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Raw Visions
Day-Dreaming Dream Time
Life NRG & Pheminine Powa
Mother-Earth: Song To Humans
DubStep: Mrs Rosa Parks
Consciousness-Raising Sub-Bass Linez
The Black President
Fela Kuti, Waka Waka
The King Meets The President In Africa
DJ Rich Medina: The Michael Jackson Fela Kuti Remix Experience
Baule, Côte d’Ivoire
A Single-Canvas Short Story
Tele-Visions: A Maui Te Tipua
How Maui slowed the Sun: An Enchanting Tale from The Land of The Long White Cloud
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day-dreaming
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Day Dreaming.mixed media on wood panel (100x70cm), TRIBAL REALITIES Series
Marco Spada © 2010
http://marco-spada.fineartamerica.com/
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Dream Time
Creation I. mixed media on wood panel (100x70cm), TRIBAL REALITIES Series, Marco Spada © 2010
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c r e a t i o n
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Serpent of Light, mixed media on canvas (100x100cm) , TRASTEVERE IN ARTE Series, Marco Spada © 20
Shaman (detail), mixed media on brown paper , TRIBAL REALITIES Series, Marco Spada © 2010
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r a w v i -
s i o n s :
The Gold-
en Serpent
of Light,
S h a k e s
the Whole
Universe.
Oh Aus-
p i c i o u s
One! Oh
Destroy-
er of Evil
F o r c -
es! I sa-
lute Thee.
009-2010
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I am a Channeller. Spirits talk to me. I am a Shaman. I talk to Spirits. From the other
Side of The Gate. Live. She came and visited me. Her Energy was soft yet steady as
a rock. Positive vibes of a Noble Soul. “Deliver my Message” - she told me - “through
effective media”. Her name is Mrs Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was a black seamstress by
profession and secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the The National Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) - a “civil rights organization
for ethnic minorities in the united States”. On Thursday, December 1st, 1955 she was
charged for violating racial segregation laws in Montgomery, Alabama, after refus-
ing to give her seat on a bus to a white man. Break the law, before the law breaks you.
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A Tribal Realities Production © 2010
d u b s t e p
Mrs Rosa Parks
Raising Consciousness One Sub-Bass Line at a Time!
FREE Download:
http://soundcloud.com/tribalrealities
[Chorus]
Amen, Amen, Amen!
[Chorus]
Waka, waka, waka!
[Chorus]
Waka, waka, waka!
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Africa Sculpture I. just my pencil on cardboard (A3) , TRIBAL REALITIES Series,
Marco Spada © 2010
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So I waka waka waka
I go many places
I go government places
I see see see
All the bad bad bad things
Them dey do do do
Look Obasanjo!
Before anything at all, him go dey shout:
“Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, Almighty Lord!”
“Oh Lord, oh God!”
And them do bad bad bad bad bad bad things
[Chorus]
Waka, waka, waka!
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Africa Sculpture II. mixed media on cardboard (A3) , TRIBAL REALITIES Series,
Marco Spada © 2010
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Them steal all the money E dey for them office
Them kill many students E dey there now now now now now
Them burn many houses E dey there now now now now now
Them burn my house too E dey there now now now now now
Them kill my mama E dey there now now now now now...
Fela
Them waka waka waka
Young African Pioneers
Them waka waka waka
Kuti
We go Obalende
We go Dodan barracks
We reach them gate o
We put the coffin down
Obasanjo dey there
With him big fat stomach The Black President
Yar’Adua dey there
With him neck like ostrich What you read on pages 16-18-20
are the lyrics from the song “Coffin
We put the coffin down for Head of State, Part 2” by Fela Kuti.
Fela Anikulapo Kuti: political leader,
[Chorus] musician, and godfather of Afrobeat.
A savage fusion of jazz, funk, rock
But them take am! with layers of traditional rhythms
from West Africa. ‘Hard on the inside’
(consciousness-raising lyrics) and ‘soft
Them no want take am
on the outside’ (smooth and endless
Them no want take am grooves): Fela’s musical masterpieces
Who go want take coffin? make you shake and shout from the
inside-out. From his Kalakuta Repub-
Them must take am
lic, Fela fiercely casts explosive de-
Na the bad bad bad things nunciations: the criminal behavior of
Wey they don do Nigeria’s military regimes; the exploit-
ing strategies of Islam and Christian-
Them no want take am
ity; the predatory nature of multina-
Obasanjo grab am tionals. His music has been walking
Yar’Adua carry am around Africa - Waka, Waka, Waka
- denouncing the corruption of tra-
Yes, them no want take am
ditional values, culture and lifestyles.
Obasanjo carry am Now, His music belongs to the World.
Yar’Adua tow am Today, I am sure Fela keeps walking.
And watching a couple of matches
Them no want take am at the Soccer City Stadium. Because
Them no want take am Fela IS Africa. Waka Waka Waka.
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Africa Sculpture III. mixed
media on cardboard (A3) ,
TRIBAL REALITIES Series,
Marco Spada © 2010
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the king The King Meets
The President In Africa
Michael Jackson & Fela Kuti
LABEL: AfroStreet Records
Beat it? Afro-Beat it! I’ve just GENRE: Afrobeat, Soul, Pop
received the link to down- June 9th, 2010
load the latest production
by DJ Rich Medina and wan- TRACKLIST
na share with you the FREE 1. Remember The Time (Roforofo Remix)
10 track album and few con-
2. Billie Jean Is Shakara
siderations on the subject.
Rich Medina -aka Big Rich, 3. Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough
aka Ricardo Grande, aka Lil 4. Human Nature vs I No Get Eye For Back
Ricky, aka Your Father- is a
5. Zombie Thriller
DJ and music producer. Lis-
tening to Diana Ross’s 1976 6. Earth Song vs Sorrow Tears & Blood
hit Love Hangover in the liv- 7. Beat I.T.T.
ing room of his Baptist fam- 8. I Want You Back vs Water No Get Enemy
ily, he decided he wanted to
be a DJ. Medina considers 9. A.B.C. - African Beat Class (African
music as a celebration and a Rhythms)
re-connection to our souls. 10. Rock With You (Afro Brazillian Mix)
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the black president
Thus, spinning the decks, he guides enthusiastic crowds into
expanding emotions of rejoicement. The Medina funk flow
charmed Philly’s and New York’s nightlife scenes. But DJ resi-
dencies were not enough, Medina wanted to produce mu-
sic. An Heaven-sent meeting with The Marksmen, introduced
him to the enchanted realm of MPC-60, sample chopping,
drum programming and music production. Today, Medina
- a well-known dj and producer - just baked new tasty vibes
to nurture your soul, expand your mind and feed your body.
Pump up the volume and enjoy Rich Medina’s mush-up/re-
mix project, blending Michael Joseph Jackson (The King of
Pop) and Fela Anikulapo Kuti ( The Black President). The per-
fect soundtrack for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa!
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LIFE NRG.
mixed media on glass
and wood window
(93x35x3.5cm),
TRIBAL REALITIES Series,
Marco Spada © 2010
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Pheminine Powa.
mixed media on
cardboard (100x70cm),
TRIBAL REALITIES Series,
Marco Spada © 2010
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I Sing and Dance and strangers greet me because of that. People consider me a
friend, and feel that they know me because of that. Some don’t even know my name.
“The Woman Who Knows How to Dance” - they call me that.
She is the finest dancer in the village. Her distinctive personality shaped her life
of liberty. Her persona, her music, her dance steps, her special accessories and
her quirks. Among the Baule people (Côte d’Ivoire), many individuals have inti-
mate relationships with artworks - and with the spirits who dwell in such objects.
An exclusive relationship, connecting one single person with one single work of art.
Therefore this portrait mask of a woman is a virtual alter ego. Ah yes, indeed... An object
of art, and sometime the Spirits it houses, may be an individual’s very double. Whenever
this portrait mask of a woman, the woman who is its “double” dances with it. Right in
front of you. She Dances the Essence of Life! se jounrney into the reality of Love.I was
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*mixed media on canvas (40x40cm) TRIBAL REALITIES Series Marco Spada © 2010 *
baule
http://marco-spada.fineartamerica.com/
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“Maui became restless and fought the sun
With a noose that he laid.
And winter won the sun,
And summer was won by Maui.”
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tele-Visions
<video...... animations...... movies...... day-dreaming......>
A Maui Te Tipua
M a u i, T h e E n c h a n t e d
Above: cover of Peter Gossage’s book. How Maui Slowed the Sun = Te Hopu a
Maaui i a te Raa translated to Mâori by Merimeri Penfold (Lansdowne Press 1982).
Kia Ora! I’ve been always enchanted by ancestral tales from ancient civilizations.
This is why I am a Peter Gossage fan! Peter Gossage is an artist, author and illustra-
tor from Auckland, Aotearoa aka The Land of the Long White Cloud aka New Zea-
land. He is a storyteller. He writes children’s books. He is teaching the old ways to
the young ones. Peter Gossage is sharing with the whole world the story of Maui.
And how He slowed Te Ra, The Sun. I stumbled upon a brilliant animation of this an-
cient narrative. I was captivated and charmed. Watch it and tell me your opinion.
Watch FREE and on-line Here!
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Song
To
Humans
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Mother-Earth, wounded and in sorrow explodes from a black
volcano. Water color and sumi-ink on cardboard (24x34cm).
This and
Mother Earthother artworks
Weeping are available
from the Volcano, sumi-ink &for sale
acrylics on-line , at:
on cardboard
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,
Marco Spada
Editor
Nurture
your-self,
grow strong
and beauty-full!
<artist’s statement>
I am a Shaman, painting Visions. Leveraging the Powers of word_music_video_art, I
guide Rare Souls to their own destinations. Are You One of Them? Beyond the reduc-
tionist-cartesian paradigm, I create Spaces of Trascendence giving voice to Human
Being’s pristine desire: going beyod the physical body, towards Higher Levels of Con-
sciousness. I explore trans-personal dynamics, depict enlightning experiences, tak-
ing part into the Vibrant Dance of the Universe: the Simultaneous and Multiple Unity.
My Art is Magic, because it mediates between the Natural and the SuperNatural.
Are You Ready for some Magic in Your Life?
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TRIBAL REALITES, raising consciousness since January 2008, is an underground visual magazine,
creatively blending Ancestral Knowledge with 21st Century Culture.
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