegrass) Mocean Worker Los Lobos Hamsa El Din Shayna Dread Game Ghangers John Robinson Les Nubians Bob Marley Manuel Galban Ry Cooder Pimps of Joy Time Jennifer Hudson Tiempo Libre Dixie Chicks Melody Gardot Weather Report Nakai + Clipman John Mc Cord Snoop Lion Seasunz+Jay Bless Herman’s Hermits The Lucid Rays Quebe Sisters Sugarland to hear it all live press play over there, top right !
we love this time of the rolling year .. here on the Bay rim in Northern Cali, the oxalis popped a few weeks back, they stir up a color riot everywhere, now knee-high in our back yard, along with clovers that grow in poodle-sized puffs ..
magnolias and cherry blossoms, camellias, wisterias, now cue the poppies! … bam power flower boom !
color and texture are foods for the eyes .. everyone loves shapes …
everyone loves music( Finley Quaye) … shapes and colors for the ears, and thus the mind .. where we kre-ate, imaginate …. Imagine that !
Pan is my name .. I live outside your door, I have to keep the score of things around you / my love lives outside my window ( Secret Life of Plants / Stevie Wonder) ….
I am so glad that the seasons recur, changing, extending and retreating.. like we live again and again, every day, the tide of consciousness rolls out like the dawn and then retreats ….and we retract back back back into our unconscious mind .. dreaming .. integrating …. Higher and deeper and wider understandings of the gift .. our gift its all a GIFT … all that is appropriate is a gigantic daily THANK YOU from our hearts …
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sweet tomorrow morning burstin with the dawn ( Al Jarreau)
so why do we fzuk with IT … H E R, and confuse or abuse creation, ourselves, each other, so much ?
the strongest force in our human nature, is thought … so called bad, good, and everything in between ..
so .. we need proper education .. no, not factoried,institutionalized, blandished, partitioned, linear, analytical, rehash that passes for modern education …
we need to e d u c e .. drawing out the invisible to the visible … and connecting the embodied soul, whilst on the earthtop (desktop) to its source in deep inner-outer s p a c i o u s n e s s (ku) .. the imagination engine … through richly informative ex + insperiences ..
some things need to be believed to be seen ..
the “old gods” are as real as anything .. echoed and created … we are superorganic imagination engines, we are not gadgets .. we are not commodities, except in the eyes of crass commercialism ..
Zac Rodgers/ kingspook.com
Law of Ma’at
God needs you in order to come into the world. Fulfilling God’s need is the highest act of love, and only through your love for God can you fulfill your love for others. Become the Love of God in the world for the protection of the world. http://www.aasorlando.org/11laws.htm
drawing by Zac Rodgers/ www.kingspook.com
it’s your avatar … what will you do, give, learn, accomplish through it, this day ?
Don’t let them change you, or even rearrange you … Could you be love ( Bob Marley)
My Vision of Peace Photographer – Kimberly Edwards On Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans Big Chief Alfred Doucette debuted his “Peace Suit.” Words of peace were carefully sewed in the Chief’s new Indian Suit in response to the city’s high murder rate and even higher incarceration rate. Alfred Doucette has a true heart for the youth of New Orleans, striving to give them a sense of pride in their culture and in themselves, taking time to share the Mardi Gras Indian traditions with any child who asks or shows interest, and lives his life to make the world a better and more peaceful place. This suit is a tangible image of his soul.
Well .. you are reading this.. we apparently made it though the portended portal/synchronization of 2013 .. so far so good? .. I wouldn’t quiiite yet grab the remote, check-out, and zone-out again via Animal Reality Geographic’s sexi-broody-vampire-penguins (Wanderlust) as a daily junk-media diet … as perhaps the “fat lady” hasn’t yet sung? .. or GabriEL hasn’t yet held that note forever (Bruce Almighty) … or , perhaps they have, and we have undergone some kind of cosmic mitosis .. pa’ delante ..
in case you may be onedering what that LISTEN LIVE ! press play button has in store for you .. it is sets like these … hundreds of them .. all waiting patiently to worldOneradioXo your hEARtS .. and blow some domes ..
Max Richter+Hollywood Symphony ,Steve Shehan +Nabil Othmani, Ellington + Louis, Macklemore + Lewis, James Danderfer, Stockton Helbing, Nancy Stearns, Mariah Parker, Omar Sosa, Mary Ann Vorsky, America, Macklemore + Lewis, M Ward, Sugarland, Ronnie bowman, Erykah Badu, Pimps of Joy Time+ Captain Planet, Steve Shehan + Nabil Othmani, Orb + Scratchy, Louis + Ellington, Gotye, Kimbra, Macklemore + Lewis, Eliza gilkyson, Garret Sawyer, M. Ward, Sugarland, Brad Paisley, Cody Chestnut, Bang Data, Gillian Wells, Bart/baker+ Lada Red Star, Les Tiki .. more radio details under the keCg tab … WCCUSD Inner Bay Rim Public radio CalifUSA.
and I DO want to be in that number when “the saints go marching in” ..
Media .. including worldOneradio, is only, by definition, “in the middle” .. that noted .. highly recommending “Searching for Sugarman” for a number of reasons from music/lyricism to story to spirit . It features no cast of thousands, nary a car chase, nor gun-wielding-super-model agent, nor floozy .. for that matter .. no rock star hubris! and I suspect you may emerge …elated .. it’s an almost unbelievable real-life story, and its still unfolding…. Gentle WoW .. XO Sixto + Fam + Friends..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL5TffdOQ7g
Macklemore and Lewis .. insightful and gots slaps …WTTSMFa ( what-the-thrift-store-m—-f—ka!) .. thrifty hip-hope ( Thrift Store ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae9_RGZLZhI , busting out homophobia and amplfyin’ for mo’love ( Same Love ) … and telling Nike pretty much where to stuff their swooshisms (Wings) .. and that’s pretty much… where the sweat shop don’t shine!
Kendrick Lamar … we was hangin back,true … while a suite from the second half of Good Kid Bad City has been added to worldOneradio ad infinitum .. Respect!
Lately, worldOnelov mixology is broadcasting sets comprised of selections/ vibz like these Artists :
Anthony Wakeman + Mr. Soon / Points of Origen, Rose Moore / Spirit of Silence, Cheevers Topah/Harmonized Songs of Native American Church, Malcolm Cecil / Tonto’s Expanding Headband, Stevie Wonder / Songs in the Key of Life, Eliza Gilkyson / Redemption Road, Toumani Diabate+Ballake Sissoko/ New Ancient Strings, M.Ward / A Wasteland Companion, Cody Chestnut/ Landing on a Hundred, Asa / Eponymous, S.E. Rogie / Golden Voice of Sierra Leone, John McLaughlin/Now Hear This, Bob Marley/Songs of Freedom, Bellamy Bros., Ronnie Bowman/Starting Over, John Powell+Hollywood Symphony / Lorax, Mooquee / Mice Elf.
In February we collaborated in gathering with the Peace Project at Swarm Gallery in Oakland .. that openingtop image is from this collection..
In March… our inaugural Shake your Beauty Kultimulchural Dance, on campus, at El Cerrito HS with the fabulous creativity and energy of students of our Dance Production program and our keen Media/Academy /keCg Youth Crew ..
While we prepare for Spring-Summer .. its riotous clover + occali season here .. poppies poppin’ soon, and by the time the sunflowers are 6’ tall ..
and …
YYYYiiiiiii .. and you are invited to all of the above !
Hey !! .. globally minded dj’s, r u feelin’ us? … if you enjoy the flows, let us know !
if you have sets you’d like to send in for consideration .. please do use our regular email to communicate .. we’ll love to hear from you …
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Philanthropists.. there is always need for donations from inks + squeegees to decks, between our daily classrooms and special events .. all 501C-3 .. feel moved? don’t be shy .. LIVEALOHALIVE! = ; ) ~
Blessed rainy day here in El Cerrito, Cali, as I write .. slept in.. hanging with my beloved wife Debra Sue .. sipping tea and xocolatl … cozy … Sergio Mendes+ Black Eyes Peas on the radio .. niiiice..
I can’t exactly apologize for not writing, though I do certainly beg your understanding. I have been utterly taken up in an academic-institutional vortex these past nearly three months, not slackin. Perhaps if you have an urban public school teacher in your life, you have some idea of what the daily challenges can be. By invitation/ conscription, I took on all kinds of new quasi-admin-program managerial responsibilities along with added piles of hours to stay abreast of an daily avalanche of either starry-eyed-and-or-fractious students + mountains of program paperwork and coordination. And for different reasons this was the toughest Fall semester in my teaching career … wilting fatigue and almost unbearable stress/oppression, which made me physically symptomatic, unwell. Got it all done, though not a particularly happy time. Added arrgh.. the national squabble about how to reform public education and the general defamation of the profession, http://www.nea.org/home/53524.htm?utm_source=nea_today_express&utm_medium=email&utm_content=blameteachers&utm_campaign=121114neatodayexpress
This teacher sought solace and some non-linear relief.. the drawing-dreaming pad was swirling and pulsing …
Huli Ola
and worldOnelove music/radio sessions were flowing, in some healing/soothing response to the daily grind/carborundum …
Little BIG Sound .. 88.1 keCg 97.7
We are always adding all kinds of gorgeous, stirring, soulful, and insightful music to our worldOneradio flow+ broadcast; Native musics and tone poems from Louie Gonnie, Cheevers Topah, Bear Creek, Anthony Wakeman + Mr.Soon … soaring classical interpretations by Hulschoff and Eichhorn, intimate jazversations by Kenny Barron, Rose Murphy, Blossom Dearie, Sarah+Louis and spinning the globe with Flying Lotus, Asa, Olivia Ruiz, Guy Forsyth, Tchiya Amet, Chuck Prophet, Santana, Jolly Boys, Mark O’Conner, New Mutitudes, Jackson Browne, The Pyramids, Paul Simon, Groundation, Liane La Havas, Gudina, Lulu Dikana, Les Tiki , Le Vent du Nord, Roxanne Olivia, El Gusto Orchestra of Tangiers, Les Surf, hip shakers by Allenko Brotherhood, Poolside, Janis Martin, film excerpts from George Harrison/ Living in the Material World … and to help us unwind the mind .. Robert Rich, Erik Wollo, Steve Roach … been doin it and doin it since ’95 .. e como mai oh my ..
Through late summer and autumn, we joined Saturday morning dancers at our beloved Ashkenaz, to banghra dance with Dhol Rhythms (with whom we will be joyously collaborating in both an El Cerrito HS school dance event and in our 15th annual July 4 worldOnefestival). The following Dhol mandala image is by Fletcher Oakeswww.fletcho.com/ .
I want to especially hail UP and acknowledge the San Francisco World Music Festival, in its 13th iteration, successfully assembling musicians form all over the globe in an impossible, and finally glorious and exuberant collaboration in the presentation of a blended operatic cycle www.sfworldmusicfestival.org/. Again demonstrating that the most stirring music, emerges from deeper spaces, requires devotion, discipline and surrender, achieves connection, and reaffirms L I F E … .. from a super-title to a featured Azerbijani folk song .. “with these chains we shall make music which will shame the drums of the monarchs” ..
U.S.A.llawe navigated the fearsome realities/vestiges of Halloween/Samhain … Soul Cakes? anyone ? Mayan prophetic accuracies +/- distortions .. the election of a U.S. President .. no, not by a landslide .. but via inundation … of American angst, media, money, and finally, waters (# 2) … lately .. post-election vitriol and backlash, bitterness, and contrariness, more amped divisiveness .. the oldest trick in the book of life …. a house/nation divided cannot stand …. and how can we be ( seek to be) the “greatest nation on earth”, with a hobbled economy, 14 trillion in debt, millions jailed, and policies/practices that undermine ecology, EDUCATION and simultaneously aspire to world-wide military dominance..
that said .. I felt a palpable bolt of QI when GOBAMA! uttered .. LOVE + CHARITY .. which we remixed.
Especially NOW, we need to work for, and hope for deliverance (McCartney) … wash our spirit clean (Walela)… we need an absolution (The Pyramids) .. and to seek higher ground (Stevie Wonder) .. re-imagine U.S.All .. dreaming red, white, blue, red, gold, and green and all the colors and creatures in between .. seen ? (another Fletcher Oakes image):
And reserving the right to respectfully, unthanks .. unthanksgiving .. it is Native American Heritage Month .. and it’s a particular irony that about the only national holiday that hazily includes some kind of cooperative Native iconography, also includes revisionism of the arc of official hostilities, policies and machinations, between “manifest destiny” and Native Americans. Destiny itself seems to have other ideas, much more consistent with modern ecological science, and the deep cultural wisdoms and spirituality of Native America (what is otherwise commonly called “religion”) and all genuine wisdom/spiritual traditions. Our youth broadcasters generated a series of Native American cultural featurettes, and these are pronounced daily via PA and on-air. We note how virtually whole-scale absent is any substantive Native cultural curriculum in our public schools. In 2012 we seem determined to keep the same idea-factory humming? along (noting the recent tussle in Arizona and elsewhere regarding Chicano studies).
Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds And whose breath gives life to everyone, Hear me.
I come to you as one of your many children; I am weak …. I am small … I need your wisdom and your strength.
Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunsets Make my hands respect the things you have made. And make my ears sharp so I may hear your voice.
Make me wise, so that I may understand what you have taught my people and The lessons you have hidden in each leaf and each rock.
I ask for wisdom and strength Not to be superior to my brothers, but to be able to fight my greatest enemy, myself. Make me ever ready to come before you with clean hands and a straight eye. So as life fades away as a fading sunset. My spirit may come to you without shame
~ (translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark @1887)~
Carlos Santana included the prayer above, in the liner notes to Shape Shifter. We simply cannot keep doing, thinking, feeling the material-commodity-transactional-buy-take-day-mares that have become the grist of the daily bs-statusquo-go-round-mill. We’ve got to learn and accept daily, higher, and sacred ground to vibrate at higher frequencies (Blackalicious) … and yes,we can still keeps it fonki .. and real .. the BIG question is .. compared to what?
On worldOneradio at this moment .. John Arnold music > We’re all beautiful .. dig that to the bone .. mind spirit body soul .. Rise UP Everybody !
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Winter Soulstice approaching, northern hemispherical season to collect, store, slow down, retreat, rewind, remember, and hope/wait = esperar / spero .. for the return of the light, so to speak .. the crisp clarity of wintry days and snowy scapes .. ‘tis the season .. to Rest and be Blest .. wishing you bright blessed days and dark sacred nights .. p e a c e … = ; ) ~
