“Beyond Sundown” by Adrian H. Molina w/ Mannequin Rituals, featuring Day Acoli & Helen Changthongthip, CHiTT Productions (2008) 

Mass deception, coups d’etats left and right, shared confusion, no way to tell what’s real and what’s fake—a collective inability to ascertain truth from lies because the spin doctors are that good.

Polar ice caps melting, mass global poverty ignored, apocalyptic natural disasters, conspiracies linking what was once natural to what is now claimed to be man-made.  Seemingly no empirical way to make sense of it all, so the masses don’t even try.  They just wait for 2012. 

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“Kite Runner”, Up Before the Sunrise—Adrian H. Molina w/ Mannequin Rituals, CHITT Productions (2008)

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As MLK Day 2010 comes to a close, I am reminded of my responsibility as an emcee.  I walk in many shoes and wear many hats.  I use my music to entertain, to educate, to inspire, to provoke thought, to create controversy.  These lines often intersect and sometimes they become blurry.  I don’t expect everyone to support everything I do.  At the end of the day, I am accountable first and foremost to myself. 

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“Representin’ Intro”, Representin’ 4 Life EP w/ Mannequin Rituals, CHiTT Productions (2007)

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Circle back to one of many beginnings.  It was 2007 when I released Representin’ 4 Life EP. This intro was the first track the world heard from Adrian H. Molina.

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On July 4th, 2009 CHiTT Productions released My America—a benefit CD for Papers the movie.  Molina spent months compiling music for the project, which features artists from across the United States, including Denver, Albuquerque, Oakland, Harlem, and Minneapolis.  The CD is raising awareness about immigration and racial justice issues, and it is steadily bringing in funding to support the Papers movement.  Special shoutout to the Tru Ruts collective out of MN for contributing almost one half the music on the album.  WireTap Magazine recently wrote about My America.  The story ran Thanksgiving Day. 

Paper Chase: Hip-Hop for My America

By Geoffrey Dobbins, November 26, 2009

Read the article:  http://www.wiretapmag.org/arts/44697/ 

Purchase the cd: http://papersthemovie.com/myamerica.html

Towala by Aju begins “Sacred Paths”–the 15-minute title track off the Sacred Paths album–a collaboration with Asia Jazz Project, released by CHiTT Productions, 2009. Download this MP3 – (Right Click and “Save link as”)

Full-leaves waving in vibrant young green splendor under true blue sky. Eye, enwrapped in cool shades of room shadows, wet hair drying slowly. Summer, ’07. A wandering tune, folding into itself like waves, makes its way through my day dreaming, through motions of my right hand and takes shape as scribbles on an open page of my unassuming notebook. My red camera records the fleeting sounds.

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