Aloka — Mixtape 004
Curated by Jason Lasley
About the Mixtape
Mixtape 004 is curated by Jason Lasley — longtime Aloka collaborator and a deeply attuned holder of sonic space. Jason moves between worlds with rare ease: ceremonial and contemporary, earthen and ethereal, devotional and dreamlike.
This hour-plus journey opens with Poranguí's Amanecer — a sunrise invocation of breath, ancestry, and root — and winds through cinematic stillness (Garth Stevenson), shamanic prayer (Simon Jano), handpan reverie (Hang Massive), and the slow ache of Nick Murphy's Tongue. It closes in surrender with Bachan Kaur's Abuelita, a lullaby for the lineage that carries us.
Listen with headphones, or let it move through a room. Either way, it's a held space — a mixtape for the threshold between doing and being.
About Jason
Jason believes healing begins with slowing down — slow enough to actually arrive in the body. Because the body is always speaking. It asks for a stretch, a walk, a sip of water, a hand on the chest. The work is learning to listen, and then to answer.
When we meet the body where it is, the old patterns begin to loosen. Pain softens its grip. Freedom becomes possible — not as escape, but as return.
Alongside his bodywork, Jason holds a deep devotion to sacred plant medicine. For the past fourteen years, he has tended medicinal and gourmet mushrooms — a practice that has rooted him further into the realms of healing, which he considers his life's work.
