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[THE WORD TV] New Renaissance – “Fool Me” (VIDEO)

Armando Hernandez — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:05:19 +0000

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2-cent Listen! Literacy and Arts Festival presents New Renaissance “Fool Me”

New Renaissance is: Ryan Lee (@Ryan_Lee) Cypha (@Ayo_WhoIsCyph) SOL (@Artistofculture) and Kash Akbar (@KashAkbar)

Dir by Bmike ( @2cent_Bmike)
produced by Wesxlee ( @wesxlee )
www.2-cent.com/listen

SETI X – Bird Flu Music Video + Free Download [THE WORD TV]

Syd Woodward — Sun, 13 May 2012 07:54:33 +0000

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Artist: SETI X
Song: “Bird Flu”
Director: Jassa Campbell

Intro scene features street scientist 7up.
Shot on location in the Mission & Downtown districts of San Francisco, CA 2012.

Free Download of Song – http://soundcloud.com/mandeepsethi/bird-flu
Free Download of Mixtape, AJNA CHAKRA – http://www.mandeepsethi.bandcamp.com

Lyrics:
BIRD FLU SEASON, nobody could fly
reminiscent of 75
when everyone was high
the peasant in disguise
call him hollow hearted zorro
he’ll swallow all his pride like a good boy,
the promo, the mixtape ,the world tour exposure
the people who never believed are now screaming i told ya
they ayatollah soul controller holder of the spell book
i eat amongst the devils and throw dice with hells cooks
whats for dinner, probably ego and jealousy
and it taste so good, i don’t know if i’ll ever let it be
honestly, the cost you pay is honesty/
some of us are rich and some are broke, if your on to me
theres nothing wrong with looking up, but never honor me
the spirit is in all of us, this flesh exists dishonestly
pre written prophecy burned in a dream
so you learn very quickly that your worth is your cream
so you work till your conscience is clean, or at least until ya pockets reach desired heights of topless regime
heres the offer this the scene
have the fame and fancy things
at first its surface level, materialism clings
to the edge of precedence set sentences to detonate this is fate
this is fate
this is fake
what
this is fake…

go ahead and grind lil brotha get ya cake
just remember this is fake
go ahead lil sister get ya cake
go ahead and grind big brother get ya cake
just remember this fake
goahead and grind big sister get ya cake
just remember this is fake

Grimes – Nightmusic ft. Majical Cloudz [LOWPASS TV]

Syd Woodward — Sun, 13 May 2012 03:39:37 +0000

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The second video from the album “Visions” (purchase the album at iTunes:http://smarturl.it/grimes).

Directed by John Londono (http://www.rodeoproduction.com/londono/)

http://www.grimesmusic.com/
https://twitter.com/#!/grimezsz
http://www.4ad.com/
http://www.arbutusrecords.com

Buy “Visions” at Amazon: http://smarturl.it/grimesa
Buy “Visions” at 4AD: http://bit.ly/Ax31d3

Green Couch Session – Band of Skulls – Sweet Sour [POPT CULTURE]

Syd Woodward — Sat, 12 May 2012 23:32:34 +0000

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From our friends at www.greencouchsessions.ca

We met up with Band of Skulls at the Commodore Ballroom just as their string of press interviews were finishing up. The band was excited to be in Vancouver and playing a sold out show at the beautiful venue.

We strolled out of the Commodore and onto the street making our way to Robson Square where the couch was waiting patiently for us in the roof top garden. Matthew, Russell and Emma played their single “Sweet Sour ” for us. Harmonizing oh so smoothly as traffic rushed around below us.
http://www.greencouchsessions.ca
http://bandofskulls.com/
Hosted by: Robson Square

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DS Loki Music Festival Podcasts: Yan Zombie [LOWPASS TV]

Syd Woodward — Fri, 11 May 2012 23:02:26 +0000

Via our good friends at dubselekta.com

Up on the decks this week is Yan Zombie, bringing you Vol.2 of our Loki Mini Mix series!

Drifting between all points that we love about that booty bouncin’ low end and pausing just long enough for us to appreciate the gray areas, Yan Zombie manages to fit 25 tracks into a thirty minute mix. The track list of this podcast is articulated by many originals and doesn’t fail to make you think of warm festival vibes.

Watch for Yan rocking the 4.30am set following the first night of this two night festival. Also, rumour has it that will be a top secret visual treat to go with Yan’s performance. Make sure you don’t miss all the excitement!

If you haven’t got your Loki tickets yet, get them HERE or better yet, if you want to get involved send an email with your interest to LokiFestHR@gmail.com

Salva – American Grime (NastyNasty Remix) [LOWPASS TV]

Syd Woodward — Thu, 10 May 2012 21:48:39 +0000

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Slick lil remix from our man NastyNasty of Salva’s track American Grime

http://soundcloud.com/jaspey

http://fritenite.com
http://soundcloud.com/salva
http://myspace.com/salvabeats
http://mixcloud.com/salva

SeedStock! Seeding Vancouver’s first community currency [GROUNDED NEWS]

Syd Woodward — Thu, 10 May 2012 21:00:18 +0000

What if there were a way for communities to create their own currencies – ones that truly serve them? Cooperative currencies that, instead of dividing people, could actually help communities heal by reconnecting with themselves?

Introducing SeedStock, a new currency for Vancouver and the Lower Mainland that will reconnect our communities with the people, businesses and organisations that feed us, create for us and heal us. In the process, it will help us reconnect with our dreams of a more positive future for our communities by unleashing the collective energy to turn those visions into reality. SeedStock is money as though people, communities and relationships mattered.

There is a passionate group of people here in Vancouver working hard to transform this vision of a new currency into a reality, and they need your support. This event is part of a crowdfunding campaign being launched this month to arm us with the seed money that the SeedStock project needs to get off the ground. Jordan Bober and Andrew Perry, the project initiators, will share why they believe the time has come for Vancouver’s first community currency and how we are going to make it happen.

We are inviting all who support our vision to get behind this project by pro-actively transforming their money. Will you be counted among the pioneers who helped start something truly revolutionary in Vancouver? All attendees will return home with a stake in this new currency.

Join us for an illuminating evening as we share, in prose, poetry and song, our vision of how, by changing the money game we choose to play, we can unleash the incredible potential of this city.

We are thrilled to be joined at this event by world-renowned community currency pioneer and visionary Michael Linton. With special guest performances by musicians Buckman Coe, Zamir Dhanji and Corrina Keeling, spoken word artists Johnny McRae and Hazel Bell-Koski, this is an evening you will not want to miss!

Seating is limited – reserve yours today!

Doors 7pm, program starts at 7:15pm sharp.

***Doors 7pm, program starts at 7:15pm sharp. Space is limited: please get your ticket in advance at http://seedbomb.eventbrite.ca/***

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[THE WORD TV] Live Cypher W/ Blu, Das Racist, Oddisee, Final OutlaW, Homeboy Sandman

Armando Hernandez — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:09:12 +0000

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Live from the home of (2)Dope Radio, PNC Studios in Brooklyn, BET gathered together a couple familiar faces for a day of BBQ, blaps provided by !LLmind and rhymes.
FREE DOWNLOADS:

Bars On Deck / Mp3: http://www.mediafire.com/?uvqqc86nno1t3jk

(spotted at ABEF)

Matisyahu New Single “Sunshine” Free Download [THE WORD TV]

Syd Woodward — Thu, 10 May 2012 05:25:31 +0000

Download “Sunshine” for free on http://www.matisyahuworld.com
New Album Available Worldwide July 17, 2012

Keep on moving til the first rays of dawn
Keeping in on til the day stays strong
Roll until the night time blazes on
All along, I keep singing my song

I say, this phase is old ways
Sometimes I get so crazed
But just know that I’ll always stay
Cause you’re my light through the haze

It’s time for a champion
To sooth the soul of the land
Mend the heart from the sea and the sand
Til the sun comes up again

Time for a champion
To sooth the soul of the land
Mend the heart from the sea and the sand
Til the sun comes up again

(Chorus)
Reach for the sky; keep your eye on the prize
Forever in my mind, be my golden sunshine
It’s raining in your mind so push them clouds aside
Forever by my side, you’re my golden sunshine

When the sun set, I let myself down
Found the ground beneath my feet gone
No more words were there to speak
On that day my song was born

Never meant to leave you all alone
Said I’d be your shelter from the storm
Now your clothes have all been torn
Kingdom sacked attacked and dethroned

It’s time for a champion
To sooth the soul of the land
Mend the heart from the sea and the sand
Til the sun comes up again

Time for a champion
To sooth the soul of the land
Mend the heart from the sea and the sand
Til the sun comes up again

(Chorus)
Reach for the sky; keep your eye on the prize
Forever in my mind, be my golden sunshine
It’s raining in your mind so push them clouds aside
Forever by my side, you’re my golden sunshine

It’s the way of the world
You’re on your own
time to grow and be a man
Wanna fly high like peter pan

No more never never land
Just lose your backpack filled with sand
Come along and take my hand, we’ll walk together walk forever

Reach for the sky; keep your eye on the prize
Forever in my mind, be my golden sunshine
It’s raining in your mind so push them clouds aside
Forever by my side, you’re my golden sunshine

Reach for the sky; keep your eye on the prize
Forever in my mind, be my golden sunshine
It’s raining in your mind so push them clouds aside
Forever by my side, you’re my golden sunshine

Oh, oh, oh, walk with me now, talk with me now
Oh, oh, oh, walk with me now, talk with me now baby
Oh, oh, oh, walk with me now, talk with me now baby
Oh, oh, oh, walk with me now, talk with me now

Featured Artist : Jesse Reno [POPT CULTURE]

Syd Woodward — Thu, 10 May 2012 03:33:09 +0000

Jesse Reno has always loved to draw despite significant impairments to his vision as a result of a fever that almost killed him and kept him hospitalized for the first year of his life. Ironically, Jesse believes that the peculiar demands of his vision have enhanced his work.

Always a good student, Jesse would finish his work as soon as he could so that he could draw. He loved looking at pictures of African art and ancient masks and sculptures in library books.

“I was attracted to primitive art,” says Jesse, at times even now “I go to the library, I like Aboriginal art. It’s not like I could copy it, though, I go to get inspired.” For Jesse, the symbolism of art is what “rules.” He feels his primitive work is most is most natural to him, “it’s strange, I really do see them in dazed states…also during Tai Chi they will flash through my closed eyes.”

Jesse is troubled by “the lack of ideas” that people have regarding art, “buying and selling art you care nothing about, because you think it makes you look cool, because it’s expensive, or whatever…the ancients believed in what they were doing, it meant something to them.” Jesse works on his pieces until they mean something. A recurring theme with kings and crowns relates to his commentary on how people, who need money, are ruled by it instead.

Jesse approaches his creations in the same way and believes this is what motivates him and makes him avoid submitting to materialistic pressures to serve other people’s ideas. “My art captures whatever feeling I had. I know I felt it. I know what was going on in my head.” If you can relate to it great, if not, that’s okay with him, too.

Tai Chi has been instrumental in this focus. Jesse suffers from the chronic pain and tendonitis in his neck – he has to hold his neck in awkward postures to see his work. “Sometimes I’m crouched over it 1 foot away.

Actually, a lot of times the work is done before I can see the whole thing!” He took up Tai Chi to help reduce the pain and strain from the demand of seeing. “I had to do a lot of meditation, I become more aware of my posture, I became more confident about my art…soon, I didn’t question myself.

I knew when it was done.” Jesse eventually learned to “go with” the more frustrating aspects of his vision — some areas of his eyesight are blocked, his right eye is particularly sensitive to light, and color is seen as brighter and darker. Further, he has found that something happens when his eyes are strained to fatigue – “I can see shapes, see things I haven’t seen all day.”

It is at this point that he lets go of his vision. “More is accomplished, sometimes drastic things happen at the end of the day. I’m more fluent. I’m looser, I draw faster, I run with the (new) perspective. I rework it until it means something”.

Jesse was initially discouraged from pursuing art and pursued music instead. He moved out on his own at 18, earned an Associated Degree in Radio and TV, had a home recording studio, played guitar in a band while supporting himself as a mailman.

Of course, he drew all the time in the mailroom, too. A few years ago Jesse got excited about another artist’s work “and I started painting a lot, quickly”. The artist he admired saw his work and was enthusiastic and supportive. “Then I got fierce. I painted all the time.”

Jesse was supported at key points by the enthusiasm of other artists and did everything and anything he could to show his work. “I put on a show, I organized shows, I went anywhere – tattoo shops, salons, coffee shops, record stores” – where they hung art, “I promoted it, I did the publicity, art walks, anything was worth doing to get people to see it.

Even if I didn’t sell anything, it led to a commission.” About 3 ½ years later he was able to quit his job as a mailman. His hard work paid off. Eventually he earned the attention of regular collectors in the United States and abroad.

Three years ago Jesse moved from Pennsylvania to Portland, Oregon. He has stayed busy particularly after being promoted by a well established gallery in Los Angeles. He has also started painting live for commissions which he says he enjoys quite a lot because he likes being engaged with people while he works. He now considers his music career a hobby; although, when he has time he plays and records–he is currently playing experimental music.

The art produced for the Rougette Gallery 2007 show reflects his awareness that in 4 short years his life has taken a dramatic course from where he thought he would be. “I’m not where I thought I would be and that may have been irrelevant. My personal measurement of what I thought I would be doing isn’t what I think now. That’s why there are a lot of arrows in my work now — it feels like all of these ideas are coming out of me and that I should look at all directions, all ideas at what I could be. As long as I move forward, stay on my game, go deeper, and never cop out. Push, push, push myself. What’s certain is my work is all I think about right now — and, how I work out what’s in my head. It’s important that I am claim who I am by (letting myself) think what I think and say what I say and not worry about it.”

When Jesse started to show with this gallery he had been a full time artist 6 months. Jesse notes at that stage it was easy to dream about being a working artist but he knew he wasn’t free of the mindset of being a guy with a job who hopes to be an artist until he recently got a tattoo on his hand in a place where “everyone” could see. (He has others.) This year he has been feeling that he is free to fully be himself as an artist and is aware this attitude has led to some critical success and constant work. The important element in his creative work is to use his art to make sense of his own psyche and what is going though him. “If I pay attention to my art I have a clear sense of what’s going on inside of me. It’s funny, when I look at my old work I can tell exactly what was going on with me then. Now, when I’m working on something, I ask myself ‘why does this mean this to me?, what am I leaning?’ Lately, I feel like the Phoenix Rising and a lot of that (feeling) has shown up in my work.”

Jesse also spent some time this Summer in Winnipeg, Canada, working with underprivileged teenagers, mostly native kids, teaching them to paint murals through structured graffiti art programming.

“The provincial government funded a huge grant to bring in 3 international artists and 3 Canadian artist to work with the kids.” We’ll skip the part about the Byzantine governmental/non-profit hierarchy which caused a delay in the arrival of the paint but Jesse did enjoy working with the teens and created a 1000 sq foot mural as part of the commission (see above).

http://www.jessereno.com/

Blog : http://jessereno.com/blog/