CX Direct Order Form - renaissance negresse catalogue

(Updated 1/18/10)

PRODUCT ORDER FORM
Here is where you can learn what products are available by Cassendre Xavier, and how to order them.

ABOUT THE ARTIST: Cassendre Xavier (aka Amethyste Rah, aka Amrita Waterfalls) is an award-winning multi-media artist and community arts leader based in Philadelphia, PA, USA. She coined the term “renaissance negresse” in 2002 to describe her work as an author, musician, visual artist, and actress, and is the founder and executive director of Philadelphia’s annual Black Women’s Arts Festival (Est. 2003). Visit Cassendre at www.cassEndrExavier.

ORIGINAL & POP SONGS BY CASSENDRE XAVIER (in CD and Downloadable MP3 formats) featuring Cassendre on vocals and guitar, and performed in a bluesy, folk, acoustic style. Available to order by mail, phone, or online using your card or check at http://www.cdbaby.com/all/cassEndrE or call 1 (800) BUY-MY-CD [289-6323]. Cassendre’s official website is http://www.cassEndrExavier.com.

Titles (click on their corresponding links for reviews & product info):

Capable of Love (2009) [Available also as MP3 Download] Featuring sacred chanting, humorous, and haunting songs. A cross between Tania Maria and Bobby McFerrin with guitar. Album highlights: overdub harmony vocals, “The Water is Wide”, “O Shenandoah,” and original songs “Run to You”, “Chapstick Lesbian Song” and “The Damn Dog Song”. More reviews & product info: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/xavierc8

Live at Tin Angel (2006) [Available also as MP3 Download] Critically acclaimed live recording at esteemed Philadelphia acoustic listening room, the Tin Angel. Honorably mentioned by Philadelphia City Paper music critic M.J. Fine as the number 9 of top 21 Local EPs of 2007. Album highlights: humor with live audience, between song banter/introductions, and original first-time released sexy-funky song “To Be”. More reviews & product info: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/xavierc7

4OUR: a sampler (2004) Four songs representing live, studio, original, and cover song performance. An inexpensive introduction to Cassendre’s music. More reviews & product info: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/xavierc4

Beautiful (2004) “Cassendre could not have picked a better name for her CD! She summed it up into one word: Beautiful. She captivates the listener with her angelic voice, smoothed over with powerful lyrics and the affair she holds with her guitar. Tears actually sprung to my eyes after the first listen, I was so moved by the magnificent combination of a stunning voice against awe-inspiring lyrics. You'll play this CD on repeat all day. Don't let this one get away, you need it for your own CD collection.” -Heather Corcoran, Assistant Editor, CoffeeHouseTour. Album highlights: overdub harmony vocals, original songs “Letters from Heaven,” “A Little Bit of Love”, “BOG’s Song” and Sheryl Crow cover “Strong Enough”. More reviews & product info: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/xavierc

Live at the Krafbrau, Kalamazoo (2004) “ …a prime example of the artist's lyrical dexterity. Xavier showcases her ability to use her voice as an instrument. With the intensity of her emotion in the vocal arrangement, Xavier accompanies her voice with the simplicity of her acoustic guitar-playing, creating a polyrhythmic kinship with the instrument.” - Sherella Gibbs, PAW Print (Philadelphia Arts Writers) Album highlights: Humor with live audience, first-time released original songs “Your Eyes” and “Hatred’s Too Easy”. More reviews & product info: More reviews & product info: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/xavierc6

The Cassendre Xavier Collection, Vol. 1 (2004) “Sultry, smooth, and soulful... Her voice is sultry, smooth and soulful; her guitar rhythmic and rich.” -Debra D'Alessandro/Producer & Host of Amazon Country, WXPN 88.5 More reviews & product info: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/xavierc5

Live at Café Improv (2002) “Cassendre Xavier has combined an unlikely mixture of contemporary and timeless influences to create a smooth yet distinguishable style beyond the usual singer songwriter pattern. It is hard to tell where her jazz, folk and rock influences inform her sensibility, yet informed by all of these she is. It is as consistent as it is memorable, soulful, and real.” - David W. Wannop/Journalist and Promoter. Album highlights: Original song “I’m Happy Now” and an unforgettable cover of B.B. King’s “The Thrill is Gone”. More reviews & product info: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/xavierc3

The Whittenberg Sessions (2002) Debut album, recorded by and named for Emmy Award-winning film score composer Rodney Whittenberg. This album received its first major radio play (Power 99FM, Philadelphia) and features powerful originals “Friend,” “Your Woman”, “Happy to be Alive” and “Life of the Party”, as well as unique interpretations of cover songs including Pat Benetar’s “Love is a Battlefield” and Nina Simone’s “Four Women”. More reviews & product info: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/xavierc2

Cassendre’s CDs are also sold at Giovanni's Room Bookstore, 345 S. 12th Street (at Pine)
Philadelphia, PA 19107 (215) 923-2960 www.giovannisroom.com

SPOKEN WORD GUIDED MEDITATIONS BY AMETHYSTE RAH (available at http://stores.lulu.com/cassEndrE)


Cassendre gave herself the spiritual name of Amethyste Rah in the late 1990s when she began writing about spirituality in national women’s magazines. Always an artist to deal with personal issues in her work and to bring together community to help solve them together, she founded Sisters Healing Together, a peer support group for women survivors of incest with a special focus on compulsive overeating in 1996 which ran until 1999 at the William Way LGBT Community Center in Philadelphia.
In 2003, she produced and co-starred, with 4 other actresses, in a play called Sex for Survivors, which she also wrote and which was a Philadelphia Fringe Festival 3-day feature.

Throughout, she read a lot about healing from abuse, and coupled with counseling and producing written works about the issue, began recording guided meditations and affirmations very similar to the ones she’d been using on her own healing journey.

[The following are soothing spoken word guided meditations with angelic music background to help you reclaim, heal, and empower your self to live with more joy and ease. Written and spoken by singer-songwriter and former workshop and support group founder Amethyste Rah (aka Cassendre Xavier). While this recording is tailored for self-identified recovering survivors of incest/sexual abuse, and addictions, it is helpful to anyone wanting to improve their self-esteem. Music of Light by Thaddeus © LuminEssence Productions www.orindaben.com. Used with permission.]

The following have been very highly recommended by mental health professionals and their clients, as well as friends and business associates of Cassendre’s who prefer to remain anonymous:

Affirmations for Survivors: Self-Love CD (2007) http://www.lulu.com/content/compact-disc/affirmations-for-survivors-self-love/1114299

Affirmations for Survivors: Self-Love MP3 Download (2007) http://www.lulu.com/content/multimedia/affirmations-for-survivors-self-love-%28downloadable-mp3-audio-version%29/1117551

Affirmations for Survivors: Spirituality CD (2007) http://www.lulu.com/content/compact-disc/affirmations-for-survivors-spirituality/1117427

Affirmations for Survivors: Spirituality MP3 Download (2007) http://www.lulu.com/content/multimedia/affirmations-for-survivors-spirituality-%28downloadable-mp3-audio-version%29/1117616

Cassendre’s Guided Meditations are also sold at Giovanni's Room Bookstore, 345 S. 12th Street (at Pine) Philadelphia, PA 19107 (215) 923-2960 www.giovannisroom.com

BOOKS AND E-BOOKS BY CASSENDRE XAVIER (To order, email: cxwriting@gmail.com for product availability and latest order form)

secrets & lies: poetry and other words (2004)
a Curious Bookling™ (chapbook) by Cassendre Xavier. Highlights: Poems “The Day I Was Born”, “telegram to erotic from terror”, “Shrimp Savannah: a Recipe”, “Be Coming Magickal: a Blackwomyn’s Journey (Or: How to Become a Witch When All Your Teachers are White)”, “Hair Like Mine”, and “to the 4’ asian woman who swears she’s so tough”. To order, email: cxwriting@gmail.com for product availability and latest order form.

Making of a Woman/Artist: a book for every black girl & every black woman who has ever wanted to be an artist (2005)
a Curious Bookling™ (chapbook) with original cover artwork by Cassendre Xavier. Highlights: Essays “Boundaries – the Stronger the Better”, “Unconditional (Self) Love”, “Radical Self-Acceptance”, “Affirmations for the Black Woman Artist”, Exercise: “If I Were a ‘Real’ Artist…”, and Recommended Reading. To order, email: cxwriting@gmail.com for product availability and latest order form.

Expanding Your Capacity for Joy: a Raw Vegan Comfort Book, Sourcebook & Journal. For product description visit http://cassendrexavier.blogspot.com/2009/05/ordering-info-for-expanding-your.html. Expanding Your Capacity for Joy is also sold at:

Arnold's Way
Raw Vegetarian Cafe, Store & Education Center
319 West Main St. Store # 4 Rear
Lansdale, PA 19446
215-361-0116
www.arnoldsway.com

Essene Natural Market & Cafe
719 South Fourth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147
215-922-1146
www.essenemarket.com

Giovanni's Room Bookstore
345 S. 12th Street (at Pine)
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 923-2960
www.giovannisroom.com

EROTICA BY AMRITA WATERFALLS
Erotica: a Liberation [Explicit] Forthcoming in 2010) Writing, photographs, and drawings by Cassendre Xavier writing as Amrita Waterfalls. For product details, visit http://artivistpublications.homestead.com/services.html.

For the occasional arts and crafts fair, Cassendre sometimes creates stationery and postcards featuring her original art and inspiring quotes.

To be on her official mailing list and receive regular newsletters and announcements, please visit send a blank email to: cassendrexavier-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and then add artchyk@yahoo.com to your safelist or contacts. Thanks!

© 2010 by Cassendre Xavier. All rights reserved. http://www.cassEndrExavier.com

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