“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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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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