My latest release!
Free Air (Song for Indigenous Rights)
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Much Love, Palani

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She Likes the Slow Ride (Na Pali Trail) pays tribute to the beauty
of Kauai...  

NEW RELEASE !
"Don't be Jammin' my Meditation"
Coming Soon to @ Itunes, Amazon, Google Play and many streaming sites
5/2016!
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Aloha to
Tiki Bar Radio!
@http://www.tikibarradio.com/playing.html -
much love for putting Da Palani in rotation.
"One More Way to Love You"!

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When we're rolling like thunder,
rolling like thunder...

Tick toc tick toc - Time bomb

    "A conga driven tropical blend"

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A simple video for a simple love song
Island Mix- One More Way to Love You

Sometimes you just have to JUMP!

Flashback live song - She Likes the Slow Ride 2011
Chimney Bluffs NY, Lake Ontario

Play, in the Community:  Is a reflection of my childhood growing up in the village of Sodus NY on the coast of the great Lake Ontario.
A childhood that few children today will ever know.
Life is meant to be a fun social experience of sharing and loving your neighbors.
Today, many people don't know their neighbor and children are competing for schools to get jobs that don't exist or have little gratification. Time for a new game!



The Turtle
One Day I felt like a Turtle
As I was lying on my back
in the high noon sun
Someone had taken my shell
Someone turned my world around
Today the pain is gone
When I'm lying on my back in the high noon sun
Now I feel no more sorrow
I sit and watch the world go round
Turn my world - Turn my world around
Make my world - Make my world go round
Turn my world - Turn my world around
On the Turtle, spinning round and round (repeat)

Inspired by the sensual healing
 powers of the didgeridoo.
              "You're gonna sing in adulation,
                I'm gonna raise your vibration
                     Catch my mystic song
                   big wave beating strong"                                                      "Soul Suicide" - "Slave to the Corporate Enterprise"

Sometimes the passion takes over and you say "Let's Make Love Tonight"

Ah, the Spring time - remembering loves of yesterday. One of my newer songs - Travel Back in Time performed on the Tongue drum. Enjoy!

Where Did I Go Wrong ? Was she the one who got away? What if I did this? Said This? - Let it be a lesson, but not your life... Sometimes, not so easy.

Sleep won't come easy tonight
but I pray to Jah and turn out the light
thoughts of you run through my head
I'm lying in a single bed - oh yeah
Where did I go... Where did I go wrong
Tried to be the Noble man
Fighting for the greater plan
Left my lover on the shore
Sailing off to evermore - now I've
been away too long, everyone is
gone - where did I go wrong?

And I'm, sitting by the phone, looking for a home
Where did I go wrong?
Yes it's true,
I'm still I'm still in  Love with you, oh yeah where did I go wrong?
All alone I sit and pray
There will be brighter day
When all it takes to be a man
is spreading love across the land
oh, yeah, where did I go,
where did you go,
where did we go wrong?

One world is breaking
Our future is shaking
Why are the corporations- in control?
I feel like I'm riding
In a bent out taxi - stolen
Where are they taking me?
I say "They don't know" so...
Where are you going?
You Crazy Cab Driver
Why do you want to take me down such an
Ugly Road?

Wow, got stuck with family in Sodus Point, New York on Lake Ontario for the brutal Winter this year.
Had to break out with a live recording and photos of my hometown.
"The cold nights, made my heart strong
Waiting for the light we would sing this song"
I've seen the Sun go Away,
Three months, two weeks and a day
but I have my family to keep me warm."

I Travel Back in Time, Girl
(to a time when you were mine) - my first video for the song. I wanted the drums to be somewhat frantic and disconnected - when your heart is broken...

When I get inspired to write a song, I often have a vision in my head. In this case I imagined myself languishing over a lost love.
To ease the pain, I visit an opium den where visions of the past replace the pain of reality.
Originally, I sang this entirely a cappella with no meter or beat track. Then I decided to add a drum rhythm. There is a natural tension that is created since the two are not entirely synchronized. In some ways the song resembles street poetry joined by a percussionist.
While I'm sure a future pro-recording will "sound" better. Natural flaws sometimes touch a deeper reality of emotion. Enjoy.

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On the farm...

Taking care of the Turtle- Working on the North Shore of Hawaii at an organic farm through Wwoofhawaii.org - thanks and praise to Kohl Christenson (pro-surfer) for re-investing his fortune/life into the land as a wwoof host and solar energy provider..

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Turtle artwork by artist/illustrator  Jason R. Fish - give a shout for Palani!
All photos taken by Thomas "Palani" Drury. All material on this site is US copyright protected

Above photos by Brenda Washington