I wrote “Letter to Izriah” during the summer of 2005.  I was going through a lot, personally, trying to make sense of the circumstances I was given. 

I was writing to reclaim my life.  My sun was at the heart of the equation.  I was contemplating death on a very serious level.  Was it death, physically?  What is death, spiritually?  If I wasn’t around someday, how would that affect my sun?

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Representin’ (4 Life) by Adrian H. Molina w/ Mannequin Rituals first appeared on Representin’ 4 Life EP in March 2007.  It was re-released on my first full-length album, Up Before the Sunrise, August 2008. 

My main goal with my first EP was to clearly define my work as an artist, to define what I represented. 

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Believe It by Molina Soleil & Aju w/ DJ Ceiba.

Recorded in Harlem, NY, February 2009.  Beat by DJ Ceiba, NYC drummer and producer.  Released on My America, benefit compilation for Papers the Movie—a film about undocumented youth.  Release Date July 4, 2009.

I walk on through the winter, where all the trees are dying.  Behind me, a road of tar and red clay.  I reach across the new ocean, borderless in brothels of freedom.  A long night awaits us…”         – e.g. bailey

(above: image from BP spill in the gulf coast, April 2010)

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“Dreamer” by Molina Soleil & Aju (SOULAJU) w/ DJ Icewater

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Writing and recording this track transported me back to the Up Before the Sunrise days.  Experimental rhyme structures and spoken reflections lending context to the poetics.

The odyssey of the DREAMER is riddled with layers of parallel dreams and realities.  Imagine two worlds, equivalent in their truths, folded in to mirror one another.  The true math lies in the eyes of the dreamer.

There is light and there is dark.  There is good and there is evil.  There is life and there is death.  These are simple matters.  It is in the gray area that dream interpretation begins.

Recognizing the power of the Dream, one’s mark is everlasting.  All things are connected.  All thoughts, words, and ideas manifest, touch, alter, and affect the eternal balance. 

Your reality is your perception.  Reflection is perpetually open to interpretation.

Play with the day, float away with the blue…

A.M. SOLEIL, RETROSPECTIVELY is a 52-week blog series in 2010, reflecting on 5 years of independent music by yours truly by Molina.

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Molina Soleil & Aju (SOULAJU) w/ DJ Icewater 2010

REMIX: The original version of Wrong Ways appeared on Shine Flow EP during the summer of 2009.  That was an Aju story—a journey through cultural transformation and personal affirmation. 

The Soleil Mix is a tale of personal struggle—something everyone can relate to.  Some of us have it rougher than others and circumstances transform us in unexpected ways. 

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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 aka Mo Brown

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