Oakland visionary WolfHawkJaguar is more than a recording artist— he is a cultural vessel, a healer with rhythm, and a storyteller rooted in ancestral truth. His latest work, Goldfish: An Oakland Love Story, isn’t just a project—it’s a spiritual offering. A living meditation. A cinematic journey of transformation.
Blending music, film, ritual, and raw emotion, Goldfish explores what it means to remember who you are in a world that constantly demands your survival. It’s a love story, but not the kind you expect. This is a love story about self and spirit, about community and memory, about Oakland—a city that bruises you, builds you, and baptizes your soul.
Goldfish asks a question we all feel but rarely speak: What happens to the pieces of ourselves we bury just to keep going?
WolfHawkJaguar doesn’t just answer that—he resurrects them. Through hypnotic percussion, grounded poetry, soul vocals, and visual storytelling, he creates a sound that feels alive. Every drum is a heartbeat. Every lyric is a prayer. Every scene is a mirror.
“Oakland taught me how to make gold out of grit,” he says. And that’s exactly what this project is—alchemy. Pain into rhythm. Grief into gratitude. Memory into music. And music into light. At its core, Goldfish is about return—the sacred act of remembering. The album swims between realms: between earth and spirit, seen and unseen, roots and sky. The companion film honors the real Oakland—its families, elders, children, block corners, side streets, and street prophets. It is shot with reverence, reminding us that beauty lives even in struggle when we choose to see it.
Goldfish the album dropped October 21st, and it does what true art is supposed to do—it reaches inside you and wakes something up. This isn’t background music. This is soul medicine. This is sound with purpose. This is what happens when an artist isn’t chasing fame—but freedom.
With Goldfish, WolfHawkJaguar doesn’t just create art— He remembers.
He honors.
He transforms.
He returns to the light.
This isn’t just a project—it’s a path.
https://wolfhawkjaguar.bandcamp.com/album/goldfish-an-oakland-love-story
