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Channels

by Tufawon

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Channels is an album Tufawon will be releasing as a series of singles beginning January 2021. The album represents the experiences we live through within the different spaces we find ourselves existing in. Spirituality, technology, resistance, social media, art, and nature. On some levels, Tufawon is almost like an unfiltered news station, bringing on the ground information about the realities we live through here in Minneapolis, Indigenous/Latinx and marginalized communities. “I am the echo of our ancestors channeling through me every word I create poems with, carrying the messages they've taught me. I am the addiction to the many channels I can't seem to get enough of. It is the beauty and the ugliness that creates hope within this dystopia. It is the contrast that some of us can clearly see, and that too many of us are too distracted to acknowledge". Channels is a reflection of what society is experiencing in real time.

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(Ride)
A whole shift of consciousness
(Ready to die)
How did I get it the first time?

On a path of destruction
Imminent danger in front of us how do we function the world is erupting
I'm burning this sage and smudging the fuck shit away
How do we recover from, how do we get ourselves into a place
Of loving each other without any judgment and
Look at each other with grace look straight in the face

Feeling this frequency we on ready to rise
Hearing the voices of our people willing to die
Doing the most within our lives so we can thrive
Let the spirits channel through us so we can take in the medicine

We wake up to the morning sun watch it rise
Take in the light come from the stars facing the sky
Moonlight shimmering through the window into the night
Open the pathway to our soul, fill it with energy let it in

Channels, channels, channels, channels
Channels, channels, channels, channels
Channels, channels, channels, channels
Channels, channels, channels, channels

Riots in my city and it's burning down
Gunshots in the background and we heard them loud
Murder on the rise in the Minneap'
From Northside to the Southside where we living at
People in they bubbles and they don't react
Because they living in a fantasy and don't know how to act
Whole perception has been molded by the channels they watch
Believing in fake heroes but they really killer cops
Burn the precinct down Defund The Police
Give a refund to the people 'cause they stole from me
Reparations for the Natives and the Black folks too
If you ain't about that life then I ain't about you

Feeling this frequency we on ready to rise
Hearing the voices of our people willing to die
Doing the most within our lives so we can thrive
Let the spirits channel through us so we can take in the medicine

We wake up to the morning sun watch it rise
Take in the light come from the stars facing the sky
Moonlight shimmering through the window into the night
Open the pathway to our soul, fill it with energy let it in

Channels, channels, channels, channels
Channels, channels, channels, channels
Channels, channels, channels, channels
Channels, channels, channels, channels

They watching the tube, I'm watching the stars and the moon
I'm probably 'bout to consume the sacredness making it possible to
Achieve the impossible possibly through
The magic that we have been holding and harnessing our autonomy
Create economy making our monuments bigger and brighter reclaiming our sovereignty
And a part of me wants to go back to the way our people did things way back in the day
No blood shed over dumb shit no way, aye
This is the moment we decide we should save our lives
Take control of our own destiny and make things right
An entire wave of new warriors that'll remain in this fight
Ready to sacrifice it all for what we believe in
We're already winning the spiritual war
They can't even fathom our powerful force
Their cowardice ways, they're moving in closer
They're already lost transitioning over

Feeling this frequency we on ready to rise
Hearing the voices of our people willing to die
Doing the most within our lives so we can thrive
Let the spirits channel through us so we can take in the medicine

We wake up to the morning sun watch it rise
Take in the light come from the stars facing the sky
Moonlight shimmering through the window into the night
Open the pathway to our soul, fill it with energy let it in

credits

released January 1, 2001
Written and performed: Tufawon
Produced, mixed and mastered: Andre Mariette
Cover art design: Tufawon

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Tufawon Minneapolis, Minnesota

Tufawon is a Dakota/Boricua songwriter and producer from Minneapolis. His name represents his mixed identity, and his music is a reflection of his life experiences, hopes and dreams for the future, spirituality, love, and the realities of the world. His recent album Until The Sun Comes Up redefined his sound as he sang over tropical beats he produced entirely himself. ... more

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