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Happy Spring + New Album Announcement!

🌱 Today is Spring and the Equinox; Rebirth is Ubiquitous. Silver linings are crystal clear… what I love is right here. In my insignificance, I have the power to transform. It starts with one drop of water to make plants grow. ⠀

I am honored to share that my new album, “Space to Play,” will drop on the Autumnal Equinox, September 22, 2021, when once again, light and dark will equate. I look forward from now until then to continue to share my muse, through music and imagery. I hope to inspire something in you. What are your priorities? How will you bloom?

January The Artist- The Sweetest Tears Remix Ft. Razteria

It’s here! So excited to present the Sweetest Tears Remix official music video! Follow @januarytheartist!
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January The Artist ⠀
The Sweetest Tears Remix ⠀
Produced by Razteria ⠀
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Can’t wait to share this visual for The Sweetest Tears Remix with you! 👽🤖 ⠀

CREDITS: Video
Directed by January The Artist and Razteria⠀
Edited by EA Films⠀
Videography by Alex Zajicek Music produced, arranged, mixed by @razteria and mastered by @trakworxmastering
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“Pure Love” Music Video

Proud to present the music video for “Pure Love”!

Directed by

Samantha Green (@sammy.dt)

Collaboration with

Amor do Samba

Cast

Tanilee Amor – Fortune Teller

Gisselle Villada – Dancer

Emje Rose – Guitarist

Renay – Artist

Editor

Emmanuel Avery

Video footage

Alex Zajicek (Renay and Tanilee Amor, fortune teller)

Juan Pablo Tobón Echeverri (Dancer Gisselle Villada)

Mau Prince 6609 (Guitarist Emje Rose)

Special thanks to Sebastian Giraldo

Music

Lyrics and music composition, music and vocal performance, production, arrangements, recording, editing, mixing

Renay (Renée Asteria Peñaloza)

Lead guitar

Emje Rose

Live Drum samples

Jayme Arredondo

Master

TrakWorx

New Single: What I Love

“What I love” is about loving the moment, and appreciating everything that you have.⠀

I finished this one during lockdown – finding the blessings of being alone and focusing on my creative outlets: songwriting & production. ⠀

I hope you find what you love and have harnessed these crazy new life circumstances to dive deeper into your passions. ⠀

#whatilove #creativity #divedeeper #silverlinings #newsong #independentmusic #songsforsummer #tropicalpop #independentmusic #musicislove #musicislife #blessed ⠀

What I Love⠀

Razteria feat. Renay⠀

Credits:⠀

Produced, Composed, arranged, performed, mixed by Renee Asteria/Razteria⠀

Co-written and performed by @jay.beatz.one

Mastered by @trakworxmastering.⠀

Picture: @im_baidi @le_noir_px

New Single: Why

“Why”, my new single, of a “classic” song I wrote 15 years ago.

The message is still relevant for me. Speaking to the irrationality of the human condition, our duality or rather –multifacetedness–, the desire to taste good and bad, that one does not exist without the other, and, there is no hierarchy. There is beauty in pain we inflict on ourselves and others and that is ultimately what I’m trying to capture in this song. ⠀
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When I wrote the first version of this song, I channeled something that I did not yet understand. It was born out of a very toxic pattern that I had with myself, my sexuality and more specifically my relationships with men. I realize now that the pattern progressed from early childhood experiences which formed me into who I am today. Rather than blame myself or others, I become aware of the transformational power of those experiences, therein lies the beauty in the toxicity. ⠀
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I have no regrets and I embrace all my sides, all my demons and my desires. Each day that I am here still, my awareness is ever expanding.⠀
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I still haven’t quite figured out how to break the patterns necessarily but I am aware of them and there is no regret. I’m still alive and healthy and young and powerful and so everything just gives me greater perspective. I think when we push ourselves to extremes, we as a result develop empathy for those that find themselves in those extreme situations. We’ve tasted it and even though it was mentally destabilizing or physically painful, it allowed us to grow towards whatever heightened consciousness we may have the opportunity to develop, God willing, given that every moment is a gift. ⠀
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Music Credits⠀
WHY (aka So Irrational)⠀
(2020)⠀
Composed, arranged, performed, recorded and mixed by Razteria (Renee Asteria Penaloza)⠀
Mastered by TrakWorx @trakworxmastering ⠀
📸 by Baidi Kamagate @im_baidi @le_noir_px⠀

Video Credits:
“Why” by Razteria/Renay Featuring performance and dance choreography by January Steward, yoga by Renee Asteria.
Directed by Samantha Green
Edited by Sheila Da Silva
Videography by Alex Zajicek
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Thanks to the original musicians that recorded the first full band version (So Irrational, from Album “Caras de Agente Doble E” 2007 ) in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2006. Matias Martyn engineer) @matimartyn / Manuel Lugea (drums) @manu.luge / Pedro Olcese (bass) Lucas Detone (guitar).

“This Ride” Music Video

Yay! The music video for “This Ride” is here! I hope this brings you some sunshine joy wherever you are. ✨

It’s my first socially distant production – collaboration with @amordosamba 🙂⠀
Art that brings together talents from across the Bay Area and across the Americas 🥰 With @sammygreen.jpg (director/dancer/choreographer) far in Bogota (Colombia) – @tanalita_dreams (Amor do Samba CEO/dancer/choreographer) in Oakland, Emmanuel Avery (editor) in Sacramento, myself and Alex Zajicek in El Sobrante 😄 And the music, a collaboration with @swede808mafia(Miami)!⠀
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Credits:⠀
This Ride⠀
Artist: Renay⠀
Album: Pure Love ⠀
Asteria Records 2020⠀
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Music ⠀
Co-produced by Swede of 808 Mafia and Razteria⠀
Mastered by @trakworxmastering ⠀
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Video ⠀
Collaboration with Amor do Samba⠀
Director: Samantha Green⠀
Dancers: Tanilee Amor and Samantha Green⠀
Editor: EA Films⠀
Videographer: Alex Zajicek

New Single: Stop

STOP by Razteria⠀
Directed by Samantha Green
Edited by Sheila Da Silva⠀
Shot by Alex Zajicek⠀
Video graphic design (VJ) Anna Fischbacher⠀

🌅 STOP – after 3 years in the making, collaborations with super talented musicians, and honing my engineer skills, it is finally here! It represents the END of toxic relationships and toxic systems that hold us back, and our Rebirth.⠀

Music⠀
Written, produced, performed, engineered (recorded, mixed) by Renee Asteria Penaloza @razteria #razteria⠀
Jayme Arredondo (IG: @jay.beatz.one/) as co-writer, co-producer and performer.⠀
Features ⠀
Tomas Salcedo (Twitter: @TomasTheChilean) on electric guitar (#fantasticnegrito)⠀
Cello Joe (IG: @cellojoe) on Cello #cellojoe⠀
Mastered by Justin Weiss of TrakWorxIG: @trakworxmastering.

New Single: BOMS

Black Lives Matter #BlackLivesMatter

This song, BOMS, “blood of my soul” is dedicated to all of the black women and men who have been murdered by police, a result of systemic racism which permeates every facet of our society. Until #BlackLivesMatter, all lives will not. Profits from streaming on any platform will be added to my monthly contribution to the Equal Justice Initiative (https://eji.org/), and, if it is ever licensed (big money) profits will also be donated.

I am reposting a list of organizations that you can donate to (credit: @botanicaldyke), together with a list of legal resources. https://shorturl.at/krxCD Tab 2: Legal Services and Bail Support Tab 3: Advice for Protesting and Social Media Tab 4: Bail Funds, Memorial Funds, Organizations & Mutual Aid Tab 5: International Solidarity and Resources Tab 6: Misc Mutual Aid and Community Projects

Here are a few of the names of the women and men lost. I know many many more have gone unnoticed, but they are not forgotten.

Say their names. Breonna Taylor Sandra Bland George Floyd Ahmaud Arbery Rayshard Brooks Michael Brown Eric Garner Oscar Grant III Trayvon Martin Amadou Diallo Rekia Boyd Tamir Rice Alex Nieto Aiyana Jones Jonathan Akeem Pairre Ferrell John Crawford Ramarley Graham Kendrec McDade Ousmane Zongo Kathryn Johnston Eugene Ejikeobiora Tarika Wilson Sean Bell Philando Castile Terence Crutcher Freddy Gray

Video edited and directed by E.A Films Filmed by Alex Zajicek Special thanks to Oriana Saportas for the protest footage. BOMS (blood of my soul) represents the beautiful vulnerability we each feel when we love unconditionally. It came as a stream of consciousness three years ago, and developed into this orchestra of intense sound. I am so grateful for the collaboration for the video (EA Films and Alex Zajicek), the single’s cover art with Baidi Kamagate @im_baidi @le_noir_px (model and photographer) as well as the musicians that helped bring it to life. Kora by Yacouba Diarra, cuatro by Jackelyn Rago, live drums by Jayme Arredondo, all other instruments/vocals/mix by myself, and mastered by Trakworx.

I hope we keep up the fight and force true change in the USA. Demilitarize and defund the police allocating these resources directly to the community. Track individual police and hold police accountable when they use excessive force for any reason, not just when it results in severe injury or death. And so much more. We can do so much. We can vote and make sure those who represent us follow through with their promises, we can protest in the streets, we can donate money, we can boycott businesses use prison labor or otherwise support a white supremacist agenda and we can directly support the black community, by, buying from black businesses, supporting and promoting black artists across disciplines. I hope that we do not allow the numbing effect of living in a society of instant gratification consumerism to continue to drug us into inaction through surface-deep distractions, the illusion of division. I hope we can rediscover the unique creativity that lies in each of us, our power of expression, of true love. Renee Asteria/Razteria/Renay Asteria Records 2020

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