MolinaSoleil
Building off the theme of the moon, “Letters to the Moon Pt. 1 (Heart in Motion)” appears on Sacred Paths—a collaboration with Asia Jazz Project.
Sacred Paths is a 9-piece collaborative project that fuses nu jazz and poetry. It was released on September 20th, 2009—a day that marked both Asia’s and Aju’s 26th birthdays. The album contains two tracks that are each almost 15 minutes long. These tracks are more like journeys or opuses than they are songs.
You have to create an album to know how much work goes into it, from conceptualizing it to recording it and then all the details that go into getting it ready for release.
The creative energy behind this project came about very organically. This album was not planned.
The technical side of things is another story. There were a lot of roadblocks with respect to the recordings, so the production element required a lot of work. Luckily my man Will Ross of CHiTT Productions came through on the production end. He spent a lot of time ironing out problems and inconsistencies.
The end result was an extremely creative album that cost me more money and stress than any other project. I don’t see myself making that money back anytime soon, but that’s often the case with producing art.
Sacred Paths Is abstract. It’s green and meditative, definitely not fit for commercial consumption.
Music lovers who have spent time with it tell me it’s one of the most artistic albums they’ve heard. This balances out the lack of interest from people who i assumed would care but don’t.
If your art touches even one person you’re successful. I believe this. Inspiration is the flame that keeps people believing in things like love, possibility, justice, freedom. Keeping that flame burning is what revolution is really about.
I feel good putting this project out into the world. It’s a jewel that may have it’s day, but probably not. I’m fine either way.
These Letters to the Moon, Parts 1-3, speak to the many layers of love that are possible, the most important being the realization that one can be in love with existence, with breath, with a moment in time, wherever that may be.
A.M. Soleil, Retrospectively is a 52-week blog series in 2010, reflecting on 5 years of music by Molina.
Tags: A.M. Soleil, Asia Jazz Project, CHiTT Productions, jazz, Letters to the Moon, Molina Music, music blog, Retrospectively, Sacred Paths, spoken word, Will Ross
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