i.Ameni Beat Collages

Home from Peru with vivid dreams in sleep and visions during the day coax the birth of the ArcoIris i.Ameni video collages...

Peru: Day 1.2

:) havent really slept in 3 days, going right now, lima was intense and beautiful, had a whole crowd ready to welcome in the new president taking pictures of me and the afro (and feather) instead :)

they know how to show love...

(and curiosity, and appreciation, and perplexion ;) and...)

just got to cusco this morning and it feels like days ago, the air, the earth, the mountains are special here! the elevation thins the bloods and quickens the vibration, the cobblestone streets and old colonial stylings built on top of incan architcture tell so many stories, the big small city feeling makes community accesable and flux and excitement rampid... so u know i{m vibin serious!!!


met hella cool folks, the kind that feel like fam right away, it´s a serious practice to stay open cuz there are so many people tryna sell you things here and what they´re selling is so amazing, it´s so exhausting telling all the good people on their hustle no every 2 minutes (literally!)...

more investigations into the class system and the nature of the gov´t here when we meet up with the homies Fred and Luzma... so many with so little and so much... you know how it is...

overwhelming, refreshing, great practice in boundaries and openess, great reminders of community and culture and play, and as always i am expanding...

give thanks
live love

holler with more soon...

my pictures are on the video camera with no computer connection so you¨ll see those later...

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I Am The BE-Ginning



Waiting on The Pre-Sent Meets The 365 Mama Tree Project!

Amanda WouldGo Will create an art altar for The Mama Tree, the Beginning every day for the next year! BE-Hold! www.AmandaWouldgo.blogspot.com

Amanda WouldGo Meets Flat Stanely Meets i.Ameni and The Place To BE



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Los Rakas-Soy Raka

It's been amazing to watch people's responses to this beat, i made it pretty quickly one night, probably spent more time dancing around the room than i did making it :)

The song gets played all over the place in the bay, made national news for the Turf dancing in the video, and it's on the radio in Panama!

Los Rakas does there thing! They are hard working professional artists with big hearts, making beautiful music.

and...it's sad to watch the gunz and gold ones get all the play, how much more work we have to put in to feed the people something different, how much we gotta sneak it in...

I know we're hungry for nourishment, keep working on the recipe :)

fLOWERS fOR tHE dEAD

From all the Attik house spirits, the ancestors, and the decendants... Flowers For tHE dEAD...

flowers for the dead
flowers for the dead
they've got time to smell 'em now
and think on what they've said
me i haunt myself so much i only hear my head
flowers for the dead


at my wake i'll finally wake and like a snake i'll shed
all the things that killed me and i'll start to live instead
my skin and bones i'll give 'em to the next on down the line
to resurrect a monument to this big me of mine
turning in my grave the page that booked marked what i knew
i'll reach up past the pain and sang a little song for you
i'll give the bee's and birds desert and be there for the dew
and soak up all the rain and sun so you can smell what's true


flowers for the dead x2
we've got time to smell em now and think on what we've said
me i haunt myself so much just help me clear my head
flowers for the dead x2


sometime i hear the spirits
sometimes i fear the spirits
sometimes i'm near the spirits
sometimes i feel the spirit


i've been pining in my boxes
no more boxes for me
any dirt on me
is right under your feet
feeds the flowers
feeds the fruits
look in closely you'll see


fowers for the dead x2
we've got time to smell em now and think on what we've said
me i haunt myself so much just help me clear my head
flowers for the dead x2