It's Tuesday, a wonderful day to share some music, through the wonderful Three Tune Tuesday initiative that my homeboy created. I love to hear new music, it really excites me. If I find something I love, I tend to listen to it a lot. Cos I love that feeling that I get, when a piece of music moves me.
The power of music to transport us to another time and place. The power it has, to help us open up and release. Music is a language that we can all understand, something that connects us all. I love artists that use their voice to spread awareness. Where their lyrics actually have some depth.
If I am playing music at home, I want it to have a positive message or to be sharing some truth in this world, where so much is being censored. It's really important that we become more conscious of the things that we listen to, because it has a huge influence om the way that we think.
This week I wish to share Aria Wells aka GreenTea Peng, from South London. I discovered her, when the whole Covid 19 narrative was being rolled out. She is a whole vibe and she is not afraid to speak her mind. She describes herself, as a psychedelic R'N'B singer. She mixes, soul, reggae, blues and trip hop, to create this sometimes funky, but always hazy chill sound.
Her lyrics speak to me, I feel like she sees the world in the same way that I do and that she is using her voice to help wake people up to their power.
Human, is the first song that I heard from her and from the word go I loved it. It starts off so smooth, with the sound of a crackling fire in in the background. Then she starts to sing, ' Searching for balance, praying for clarity", that was it, I was excited and that excitement only grew as the song progressed. The video is pretty fire as well. This is what she has to say about the song.
Hu Man
YOU man, me man, WE MAN.
Hu Man is an exploration of self and our attachment to identity, especially in this modern age. Hu Man is a war cry from the battlefield of mind, calling to the divine Mother to take this ego, take this head, to remove all these words and man made constructs and take me, take us, back to centre. Back to oneness, forward to unity. In Lak'ech Ala K'in, I am you you are me, is a Mayan saying I encountered during a Ceremony in Mexico and it's stayed with me always. I find it very fitting for the times we find ourselves in, such shifting paradigms. Hu Man is an offering of peace and healing to the collective in these intense times, and I pray it takes people inside themselves if for only just a moment.
Next up is revolution, which she wrote in response to the Plandemic. I love the reggae influence and her voice as always is so smooth. The lyrics are so on point, it is so rare to find artists that are welling to speak their truth, instead of what they think people want to hear.
They have tricked us with false freedoms
As they force feed them
Into the collective
So we feel like there is more
that we connect with
Like we need more in common
Than our hearts and our souls
I finish with 'Nah It Ain't The Same'. Another song that speaks so much truth, about how difficult it is to be human right now. This song just creates a whole vibe, so chill and upbeat. But it's the lyrics as always, that really speak to me. In this video, she has a man holding a sign, saying check the fact checkers. Yes, this made me very happy.
All of this false shit I do not need it
I believe in magic
Because I’ve seen it
Nothing you the ego
You know already, how it goes
I got a strong mind a strong girl
From my head to my toe
Back to my ego
These Earthly habits have got to get going
I’ve let go of desires but have I truly
Let go of the fires that burn them and fuel them
It's so hard to be human
I want music that inspires me and Greentea Peng certainly inspires me with her lyrics, we need more conscious artists in the world.

