Anji and her Happy Healthy Vegan partner, Ryan, were interviewed by Jeff of the Vegan Stories Podcast. This half hour chat goes back a bit into our history like how we met as a couple and when and why we went vegan, the effect our vegan diet had on our health and athletic performance, plus some talk about the debunking aspect of our YouTube channel, how Anji got started writing cookbooks and what went into them, and even some talk about our band, Lovespirals, and how Ryan got started with music making. Check it out at anchor.fm, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts!
Back in 2014 Mr. Alfa hit me up to provide vocals for his electro pop cover of the legendary Fleetwood Mac song, “Landslide.” As a lifetime fan of the band I was a bit hesitant to take on this masterpiece. Hesitantly I recorded a sole vocal line and sent it off. Fast-forward 7 years and suddenly the song appeared on the Venus Recordings SoundCloud account!
SURPRISE! Bet you didn’t expect me to show up with a mix of love songs a few days *after* Valentine’s Day, did ya??? I’ve been contributing a Vday mix to the Cupid’s Hunt podcast collaboration since its inception in 2008, and I just couldn’t resist getting back into it again this year!!! You know I have trouble quitting The Chillcast, so it was a great excuse to go through all my unread music PR emails, scour the new releases on Soundcloud, and even hit up the freegal.com music site for cool new tunes in the theme of L-O-V-E. So get ready to kick back, relax, and let me soothe you and groove you once again for old time’s sake. <3
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!
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To celebrate the start of a new year, I put together a music video for the title track of our Lovespirals album, “Life Goes On,” featuring some of the more peaceful moments I filmed over the past 12 tumultuous months.
I haven’t uploaded a new episode of the The Chillcast to Mixcloud since Valentine’s Day, but I still keep making playlists! Even though I’m an Apple user, I shared my end of the year playlist over on Spotify, as well, because it seems to be the more popular service. Hope you enjoy this mix. Feel free to follow me on either streaming platform for more playlists.
The Spotify player above will allow you to stream the full playlist (with commercial breaks) even if you don’t have an account. The Apple Music player below will only play you clips of the songs if you do not have an account.
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.
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.
Lovespirals are featured on a new album. “Tim Where Are You Now?” by Sam Rosenthal of Black Tape for a Blue Girl was created to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of Tim Leary this month. It’s a collaborative album packed full of special guests including Lovespirals’ Anji Bee and Ryan Lum (on tracks 6 & 8). “PSY PHI love means High Fidelity” pulls vocal inspiration from the original Star Trek series theme song, and musical inspiration from the classic exotica lounge albums of that same era. This song also features special guests Byron Metcalf and Martin Bowes. The CD is available on Bandcamp, where you can opt to purchase a digital download on the “Name Your Price” deal (meaning you can pay $0 if you want…), and it’s also available to stream on all digital platforms, including Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube.
I am super proud to present the latest Lovespirals song!
Lovespirals “Why Not Today?” Music Video
Extremely chill vibes with super smooth production, “Why Not Today?” pulls from from Lovespirals’ r&b/soul side with a little jazz and blues twist. Melancholic, dreamy, and filled with soft yearning for a better time and place, the video is a lovely reminder of the healing power of nature, even in this time of human disconnection and unease. I created the music video, as well as wrote the lyrics, performed the vocals, and aided in the songwriting and production.
