esperanza spalding

learning how to serve and embody actualized love through honor for and receptivity to, fellow humans, teachers, and practitioners of regenerative arts

[esperanza spalding @EspeSpalding]

.@MiltonBituca - thank you for making this dream a reality.

Y'all, it's official: the album is HERE.

thank you to every dear being who made this wondrous work possible.
I will tag you all profusely throughout the unfolding of this release -promise!

[esperanza spalding @EspeSpalding]

and Rob Lewis @matthewhayesiii @intisarabioto for the filming and creative directing and organizing of the moment portaled through this photo 🌊

[esperanza spalding @EspeSpalding]

not always writ large on my chest these days, but Life Force remains my guiding intention:

i wish to channel the spaciousness, harmony and renewing power of the fecund land, channel it to the middle of the man-made fires

[esperanza spalding @EspeSpalding]

i want to carry a flow of that remembering into the center of the city…and the city of self.

thank you social media residency artist @akelajaffi for this sweet collage portrait...

[esperanza spalding @EspeSpalding]

just letting you know, my intention with coming out to play is nourishment and strength for us to endure and navigate and get extra loving and creative about how we show up in these times…mmmmkay?!) 🔋🌊💙

beautiful poster by Social Media Residency artist @akelajaffi

[esperanza spalding @EspeSpalding]

🌊🔋Mmmsoooo….as we whirl and reel and find stabilization and clear directed loving-potent-together action in these most intense times…i still gotta/get ta go to work, -make the sounds and stories and lovings I do best.

https://t.co/hO3OkmFqUq

[esperanza spalding @EspeSpalding]

just saying…I can’t talk about my cute little gigs and pretend like ish ain’t burning and brutal every which a way.

[esperanza spalding @EspeSpalding]

@mtwstevens @EricDoob Kaylin Horgan Tashae Udo will sending such sweet music and movement into the airwaves, ear ossicles & stage.

See you then/there!

@akelajaffi in Social Media Residency made this purrrty poster.

[esperanza spalding @EspeSpalding]

🎯March 28th, Nashville @BigEarsFestival...let's be there at the time hearing wondrous music by yours truly and sooooo many other glorious music makers.

https://t.co/hO3OkmFqUq

[esperanza spalding @EspeSpalding]

(flyer by Social Media artist in resident @akelajaffi)

(And nothing against you dear Salinas KS folks, we just didn't sell enough tickets to make it possible to come do the show. Sowwy 😔. Please invite us back, and snatch up those tickets, and we'll be THEYERE!)

[esperanza spalding @EspeSpalding]

🌍🌏🌎 Roaming around, spreading what we have to share all the where's and when's we can. Come through!

https://t.co/hO3OkmFqUq

[esperanza spalding @EspeSpalding]

Its fitna be luscious bass, and voice, and band...(liiiike, this band is BEYOND) music from all my records, and dancing interwoven with us evolving our music and possibilities of all we doing ("we" includes you!)...

See you then/there.

[esperanza spalding @EspeSpalding]

(working with the glorious music video for made by Director: Jordan Phelps
Producer: Ramone Hulet
Executive Producer: Vincent Martell
Director of Photography: Hannah Welever for the song-spell "Lest We Forget" !)

[esperanza spalding @EspeSpalding]

💫 its a fact! i hope you'll bring your big beautiful ears (or whatever apparatus you work with to receive the vibrations of loving music) and come hear us March 28th in Knoxville, TN!

[esperanza spalding @EspeSpalding]

I have heard only luscious and wondrous things about this festival and am so so grateful to be invited.

and announcing the next wondrous artist in our "Social Media Residency": @akelajaffi who made this sweet collage...

[esperanza spalding @EspeSpalding]

and the vibrations we express. We are a language, and I give thanks for each of our voices.

thank you @akelajaffi for this sweet collage.

[esperanza spalding @EspeSpalding]

...happy Black History Month...

I have so appreciated folks dishing out the extra strength outpouring of gems from the archives, deeply nourishing collages, encouragements, guidances, and orienting messages from so many Black liberation prophets

[esperanza spalding @EspeSpalding]

dance, the dances, the dancing, the musicing, the music, the musics are the portals/sites where I most viscerally FEEL the presence of that whoooooole river of our history languaging and communicating itself through our very bodies moving in relation to each other