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New & updates on Anji’s various projects

news, Positive Influence, Zine

POSITIVE INFLUENCE Hardcore Fanzine Anthology Pre-Order Now

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So amped to announce that Shining Life Press is now taking pre-orders for the long awaited Positive Influence Fanzine anthology. This project has been over 2 years in the making so I’m both excited and relieved to have reached the finish line! Not only does this soft-bound book feature all 6 issues of Positive Influence, it also includes 21 pages of bonus material such as archival photos, flyers, ads, plus an introduction written by yours truly that goes into the history of the ‘zine with many stories from those times. It was quite a process to dig up all of the ephemera that went into this project, and honestly it’s a small miracle that so much of it had survived decades of moving around Southern California!

Kevin ‘Kev Insted’ Hernandez shares the mic with an eager crowd. Photo by Jeff Ladd.
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The Chillcast Lovespirals Guest DJ Set Special on Spotify Podcasts

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After a 2-year hiatus, The Chillcast with Anji Bee podcast is back! The past 6 or 7 years the show has only been available on Mixcloud so it’s exciting to check out the new Anchor by Spotify system. This talk-music format hearkens back to my early days on PodShow, and with Ryan Lum as my special guest, it’s also similar to my classic artist interview features. He and I sat down to chat about our brand new Lovespirals ‘Smile – Single’ sharing our songs plus music by other artists that helped inspire us. This was fun to do and I truly hope you enjoy it. Please let me know if you’d like Ryan and I to do more episodes like this!

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Lovespirals ‘Smile’ Music Video On YouTube

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Lovespirals new single, “Smile,” combines Ryan’s classic shimmery guitars with a laid back beat, dreamy electric piano, and Anji’s earthy yet ethereal vocals to create a warm and welcoming sound that evokes the sunny beachside lifestyle depicted in the song’s brand new music video shot and edited by the band themselves. Ryan’s scenes were shot along the Palos Verdes cliffside while Anji’s scenes were shot at the Crystal Cove State Park.

Purchase high quality audio files of Lovespirals ‘Smile – Single’ in your choice of format from lovespirals.bandcamp.com

Stream Lovespirals ‘Smile – Single’ on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon, Tidal, Pandora or your favorite digital music service.

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Lovespirals ‘Smile – Single’ Out Now + Video Premiere

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Lovespirals 3-song single, ‘Smile,’ is out now on all digital platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Mp3, Tidal, YouTube, Deezer and Bandcamp. In addition to brand new title track, ‘Smile’ features our song “Why Not Today,” which was previously only available on Bandcamp. All three songs continue the band’s tradition of working new influences into their signature dream pop sound.

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The Vegan Optimist Interviews Anji & Ryan

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Anji and her Happy Healthy Vegan partner, Ryan, were recently interviewed by Ryan Tratner for his podcast, The Vegan Optimist.

“The Vegan Optimist is a podcast spreading positivity and optimism about the future of veganism. It is a place of learning focused on positive developments in all things vegan!”

It’s a pretty fun half hour conversation that goes into how we met, how/why we became vegan, and what lead to the creation of our YouTube channel, as well as our thoughts on veganism and vegan activism, how to go vegan, the lie of “humane” meat, plus a lightning round of couple questions. What stupid thing did we recently get into a fight over? Find out!

Check out the podcast at:

https://embed.podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-vegan-optimist-episode-7-with-special-guests-ryan/id1554762047?i=1000528552874
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Margaritari (Love Me Leave Me – Wedding Edit) Out Now

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The Morphism has released a very special remix of “Love Me Leave Me” on Bandcamp. This stripped down version was created as the First Dance song for his own wedding. Anton named the special edit “Maragaritari (Love Me Leave Me – Wedding Edit)” after his new wife, Margaritari. Congratulations to the beautiful couple! I’m honored to have been a part of your celebrations.

You can hear the original mix of “Love Me Leave Me” by The Morphism on the Anji Bee Bandcamp account:

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Lovespirals “Spinning Circles” Music Video

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An official music video for the song “Spinning Circles” from our ‘Life Goes On’ album is out now on the Lovespirals YouTube channel.

Lovespirals “Spinning Circles” filmed and edited by Anji Bee.

Over the past 2-3 years I’ve been filming various scenes I thought would work well with the lyrical concept and I finally took the time to edit them together for this fun must video that contrasts black and white and super colorful scenes. The parasol scenes were shot on Laguna Beach during the performance of ‘The Shoreline Project’ by artist Elizabeth Turk. We had randomly been on site just as 1000 people converged for this performance piece, and it was quite surreal! The carousel and teacups ride scenes were both shot at Disneyland, and the stupa scene was shot at Maui Dharma Center in Paia.

Hope this video makes you smile!

Stream music from Lovespirals or Anji Bee on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play, or Pandora. Buy digital downloads or CDs from lovespirals.bandcamp.com 

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Anji Releases Happy Healthy Vegan Cookbook

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I am proud to announce that I’ve just released my second independently published book, Happy Healthy Vegan Cookbook. This follow up to by 2016 debut cookbook, Keep It Carbed, Baby!, highlights the more savory side of my oil-free whole food plant based cooking style with 40 new easy to follow recipes focused on pantry staples and ingredients already found in most kitchens. Not only did I develop the recipes, I also took care of the food styling and photography, and handled all the design and layout of the book for print, PDF, Apple Book, and Amazon Kindle formats. It was a huge undertaking, so I’m very excited to have completed this project while under quarantine this year.

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Chillcast Interview Archive on Mixcloud

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The Anji Bee Mixcloud page now has an archive of Chillcast artist interview features. I really loved working on these more complicated episodes of The Chillcast with Anji Bee and wanted to make sure that they are available — not only for fans of the podcast — but for fans of the artists, as well. I created a playlist of the artists features to make them easier to find, too. Start listening to the interview features FREE on Mixcloud with this handy player:

Artists with Chillcast interview features include Beth Hirsh, Science for Girls, The Grooveblaster, Lol Tolhurst of Levinhurst, Karmacoda, Lovespirals, Paul Mac Innes, Eresto, Paul & Price, MoShang, Sunburn in Cyprus, Hungry Lucy and your hostess, Anji Bee.