Aloe Blacc, American soul singer, record producer, and activist joins LaunchLeft. He describes the profound moment music found him and turned him into an “active participant” and breaks down his recording process on some of his earliest songs. He expounds upon his form of activism and what his organization Artivist is doing to support and create music and art that inspires positive social transformation. We end this week’s show with “All Love Everything”, the title track off of Aloe’s new record.

For more information about Artivist please visit their official website:

http://artivistentertainment.com

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LaunchLeft is an alliance of left-of-center artists, a label, a podcast, a curation engine.

LaunchLeft Podcast hosted by Rain Phoenix is an intentional space for Art and Activism that enlists famed creatives to launch emerging bands.

LaunchLeft begins with music, but ultimately aims to launch left-of-center artists in all creative fields.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Singer-songwriter and record producer Róisín Murphy joins LaunchLeft this week! Up for discussion: her earliest musical memories, her love for dance and the influence it has had on the music she creates. We talk about her latest disco-centric record Róisín Machine and close this week’s episode with an extended version of her new track “Simulation”. Find us at LaunchLeft.com or wherever you hear podcasts.

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LAUNCHLEFT OFFICIAL WEBSITE

https://www.launchleft.com

LAUNCHLEFT PATREON

https://www.patreon.com/LaunchLeft

TWITTER

https://twitter.com/LaunchLeft

INSTAGRAM

https://www.instagram.com/launchleft/

FACEBOOK

https://www.facebook.com/LaunchLeft

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LaunchLeft is an alliance of left-of-center artists, a label, a podcast, a curation engine.

LaunchLeft Podcast hosted by Rain Phoenix is an intentional space for Art and Activism that enlists famed creatives to launch emerging bands.

LaunchLeft begins with music, but ultimately aims to launch left-of-center artists in all creative fields.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Grammy-nominated music producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and founder of Nice Life Recording Company, Ricky Reed joins LaunchLeft. He discusses a “day in the life” at the studio and the dichotomy of working with Top 40 recording artists such as Lizzo and artist just beginning their journey in the industry. He also talks about balancing his work with fatherhood, how music found him and shares a little bit about his newest collaborative project The Room. We end the show with a track off of the album No Stone featuring The Dirty Projectors.

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LAUNCHLEFT OFFICIAL WEBSITE

https://www.launchleft.com

LAUNCHLEFT PATREON

https://www.patreon.com/LaunchLeft

TWITTER

https://twitter.com/LaunchLeft

INSTAGRAM

https://www.instagram.com/launchleft/

FACEBOOK

https://www.facebook.com/LaunchLeft

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LaunchLeft is an alliance of left-of-center artists, a label, a podcast, a curation engine.

LaunchLeft Podcast hosted by Rain Phoenix is an intentional space for Art and Activism that enlists famed creatives to launch emerging bands.

LaunchLeft begins with music, but ultimately aims to launch left-of-center artists in all creative fields.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Arlo Parks, breakthrough singer/songwriter/poet joins the LaunchLeft discussion. She opens up about her unique writing process by which she uses her poetry and “stream of consciousness” exercises as the foundation to her songwriting. Arlo also discusses some of her earliest musical memories and expounds upon her school of thought that not all art needs to be useful. We close out this week’s episode with her latest single “Hurt”. Art, music, activism and lots of left-of-center goodness on full display on this week’s installment of LaunchLeft.

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LAUNCHLEFT OFFICIAL WEBSITE

https://www.launchleft.com

LAUNCHLEFT PATREON 

https://www.patreon.com/LaunchLeft

TWITTER

https://twitter.com/LaunchLeft

INSTAGRAM

https://www.instagram.com/launchleft/

FACEBOOK

https://www.facebook.com/LaunchLeft

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LaunchLeft is an alliance of left-of-center artists, a label, a podcast, a curation engine. 

LaunchLeft Podcast hosted by Rain Phoenix is an intentional space for Art and Activism that enlists famed creatives to launch emerging bands. 

LaunchLeft begins with music, but ultimately aims to launch left-of-center artists in all creative fields.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week LaunchLeft welcomes the legendary Daniel Lanois from his home studio in Los Angeles California! He walks us through some of his earliest days in music, expounding upon how he connected with Brian Eno and later went on to co-produce with him many seminal records including U2’s The Joshua Tree. He gives us behind the scenes vignettes of Peter Gabriel’s SO and the iconic Emmylou Harris record “Wrecking Ball”. He also shares new tracks from the band Heavy Sun and offers a glimpse of his master wizardry by deconstructing the songs in real time. A special live performance by Heavy Sun closes out this week’s episode!

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LAUNCHLEFT OFFICIAL WEBSITE

https://www.launchleft.com

LAUNCHLEFT PATREON

https://www.patreon.com/LaunchLeft

TWITTER

https://twitter.com/LaunchLeft

INSTAGRAM

https://www.instagram.com/launchleft/

FACEBOOK

https://www.facebook.com/LaunchLeft

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LaunchLeft is an alliance of left-of-center artists, a label, a podcast, a curation engine.

LaunchLeft Podcast hosted by Rain Phoenix is an intentional space for Art and Activism that enlists famed creatives to launch emerging bands.

LaunchLeft begins with music, but ultimately aims to launch left-of-center artists in all creative fields.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Singer/songwriter/musician Ondara sits down with LaunchLeft to talk about his new record, “Folk N' Roll Vol 1: Tales of Isolation” written entirely while in lockdown in Minneapolis over the course of a week. He shares about his deep need to create as a form of therapy, and how moving from Kenya to Minneapolis had an impact on his work. We close the episode with his timely and timeless song, “The Ballad of Nana Doline”. Find us wherever you hear podcasts or at LaunchLeft.com

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LAUNCHLEFT OFFICIAL WEBSITE

https://www.launchleft.com

LAUNCHLEFT PATREON 

https://www.patreon.com/LaunchLeft

TWITTER

https://twitter.com/LaunchLeft

INSTAGRAM

https://www.instagram.com/launchleft/

FACEBOOK

https://www.facebook.com/LaunchLeft

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LaunchLeft is an alliance of left-of-center artists, a label, a podcast, a curation engine. 

LaunchLeft Podcast hosted by Rain and Summer Phoenix is an intentional space for Art and Activism that enlists famed creatives to launch emerging bands. 

LaunchLeft begins with music, but ultimately aims to launch left-of-center artists in all creative fields.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“We have to think about each other,  [we have] same feelings, same actions whether black or white, we have to come together instead of fighting each other.“

This powerful statement and many more from the legendary Toots Hibbert of Toots And The Maytals on LaunchLeft this week. In this brief but deeply personal conversation, Toots reveals some of his earliest music memories in church, his first ukulele made of fishing line and the story behind the Bob Marley cover on his fantastic new record “Got to be Tough”.  Listen to it here: http://toots.lnk.to/GotToBeTough

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LAUNCHLEFT OFFICIAL WEBSITE

https://www.launchleft.com

LAUNCHLEFT PATREON

https://www.patreon.com/LaunchLeft

TWITTER

https://twitter.com/LaunchLeft

INSTAGRAM

https://www.instagram.com/launchleft/

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LaunchLeft is an alliance of left-of-center artists, a label, a podcast, a curation engine.

LaunchLeft Podcast hosted by Rain Phoenix is an intentional space for Art and Activism that enlists famed creatives to launch emerging bands.

LaunchLeft begins with music, but ultimately aims to launch left-of-center artists in all creative fields.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Rain in celebrating River through his music, words and friendships in this special Aleka’s Attic episode featuring conversations with 3 of his closest friends, Flea, Dermot Mulroney & Michael Stipe—all of whom contributed to the recently released single, 𝐴𝐿𝑂𝑁𝐸 𝑈 𝐸𝐿𝑂𝑃𝐸. You’ll get to hear stories of how they came to know River and his music and then through the magic of old press clippings, River answers LaunchLeft’s two questions- 

1. how did music find you ? +

2. what is your form of activism? Welcome to episode 52, Happy birthday River Phoenix!

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Long time friend and left-of-center inspiration Catherine Keener is Rain's special guest this week on LaunchLeft Podcast. With River Phoenix's 50th birthday celebration around the corner, Rain asks Catherine to share memories about her brother and family- the banter between them is comfortable, heartfelt and sometimes silly! A true 'fly on the wall' experience hearing them tease apart a nearly 40 year family friendship.

Catherine also shares about meeting and befriending Summer Phoenix at age 12, which is the perfect segue into a 5 minute Q&A with Summer about her new single and video "Tiempo" via LaunchLeft's label imprint.

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LAUNCHLEFT OFFICIAL WEBSITE

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LaunchLeft is an alliance of left-of-center artists, a label, a podcast, a curation engine.

LaunchLeft Podcast hosted by Rain and Summer Phoenix is an intentional space for Art and Activism that enlists famed creatives to launch emerging bands.

LaunchLeft begins with music, but ultimately aims to launch left-of-center artists in all creative fields

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Local Native’s Kelsey Ayer joins the LaunchLeft conversation with Rain & Summer to discuss music and process. He gives a true sense of the band's long time dedication to each other and how they are able to achieve their special sauce of sound and vision. Don’t miss the quick Q&A with The Angel about her visually stunning video for “Words Like Daggers" (feat Jhelisa) directed by Mark Pellington, Sergio Pinheiro and Sweeten. She shares about the past, present and future collaboration that brought this powerful song solidly into 2020.

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LAUNCHLEFT OFFICIAL WEBSITE

www.launchleft.com

TWITTER

twitter.com/LaunchLeft

INSTAGRAM

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LaunchLeft is an alliance of left-of-center artists, a label, a podcast, a curation engine.

LaunchLeft Podcast hosted by Rain Phoenix is an intentional space for Art and Activism that enlists famed creatives to launch emerging bands.

LaunchLeft begins with music, but ultimately aims to launch left-of-center artists in all creative fields.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.