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rgy tv show post kirtan by robin renee 1 comment i ve been telling myself this for a while now and i ve started to say it out loud in terms that sound like what a visual artist might use i have to say this is my post kirtan period in the past i ve called my music bohemian glam and more recently mantra pop i guess in a way all those terms remain part of what i do since all that i ve done will inform what comes next there s something that also appeals to me about the manufactured nature of any terms to describe music they can point to a combination of sound and concept at best but you really get to make it up maybe i ll declare post kirtan a sound all its own this acknowledgment is showing up at a time that in my personal life i am actually coming back to yoga and chant music after a time of separation from most everything to do with it staying away was necessary for some shifting relationship self preservation for a while but i am glad to reclaim those practices that work for me now in earnest i am humbled to hear from so many people about how the work i ve done with kirtan has had a positive effect i won t forget that i am listening to mantra as i write this what i ve known for a while though is that what feels like the peak time in my life to focus on chant at least in terms of performance and recording has passed i have slowly been getting comfortable with this and talked about it somewhat on the positive energy tv show in the summer that doesn t mean i won t facilitate kirtan and other contemplative practices in public spaces at times in fact i just booked a concert and kirtan event for april 16 th in plainsboro it doesn t mean i won t record kirtan if it arises again or sing with the kosmic kirtan posse if asked what it does mean is that i m acknowledging how much i ve missed being the full on singer songwriter how necessary that path is for me and it s the path i set myself back on now this is the path where the healing and power seem to occur most naturally for me it has been mildly traumatic finding the confidence to write again in the way i know i can and focusing back on club gigs and beyond feels daunting how did i lose that trail for so long at least i have some sense of what s worked before what definitely didn t and some ideas about where i d like to go it s time to ring in the new this friday i m doing a two set café show with jessica floresta on vocals and viola it is a small gig in a very familiar place i will be very happy to perform there and i hope you ll join us if you can each bit i do to prepare for it feels like a little triumph a lessening of the distance between myself and where i need to be come see us friday december 4 th at grooveground 647 haddon avenue collingswood nj 8pm traveling companion september 21 2015 in east coast love and sexuality midwest polyamory relationships touring travel tags caldera pagan music festival center for relaxation and healing plainsboro nj church of the subgenius cleveland oh devo devotional 2015 poly family poly partnership poly role models yoga central canton oh by robin renee leave a comment robin jim devolving at the beachland ballroom august 15 2015 this summer s treks to points west were good ones over the past couple years the odd niche of concert performance kirtan subgenius shenanigans and devo worship has been fun it also reminds me that the width of pennsylvania is substantial and that a gig or two along the way to ohio would make for reasonable stopping points i have made such idle complaints from time to time for the most part i am happy to travel often alone i ve taken a lot of life that way i still thrive with a fair amount of aloneness lately there has been more time filled by getting emotionally in line with writing than actually writing but i ve recognized that as a necessary part of my process i don t love this fact but it is what it is for now i am happy to say that the balance of aloneness to togetherness has changed in the direction i d hoped back on 2011 i wrote about preparing a place in my heart mind and home for poly family it has been a long road and for a while it was best to mostly forget about i didn t dwell in a state of constant longing or go on a relationship quest that hasn t been my way i have though allowed myself to be conscious of the intention this summer was the first time i took the mini tour to the cleveland area with a partner it was an easy going great experience to have a friend and lover not to mention driver roadie and general assistant along for the trip here s hoping for many more travels to local and faraway places i do like to stay in motion but even more than that i love the prospect of an emotional and spiritual traveling companion someone who wants a support system to navigate the twists and turns of the mind and is up for the task of being so for me as well i ve never been set on the configuration my poly family should take i ve been one to allow relationships to develop as they will without a lot of engineering from the outside in this case i find myself developing deep bonds and becoming part of a family already well in progress i had the chance to talk about our connection this week at poly role models there are ecstasies and practicalities even tempered positives and some challenges i do my best to look at clearly i m up for all of it it s a good thing that calls for appearances have been making room for themselves in the midst of my quiet intention toward personal life and personal growth i have a few gigs coming up one at the center for relaxation and healing in plainsboro nj on november 6 th and one pending for collingswood in the same time frame i m also gearing up to kick off the 2016 caldera pagan music festival in lafayette ga this coming may i ll be putting together a string of east coast gigs to make my way south and back i may have companionship for a few of those gigs and by circumstance i m likely to also take on some alone those logistics are still some distance away either way i have a sense of mutual support in my life these days and that makes all the travels feel grounded in the heart space it s been a very long time since i ve felt quite that way seen on robin renée mini tour august 2015 a very homey display at a dutch style restaurant in pennsylvania en route to cleveland oh joan armatrading s track record and marriage equality today june 26 2015 in love and sexuality music music journalism race relations tags biff bam pop disco gay marriage gay pride joan armatrading lgbt pride marriage equality rock singer songwriters track record by robin renee leave a comment i thought it would be cool that my article on joan armatrading s track record would come out on a day coinciding with lgbt pride weekend in nyc i had no idea how perfectly timed it would be thanks to the wonderful folks at biff bam pop for the opportunity to write a bit about why joan armatrading is a musical joy and a cultural inspiration robin renee on joan armatrading s track record and happy marriage equality to one and all love robin a few words with b b king may 17 2015 in concerts music music journalism tribute tags 2004 concerts b b king count basie theater easton pa new brunswick nj ravi shankar red bank nj reflections state theater state theatre by robin renee leave a comment back in the early 2000 s i wrote for several different central jersey newspapers it was never a style of writing that i loved exactly but i learned i was pretty good at finding the formula and building what was needed one of the best things about this kind of freelance work was discovering i could request interviews with all kinds of amazing well known people within a few days i could be in the midst of a great conversation with someone i admired all my life i would sometimes suggest writing about shows i knew of and had a personal interest in covering but just as often i d pick up assignments i felt blessed and quite a bit nervous when i was given the opportunity to interview b b king he was coming to the new brunswick state theatre the count basie theater in red bank and the state theater in easton pa in january 2004 we had a brief phone conversation and i captured the quotes i needed to construct a few paragraphs and let readers know he was coming to town at the show in new brunswick what i remember most is how little i was able to say to him in person i am not generally starstruck but then again here was a legend beyond legends what could i really say i remember talking to a few of his band members and being impressed by how crisply they were dressed and how they referred to him solely as mr king when i got through the meet and greet line i shook his hand and let him know i was the one who spoke to him for the show preview he smiled and said he d been curious to meet me i got a quick autograph then realized i was without words i slipped back into the room and just observed for a little while before leaving i ve come to remember this show in a way similar to how i recall seeing ravi shankar perform in philadelphia in each case it was incredibly moving and mostly beyond descriptive language to hear and witness an absolute master here is some of what i wrote by way of announcing the shows in 2004 on the cover of his latest studio cd reflections b b king with eyes closed looks absorbed in sweet concentration like a man offering a loving prayer or an artist fully consumed by the music we will find therein yet the 78 year old guitar pioneer thinks of himself in simpler terms i m kind of what you call a country boy i was born and raised on the plantation he says of his origins in itta bena mississippi a simple country boy perhaps but with a difference he can play the guitar like nobody s business he sings with deep conviction that retains that hint of hurt and grit that only authentic blues can deliver the king of the blues will rule the land tuesday at the state theatre in new brunswick and at easton pa s state theater on thursday everybody has believe it or not a soul and everybody feels something i play things that i feel and enjoy doing he reveals during a telephone interview before a concert in quebec city revered by rock favorites like the rolling stones and eric clapton his profound influence on the face of music across genres and decades continues in 1948 he left farm work for memphis tennessee and he had his first hits three o clock blues and she s dynamite by 1951 his signature song the thrill is gone scored his first grammy in 1970 king paired with clapton on riding with the king in 2000 and he shows no signs of slowing down king recalls the making of reflections his 32 nd album i think we got some pretty good work on it i don t think i ve ever made a perfect cd he says modestly i am even more astounded by his humility today than i was then this quote is so startling i always find faults in nearly everything i ve done but still people seem to give me compliments and i accept that i think the people s judgment is much better than mine i don t believe it was false humility i do hope he ultimately knew and truly experienced his own brilliance and the joyful sounds he brought the world rest well mr king this spring the heart will bloom forsythia april 13 2015 in love and sexuality poetry writing tags flowers metaphor napowrimo spring by robin renee 2 comments this spring the heart will bloom forsythia words for love fresh as new basil but old enough to know to know the truth of love to be placidly startlingly sure when you said those words first time i was not ready my face swirled dayglow chain confusion but i heard i knew it was not said just one time in the heat when your fingers had me lose language and in my fiber i wished to drink from you the pearls of new life it was measured and bare and i am ready now yes i am can you see the color of desire undress it with the wild eyes of reason and know it sure as your own tongue certain as clay solid and absolute in your hands when you touch me in the expanding times of skin and glisten do you spread open the veils that once kept separate sex from truth plural love from honor masculine pose from feminine power body from mind spirit can you taste now can you taste wisdom and wanting let me speak it in breathless wordless praise most high most physical in the clearest way i can i want you and when i have fallen into the cave of synthesizers and soda and when you have cocooned in work and worry and when those who can t see don t see we will reemerge and lips and hips and toes and breasts to chest to heart reminded of language our words and bodies will say it all out loud robin renée on steely dan biffbampop com march 20 2015 in music music journalism writing tags biff bam pop dandom donald fagen fandom walter becker by robin renee leave a comment i love the periodic opportunity i get at biff bam pop to wax poetic about one of my favorite obsessions today they published my piece on steely dan i share some of my favorite tunes and some experiences in fandom check it out robin renée on steely dan biff bam pop and the dream between would both love your shares and comments thanks working living in mixed media march 15 2015 in business love and sexuality songwriting tags audacious eleven brienna devlugt glenn walker jessica floresta loebig ink poly living 2015 south jersey writers group wall of voodoo by robin renee 2 comments a closeup of the wish tree at the salvador dalí museum in st petersburg fl here i promised myself to realize my creative potential i meant it the other evening i was at the south jersey writers meetup and i announced to my friend glenn walker that i like music again the look on his face let me know it was a puzzling statement it is not a surprising concept to me but i was surprised to hear those words coming out of my mouth and to another person it was a somewhat equivocal statement i always like music i often require lots of silence around me but i leave space in my world for singing when the spirit moves and listening to favorites today it s wall of voodoo that said i have felt a separation from making music for a while i ve written an awful lot about not writing so i won t bore you or myself with that what used to feel like an uncomfortable alienation from creative source feels like synergy now even though i haven t produced many songs of late i am very happy with everybody does the best they can that i performed with jessica floresta at the soma center in highland park there are more where that came from still dwelling in my head now is the time for me to be gentle with myself and let the songs emerge when they will i don t mind the gentle reminders from glenn other friends and potential collaborators i am on the mission i am also very aware of the value of the other creative things i am doing now and i feel at peace in following the trail of the creative impulses that are calling me my dreams have been inspiring in recent weeks i ve been enjoying writing them down an...