.@MiltonBituca - thank you for making this dream a reality. Y'all, it's official: the album is HERE. thank you to every dear being who made this wondrous work possible. I will tag you all profusely throughout the unfolding of this release -promise!

and Rob Lewis @matthewhayesiii @intisarabioto for the filming and creative directing and organizing of the moment portaled through this photo 🌊

i want to carry a flow of that remembering into the center of the city…and the city of self. thank you social media residency artist @akelajaffi for this sweet collage portrait...

learn how to send it through the center of the ache, constriction, resistance, pain, stress, woe, worry… I want to flow a music of soothing, energizing, and remembrance of life-sustaining systems through which we are each woven…

not always writ large on my chest these days, but Life Force remains my guiding intention: i wish to channel the spaciousness, harmony and renewing power of the fecund land, channel it to the middle of the man-made fires

just letting you know, my intention with coming out to play is nourishment and strength for us to endure and navigate and get extra loving and creative about how we show up in these times…mmmmkay?!) 🔋🌊💙 beautiful poster by Social Media Residency artist @akelajaffi

just saying…I can’t talk about my cute little gigs and pretend like ish ain’t burning and brutal every which a way.

make a lovely container/excuse for folks to come together and share joy beauty and love. (we callin the reps, supporting the front-line peoples, staying informed, showing up and showing out and maintaining connections TOO!

I don’t claim it will change or resolve ish. but it is what I do, and part of what I can consistently contribute to ourselves. When we get on the stage, we come with the intention to hydrate the spirit, energize us,

🌊🔋Mmmsoooo….as we whirl and reel and find stabilization and clear directed loving-potent-together action in these most intense times…i still gotta/get ta go to work, -make the sounds and stories and lovings I do best. https://t.co/hO3OkmFqUq

@mtwstevens @EricDoob Kaylin Horgan Tashae Udo will sending such sweet music and movement into the airwaves, ear ossicles & stage. See you then/there! @akelajaffi in Social Media Residency made this purrrty poster.

🎯March 28th, Nashville @BigEarsFestival...let's be there at the time hearing wondrous music by yours truly and sooooo many other glorious music makers. https://t.co/hO3OkmFqUq

(flyer by Social Media artist in resident @akelajaffi) (And nothing against you dear Salinas KS folks, we just didn't sell enough tickets to make it possible to come do the show. Sowwy 😔. Please invite us back, and snatch up those tickets, and we'll be THEYERE!)

Its fitna be luscious bass, and voice, and band...(liiiike, this band is BEYOND) music from all my records, and dancing interwoven with us evolving our music and possibilities of all we doing ("we" includes you!)... See you then/there.

🌍🌏🌎 Roaming around, spreading what we have to share all the where's and when's we can. Come through! https://t.co/hO3OkmFqUq

(working with the glorious music video for made by Director: Jordan Phelps Producer: Ramone Hulet Executive Producer: Vincent Martell Director of Photography: Hannah Welever for the song-spell "Lest We Forget" !)

I have heard only luscious and wondrous things about this festival and am so so grateful to be invited. and announcing the next wondrous artist in our "Social Media Residency": @akelajaffi who made this sweet collage...

💫 its a fact! i hope you'll bring your big beautiful ears (or whatever apparatus you work with to receive the vibrations of loving music) and come hear us March 28th in Knoxville, TN!

and the vibrations we express. We are a language, and I give thanks for each of our voices. thank you @akelajaffi for this sweet collage.

dance, the dances, the dancing, the musicing, the music, the musics are the portals/sites where I most viscerally FEEL the presence of that whoooooole river of our history languaging and communicating itself through our very bodies moving in relation to each other

(artists, musicians, organizers, educators, caretakers, mothers, elsewhos).