Ndegeocello ”Free Like A Bird”

Roman Orona takes you on a journey around the world of Indigenous Music. Indigenous Cafe brings you music, conversation and inspiration from the Indigenous People of North America and the Indigenous People from all over the world.

On this weeks journey, we are traveling with a show titled, “Ndegeocello “Free Like A Bird”; Quotes by Meshell Ndegeocello”

Michelle Lynn Johnson, better known as Meshell Ndegeocello was born in Berlin, Germany on August 29, 1968. Meshell, is a German-born American singer-songwriter, rapper , and bassist. The name Ndegeocello is Swahili that means “free like a bird.” Meshell is an eleven (11) time Grammy nominated artist and has won one (1) Grammy. She is also credited for helping start the “Neo-Soul” movement.

Artist's you will hear in the order they are played on this weeks show:

THE INDIGENOUS CAFE PODCAST INTRO (00:00:00-00:02:07) “Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind” -Meshell Ndegeocello

1. Southern Scratch - “Go -K Kawliya” (How Sweet the Sound) (00:02:07-00:05:14)

2. Pyawasits, Silas, & Webster - “Beautiful Dancers” (Wild Rice: Songs From The Menominee Nation) (00:05:14-00:08:38)

3. Pamyua - “Reindeer Herding Song” (Mengluni “The Beginning”) (00:08:38-00:10:40)

PROGRAM BREAK (00:10:40-00:10:53) “Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.” -Meshell Ndegeocello

4. Manka Phallang - “Moea O Foke” (Homeland - A Collection of Black South African Music) (00:10:53-00:13:56)

5. Uyarakq - “Move, I’m Indigenous” (Move, I’m Indigenous-Single) (00:13:56-00:17:00)

6. Chopy - “Lem Ziz Meme (Zana Remix)” (Bnar) (00:17:00-00:19:57) 

Roman Orona (Host) (00:19:57-00:20:48) “I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.” -Meshell Ndegeocello

7. Samite - “Kite Kitere” (Tunula Eno) (00:20:48-00:24:55)

8. Yaqui Musicians & Singers - “Matching Dance (La Guadalupana)” (Yaqui Ritual and Festive Music) (00:24:55-00:27:15) 

9. Tony Logan - “Horse Song” (Traditional & Spiritual Apache Songs) (00:27:15-00:30:01)

PROGRAM BREAK (00:30:01-00:31:19) “Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.” -Meshell Ndegeocello

10. Lebo M - “Busa” (Rhythm of the Pride Lands) (00:30:19-00:34:19)

11. Kym Gouchie - “Butterflies & Ravens” (Northern Shining Star Woman) (00:34:19-00:37:20) 

12. Huun-Huur-Tu - “Aa-Shuu Dekei-oo” (The Healer) (00:37:20-00:40:08)

Roman Orona (Host) (00:40:08-00:40:52) “We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.” -Meshell Ndegeocello

13. Buc Wild - “Hurricane Season” (Young & Restless) (00:40:52-00:44:14)

14. Pura Fe - “Stand Up for Human Pride” (Full Moon Rising) (00:44:14-00:49:34) 

PROGRAM BREAK (00:49:34-00:49:48) “My legacy is in my family, not in my work…” -Meshell Ndegeocello

15. Joanne Shenandoah & A. Paul Ortega - “To Those Who Dream” (Red Earth Singing) (00:49:48-00:54:53)

Roman Orona (Host) (00:54:53-00:57:01) “It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.” -Meshell Ndegeocello

16. Andy Palacio & The Garifuna Collective - “Beiba” (Wátina) (00:57:01-0