BLU NOISE - LVDF REMIX

OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

AnAkA is evolving her musical experimentation with sounds inspired by her spiritual experiences as a reclamation of Indigenous wisdom and artistic resistance to colonization. 

AnAkA is a multimedia storyteller archiving global Indigenous cultures through film, photography, dance, healing arts, and more recently, the production of Angel Music which has resulted in Angel Music EP and Angel Music Remix EP.  These projects alchemize sounds she’s experienced in meditative journeys to and from the spiritual dimension. 

On a rainy night in Los Angeles, AnAkA and her creative team head to an underground parking structure to dance and film the visuals she conceptualized for the song, “BLU NOISE (LVDF REMIX)”.

A cool gray basement envelops them and lightly flooded cement floors catch a consistent drip of rainwater, creating a muted, reflective backdrop for the electric blue in her braids, layered jean outfit and backup dancer’s masks.

Occasionally sticking her tongue out and rolling her eyes back, she flows with backup dancers LVDF and Justin Conte for an interpretive representation of what she describes to be a cathartic release inspired by both metal music and Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction and change.

“I’m gonna bring out this uncomfortability that I’ve been told to contain as a woman,” she says. “Through this song’s production, I release that containment.”

Under an upbringing highly influenced by the American educational climate that systemically denies the multifaceted history and presence of Native American culture, she reached a turning point and committed her musical career to centering the essence of her Indigenous Native American, Celtic, and West African lineages.

 “Angel Music is the source energy of my ancestry culminated into mantras that affirm the wisdom that has been severed by colonization,” she says over a phone interview, while traveling in London to perform this intention throughout Europe.

“Colonization is a regime that suppresses our true emotions.”

“This music is an offering for people to use as a tool to tap into their memory and can be used as meditation music and ancestral frequency medicine regardless of cultural identity,” she says. 

Enticing body movement, emotional release, and a deeper awareness through meditative music is amongst her many approaches to healing, whilst also being an herbalist and documentarian of present-day Indigenous rituals. 

“Healing is seen as a soft and sensual thing,” she reflects, “Angel Music is my way of getting into the void and expressing myself freely without fear.”

Director / Artist - AnAkA @4n4k4

Director of Photography - Sooflight @sooflight

Creative Direction - KIN @kinkreeative 

 Movement Director / Dancer - Justin Conte @justinconte

Music Producer / Wardrobe Designer / Dancer - LVDF (@l.v.d.f)

Produced by AKTIV8 Cre8ive Studio

BTS photographer & Article Author - Gabriela Rodriguez @GabrielasVision

Here is a beautiful review by Guelo of The Angel Music EP, released 11/11/2022

“I have just finished listening to the Angel Music EP for the first time. Below I shall detail my experience.

Usually, for me, music touches the intangible 'human' part of my soul. When it does this the sonic qualities of the song amplify and resound itself within me, they meld with where and who I am and a transformation or transmutation happens. Music is kind of like a hug in that way where the two parties are combining their essences and creating something new from a collaboration of energy. It touches you exactly where you are, from exactly where that song is coming from. This sensation feels like a grounding movement, it makes how I am feeling more real, it paints a picture in sound from the emotion in my chest.

The Angel Music EP made me feel very very different.

During the first two songs I felt like I was being prepared for something. The music was telling me, or perhaps speaking directly to my soul: "get ready for something important."

I cannot say this was a super comfortable feeling because of the somewhat alien quality of what I felt. I knew something wholly different and unusual was coming to my senses.

It was a definite energy from outside myself.

During the third song I made a connection with the sound and the quality of angels. Something that as a human on earth I feel somewhat estranged from.

I felt pulled outward and upward. I felt like somewhere out there was a glory and light so bright and magnificent that I was not sure I wanted to head directly towards it.

Perhaps the fear in my heart and my current emotional state were like weights holding my soul downwards. I was very aware of this upward pull, and my own withholdings against it.

As the EP went on the quality of the light was made more clear. I felt like I could relate and join in with the holy chorus surrounding me. Lots of very powerful energy.

I was tingling and buzzing all over my body, mainly around the 8th chakra area. The music was materializing as a bridge I didn't know I could cross. A bridge made of boundless light, leading to an intangible feeling of holiness.

I felt only with conscious effort could my human tendencies of mind-thought and emotions be quited (or allowed to flow). They kept coming back and begging: don't abandon us for that light, stay normal, we're not sure what that is.

The more quiet my mind was, the more I could ascertain the quality of light I heard within the music.

Very simply: My soul was in contact with an angelic feeling...

There was knowledge of powerful light coming to me from the speakers, and from high above my head.

The contact was comfortable, never overpowering. It seemed to welcome and encourage me, but never demand that I come.

Knowledge came to me that this music is deep, that there is connection to be fleshed (or unfleshed...) out and explored through the bridge that this EP creates.

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I listened to it again in a wood I feel very at home in.

I feel this album has created a link with an energy that is very light, very pure.

My body and soul feel totally different then it did two listens ago.

I feel inspired and energized. There is also a very strong clearing energy, the drums and certain vocal moments feel like water rushing down a dried river bed. The music created within me many movements of energy, while creating an aspiration to be a co-creator with the world and angels around me in a higher frequency.

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This is beautiful music and a sweet gift for humanity to enjoy.”

Thank you :)

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Peace, Love and my thanks,Guelo