Angel Robinson
“Angel asked me before this festival, what does the love dimension mean?”Sam, opening the answer on Water night
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Sam Bottner
Ceremonial Folk MusicianSpoken Word PoetSoundbender
Sam Bottner calls the work ceremonial song, sound and spoken word. Based in Austin, Texas, Sam sings and plays guitar and records, mixes and masters the music too, and released a debut EP, Who Knew, in September 2026, made with friends from around the country.
SolarPunk Summit 2026Sam in The Love Dimension →Films · SolarPunk Summit 2026
Sam's
I am not alone
Film · 2:50
7 more films
The set, from the first chorus to good night
Film · 1:24
I Am Not Alone
Reel · 0:47
Empty Out
Reel · 0:40
All That Has Breath
Reel · 0:39
The Training Ground
Reel · 0:37
Open to Change
Reel · 0:30
A thank-you, in thirty seconds
Teaser · 0:31
Tyzen's word on Sam
Sam turned the whole field into a choir. On Water night at SolarPunk Summit, Sam taught the parts by ear, and by the end of the song the room was singing the surrender back: “Empty out and open up, Holy Spirit come.”
Angel had asked what the love dimension means, and the answer Sam brought was a harder question: where can I love when it is the hardest to love? With Jade and Julia on vocals and frame drum, the set moved from songs to spoken word to Psalm 150 sung in Hebrew, and the poem landed in the line we keep returning to: “I am overcome by the knowing that I am surely not alone.”
What we love in Sam is that the teaching happens through the singing. Nobody watches a Sam Bottner set; everybody is in it.
Stream Who Knew, watch the live session from King Electric, and if you are in Austin, come sing at the Memoria Song Circle on October 25 or catch the set at Sahara Lounge on November 1.
At SolarPunk Summit 2026 · The Love Dimension
Sam in
Empty out and open up: humility as the doorway to love, practised where love is hardest.
Songs, spoken word and Psalm 150 with Jade and Julia, Water night
“Empty out and open up, Holy Spirit come”
Sam · Sunday · Water
“And where my sea meets your sea meets seas of every living soul, I am overcome by the knowing that I am surely not alone.”
Sam · Sunday · Water
“We hold a vision of ourselves as being a light in the dark, right? And that's beautiful. But what it takes to be a light in the dark is to carry the dark within the light.”
Sam · Sunday · Water
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Who Knew · The Debut EP
Four songs released in September 2026, among them Araña, Flying Tree and Altar of Time, recorded with friends on charango, cello, percussion and upright bass.
Explore ↗Who Knew · Live at King Electric
The whole band in one room in Austin, filmed in August 2026: the EP's songs, a few beloved covers, and Nana, a song not yet released, with Jade Fusco on vocals.
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Memoria Song Circle · Austin
Sunday, October 25, 2026, at ArtUs Co in Austin, a song circle honouring the ancestors, co-led with Mary Olivar among Indigenous art. The circle begins at 7, and ticket money goes to a nonprofit.
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Live at Sahara Lounge
Sunday, November 1, 2026, at Sahara Lounge in Austin: Salamander Collective with Sam Bottner and Wizemen, with Sam on at 7:30.
Explore ↗Ceremonia, with Vianney Lopez
A 2024 record of seven ceremonial songs made with Vianney Lopez, from Prayer to the Stars to To the Cosmos.
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