It's so hot my skinny ass is losin' water weight!

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Party peep holes!

Detroit/Oslo, I can not wait to make up for this past Friday! More info to come soon.

Josh Deep, Joe, and Sonotheque in Chicago, thank you once again for another incredible night of music! We gots to do it again real soon! Much love and thanks a million guys. I had a freakin’ blast.

Special thanks goes out to Peggy Jean Louis, Joe’s Pub, Lady Alma, and Martin Luther for one of my most memorable nights as a show host ever. Pegs, thanks for riding with me through all the changes we had to deal with to ensure a successful night. Maya, we missed you for sure, but you’ll be proud of the reports that will hopefully come back to you about the show. Alma, you are a gem! Your sincerity on the microphone is something that continues to move and inspire me after working with you for 12 years. Martin, you are most definitely the man bro...not only for coming through for me with playing the event, but for wrecking the damn place with your set once you got on. Here’s to more inspired collaboration brother. It’s a pleasure to be able to say that you are my friend.

Wednesday, Little Ricky’s is on and popping as usual tonight, from 10pm to 4am at APT, 419 w 13th st ( b/w 9th & Washington) in NYC. In June my guests will be Australian vocalist Vassy K on June 7 ( www.vassy.com.au), and hopefully DJ Scratch ( EPMD) and Pete Rock later on in the month, or early July. More news as it comes to life regarding Mr Rock and Mr Scratch...whoa.

First Fridays monthly, Afrorikan Vybe returns to Fluid for our monthly trip through the world of soullful house music. Dennis Perez and yours truly will be in the place to be. Fluid, 613 s 4h st, Philly.


THIS FRIDAY
JUNE 2ND AT AFRORIKAN VYBE

OUR VERY SPECIAL GUEST WILL BE
MR KEVIN HEDGE ( BLAZE, WEST END RECORDS )

FOR A VERY SPECIAL ONE NIGHT ENGAGEMENT AT AFRORIKAN VYBE.

WE ARE COMPLETELY HONORED TO HAVE YOU KEVIN, AND HERE’S TO AN INCREDIBLE NIGHT!
FLUID
613 SOUTH 4TH ST
10PM TO 2AM

This Saturday night June 3, I’ll be spinning alongside my man my mellow Chris Annibel at 718 Brooklyn Diner ( formerly Ms Williamsburgh ). Another Afrokinetic/ Little Ricky collabo fuh yo ass! Check afrokinetic.com. Really looking forward to this one!

Next week, it’s Litle Ricky’s at APT on Wednesday, Akademics event in Brooklyn on Friday ( details to follow shortly), The B Boy BBQ in Philly during the day, and that night...
SATURDAY JUNE 10
RICH MEDINA AND DENNIS PEREZ PRESENT
AFRORIKAN VYBE AT LOVE
IN NYC ONCE AGAIN!

8TH & MCDOUGAL IN THE VILLAGE
10PM TO 6AM

PHILLY’S FINEST IN SOULFUL HOUSE, CLASSICS, AFRO AND LATIN DANCE RHYTHMS.
WWW.MUSICISLOVE.NET
LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING PHILLY AND NYC IN THE PLACE!


Peace!
Rich

Welcome to Summer

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Peace everyone,

I hope this mail finds you well. The road, the studio, and jetlag have been my masters for the last couple of months. On some days I haven’t known whether I was coming or going lately, with the amount of work coming through the pipe. It’s an incredible problem to have, and I thank God for it daily, but I feel that I need to apologize to the folks who ask me for my newsletters when I miss the chance to send them consistently. This has been the case for the last month and a half or so, and it has happened from time to time over the last few years when things have gotten hectic work-wise. I thank those who ask for the newsletter, because it makes us know that we are touching some people out there in the world, and that is really why we do what we do over here, you know? It’s been an administrative struggle from time to time, but rest assured that we are getting it all together, slowly but surely, and we plan to be blasting information weekly once again from richmedina.com and myspace.com/richmedina, as well as posting new tunes and video, once we complete our behind the scenes organizational moves.

Is it safe for me to say that the myspace things is bananas!?!?!? I know...i need to go get a late pass...but, damn! I get it now, and plan to rock hard there over the next few months without a doubt. So, to all my myspace peoples who have been reaching out, thank you for the encouraging words, downloads, songs, funny ass photos, and well wishes. I will be spending quite a bit more time on my page now that I really took the time to get it, and adding new music and info as of this coming week. Thanks in advance for your patience, and in retrospect for the support you’ve shown me on the site to date.

The past month has been nuts, with a European tour, Japanese tour, dates all over the map in the US, and new recording opportunities. One enormous love to Kindred Spirits Amsterdam, Phil and Helen Asher, Gilles Peterson, Best Kept Secret, Benji B, Radio 1 Xtra, Jazzy Sport, Louisa B, Eric, Ty and the rest of the people in Europe and Japan who made the tour so great. Much love also goes out to Morioka City and DJ Bar Dai, Akita City and Honeybee, LUXG and Shinoboo in Tokyo, and my Hanchinohe Japan peoples.

Kindred Spirits USA is still in search of a new US distribution house for our product, but we are hoping to close the door on that as soon as possible. Beyond that, we are for sale and doing well in Tower and Virgin still in the US, as well as releasing the Connecting The Dots LP in Europe and Japan over the last couple of months. For information on the Euro and Japan releases, please check out rushhour.nl, kindred-spirits.nl, and jazzysport.com. Any and all information regarding sales, new artwork, and the remix project is, or will soon be posted there. Lady Alma’s LP, Get To Know Me, is done and mastered too. We are awaiting finalization of her contract, and the we will begin our press campaign for her. The album is extra flavor, so it will be well worth the wait.

Looking forward, there are many new events coming up to compliment my residencies. The bulk of my May and June events are listed below in the events section of the mailer and posted on my sites, but here are just a few of te things to look forward to over the next 2 months...

May 25: Jump N Funk at SOB’s!!! Live band at 9 pm sharp!
May 29: Kindred Spirits Showcase at JOE’S PUB, NYC featuring Lady Alma with her full band, and more TBA.
June 2: Kevin Hedge at Afrorikan Vybe at FLUID in PHILLY.
June 3: Rich Medina at Afrokinetic, NYC
June 10: Afrorikan Vybe at LOVE, NYC.
June 17-20: Rich Medina at The Snar Festival, Barcelona Spain.


Peace!
Rich