“What kinda music is it,” they ask me.
It’s a gritty sweetness. Imagine the Stones’ “Sweet Virginia” and its rich rough sound.
But then the sound wed something sweet and true and dripping like Van’s “Tupelo Honey.”
And, it’s also got a little revolution and entrancement which I owe to Sweet Honey and to Spearhead.
And, if I’m being totally honest, music because I enjoy performing! It lifts me into that afore-mentioned mental silence. And to be there on stage with people who have trusted me enough to entertain them, and enough—maybe—to get us all raucously, loudly mind-hushed.
To get us all high on music, on poems, on story—that is a rare joy. It’s like swimming holes or cuddling with a beloved creature. That’s the gay agenda, a planet queer enough that we can all be precisely who we are.
I started playing music—like so many folks here—in church, time signature-less gospel-type medicine. Queer Planet’s music isn’t religious, though it does move at its own pace and it is intended to nourish.
Why music? It helps me untangle what it means to be here and queer at this time.
At a school in Karnataka, my teacher said that happiness is mental silence. Not like a morose silence, but one pregnant with creativity and bliss. Music helps me go mind-silent and this helps keep me present, discerning, and kind.
If you would like to journey with us, please do! We are on Bandcamp, Instagram, Facebook, Soundcloud, Spotify—all the things. Reach out to us and say hey. The music and poetry is going to be flowing for years, and we’d love to share it with you.