+Rupa & the April Fishes + Growing Upward+

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Get the music here on April 19th, 2019!
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Growing Upward from Rupa & the April Fishes 6th album Growing Upward (2019)
Out everywhere on April 19th, 2019
Words and Music by Rupa Marya
Performed by Rupa & the April Fishes http://www.theaprilfishes.com
Directed by Zen Cohen http://www.zencohenprojects.com
Mural and Body Foliage by Mona Caron http://www.monacaron.com
Headdress by Monique Aguerre http://www.mythicamasks.com
Makeup by Sarah Pickles Taylor http://milktruck.biz
Choreography by Jyoti Argade

Music recorded at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley
Engineered by Adam Muñoz at Fantasy Studios
Mixed by Damion Gallegos and Rupa Marya at CHUBStudios Oakland
Mastered by Howie Weinberg at Howie Weinberg Studios
Produced by Rupa Marya

Violin Matt Szemela
Cello Misha Khalikulov
Drums Aaron Kierbel
Bass Daniel Fabricant
Keyboard and Waterphone John Eichenseer
Voice Rupa Marya

Also Appearing:
Candice Antique
Hodari Davis
Jonathan Youtt
Paz De La Calzada
Adrian Arias
Mara Hernandez
Megan Lardner
Chris Ahlbach
Fabian Fernandez
Kata Miletich
LisaRuth Elliott
Veronica Ramirez


So I wake
I move through dark
Pulled by light
I push through
Grow high
Open so wide
I believe I died So I sing for the water
I sing for you
Who forget the way
Come through

Make no mistake
Break Free from Underneath
Like an earthquake, see?
You remember me?
I'm here, starting from the ground up
They keep killing us off with RoundUp
We keep turning up and turning up the sound up
Break
Stop
Drop
Roll it up
Burn it down now
Burn it down to the underground
Where the roots are found
Where your phone goes dead
Where you lose your head
Listen up instead
To the mighty crackle of mycelial web
Break Down
What's that you say? You don't know the way?
Did they sell your water and your DNA?
They calculated how to make you forget
They clouded up your mind with rent and debt
They suffocate with a petrochemical net
Break it up—Break it on up now
Interrupt the feed
Unplug the greed
Stop the bleed
Start with the seed
Be what you need
Get yourself free

आज़ाद हो जाओ

I stand with the water
I hear her sing
I fall and I rise
Cycling Life
Take from my heart
Take what you need
Until the day
I release