Paradigms

“Aditya Prakash is an award-winning, American-born Indian classical vocalist best known for his powerful and emotive voice.” adityaprakashmusic.com

The Aditya Prakash Ensemble has a new CD out Diaspora Kid.  The tracks are distinct from each other in style, but all connected by the central theme of South Indian Traditional Carnatic music, the singing of Aditya Prakash.  The ensemble has been playing together for a decade.  This is their third album.

Aditya and Baruch discuss the history of the music, the alchemy of blending traditions, and the implications in today’s political world.

Music by: Aditya Prakash Ensemble

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Katherin Hervey & Troy Williams return to Paradigms to update us on their film project The Prison Within. The film is about to hit the festivals. See it if you can! It’s a documentary about the Restorative Justice process at work, which shows great promise in being part of a just society.

Malika Tirolean & Michael League of Bokanté return to Paradigms with new music on the horizon! They’ve been touring and playing, and preparing to record a new record this summer.

• Watch The Prison Within

Music by: Bokanté

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Mercedes Bahleda is a devotional singer. She’s spent her life engaging with spirituality and music. In her latest foray, Mercedes worked with composer Klaus Hillebrecht to create Sacred Chants to Tara.

Tara is the representation of the Divine Feminine in Buddhism. The chants and songs and the music on this record celebrate Tara, Divine Mother, Bringer of Peace.

Mercedes and Baruch discuss the transcendence and embodiment that music brings through us into the world as an offering for everyone.

Music by: Mercedes Bahleda

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Therese Michaud is a pianist who plays regularly at the airport in Portland, Oregon. Her music is passionate and inspired by nature. Therese shares her music and her perspective!

Dr. Kabran Chapek is a Naturopathic Physician with the Amen Clinics. Dr. Chapek talks about mental health, brain health, and ways we can detect and address challenges. Dr. Chapek’s new book is Concussion Rescue: A Comprehensive Program to Heal Traumatic Brain Injury

Music by: Therese Michaud

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Gordon Soderberg joins Baruch to talk about Veterans Green Villages, an organization that formed in response to Hurricane Katrina. Gordon and the other veterans involved have continued, since 2005, to bring sustainable renewable energy resources along with all manner of rebuilding skills to disasters; hurricanes, tornadoes, and urban blight in Detroit.

Gordon talks about “the need to serve” which is something many veterans, and others, feel and respond to.

• Honoring Gordon Soderberg

Music by: The Funk Brothers, Cha Wa, Diane Zeigler, Stevie Wonder, Emmylou Harris w/Kate & Anna McGarrigle and Loudon Wainright, Phish, The Who, and Patti Smith Group.

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John Reed is a singer-songwriter from North West England. He has a new record out called Inheritance which is musically and lyrically stimulating and heartfelt. The music brings together John’s love of many kinds of music. The lyrics reflect John’s care for life, for Earth, for humanity.

John’s new record Inheritance is a collection of very personal songs describing some of how John feels about his life and life on Earth.

John and Baruch share a warm conversation wherein they explore the music, the messages, and how each of us is a creative person capable of meaningful expression.

Music by: John Reed

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“Motihari Brigade creates high-energy revolution rock as a beacon for those seeking their independent lost tribe.” – mbrigade.com

Eric Winston, founder of Motihari Brigade, talks with Baruch about the band, the album Power From Below and the ideas behind the music.

Drawing inspiration from George Orwell, The Spanish Revolution, and his own life experience, Eric Winston has put together a band and an album that will speak to the millions of humans who want life on Earth to be better for everyone!

• Motihari Brigade on YouTube

Music by: Motihari Brigade

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Karena Montag returns to Paradigms to talk about Restorative Justice, and is joined by Architect Deanna VanBuren who designs spaces conducive to Restorative Justice.

The conversation focuses on designing processes for people that encourage justice and how people can recover from harm, and on how the built environment can encourage or discourage community, communication, well-being, all in the pursuit of Restorative Justice.

Music by: Craig Chaquico, Carrie Newcomer, Jackson Browne, Sameer Gupta, Juluka, and Walela

• Restorative Justice on Paradigms Pt I

• Restorative Justice on Paradigms Pt II

• Deanna VanBuren in the New York Times

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Nance Klehm‘s work in the world concerns things like soil, sustainability, foraging; the relationship humans have with the rest of nature (since we are part of nature). Nance teaches workshops and classes, and has done such things as work at a disaster site designing and implementing composting toilets, and creating a medical waste disposal system that reduced disease.  Nance teaches a number of different things, among them urban foraging.

The Soil Keepers is Nance Klehm’s new book; a combination of essays, interviews, and occasional poems. It’s an eclectic book which offers a variety of perspectives on soil, from the scientific to the artistic to the agricultural to the divine, and more. There are dozens of interviews with a variety of people who work with soil.  These offer both information and revelation, along with essays by Nance which weave the chapters together.

Music by: Craig Chaquico, Starhawk & Reclaiming, Kristina Stykos, Carrie Newcomer, Pete Seeger, The Blood Oranges, and Walela & Joanne Shenandoah

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Miki Purnell is a Physician who works holistically, helping people find/restore balance and health. Miki is also a jazz singer! Her new record is called Midnight Bloom.

Miki and Baruch talk about music, Miki’s life journey born in Hiroshima, Japan and now living/practicing in California. Miki talks about how music and medicine intersect.

You’ll love Miki’s renditions of classic Jazz songs, and how she sees music as part of healing.

Music by: Miles Davis, Bill Evans, & John Coltrane, and Miki Purnell.

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