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By Porschia Baker Buy Zopiclone online legally, Erik Rico is impressive not because he's a multi-instrumentalist, producer and singer, but because his mind is limitless and his music has a restorative purpose; one full of the spirit of his culture. Producing and singing aren't his passtime. They are a way to build moments for the coming time and for coming generations. His voice is needed because he's continuing the trail that the great ones began. With him it doesn't stop, it only escalates because everything is cemented within that belief that he can reach and grab as far as he will take himself.

Nu-Soul: You just returned from a European tour, how was it, buy Zopiclone online legally.
Erik Rico: Incredible, the thing is I've been building a fan base in Europe. I've been going back and forth to Europe for a while for my personal life. I have family there; I have a brother in Denmark. I went over to produce other people. Buy Zopiclone online legally, I don't know how much you know about my background, but most people know me as a producer.

Nu-Soul: I know only a little bit of your background.
Erik Rico: I've been producing mostly Hip Hop and Neo Soul stuff professionally for about ten years. I've worked with everyone from Mystic, Planet Asia, Mike Phillps, billig Zopiclone apotek, a Jazz Saxaphonist on Hidden Beach, Tupac Shakur Nelly Furtado to Pharcyde.

Nu-Soul: When you produce, do you mainly do the instrumentals or do you also sing on the albums.
Erik Rico: That's funny that you asked me that, buy Zopiclone online legally. Typically, I would produce the music because emcees usually have a pretty good idea about what they want to do. What happened was about four years ago people didn't know me from singing at all and on a couple of underground Hip Hop albums I sang. On 4th Avenue Jones and Planet Asia, I actually sang hooks on some of their music. After that happened, all sudden it came up 'well what are you doing as an artist?'

Prior to coming to LA and working as a producer, I had done stuff before. Buy Zopiclone online legally, When I got to LA, I was brought out here to be a staff producer and writer for a publishing company. It was tied to Warner Chapel Publishing. I was brought out here by my cousin, Billige Zopiclone Apotheke, who at the time had a partnership with Randy Jackson of American Idol. Randy used to be the vice president of Sony Music. When I got here, I used to be a writer and producer and stay behind the scenes. I was really content staying behind the scenes, buy Zopiclone online legally.

When you're producing and not necessarily in the front, it allows you the freedom to be very creative musically and to take on all kinds of projects you're not tied to do in one day. Especially in urban music market, once you're known for a particular sound people don't want you to change that. It just allows flexibility to diversify, do remixes and Hip Hop and Soul and all kinds of things.

When they brought me out here, I had written and demoed a bunch of songs myself. Buy Zopiclone online legally, Just to give them samples of what I was doing and Randy, instead of going straight to the publisher, took the music with him for a meeting in New York where they were pitching new artists. [He played] the songs for a president in New York and said 'here's a new artist, underwriter and producer we're bringing on board. Check these songs out; maybe we have people we're signing that can use this material.' They said 'no we're not breaking this up; we want to sign the person that demoed the stuff.' I was like what. Here I am now faced with a situation with no manager, buy Zopiclone online without prescription, no attorney, no nothing and Sony music offered me a record deal. I was like okay I'll do it. I did that first, buy Zopiclone online legally.

As corporations go there was a lot of in feuding about who was responsible for my projects because they had just brought in a new president of Black music and it caused a lot of drama between him and Randy because I trusted Randy. Randy is an artist himself and I new he understood creatively where I was at. So I was very comfortable with dealing with him. Then all the politics kicked in between the New York and LA office. Buy Zopiclone online legally, For two years it was drama; flying back and forth. I was based in North Carolina at the time. So flying back and forth, from North Carolina and LA, doing sessions, mixing, trying to figure out what the release date would be, and all the in feuding about [resigning me] to the East Coast and take the project there and I was like I really just want to deal with Randy. Acheter Zopiclone, It got so crazy that Randy left Sony and went to MCA. When he left Sony, I felt I really don't have a safety net here; I don't really have the protection and support I need so I want out of my deal. It took an additional year to get released from my contract, buy Zopiclone online legally.

Nu-Soul: Why did it take that long for you to get released from your contract.
Erik Rico: With major corporations, there's a whole ownership of masters and rights. That's the whole thing. When you sign with a major label, there's an artist who needs stability, especially financially, they always set up a contract when you get an advance. Buy Zopiclone online legally, You usually get one fifth of your budget advanced to you.

Nu-Soul: That's like borrowing the money.
Erik Rico: Essentially, artist don't know that, but that what it is. It's borrowing it with crazy interests, Um Zopiclone online. Everything you do, from shooting a video to going to dinner to rental cars, the company charges it corporately on their accounts, but you don't see a dime until your record comes out and all that is paid back; every penny. Anything else they decide to spend, on your behalf, without your approval is billed to you, buy Zopiclone online legally. You're talking two plus years of intense learning experience.

I was completely released from that deal by 2001.

Nu-Soul: You're on LifeNotes Music, right now. Is that your own music label.
Erik Rico: Buy Zopiclone online legally, I'm a partner in that label, with two other partners.

Nu-Soul: It's more personal as opposed to the other company.
Erik Rico: Absolutely. That's what I was going for and after Sony, I left and went to Europe for a while to figure what I wanted to do and everyone was telling me to go back to the East Coast.

After that experience, Oregon OR Ore. , I wasn't even sure I wanted to be an artist. I was like let me just go back to producing because that was something I was very comfortable with and I didn't want to deal with a bunch of label drama, buy Zopiclone online legally. When I was out here with Sony, I didn't really get to know LA or the music scene because I was with Sony all the time. It was a very insolated situation. So I decided that I was going to go back to LA on my own, no safety net, see what happens and what I can develop out there. When I got back the first project I landed was a Tupac album. Buy Zopiclone online legally, It was my first major label project as a producer and that started everything.

Three or four years of producing for people, [working with] Planet Asia comes about, he was signed to Interscope at the time, and they were really into what I was doing. My publisher worked for Interscope and they wanted to hook us up to do stuff for his album. We developed a relationship and after singing on his stuff and producing him, people started asking me are you going to do your thing as an artist. I denied it for the longest time and was reluctant to evolve as an artist, South Carolina SC S.C. . A lot of stuff I was producing for major labels the artists were going through the same thing I had gone through previously, when they would do records, feel completely great about them and [when] they took them to the label, the label would have issues with them being too creative, too left field, no radio friendly and everything would get stalled, buy Zopiclone online legally.

After going through the process of stuff not being released and groups leaving labels, it happened with Planet Asia, I was like wait a minute I've got my hands in about ten or fifteen major label projects that are going to kick start my career. Half of them are getting shelved, politics were kicking in, they are not going to come out; this is the same thing all over again. Even on the production side. I thought being behind the scenes would give me some protection and it's the same drama. Buy Zopiclone online legally, I thought, it's not about being a producer or an artist, it's about being in the independent market and have say over how creative you could be. It was 2005 and I said okay forget it. I'm going to step away from producing for a while. It put me in a weird space financially because I started refusing work.

If it's an independent project, people are creative. Independent labels live record by record, buy Zopiclone online legally. They don't have the time or the money to refuse to put out product. Kansas KS Kans. , There's no way they could take on ten artists and record scheduled and not put them out. They don't have a surplus of income to lay on records. It's nothing for Interscope or Sony to give you $300,000, cut the record, shoot the first video, take ads out [and then shelve the record]. Buy Zopiclone online legally, I made up my mind. I was like this is going to hurt me financially. I was making really good money producing for major labels, but I had a surplus of money saved and I was going to live off that money and work on music. However it comes out, it comes out. I just want to express myself completely as a creative person. No boundaries, buy Zopiclone online legally. I just want to get back to creating music and at the end of the process, listen to the process, put it out and see how people respond to it, Kentucky KY Ky. . So that started in '05. I took a year and a half. What you're hearing now is that process. Buy Zopiclone online legally, 2006 rolled around and I'm still working. My partners and I have the idea that I was going to do my own thing and put the stuff out digitally and see what happens. They had the idea of starting LifeNotes. LifeNotes is my publishing company so we just adopted the name for the record label.

That's pretty much the story that's got me to where I am now. Now, I'm in a place where I'm developed, buy Zopiclone online legally. My music, from the time I was at Sony as an artist, everyone was like this music needs to be released in Europe or Japan first and imported here. Even Randy tried to sell the idea to Sony, but they were not hearing it. Although Sony is owned by a Japanese company; Sony is based in Tokyo. Why aren't you putting this music out there and have it go to Europe and work its way out here. Buy Zopiclone online legally, [They said] well, we don't know what to do with it, it's too creative. Buy Zopiclone online legally, This was at the time when Dangelo, Erykah Badu and that whole movement started to catch.

Just send the music over to Japan they'll understand it. We had a whole campaign to make that happen, but Sony refused to do it. Then Randy was like I'm out of here, I can't take this any more and your blocking my artists. I was like enough, buy Zopiclone online legally.

Nu-Soul: That's when you left and went to Europe.
Erik Rico: Yes. I went to the East Coast and Europe and started producing some underground Hip Hop records just to get back into the mix and figure out who I wanted to be. I was letting the record industry turn me off to music and I can't do that. Buy Zopiclone online legally, I go off on my own. Cut the phones off for a year and just sit down and write music, with no plan just to see what comes out. What came out was The Journey Back to Me album.

Nu-Soul: I haven't heard that one. Was that the debut, goedkope Zopiclone apotheek. I've just heard some of Higher Frequency, buy Zopiclone online legally.
Erik Rico: Really. My idea with LifeNotes was to have a digital company. I want to be able to service everyone. I want to do strictly digital and not worry about doing CD's vinyl or anything to make sure the music would get out to the global market. Buy Zopiclone online legally, My partner Joel [said] I think we should do CDs. So we did a promotional a CD last year at Winter Music Conference '08. That was out coming out party.

Nu-Soul: In Miami.
Erik Rico: Yes, so we went down there. Did three or four showcases and connected with a bunch of people, buy Zopiclone online legally. I've been building a fan base and a lot of business relationships in Europe already. I started working on the record that is out now last summer, of last year, Higher Frequency. The result of that was more air play in Europe, Ordering Zopiclone no prescription, London, Germany, France, Belgium, and Holland; all over the place.

I went to the East in August for two weeks and tour there and it went really well. Buy Zopiclone online legally, I came back to [LA], worked on more stuff and then put the tour together to go out to Europe, which started the 24th of October.

Yeah. My plan right now for the first quarter of the year is working on projects for LifeNotes. I have a new EP coming out in the middle of February, another Erik Rico artist EP, another EP of my own coming out at the end of March and then I have a French Production project coming out at the end of March as well. I'm coming with an EP, in mid February, and LifeNotes is putting it out. It's a rework of songs by Change, James Brown, Sade and Prince, buy Zopiclone online legally. Then in the end of March I'm putting out a solo house EP of all original music.

Nu-Soul: On the EP that's dropping in March, purchase Zopiclone online, who are some the folks you're collaborating with.
Erik Rico: It's just me. Like the records you've heard so far is me doing all the production, arranging the instruments and all the vocals; everything. Buy Zopiclone online legally, I do all the background vocals, the writing; everything.

Nu-Soul: Do you take feed back on your albums.
Erik Rico: Absolutely. Typically as I'm working on things I kind of build a foundation and mess around with that until I feel that it's right. As I'm getting into the real formative stage of the arrangement, I might make a demo version, before it's finished, and play it for a few friends to see what their reaction is. I know that any form of art it's very objective, buy Zopiclone online legally. Everyone will tell you their option and their opinion is not about being good or positive or negative, it's just each individual hears and feels things differently. One of the things I learned about being a multi-instrumentalist is to trust my own judgment. Order Zopiclone online,

Nu-Soul: What do you enjoy about making music.
Erik Rico: Wow, so many things. Buy Zopiclone online legally, From inception, I get a high, like a spiritual and emotional high from being creative. I feel that it puts me in a space [where] nothing else can. Nothing. Zero. For me, I consider myself to be a pretty spiritual person and my art and my spirituality they are completely intertwined. If you listen to my lyrics and the overall feel of what I'm saying you'll see that…even the title Higher Frequency was about music being on a higher frequency, but also lifting yourself, your spirit to a higher frequency, buy Zopiclone online legally. That's what that's about and most of the lyrics associated with that record are about an overview of stepping outside of your human self and using the spirit as a vessel to look down on the world. There's a whole lot of ways we can elevate each other; just put a little bit of effort into it and things can be a lot better.

People tend to settle for whatever and be blind. It's like you don't really have to do that. Buy Zopiclone online legally, It's easy to do and comfortable for people, then they don't have to shake anything up, but at the end of the day they end up losing out on so much.

Nu-Soul: Then with your process, do you feel you are living each day to the fullest.
Erik Rico: I feel like every day I'm growing. I feel that art is a thing that is completely endless, Zopiclone prescription. Unless your mind is closed to opportunity and growth, with art especially, there's no end in sight. You can go as far as your ability will take you and your mind will take you, buy Zopiclone online legally. I was telling a friend of mine just yesterday we were talking about the reality of this and that and I said reality is really defined by what you think it is. It's just about your perception and the energy you put out into the world. What I'm learning is if I really want to see change in the world and positivity and really feel that, then I got to reflect that as opposed to going out in the world and looking for it. I can speak to a lot of people through my art and I've had situations where people emailed LifeNotes saying I've heard this song and the lyrics really touched me, from people all over the world. Buy Zopiclone online legally, What I'm doing is making a positive impact. At the end of the day, as an artist, that's all I can ask for; to be able to survive from my art, be comfortable and know that what I'm making people are really feeling as opposed to it being disposal where they just go into the club, grind off your music and then throw it in the trash. Cheap Zopiclone online legally, I'm not about that. I like to have fun too like everyone else, but the reason I got into art was a because of the stuff that inspired me as a child and all that music is still around. I'm like I want to make music that when I'm gone it's still around and it's respected.

Some of 2008 was a fad and by the time 2009 rolled around it was like one hit to joke, buy Zopiclone online legally. I have no interest in that. That's not only not pushing music forward, it's not pushing the culture forward. Especially with

African American culture, we have fallen so far off from just one generation and then you look at the generation that's coming behind our generation; it's not even a full generational move. It maybe a decade that we moved. Buy Zopiclone online legally, How do you not identify positivity any more. How do you not identify with wanting to restore your culture, wanting to restore your lineage. Where's the next James Brown. Where's the next Miles Davis. It's like how can you all want to be Lil Wayne. What is this, buy Zopiclone online legally.

Nu-Soul: Is that part of your motivation, New Mexico NM N.Mex. , that you're a part of restoring culture.
Erik Rico: Absolutely, that has a lot to do with my motivation. Again, in my music, art and my spirituality aren't separated. I can't say well I really want to feel more positive energy on the earth, then go out and make like booty Rap records. Buy Zopiclone online legally, That's not helping.

Nu-Soul: Is that something that was ingrained in you when you were younger.
Erik Rico: Absolutely. I come from a very multicultural family that has a lot of creative people in it. So I was exposed to a lot of art really young, whether it'd be painting, photography, Indiana IN Ind. , especially music. Everything that my soul responded to always had some undertone of being proud of yourself and knowing who you are so that when you go out into the world, no matter what you experience, you have this thing to come back to; a center, a core, buy Zopiclone online legally. There's a core thing inside of me, a center of knowledge, that the world can't take away. I look at the next generation and [ask] where is the knowledge. They don't want to be associated with African stuff. They don't want to know about Bebop Jazz and the struggles that Miles, Coltrane and those guys had. Buy Zopiclone online legally, They don't know that Quincy Jones had to leave the country and start a life in Sweden and then come back here. They don't know any of those things.

Nu-Soul: I didn't know that about Quincy Jones, but I know about Bebop and Jazz.
Erik Rico: Yeah, these guys bounced to Europe because they were getting beat down, instruments taken from them, harassed by police in New York. Forget the South, Osta Zopiclone online. They all migrated to the North, Chicago and New York to play and they got up there and got even more harsh treatment, buy Zopiclone online legally. [They] ended up having to bounce to other countries in Europe. This is the reason Europe has so much great respect for soul and Black music and Jazz. Early Soul and Black music was popular there; celebrated there. Those guys were appreciated there and then come back here and do any and everything scrap by. Buy Zopiclone online legally, That's the reason people always [ask] why did all the interesting experimental instrument crazes and all the interesting music come out of Europe. [It's because] they've always appreciated art and culture. Here it's never been appreciated. I'm like you need to know your history so you don't fall into these traps. I mean I grew up listening to Prince and Jazz and all kinds of really good singer song writers, James Taylor, Donny Hathaway, you know social stuff and really positive lyrics. I look at these cats now and I'm like how do they not know this stuff, buy Zopiclone online legally. They're growing up on Lil John, Lil Wayne and all that.

Nu-Soul: How you talk reminds me a lot of my mother, Kjøpe Zopiclone online, grandmother and some of the conversations I had with folks in my family, but there are some folks in my family who just don't want to know and do anything other than what their doing. Unlike you, you've learned and have been influenced by some of the great ones, which leads to finding your own thing and restoring culture, which is really impressive.
Erik Rico: It's like how do I do my thing now, in a modern context, but make it feel the way it made me feel. Buy Zopiclone online legally, That's the whole reason for what I do. I want to embody the feeling that the lineage of the music had. I want to catch the same feeling; the same emotion in this time. There's a whole lot of cats out there that are doing it, but just under the radar, people don't know about them. they don't have the resources to be marketed and promoted, but the internet is slowly changing and technology is slowly changing that, ordering Zopiclone online. I'm happy to see that, buy Zopiclone online legally. That's why I embrace it one hundred percent.

I don't want to be limited to [the idea] well we can only sell in a certain amount of stores in LA or the bay. No, we need to reach a global market. It's not just an African American issue, it's a Black issue globally. Buy Zopiclone online legally, In U.S media, if you travel abroad, we have a strong presence all over the world. We're pumping the junk to everybody. I was in Africa, teenagers there were walking around with T-shirts, corn rows and gold fronts [saying] nigga this and nigga that. Not knowing what it meant. I'm not contributing to that nonsense. I had to tell them these terms you're using this is what they really mean, buy Zopiclone online legally. They don't know. They just think it's cool because it's sold to them as a cool thing. Zopiclone online kopen, I read a story where this cat from Sub Sahara Africa, his dream was to open a boutique in New York. There's a huge African community in New York. Buy Zopiclone online legally, He got a small space with two of his cousins that were already there. He gets to New York and Guess what he names his store, in the Heart of Brooklyn. Niggas, that was name of his boutique. He thought it would be a cool thing that would attract young Hip Hop cats.

I actually had the opportunity to go to Africa. I've been twice now, buy Zopiclone online legally. I went the first time and tour the summer of '06 for a month.

Nu-Soul: That's what I was going to ask you, if you had shared your music with folks in Africa.
Erik Rico: Absolutely and they loved it.

Nu-Soul: Which parts did you tour.
Erik Rico: Buy Zopiclone online legally, I was in Tangiers in Morocco.

Nu-Soul: Did you choose those destinations or was it a suggestion.
Erik Rico: I was just given the opportunity through the Moroccan government, Oklahoma OK Okla. . Actually, during my European tour I went back for four or five days to Morocco. I had six workshops with English language students. There are Moroccan children and adults learning English and learning about the culture, buy Zopiclone online legally. It's like an arts exchange program. I went there and did six workshops and did a concert. It was incredible. It was one of the most touching experiences I've ever had. Buy Zopiclone online legally, You can just contribute by being in a place being a different image than what they are seeing. Those kids are used to seeing the rawest BET and the ignorant MTV stuff because that's what's sold to them in Black American culture. There's a lot more going on in African American culture than what you're seeing. Don't be fooled by that stuff. Actually, it doesn't represent the community. It's a corporate hustle, buy Zopiclone online legally. It has nothing to do with the people.

Nu-Soul: Did the folks take from what you were sharing with them. Zopiclone en ligne afin, Erik Rico: Absolutely, without question.

Nu-Soul: What did you learn from some of students you were working with.
Erik Rico: Buy Zopiclone online legally, I learned that they were very open to any and everything, but they are not as easily swayed as Americans because they grew up with a different set of values. What I learned from them mostly was to keep doing what I'm doing. They reinforce [the idea] that there is a need for what you're doing. Because we've been selling them such gutter stuff for so long they've shifted to rock and other stuff. A lot of kids are into rock and alternative stuff. I was like wow, buy Zopiclone online legally.

When I got there and we interacted, [some said] we didn't even know this stuff existed. The names they know were Lil Wayne, Tupac, Lil John, I mean all the typical corporate stuff that's pushed to them. Then we started talking about Mos Def and Tribe Called Quest and they didn't even know who they were. There's a small underground network of people who know, but on the surface no, farmacia Zopiclone baratos. Buy Zopiclone online legally, They're not pushing that music over there.

Africa has its own Hip Hop scene. All they talk about it is political unrest, social unfairness, a lot of injustices. [Theirs is] really good music; the same stuff that started Hip Hop here and the same movement is going on there in their own way. It was dope to get with those cats and see what they were doing. They have a serious deep consciousness here and a movement and it's turning them away from this commercial nonsense, buy Zopiclone online legally.

Nu-Soul: Would you like to return and teach more workshops.
Erik Rico: I may be going to Senegal in the summer. We are trying to work out that deal. Outside of LifeNotes I'm also a part of an artist collective called Remarkable Current.

Buy Zopiclone online legally, Nu-Soul: Can you tell me about that.
Erik Rico: I don't have an affiliation with any particular religion. I see consider myself to be spiritual. I'd say 80 percent of the guys involved with Remarkable Current are of Muslim faith. A couple of them work with outreach programs, international outreach programs and travel all over the globe, from Kenya to Jerusalem to wherever. My trip to Africa was with them and I went back this time on my own, buy Zopiclone online legally. Remarkable Current is more of a world peace international collective. There's spoken word poets, musicians, filmmakers. The company is founded by Anas Canon. Basically the whole mission of Remarkable Current is to show America and the world that within the Islamic community there's a lot of diversity and it's not the one thing that America media paints it to be, like all jihadists or all terrorists. Buy Zopiclone online legally, No, their community is just as diverse as the Christian community. Since I don't believe in one religion is better than the other, I'm open to any one who has real love and wants to say something positive.

I met the owner of the community when I was producing Planet Asia and he was the engineer, about five years ago. We became really tight friends over the years and worked on a few things together. He hit me up. He was like we're going to Africa, buy Zopiclone online legally. I'd love for you to go with us. When I travel with them, it's him, a DJ, two emcees, a multi-instrumentalist, and I mostly play drums and sing vocals. We do a lot of stuff stateside as well. We do a lot of concerts at different universities here just to increase awareness between America and different Islamic countries. Buy Zopiclone online legally, It's like a cultural awareness kind of exchange program.

Nu-Soul: Is it mostly men or are there women as well.
Erik Rico: It's everything. If you go to the website you'll get a feeling of who they are. I don't know if you know who Amir Sulaiman is. He a big Def Poetry poets, who has international acclaim, buy Zopiclone online legally. He's one of the main people involved with the collective. It's a Dope situation. I'll be working hand in hand with LifeNotes and Remarkable Current.

LifeNotes is kicking off our '09 campaign on the[January 31st] a t the HVW8 Gallery. Buy Zopiclone online legally, They're really involved with the cutting edge demographic, like Stones Throw, which is exactly one of the markets I'm after getting into this year. So we're doing a performance there. They have a monthly barbeque and they bring a live artist once a month. We're going to do a live thing on the 31st , which is a kick start of the new year kind of campaign.

Nu-Soul: Is it open to the public.
Erik Rico: Yes, it's free of charge and open to the public.

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