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I am  honored to record one of the greatest songs ever with my friend Bob Laird
Bob Marley's Redemption Song
Live - no vocal effects

New: Live & Unedited
"Soul Suicide" - "Slave to the Corporate Enterprise"
watch on youtube: http://youtu.be/kMoT16KhPQo

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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Sometimes you just have to JUMP!

Click the Turtle to play youtube video or click below.
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)
Second verse
Ocean Cools My Skin
Takes Away the Burn - of the High Noon Sun
Ocean Builds Me a New Shell
Ocean Turns My World Around
Shaman Say
"A Turtle - Represents the Earth - Born from the Sun"
And the Sky Looks Over My Home
On the Turtle, Spinning Round and Round
Turn My World, Turn My World Around....
On the Turtle Spinning Round and Round

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

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!

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

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?

In the studio laying down some vocal tracks for some new songs... These are unedited - pure voice...

Coming Soon:      She Likes The Slow Ride                                           Raise Your Vibration!

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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Life's Great Mystery
(is living without loving you)
I had a dream the Pharaoh's told me, how to build a pyramid in a day
with every question came an answer,
until I said that you had gone away
Now my nights turn into morning and one question still remains
Life's great mystery, is living without loving you
How could I ever be, living without loving you?
I am the moon that will never touch a star,
I am the wave without a shore
Like a rock on Easter Island, staying cold for ever more
Life's great mystery, is living without loving you...

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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For those who suffer while we consume without a conscious...
Black Friday Hell

While I cannot speak for the rest of the World, America has clearly sabotaged a holiday for the sole purpose of promoting capitalism and consumption at the expense of those who lose precious time with their families to simply "Sell crap".
I can only imagine the frustration that employees must feel selling commercial items that they themselves cannot afford with their salaries. In fact, most employees are on public assistance since their salaries are too low to afford basic human needs, food, clothing and shelter. This my friends is called slavery.

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