Hello everyone and happy holidays! A few of you may have already heard our big news, but we wanted you all to hear it straight from us:

APHRODESIA WILL TOUR GHANA AND WEST AFRICA IN FEBRUARY!!!
Yes, it's true. The African Showboyz (perhaps some of you caught our set with them at the Earthdance Festival in September) have invited us to tour Ghana, Togo, Benin and possibly Burkina Faso and Nigeria with them for one month. The tour is being booked now, and we have also just been invited to play the Africa Unite Festival (Bob Marley's 61st birthday celebration, produced in part by the Marley family: www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHome...rtikel.php in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana on Feb 3 and 5.
We are also arranging to travel in a biodiesel bus, helping to showcase and promote this alternative fuel in a part of the world that has been devastated by the environmental and social effects of the petroleum industry.
The chance to travel and play music and learn from the land that has inspired so much of our music is incredibly exciting and mind-boggling for us. The fact that we may be able also to help promote alternative energy in West Africa while doing it makes it all seem almost too good to be true....and in a way it is, because there's one catch:

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!
We are in the process of raising the funds to help us make it to Ghana, and we have set up a donation page on our website-
www.aphrodesia.org/GonnagotoGhana.htm
Every little bit helps, so please consider us when you're making your lists and checking them twice....
Large donations can be tax-deductible through the Clean Fuel Caravan Coalition, please write us about that if you are interested. We are also soliciting sponsorships from sustainable businesses- if you are interested in that or know anyone who is, please write us about that too (contact@aphrodesia.org).

You can also, of course, help us by coming to any of our upcoming shows- www.aphrodesia.org/iastic.htm - including this Friday at the Elbo Room in SF, Dec 30 at the Anon Salon/String Cheese Incident party in SF, and NYE in Humboldt County at the Mateel Community Center!


What, you want more news? That wasn't enough? Sheesh!
All right, we've got brand new sweatshop-free t-shirts! Help us show everyone how cool they (and you) are by becoming an Aphrodesia celebrity model here (don't worry, it's easy)!!- www.aphrodesia.org/celebmodel.htm

We've got some cool new photos from some recent shows, and from a very funny night in a San Diego laudramat....
www.aphrodesia.org/anomic.htm

Aphrodesia is on Tribe and MySpace
www.aphrodesia.tribe.net
www.myspace.com

You can now download Aphrodesia at any of these fine sites-
eCast www.ecastinc.com/
MSN www.msn.com/
Music Match www.musicmatch.com/
Napster www.napster.com/
Rhapsody/ Real www.listen.com/
Ruckus Network www.ruckusnetwork.com/
Sony Connect www.connect.com/non_ie.html
Music Load www.musicload.de/
eMusic www.emusic.com/promo/

And last but not least....Aphrodesia was featured in a cool Podcast called Small World, you can download it here-
www.smallworldpodcast.com/

Thanks, and hope to see you all soon!
-xoxoxoxox
Aphrodesia
contact 415-867-0957