FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 20th, 2010

Peace to our fans, friends, and supporters.  We came to a difficult decision this week.  We will be pushing back the release date of SOULAJU with DJ Icewater until March 23, 2010.

The album’s release date was set for next Tuesday, January 26th.  We planned a month-long series of events in Denver to celebrate this release with our friends and fam here.  Last week, we hosted an album listening party at the Gypsy House Cafe in Denver, giving several dozen people a sneak peak at the album.  We also co-hosted a successful SOULAJU Youth Jam and Climate Change workshop at Green Spaces Denver on January 15th.  We will move forward with the other events we have planned to celebrate the work that has been done, and the work that is to come.

DJ Icewater will be in town for pre-release events next week, including a free youth DJ Workshop at the Flobots Community Center and a pre-release party at the Walnut Room in Denver, CO on January 29th at 8:30PM.  Tix for the Walnut Room show are $8.  We are also excited to announce that the Secret Techniques B-Boy crew at the University of Wyoming will be hosting us for a show on January 28th.  The performance is free for UW students.  Doors open at 9PM in the Union Ballroom of the Student Union.  Crowds at both of these events will have the exclusive opportunity to see the SOULAJU set performed for the first time.

We appreciate your continuing support in our decision to delay the release of SOULAJU.  Combined, we have released four solid projects in less than a year and a half, including Molina’s release of Up Before the Sunrise in August 2008 and the My America benefit cd for Papers the movie.  We have kept a hectic touring schedule and have spent a great deal of time working with youth in schools, community programs, detention centers, and group homes.

We are confident in our decision to take a little more time with the release of SOULAJU, which we have been working on since the fall of 2008.  Several of the earliest tracks will be re-written, re-recorded, and re-mastered to better reflect the work we are doing now.  We want to give our best and most honest work to the fans and communities we represent.

We have released a free download of “Like Magic” —the first international single off SOULAJU, which you can download at http://www.mediafire.com/?zoe4lmj5zyl.  We will continue to leak bits and pieces of the 15-track album to the broader public in February and early March. 

As for our most energetic fans who are really jones’n for the new tunes, we appreciate your patience.  Keep spreading the word.

In solidarity,

Molina Soleil & Aju

SOULAJU

Download this MP3 – (Right Click)

This is the first single off the forthcoming album Soulaju. This is one of the first tracks Aju and I recorded together in Oakland, CA back in December 2008.

On “Like Magic” we aimed for that ethereal sense of sensual energy that stops time. This multilingual track is one of three on Soulaju that explore themes of love, sexuality, arousal, sensuality.

I have largely stayed away from these themes because most of what passes for “sexy” in American popular culture is overdone and misogynistic. 

The music we were given by DJ Icewater pushed me to be a better storyteller; to be adaptive, to be daring, to have fun with the music; to blend my experiences and what I have seen with what I can only imagine…

~ Molina

Link for free “Like Magic” mp3 download on mediafire:

http://www.mediafire.com/?zoe4lmj5zyl