Water of Life" was created as a special new piece of music to celebrate
the first World UNITY Water Day, June 24th, 2020...graciously
commissioned by the organization UNITY EARTH. I designed the music to
re-encode listeners with the feeling, movement, emotion and sacredness
of water, helping us to viscerally re-member that we ourselves are Water
Beings.
My personal mission is to amplify awareness and healing through the vehicles of song, sound, powerful storytelling, and wellness. Music and the arts have the unique ability to catalyze heart-rooted change and a sense of inner-connectedness to all things. Through portals of heightened creativity, love, and light we are re-sparked into states of infinite flow and possibility.
It’s an honor to weave with you on your journey of self and collective discovery!
For Rose, the charmed experience of recording in Muscle Shoals has catalyzed the start of a thrilling new era in her musical evolution. “Working with musicians of that caliber and knowing they were giving my music so much attention definitely made me thrive,” she says. “I felt so safe going deep into the emotional places within the songs, and I think you can feel that love and camaraderie when you listen to the record.” At the same time, Have a Seat is undeniably the sound of an artist fully coming into her own, without concession or compromise. “I’ve worked in this industry for over a decade, and I feel like I’ve finally carved out a lane that’s genre-bending and all my own,” she says. “I had to really fight to find that space for myself, and this record is my way of staking my claim.”
Young Madeleine moved to Paris with her mother in 1987 following her
parents divorce. “To soothe me during the upheaval”, she recalls, “I was
given a guitar and took to playing in the streets almost immediately.”
The curious teenager started skipping school to frequent the city’s
Latin Quarter where street musicians dwelled, keen to learn about their
music and way of life. At 16, the fearless teen joined the Lost
Wandering Blues and Jazz Band with whom she toured the streets of
Europe, discovering Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday while “voraciously
picking up all the songs and all the guitar playing” she could.
Madeleine’s thirst for creative exploration is unfading and her
willingness to face creative challenges remains as solid now as it was
three decades ago.
Joplin died of an accidental heroin overdose in 1970 aged 27, after releasing three albums (two with Big Brother, and one solo album). A second solo album, Pearl, was released in January 1971, just over three months after her death. It reached number one on the Billboard charts. She was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Rolling Stone ranked Joplin number 46 on its 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time[11]
and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. She
remains one of the top-selling musicians in the United States, with Recording Industry Association of America certifications of 18.5 million albums sold.
With
her band, cajon (box drum), drums and acoustic guitar, songwriter
Michelle Mangione challenges the world of live music to rise to a very
intimate and honest level.
To date, she has released 4 Independent CDs and numerous independent videos.
She
is frequently seen playing guitar and "feet drums" at the same time, a
skill she learned out of necessity. "I couldn't afford to pay a drummer,
and needed the percussive edge in our acoustic shows, so I devised a
pedal driven drum set that I could play with my feet", says Michelle.
Pianos, unlike people, sing when you give them your every growl.
They know how to dive into the pit of your stomach and harmonize with
your roars when you’ve split yourself open.
And when they see you,
guts shining, brain pulsing, heart right there exposed in a rhythm that
beats need need, need need, need need, pianos do not run... And so she
plays.
