The release of the SOULAJU album is an arrival.  I’ve been creating music professionally since 2006.   There are a few other ideas in the works for 2010, which will close a 5-year loop.  From that point forward, I am uncertain what will come.  But this is the apex of this moment.

Beyond the music we have arrived at a dramatic fork in the road as as a species.  Sometimes feels like we’re on a ticking time bomb.  2012 hype is heavy and ever-present as the minutes tick.  We’re moving towards an irreparable fracture in the order of things.  This coming point of impact becomes more clear in 2010.

As life speeds up and ideas collide, we begin to understand time and space differently.

Move forward without fear.

A.M. Soleil: the morning sun rises.  “A.M. Soleil, Retrospectively” is a 52-week blog series in 2010, reflecting on 5 years of independent music by Molina.

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“We Moon” is the third single off SOULAJU

following “Like Magic” and “The People II”.  If you like what you hear, click “download” above to purchase the track and support Soulaju music.

This week’s reflection builds off last week’s post, when I wrote about Wrong Ways (Aju Version).  I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the my work within the male/female duo SOULAJU, especially since we are increasingly asked to speak and perform at events that focus on gender equality.     

Working within the context of a male/female duo has profoundly impacted my ongoing development as a man.

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This is the Aju version of Wrong Ways, released on Shine Flow EP w/ Dj Icewater (2009).  The Molina version appears on the forthcoming album SOULAJU.

 Mixed entangled confusion / infused by my name and tongue / constant duality, redefine sanity, birth burning heart internationality…

This is one of the oldest stories in human history, because people have always moved, for survival, for opportunity, sometimes for love.  Sometimes we are pushed or pulled by the wind, not knowing where we may land.

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