Rise Up Music Project

Evalynne is a Seattle musician and enthusiast of that which remains numinous who has spent her life attempting to illustrate the spectacular majesty of Unicorns through art, ideas and music. For her birthday she decided to re-imagine the crown jewel of her attempts that was originally made 12 years ago. The song in question which luckily is also the song for today called: "Rebirth"

Cape Disappointment is the moniker for Seattle-based songwriter, Jeffrey P. Martin. He writes “raw, honest, stripped-down” songs about places, loss, love, and life. He’s been playing all over the country for more than a decade. Everywhere from New York to Seattle. He is releasing a new song on the 12th of every month this year, and his song for today is called “Slow Down”

Slow down

You should go slow now

even though you want

to take it all in

phone down

please put your phone down

please a take moment

to look around

(Chorus)

life’s going swell now

how can I climb out?

out of this hole now

I’m stuck in

You don’t

need to fill your time

with every input

all of the time

(Chorus)

please take

a couple more seconds

so you can think through

what you’re going to do

William Cremin makes various kinds of pop music under the name Extrawilliam. He is releasing a new song on the 11th of every month this year. “GO” was inspired by the corporate-controlled media landscape, loud/quiet/loud songs, and the notion that most (all?) societal problems are in some way a byproduct or manifestation of some person or group’s unaddressed, unhealed inner world(s).

Rebecca Jasso is a native Chicagoan, deep thinker, and songwriter. She is releasing a new song on the 8th of every month this year, and her song for today is called “Wait and See.”

ChiMarronage, comprised of Nicole Rawls and Forest Brooks, is a Black Queer Chicago-based duo who blend poetry with music to create soundscapes that take us into the dreamscapes for our collective liberation. They are releasing a new song every 7th of the month this year and their song for today is called “Shadow Dancin”.

Stacy Rene Erenberg is ‘From Here to There’ as a vocalist and songwriter from Chicago. Her improvisational stylings bring you on an inventive, genre-bending journey, from Jazz to Folk, Pop to Blues and of course A Capella. Stacy and her band of incredibly talented collaborators will lullaby you into your body and into new liberatory dreamscapes.

This month’s post is a song about rage. How do we transmute it into medicine?

Benjamin Goldenhour (the songplayer.) is serious about play, encouraged in chaos, and loves a good ol’ fashioned mistake; he has no idea what he is doing, but that has fortunately never been a hindrance. He lives in the woods somewhere outside Seattle with his novel-writing partner, rock-chewing mutt, and nap-dodging toddler. Listen for his new music on the second day of each month.

This month’s recording is an older song of his, but it’s been on his mind while away from home.

Cousin Wolf is the indie-folk music project of Matt Halvorson, a musician, writer and baseball fan living with his family in the woods north of Seattle. He is sharing a new song on the first of every month this year, and his song for today is called “Music Disc.” It is a video-game-inspired instrumental track created in collaboration with my son Zeke.