Featuring: almondbuttersmooth, Lol Mmac, Marco Soulo & Signature Mimi

What is freestyling? A practice. A form of healing. Expression. The simple act of tuning in. It's about elevating all of us, one soul at a time. Lifting the consciousness through intentional participation. Finding space that allows safe interaction. The radiation of energy draws in the wandering. Allow community and relationships to grow. Call it fate, God, or a third force not aforementioned, but certain people come into our life at the right time. These creators are trying to not have the odds so stacked against you. Have a listen to those living it. Back Bay learns a lot, gets turnt, and gets interrupted by a lot of life flights.

Back Bay takes its first foray into history. Using the book, A Terrible Revenge, by Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, we examine the ethnic cleansing of the European Germans at the close of World War 2. It's not an easy story to tell, but it is worth telling. I admit I struggled making it through some of the testimonies and first hand accounts during this episode. This is the darkest part of the human psyche. The sheer horror of the Eastern Front has been covered before, but this topic seems to always hide. The victims deserve to have their story told, it's the only way we can all move forward.

Portland to Portland. A piece of poetry for the goddess written in two acts. I'm learning to let things go. I'm learning that April is my pathway through this world. Find something good in myself. Embrace the people around you. I spent 6 years figuring out how to express this.

The audio-only version of Alex and Jack Obery, friend o' Back Bay's, St. Patrick's Day 2022 adventure. Video available on backbaypodcast.com

Yes, the talent is all around us. At the local venue, across the street, down the stairs, through the hall, this city is brimming with the creative hearts of Maine. How much art is in a given apartment complex? Let’s start with my own. Producer Bryan and I were able to sit down with my roommates Elias (Darwin and the Finches), Elias, and Nate to talk about art, memory, and the insatiable need to express ourselves. Yes I live with two Elias’s. Songs are played, poems are shared, we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Keep it Back Bay.

-Alex

A new take on the traditional Christmas special! Dan Sullivan and Seasonal Temps join the Back Bay Boys to help us get into the holiday spirit in our new podcast location. Seasonal Temps plays some classic Christmas songs, we take a deep dive on the origins of Yule, and the various myths pertaining to our most treasured traditions are shared. No holiday is safe from the gaze of Back Bay.

From the Back Bay archives, we dust off an unreleased ep from Halloween 2020. Alex and friend of Back Bay Dan Sullivan take Back Bay on a journey through the origins of Samhain and look at how the Gaelic festival has, over time, morphed into what we know as Halloween. All treat, no trick. Keep it Back Bay.

Alex on the poems "She knows the way we don’t open ourselves up and learn to slump when we walk. It’s okay April babies we know someday the world will want to talk. I keep seeing the purple centaur of Spring and know it is her. Our vision is so blocked we miss out on the spectral world. Free yourself in her spells. 5 years of April to make up for the other 25 toiling without her, poetry is my attempt to make up time."

The Back Bay Bois welcome back OG Back Bay Boi Mitch G for his second episode as a guest. Calle makes her first appearance on mic 3 and brings the electricity. Alex shares some new poems.

For more Mitch :

Bandcamp: https://mitchgosselin.bandcamp.com

Soundcloud: @mitchel-gosselin

Intro beats by @seasonaltemps

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Everything has changed. The ocean always changes. Are these reliable markers of our existence? There is love like a lighthouse keeping us off the rocks. Our hands slip off the oars. We grow up on an island and wonder why soil smells different after everyone left. Lost is just a way to get through water. There are truths we must remember.