Step UP Women's Network LA: Spoken Word Poetry Class in Lincoln Heights

As a Senior Instructor for the Step Up Women's Network here in LA, I have the honor and great joy to work with amazing teens each week teaching both Spoken Word Poetry and Film/Video workshops. At the LA Leadership Academy in Lincoln Heights (aka LALA) the 10th and 11th graders involved this semester were all amazing and natural poets! Some of them, as often is the case, discovered their inner poets for the first time throughout our 2 month's together once a week on Wednesday's after school, while the rest of them already had played with words and its so inspiring to watch them all grow and come out of their shells and express themselves through poetry! They asked me throughout the semester to perform something for them with my guitar and I promised them to do so on the last day of class.

Sound Report @ The Mezz : Kicking off the new year right!

Live at the Mezz with Joshua Silverstein & Joshis Scheffrin.

 Jan. 2011, Alexandria Hotel in Downtown LA

Feeling fine.

Beat Box.

Alto-Sax.

Photos: Kraig Blue

10 Yr. Acoustic Retrospective @ the MorYork Gallery, Highland Park 12/29/10

It's been a fruitful year and decade of much transformation, new phases, places and fears and challenges overcome on the interior landscapes of the heart place. I'm looking forward to this blog being alot busier in the coming year as I have been taking steps in recent months towards learning one of my main instruments, Guitar, and forming the band that has been waiting to be formed now for years. Happy Holidays how ever you may spend them, and Blessings to you and yours.

See you in 2011! Heart Love, Mataji B.

Photos &  Video: Eddy Vajarkitpongse

DJ MATAJI: Global Beats Soulful Treats

[GIVE: A Creative Collaboration
Element Skateboards + TOM's Shoes]

[Crate Diggin + Proud to be Vinyl only DJ]

[Art Opening for Gino Perez: Downtown LA]

[Poobah Records in Pasadena]

[photo by Coleman for + Element Skateboards]

[Hangar Gallery: Bike Kitchen Benefit]

West Hollywood Standard Hotel Residency
2008-Present

residencies:






guest spots over the years...

Nadie Senti Project

Upon returning to Los Angeles at the end of 2007, I met self taught Flamenco/Blues guitarist and kindred spirit Remmy Morris on myspace. We really respected each other's music and felt like we could join forces and create something beautiful.We became fast friends, writing and recording

two songs together within a week.

Listen: "No One Without You" & "Raised by Wolves"

Soon after we wound up as neighbors in the same 8o year old building in Old Pasadena. Using imovie, I directed and edited music videos for both tunes which we co-shot the 1924 building we lived in and down the street. "No One Without You" was written as an homage to lovers lives severed by the atrocities of war.

"Raised by Wolves" is a call to unity and recognizing the oneness in all things, and was shot in a special spot I found on a walk one afternoon in the Arroyo underneath the Pasadena Bridge near where we both lived.

ANKH Jewelry By Racquel Honore

Photography: Jacopo Manfren

Modeling ANKH jewelry for friend Racquel Honore.