We're going to take this deep healing and medicine and let it settle and sit and engrained in our brains and hearts Wow we harass this young and just go completely off the tuning in to see a promise you anything Ok I'm going to deliver where we want to let you all know the Onyx thing a time showing independent films 365 days a year featuring the bit seeds organic popcorn local beer and wine a date night destination for 21 and older are growing about a city the Onyx theater dot com and Whitewater natural path take medicine a natural path like medicinal company center for lighting integrated women in family health care digestive analysis hormone optimization and more located in Grass Valley serving central California since 2004 White Water natural path Inc dot com So I'm going to find one of my 25 but since I'm going to play in a state I am and then a stink in a sink song and get Rylan on the line you guys remember maybe 6 weeks ago before the now means he made all kinds of campaign promises that if we voted for him and he warned he was going to save the world so let's see what what he holds up to. I don't know why the Proud of myself when I do something. This in a state. And we have a Native American award winning an estate than a member welcome Rylan Poti. Well are you going to I'm living. Vicariously through your Facebook now. And well that's why I put it up there for everybody to live vicariously through so. My Facebook page apparently I don't know I just going from random C.D.'s in a mail to interviews about sunrise kids doing breaking to now blank big time television native Native American award winners blah blah blah taking over the world in 12 months what's up with that. We are actually going at this for a few years now so it's not necessarily right away the success over matter and it's thing but yeah we got nominated for a couple Native American Music Awards this year and we actually took one home for Best Debut group so we're really excited about well what does that mean what does that mean for you kind of well hopefully I mean some bigger gigs maybe some out of country stuff but for myself personally I mean I've never really want any awards for any music that I've made myself so it's a pretty big deal for me I mean coming from smaller communities where I come from a hope the stuff from Santa Clara probably also hit the Apache and the rest of us who are indigenous all of us come from really small communities out here in New Mexico and so I think it's a big deal for all of us you know like where we're coming from to actually be able to be nationally recognized in her internationally recognized for you know making some music making something that a lot of people want to hear so I'm really excited about it but I'm just. Shocked and appalled because I could tell it like it said meddling in my state I could tell that you're like a hardcore rocker Turn Turn doing lanky nudes with your pain in the desert and here you are in the sight pet preppy peppy little Reiki band Well I mean we actually kind of get into a little bit of more metal. Every once in a while with a couple of our students but yeah you're definitely right all of us identify quite a bit with metal in particular I've been listening to a lot of that have been lately I really like Deftones particularly my favorite bands Linkin Park which is kind of funny that is I'm a little disappointed but go ahead. Yeah that's exactly. Like reaction I was expecting but no and then Adrian and Carl there are kind of a little older than I am so they actually are into a lot of eighty's metal bands of course child like tracks that know all those guys you know I mean. All of us come together to create reggae that are more of a reggae rock than really we're not very roots but it's fun to see those influences kind of collide because we actually do kind of incorporate a little bit of that into our songs and I think we're going to incorporate a lot more in charge next record that we're going to be recording and hopefully releasing by the end of next year so whose idea was Reiki I mean hearing all these like you guys are kind of cool influences. Why not do great need of metal and I were a guy I guess is my question are you guys trying to be nice and polite. Well I think honestly all of us have kind of already done a little bit different stuff like I mean like my previous band was a smaller outfit with. A few other members over here and we kind of like played like a lot more metal I might grok and then a gin and Carlo as we had mentioned before they were part of bread or burgers was all over the place as far as you know music lovers and so for in a state I think a gentleman and I were the ones who 1st like started getting together to create this group and age and I think was just looking for a lot more change of pace he was looking for something that he could really tell stories and. You know that's that's kind of what I'm all about when it comes to my songwriting and so we wrote the 1st couple saw a few contributed promise some butterflies and then I brought in the way. Another song called my to take which you didn't make it for this album but it's actually on our p. That we released before this album but. Yeah I think it's important to talk about songs that I don't have Rylan. Yeah well that's actually the only song that didn't make it to this new album so you're not missing out too much but I think we actually have that one on Sound Cloud or something like that so I'll get you a link to that one that's well done. Yeah let's see but we hit up. Lawrence because we found a Craigslist ad for him and he was talking about how he was a drummer and he was from around the area he wanted to play with you know like a rabid group and it just so happens you know like that's what we were trying to do in Florence at the time was in for a lot more upon God and he was into a lot of breaking as well and Lawrence an agent actually listened to a lot more they gave them i do they definitely got me a lot more into it because as you said you know like a lot more heavily influenced by rock and metal early in you know with these guys has really. Broadened my horizons as far as my songwriting goes and it's certainly been a really beneficial journey for my myself as a storyteller in my songs so it's worked out really well and now we're playing with the full band. Like I said we're going to be going back into the studio this next year and Man I'm really excited to get our new stuff current as I think we're a lot more ready to come out expand on those influences that you know that metal and rock reciters roll so I'm not complaining Ok I like the music I love the album I love the interstate I'm just surprised when I see and hear you know the album it's just different so I love the album let's say that county. But just surprised because you look like a greasy back alley rocker but let's talk about storytelling and your writing because you really do bring something to the table in your lyrics and storytelling so I want to expand upon that were you always a poet Were you always a storyteller what's that. Let's see for me it's always music 1st that's always how I tend to write I don't really go into lyrics very often it's not really like the fun for me but I think I've always been a decent writer my my father actually homeschooled myself and my siblings and he kind of really instilled writing standpoint and so all of us. Did of critical thinking as far as like what he felt like was a good way to approach that and my dad actually makes music as well he has a band out in Flagstaff called the oldies they're like a reggae 'd rock outfit as well and the way I'm writing I'm making notes so what. The o.t. Is that's what they're called just y o t i p s u o d s c and I'll send you a link to their chances are either they're pretty great came the problem or the Rolling Stone. Yeah and he he I think influenced a lot of my writing from the get go but when it came to like my own songs I think I kind of stray away a little bit from what is considered very mainstream successful and in that way I never really wrote any Bob Jones and that's kind of like a point I've made for myself is to actually kind of stay away from stuff that's like just stay away from subject matter that easy to write about because I feel like something that's really easy for me to do and so I kind of try to challenge myself whenever it comes to my own songs so everything that's on this album I'm actually pretty proud of the song but you were just playing time will tell is actually just about my own anxiety because I think that's something that my gen Well I mean not just my generation. That's where I come from for you know like my storytelling is that's something I feel my generation struggles a lot with is you know like our own anxiety and our own like especially with social media and everything coming to such a peak in popularity now like I think we're always ahead of ourselves in the way we're thinking for other people or trying to think for other people and I think there's just a time and place to kind of remind ourselves that there's only one way things are gonna work out and we should just be trying to live a little more in the moment. I write a lot more introspective stuff the way it is about my struggle in balancing my cultural life style with my everyday life because I didn't grow up particularly close to my culture and then we have a song called blame on our new album that's kind of just about again my own for my generation kind of. Just coming from a place where we feel like we should be somewhere else that we're not just writing blame on a lot of different aspects of our lives when we're the ones who can really just pull ourselves out of it a lot of the time you know but yeah I just try to challenge myself with what I write about and lyrically that's always something that I can do better on. That's a little bit about what do you feel Ok talk about the way in balancing Corps or do you feel that being a resume man that you have to bring more lyrical depth to the table. So I think a big part of when we 1st started out was. We all knew that we didn't really want to be a Native American bands we all wanted to obviously you know pay homage to that and you know anything we do or Native American you know it's been a lot of reflect that a lot of the you know and so it's never been something that we like how. Like at the forefront prioritize trying to you know like bring up native issues in particular but I think we're going to have that actually be seeing a little more of that on our next album as I mean the fact is we have a voice them are being recognized and again the national and international level and that being the case I think it's kind of a personal responsibility of ours to kind of bring a little more light in to you know different things that are going on their native country and not to say we're going to get all super political or anything I don't think that's ever been a priority of ours as well but the fact remains that we do have a voice that we can contribute to you know just bringing about a little more in my ear and when it comes to you know just your normal listeners and whatnot and I think you know there's there's going to be a little more of that coming up I think and. Then a priority of ours as a break but you know I'm excited to see what will do all I am to do because now that you're like big stuff Ok so internationally I assume because internationally knights were colonized a nation comes from right I do it's the same that colonized this colonies planet doesn't want to hear from natives because they're all supposed to be dead so to hear like that you're getting international attention is confusing to me. I don't think it's that confusing honestly for myself I think they're smarter than me and you know. I think colonialism. Guys are saying you know it come from more European countries and whatnot but I think we're at a time of in my image and I mean we're in the digital situation we have the Internet now and everything and everybody's trying to learn and read learn different concepts and different things that are going on in the world and there's a lot of people who you know like are very interested in any Native American voices in particular actually and by goes for European countries and I'm pretty sure like in a lot of countries in Asia as well I've heard that. Japan particularly is a place that a lot of people are really interested in the the music which is like kind of interesting to me I mean like I know you're saying you know like there is a lot of you know different racial things that are different politics that you can kind of get into and what not but I'm honestly I think a lot of people are really interested in Native American people as a whole because it's so foreign to them I mean we're kind of one of the least. In numbers as far as populous goes in the world the are like others peoples and I think a lot of people yeah like more and more than ever now they're interested and are very curious as to what's going on in Indian Country enough so at this moment in a Hello Kitty store engine pairing they may be pouring interest me right now. Like that about the possibility that you thought was the case I'm pretty sure I sense it right now you're being dumped in a Santa Maria store with like 14 year old Japanese girls picking out like their HELOC any so I see it. Oh well yes streamed every once in one just like I have more stuff on Spotify and Apple music and I take a look at those and once we have some listeners I'm just not like anything crazy but everyone so what we're going to show him that we're going to interest me feel hot y'all and love it each Nation me thank you so let's get back to your lyrics because I had you on before any blew my mind he got a song about divorce and nobody wants to sing or write or even acknowledge that weird awkwardness So let's talk what song was that. Sailing is that is the song that I wrote. It was during my parents kind of separation and I think for myself and my siblings our 5 or 6 of us altogether and almost all of us just my oldest brother is the one exception all of us around school so all of us tend to be very close. During my parents' separation it was kind of a difficult time for all of us emotionally and I think there was just more knowledge that I had to kind of. Bring a little more understanding for what I had to say about it and it turned into a song and it's actually done really well for us but yeah that song is about you know separation it's a breakup song. The Asli but I think something that was easier for me to do when it came to writing it was being on an outward x. On an outside perspective of that relationship in a way it was a lot easier for me to write words and write feelings about it because as I said before you know it's not really. It's not really a tendency of mine to write love songs in that case kind of breakup songs for myself like that's not really something I'd like to do anything. Yeah and again it's kind of easy for me to write things like that I mean I think it's easy for everybody to write like about it and that's not a bad thing that's a surly like it's it's kind of a beautiful thing really but I think when it comes to mass markets too you know it's really easy to come out of. Exploit that or to kind of market that as well and that's something that I've never been into lyrically kind of on that tell stories again and so I think that stories kind of told. Great to many times on t.v. a I don't think I really have a whole lot to add to that narrative but when it comes to yeah like divorce as you're saying you know I think that is something that I feel I had to add to the conversation that failing was my contribution so. That's just some of you know and just. So pass the Samaria and I may have told you this before a few years ago I said Where are the good songwriters that and are ready for I honestly feel that that's the caliber of music and lyrics and content that you guys are bringing to the table I think so I think Adrian ajor long as our rhythm guitarist and our other singer and he's a great songwriter I've actually learned quite a bit from working with the winds and the almost sound Why am I talking to you. Just because I want to make. You know but. You know introns again he's a great songwriter he wrote a bit for writers as well and. He's he's big on the country I mean I'm like decently big on country myself and I think that's like a great storyteller huge honor of myself and like a gym. Agent songwriting style is very different from my own and yeah it's my style I definitely benefited from working with them like over and over and over again we butt heads in the air and we like always come out with something better for it you know so much and the fact that you guys openly disagree but somehow meaning in the middle made this super awesome band to research . Yeah it's weird to really hear it I mean like country influences and metal influences ending up in storytelling runs ranking. On and I think I mean there's not a huge market when it comes to Native American Raygun I mean there's like a few of us there is in a state now there's native brews the native roots isn't even as active these days there's icons just from his unique web and yet more our drummer we actually both play with Kurt timeshares and then there's the oldies which is my dad there Micah's . And then otherwise I mean from Native American reggae I mean you have like stuff going on in New Zealand then why can't the fire. Yad totally totally and there's a lot of really cool stuff going on but you know as far as like this name and stuff there's not a whole lot going on when it comes to Native American reggae So I think we're kind of trying to create a new sound from the southwest over here in the u.s. And I think that's something we're doing we're pretty successful you know. So when is this night new step for you guys writing it are you recording it or you just writing out the rest of this year on your nanny Hi We actually are. Performing a new song one of my new songs entitled The swell tentatively entitled seeds we've been performing. Of variety of shows as of late and Adrian also has a new song about we've been performing as well I think we've got about 8 brand new songs that are just waiting for us to come out like come together as a band then work on and finish up. But yeah we've got most of the material like ready to go really we just need to kind of like hammer out arrangements you know just record it but right now yeah we're kind of coming down it's the holiday season you know so we're kind of all just like children are a little bit we've got 2 more shows for this year and then we've got one booked for January thus far our kind of chilling out and we want to really just again start really working on those new songs so maintenance then lyrics then why not yeah hopefully start recording in the spring and be done and release it by the fall now when it lands Anyways I want to talk in a state darn Carm y'all got merch trait we do have merged with our website is in a state document it's not really like anything super super spiffy just kind of still working on it it's a work in progress for sure as far as merge goes the best way to kind of get that from us would probably be through our Facebook page to message us over there and she's the one who mails out everything I've got cd stickers and the t. Shirts for us right now I'm going on now why is in a state album emerge again Christmas present. Well for the ego whenever. I think honestly our music is something really special I think of him our album is really pretty by the way you should go look it up on Spotify arrive too but our bogo is actually kind of bringing to kind of got some real festive vibes going on but honestly I think our cd is j