MOTHER &WATER
a multi-dimensional multi-cultural
album & transformational concert series
amplifying ancestral Earth wisdom
activating resource-generating processes of cultural remembrance, intentional embodiment, collective evolution,
planetary healing & ancient medicine
in the digital age.
world premiering
2023 - 25
about the artist
DRĖĖĖMY is a transnational 1st-generation Indigenous Egyptian interdisciplinary creator, arts curator, sound composer/DJ/producer, poet, vocalist, embodied meditation guide, self-empowerment activist & community organizer based in New York City & performing Earthwide.
She is the founder of the global holistic impact agency uplifting women+ & black, indigenous, people of color artists and healers - The Collective BAE.
After a decade of offering embodied explorations of consciousness and expression at the intersection of arts, culture, and well-being, DRĖĖĖMY has embarked on a multi-year immersive experiential project mixing traditional & futurist elements by fusing rhythm-forward electronic music production with folk myth, song, and storytelling.
Her intention is to explore, preserve, and share enduring healing technologies in a time of great despair and separation.
THE INTENTION
The memory of a place is often tied to the land and waters of the place: this project aims to remind us that our return and remembrance of care for the planet, is our care for our art - and our own bodies as channels for that art.
At its core, MOTHER & WATER is a transcendent inquiry into climate justice & ecological preservation. Most indigenous understandings of the Earth and its creative force are feminine in nature — this work aims to feature and uplift those perspectives.
the PROJECT: composed of
3 distinct BODIES OF WATER/WORK
GOLDWATERs
(the past)
A calling in //
memory & embodiment
x mystical archetypes.
ancestral wisdom x self-realization, natural intelligence, and healing technologies.
remember: native desert valley tribes & desert coral encoded with prayer (stone, temples)
saltwaters
(the present)
An honoring of Now.
A calling up of wisdoms that can help us reckon with and reconcile the grief of pollution, separation,
cleansing x replenishing.
focus on: the seas & the oceans; the coral, the receding shorelines.
sweetwaters
(the future)
An ode to possibility.
A journey into the imaginal (and living) nourishing worlds that await our loving and tending offerings.
A revelation of our resources.
look to: the freshwaters of the Earth - the rivers, the rains, the springs.
EXPERIENCE DESIGN <<<ALL IMAGES CAPTURED LIVE x COLLECTIVE BAE>>>
MOTHER & WATER AS A WHOLE is motivated by and draws inspiration from CULTURAL PRESERVATION & THE climate justice movement, uplifting the languages and stories of sacred sites + bodies of water - including the human artists (bodies of water themselves) who are transcribing and translating these myths, legends, symbols and songs THAT BECOME OTHERWISE LOST TO THE SANDS OF TIME. the work we create is like a water.
GOLDWATERS (EP)
RECORD RELEASES:
"ALSHAMS, The Sufi"
"ALDUNYA, The Goddess"
"ALAMAR, The Moon Dancer"
"ALQUIMIA, The Alchemist"
“ALMADI, The Ancestor”
“NAFAS, The Spirit”
Currently available for listening
on all streaming platforms.
SALWATERS
IN PRODUCTION.
TO BE EXPERIENCED,
FALL/WATER 2024
sweetwaters
IN PRODUCTION. TO BE EXPERIENCED,
SPRING 2025
partnerships
&collabs
In CO-CREATION with her MULTI-DISCIPLINARY global ecosystem of evolutionary artists, dreeemy & The Collective BAE (alongside aligned partners) are redefining what it is to tell immersive, bio-diverse, cultural-rooted inter-GENERATIONAL stories in the digital age.
The music, the art, and the artists involved are all activated with a particular and intentional diasporic lens that unfurls and explores what it is to both have forgotten and to remember what our ELDERS & ancestors once knew about tending our home on our mother planet Earth .
this project prioritizes & uplifts bipoc voices of the diaspora.
BENJAMIN URBAEZ (D.R.)
DOMINICAN MUSICIAN, PERFORMER, ART DIRECTOR
CRISSY J (JAMAICA)
VIOLINIST & PERFORMER
BRANDON TERZIC
OUD MUSICIAN & PERFORMER
NERMEIN EL RAWI (EGYPT)
VOCALIST & TRANSLATOR
EMMANUEL INOA (D.R.)
PHOTOGRAPHER & FILMMAKER, NATIVE FLAUTIST
MORE TBA
RESOURCES HELP US G R O W
projected releases & RESOURCE GENERATION
In order to create and share this full body of work / audio-visual experience, we are calling in resources that can help make it possible to harvest, design, and intentionally offer these original compositions of music and meditation, immersive performance, interactive well-being experiences, cultural education & activation, and related creative works.
These resources will also make it possible to adequately and abundantly support the deeply talented local and international artists who are bringing this project and vision to life.
- FINANCIAL | grants & investments
- RESIDENTIAL | opportunities with creative studio space (music and visual/digital workspaces)
- RELATIONAL | sponsorships/partnerships with aligned collaborators (located worldwide, & primarily in and around coastal regions and cultural centers - NYC, LA, SF, Miami, Egypt, Mexico, the Mediterranean, Aegean, & African coastlines)
- The first short film motion picture of ALSHAMS, The Sufi has released in March 2023.
- GOLDWATERS (EP 1) has released Summer 2023.
- The 2nd chapter in the series: SALTWATERS (EP 2) is set to release in FALL 2024.
- The 3rd & final chapter SWEETWATERS (EP 3) is set to release in Spring 2025.
- The multi-media project in its completion will be presented via regenerative touring as “MOTHER & WATER '' in 2025.
In our world, music & art gather AND TRANSFORM the collective consciousness like nothing else.
MOTHER & WATER is a FULL-SPECTRUM infusion of INTENTION into otherwise numb dancefloors, extractive digital technologies, and HEARTBREAKING eco-grief AND CULTURAL TURMOIL. It is aN INTENTIONAL offering to our mother planet.
it is a reminder of the remedies that those who came long before us, left for us: listening. witnessing. praying. singing. dancing.
it is a pathway towards re-uniting the collective, before anything else.