"Curls"
Featuring:
Venissa Santí- lead vocals, akpwon, improvised live vocal melody
Gina Ferrera- lyrics, gyil, vocals, shekere, electronic percussion, palitos, clave, electro-effects
Chuckie Joseph- congas
Jason Fraticelli- upright electric bass
Dave Manley- guitar
Elizabeth Sayre- batá drums: Iyá, Itótele, Okónkolo, shekere, palitos
Adam Hershberger- trumpet

Lyrics:
Your curls and mine are tangled up in virtuosity.
It's one night in another country.
Fluidity is easy. A heavy flow has come over me.
The time's in line, your eyes on mine, I can see.
My eyes wander up the rings.
Following the springs of your circular shaped antennae.
Your curls, the rain, humidity and this pulse.

Your curls and mine tangled up in virtuosity.
One night in another country.
We watch the shadows of our forms as the time aligns, your eyes on mine,
I can see.

Electric colors when I blink my eyes.
My brain is upright for curiosity.
Fluidity is easy and I'll breathe in the scent of your chemistry.
Brain's upright for curiosity.
A surreal story to reveal,
that we can paint or believe if it's what we feel.
What is it you feel?
Well, realize it and create it.
A heavy flow coming over me.
Breathe...breathe...

Illuminate my ear with just your whisper, illuminate my ear.
With just your whisper,
Light it up with just a whisper.
Sensation created by the springs we twirl around each kinking curl.
Sensation created by the strings we curl around each kinky curl.
It's chemistry, spiraling.
Not far fetch from here?
All the particles you are, with the particles of me.
Chemistry, spiraling.
Not far fetch, you hear?
All the particles of you with the particles of me.
We could be anywhere in this moment frozen.
To be frozen in this moment, just you and me.
Frozen in this moment just you and me.
The particles of you with the particles of me,
We could be anywhere.
In this moment you and me.

Batá drum arrangement by Elizabeth Sayre- of praise songs for Ochún y Changó, (traditional Lukumi).
Lead voice (Akpwon)- Venissa Santi
Coro (chorus)- Gina Ferrera, Okomfo Adwoa Tacheampong, Shawn Hennessey, Elizabeth Sayre

Ochún - is the Orisha of fresh water, of rivers and creeks. She is the deity of female sexuality, of love, eroticism and sensuality, of gold and luxury, beauty and vanity. She affects the belly and makes a woman conceive. She is the "Sweet Honeydripper", mistress of seduction and protective as she can "cure all evil just with her water".
Changó - is the oricha of fire and thunder, of virility and male sexuality. He represents joy of life. He is the owner of the drums, particularly the bata. He is likely to get furious over hypocrisy and cowardly behavior. He is a politician and a strategist. As the archetypical hero, he is known for his love of music, dance and party.