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HERE COMES THE LAUNCH OF RICKIE’S NEW CD: THE LOVE PROJECT
Frolab is super excited about working with Rickie BB preparing for the launch of her 11th album “The LOVE Project,” out May 26th. One of the first released frolaborations we’ve done with the ePistrophik Peach family, we handled the layout design & direction for her digipak, featuring cover artwork by the amazing Tokio (whose painting of Nito we finally have stretched and hanging in the lab! – thx Janay!) And if that wasn’t enough, we’ve been had the exclusive listen for a few weeks now and you should know that this is a very special kind of vibration. When Rickie’s songs get stuck in your head and you start singing to yourself lyrics like:
“Grateful for the day that brings the sunshine, grateful for the love of light that is mine…”
or
“LOVE Gives you courage, LOVE Mends your heart …” (The LOVE Song)
- you realize how (a) you NEEDED to tune into her energy and let it affect you and (b) how powerful music can be when the message is a positive one, and (c) you may start to wonder what all those bullsh#! lyrics that DO get stuck in your head have to do with your state of mind! Its fantastic – with the hypnotic production done by none other than our favorite afronista Georgia Anne Muldrow. This mother-daughter frolaboration is HEAVY. I encourage you to give it a listen. My experience with the effects of her ‘mantras’ has been more obvious in the hours and days AFTER I listen to it. It has an aftertaste of both LOVE and LIFE. But what else but positive self examination and realization do you expect from the queen who’s married to one of the main teachers cited in “The Secret!”
“The LOVE Song” by Rickie Byars Beckwith:
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Official press release and info on May 24th’s listening event at Agape, after the jump:
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