What you didn't know? I told you every full moon! ;)
xo,
Nik'
In this letter:
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GRAB YOUR FREE TRACK
LIVE CLIPS FROM THE SHOW
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THE NEXT FREE DOWNLOAD
"Clear" won the challenge this month. Download it for free here:
http://www.sheilluminatesit.com/music/
Get online and vote now for the *final* giveaway in Sept @
http://www.sheilluminatesit.com/polls/
LIVE CLIPS
Thanks to all the new and familiar faces I saw at Isabella's this month.
Much love for all the support. Shout outs to Calvin Beale for coming in
on bass, Dan (see below) and Jeanelle for her impromptu Cameo. :) Please
check out my backstage gallery for some of the candid pics
http://sheilluminatesit.com/backstagephotos/
Plus,
Take a listen to some live clips of the show. I've added them to the end
of my live demo reel on my homepage as well as my MySpace page.
http://www.sheilluminatesit.com/splashpage/
http://www.myspace.com/nikiandremusicthree
We're gearing up to bring you more shows in Durham and TO as well as some
very cool collaboration projects so stay tuned for.
Hope you're having a wonderful summer
- and hope to see you backstage soon! ;)
Love,
Nik'
for you
new entries posted every full moon
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Ms. Maya, On Love
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight
Live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
And comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.
Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
Old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
From our souls.
We are weaned from our timidity
in the flush of love's light
We dare be brave
and suddenly we see
That love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free...
♥~ Maya Angelou
Live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
And comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.
Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
Old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
From our souls.
We are weaned from our timidity
in the flush of love's light
We dare be brave
and suddenly we see
That love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free...
♥~ Maya Angelou
NEW LIVE CLIPS!
Me and my *new band* have been gearing up; jamming in my hometown nabe. Check out the Live Demo reel in my splashpage player for the new clips and a taste of what we do! And stay tuned for more (we're just warming up)! Plus, a formal introduction to the whole crew. Wait till you hear us with our girl Jeanelle...
FREE DOWNLOAD!! & Getting BACKSTAGE!!
FREE DOWNLOAD!!
The first digi single of Dawn's Rise is officially released and FREE. Spread the word. Tell your friends. Play play play! Those of you who voted, chose "Fly" as your fave track so it is the first in a series of 3 free releases to be gifted to my loving and devoted - read patient ;) - fans. I love you!!! Thanks for the continued encouragement, blessings and support. This is for you. Want to put in your two cents about which track you'd like to be able to download next? Get up on my website and
TAKE THE POLL!!! People keep emailing me how much they dig "Again" but she ain't getting no love in my website poll! So if you want to snag her for your iPod next month. Vote! Vote Vote! www.sheilluminatesit.com/polls/
A new, free download will be released (when else?) next full moon so check back August 16th for the next winner. yes we can! ;)
and
GET BACKSTAGE
...And introducing the sheilluminatesit.com BackStage Pass Program: Dig the taste of the backstage videos we've been posting? Wanna know the behind the scenes story of me and the SheLightsIt team? Since the re-launch of my website last Winter, we've been collecting some of my more intimate photos, video and writing and tucking it away Backstage .
There you'll find the "what-I'm-really-thinking" companions to my full moon blogs, intimate poetry and diary entries, plus a backstage photo gallery and, the newly added, "real backstage" vid. So how do you slip in back? Subscribe to my monthly e list and we'll send you directions on how to snag your personal password and private backstage pass.
We keep the emails down to once a month, never share and it's always free. This is *the* way to keep up on upcoming events, new downloads, giveaways and shows in your 'hood! And of course, you can unsubscribe at any time. So what are you waiting for? See you backstage... ;)
Required Reading...For Life
"I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections.
And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill.
I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help
and patience and a certain difficult repentance
long, difficult repentance, realization of life's mistake, and the freeing oneself
from the endless repetition of the mistake
which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify."
- DH Lawrence, quoted by Robert Bly, in "The Maiden King"
This is the best book I have ever read on understanding the challenge of reuniting our masculine and feminine in these devastatingly fragmented times. It's called,
The Maiden King by Robert Bly and Marion Woodman
It came to me serendipitously as I was perusing Odyssey II's bookshelves for a sign. It is a road map home. It has already delivered me so many poetic moments of clarity that I am, wholeheartedly recommending it at only 42 pages deep!
This should be required reading for Life. Please find it at your local library or bookstore, read the 6 page intro and see what I mean.
Healing Love III
Back in March I sent out a call for "a line" in the form of balmy music that speaks to mens' universal relationship with the ladies of the world (see "& Where Are Our Boys?" - Mar 10, 2008)...Thanks to all who commented and sent me their picks: Shameless Shorty, Tunji, Rae-j, Purple Zoe, Asani, and Arnaldo. Special shout out to my Soul Commune siblings who ran with this, keeping the discussion going for over a month and even reposting on their own sites and pages... Here's a list of the "final" playlist:
John Mayer's "Daughters"
"Woman" by Raheem DeVaughn
Mint Condition's "My Sista"
Kwesi's "Heavenly Daughter" (Testimony, 1997)
Goodie Mob's "Beautiful Skin"
"Man's World" by James Brown - couldn't find a clip or the original...but here's a wicked Christina cover
Josh Martinez's "Diabetic Dialectic" (Josh Martinez and the Hooded Fang, 1997)
"To The Queen" by Jamarhl Crawford (Les Nubians presents..Echos Chapter one)
Boyz II Men - "Song for Mama"
"Belief" by Gavin DeGraw
Jaheim - "Put That Woman First"
Aloe Blacc - "I'm Beautiful"
Blackstar - "Beautiful"
Justin Timberlake - "Another Song"
p.s. there were a couple links I couldn't find, if you know where we can listen online, comment me!
