Why I Call My Music Ceremony By Matthew O’Neill I do not approach music as entertainment — but as a living relationship. For me, music is a form of prayer, a way of listening, a way of remembering an active form of deeply committed reciprocity. It is how I honor land, spirit, ancestors, and the more-than-human world. When I create, I’m not composing in isolation…
We are thrilled to be playing a couple New York album release shows in early February. Thursday February 6 at Tubby’s in Kingston and Sunday February 9 at NuBlu in NYC. Lea Thomas and John Thayer will join us to start off in Kingston. Jesse Paris Smith and friends will be there with us at Nublu. Here is the ink to the Tubby’s show tickets:…
+=+=+=+=+=+ Reading seagulls like tea leaves in your great grandmothers cup Woven in ways invisible to too many The meadowlark sings above bee balm and purple lashed daisies cloud breaks open behind her beak and closes again Pride swells in heart to know these formations’ charge Loving relation, spiraling growth, all we’ve ever known to hold. You are powerful, these epic edges are you, the…
Hey! Here’s the first song, ‘We’ll Miss You’ off the new album, Ancestor’s Wheel (out September 27). Recorded in Topanga, January 2023, first take feels. So many key roles that music and songs fulfill in healthy culture. This is an honor song, for anyone. The first verse I remember visiting a bunch of times where it rested on the back porch. I knew…
When I lived in Topanga, I very serendipitously met a Tai Chi / Qigong instructor / musician named Bill Fiorella. He was deep into herbal medicine and Traditional Chinese medicine. We had lived somewhat parallel lives having spent time and giving focus to very similar pursuits in our search for wisdom. We were brothers who had finally met. Bill eventually signed me to his start…
‘SONGS OF CONNECTION’ is out now ~ “Link Wray plays cumbia….” This album is a confluence of felt responsibility to pass along some wisdom regarding living in right relationship with all of life to the youth and to embrace my love of old school cumbia by employing those grooves and approaches to song arrangements. From there began the journey of creating this record….