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@ekitisound feat @real1official
Track ID: Testify
Album: Abeg No Vex
Label: @CrammedDiscs
Dir: Leke Chif Awoyinka
DOP: David Wyte
Producer: Ajifa Atiluku
Edit Asst: Mohammed Jose
Location: Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
Featuring: Odion Iruoje , Abiodun Wurasamba Oke , Tajudeen Karimu, Yaya Aliyu
Many thanks to everyone involved in this video, especially to Joseph and the Prophecy Studios team.
“We killin the show!”
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From debut album "Abeg No Vex"
Buy/stream : http://smarturl.it/abeg_no_vex
Follow Ekiti Sound : https://www.facebook.com/ekitisound...https://www.instagram.com/ekitisoun...
Director” Leke “Chif” Awoyinka
Prod Co: Vraaam
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Joey Le Soldat - J'ai mal au Congo (Clip Officiel)
Joey Le Soldat - J'ai Mal Au Congo (Clip Officiel)
http://smarturl.it/Jaimalaucongo
Filmé et réalisé par Adama Yatt
Produit, mixé, masterisé par L Rey, Studio X8
Extrait de "FAASO" EP SORTIE LE 14 DECEMBRE 2019
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JOEY LE SOLDAT /// BIOGRAPHIE
Biberonné au Rap US et français d'un côté et aux paroles des griots africains de l'autre, Joey le Soldat est petit-fils de tirailleur et fils d'un militant indépendantiste époque Sankara. En 2010, il sort diplômé en Lettres Modernes de l'Université de Ouagadougou et remporte le clash d'improvisation du festival Waga Hip Hop. Pendant trois ans, il enchaîne les petits boulots comme jardinier et donne des cours aux enfants de son quartier. Le samedi soir, il monte des sounds system. En 2014 - 2015, grâce au succès de son album "Burkin Bâ", la popularité de Joey le Soldat grandit en Europe. (...Mais aussi notamment auprés de la jeunesse burkinabè qui renverse le président Campaoré à la tête du Burkina Fao depuis 1987 !). Joey devient dans le même temps "Ambassadeur de la Marche contre Monsanto".
JOEY LE SOLDAT /// BIOGRAPHY
Joey le Soldat is the grandson of a sharpshooter and the son of an independence militant fighter, raised with American rap in one ear and the words of traditional African storytelling musicians in the other. In 2010 he graduated in Modern Letters from the University of Ouagadougou, and won the Improvised Clash rap battle at the Waga Hip Hop Festival. He worked as a gardener and taught the children in his neighbourhood, while running sound systems and block parties on Saturday nights. After the release of his first album “Burkin Bâ” in 2014, Joey’s popularity grew in Europe, while his fame exploded in Burkina Faso as he joined a massive youth uprising overthrowing President Campaoré, a ruler who had held power for 27 years. Joey continued to bring the fight with his activism as an official Ambassador of the March Against Monsanto in 2015.
http://www.joeylesoldat.com/
Track from the album "The Sisypheans" by Xylouris White, available on LP & CD on November 8, 2019 from Drag City.
Music by Xylouris/White, Lyrics Mitsos Stravrakakis
Video by Shelagh Hannan
Ascension
It’s not obsession, it’s persistence
Η μοίρα μου με στράβωσε, ή μ’άνοιξε τα μάθια?
Και βρέθηκα στο δρόμο σου ρόδο μου με τ’αγκάθια
Has fate blinded me or opened my eyes?
I have found myself on your path, my thorny rose
Pre Order here:
https://ffm.to/sisypheans
from the album Athena. http://sthrow.com/athena • http://sudanarchives.com
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Directed, shot and edited by Ross Harris
Featuring: D-Eight
Styling and movement by Autumn Randolph
Lighting: Michael Winokur
Production Design: Lauren Kim
Prop Stylist: Simone Moscovitch
Hair: Lena Jaye
Makeup: Nelly Santiago
Key Grip: Josh Wilson
#sudanarchives #glorious
ASM - Honey feat. Chinese Man
From "Color Wheel", available here : https://CMR.lnk.to/ColorWheel
Follow & Stream ASM : https://CMR.lnk.to/ASM
Réalisé par High Ku, Vincent DELPECH, Fred & Annabelle.
Sur une idée originale de High Ku.
Images et animations : Vincent DELPECH et Fred & Annabelle.
Produit par Chinese Man Records - 2019.
Taken from ASM new album "Color Wheel".
Réalisé avec le soutien de la SPPF.
Rhymes: Green, FP
Beat: RHINO, Chinese Man
Contains a sample of «Ala Dalouna» performed by Sabah & N. Shamsh Eldine - Licensed courtesy of A. CHAHINE & FILS
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LYRICS :
Why not? Might just gotta try it out
Why not? Might just gotta try it out
Why not? I just might just gotta try it out
Try it out. Why not? Try it out
Folklore summons coming from the farthest reaches sound the horn, ha
Hoards for the stomping of the scorched earth harvest of the corn, ha
Gather round, gather round
Call to the lost and the found
And he wears a five-spiked crown, tell ‘em
From the top of the cerebellum
Initiate the god sequence
MLD come to officiate the off-seeing
Slick hawking but I'm not Steven
Serve a swerved curveball, topspin like Venus or Serena Williams
Millions and millions of fine filaments simmering
In the path of the Mistral, Marseille to Languedoc
Forecast gale force non-stop
Better summon all your flock to the rock when the bomb drops
CHORUS
Why? Why not? Try it out
Gather round, gather round
Call to the lost and the found
And he wears a five-spiked crown tell ‘em
From the top of the cerebellum
Thick Honey glazed symphony
Sun rays glisten on the surface of the ancient sea
Wind whistles over waves like a melody
Age of the centipede … M-L-D
Coming through your city murder them gently
Got plenty plenty bangers and the natty bottles
Just to make your fatty wobble wrote it like a trashy novel
We keep it knocking like a sassy brothel,
Eat Pakistani waffles, I see you've swallowed all the tangy awful
Soon or later get your granny ogled wearing these new brandy goggles
Sing it like a modern day gospel a la Andy Warhol, go pick up your sandy golf ball
CHORUS
Why not? Might just gotta try it out
Why not? I just might just gotta try it out
Folklore summons coming from the farthest reaches sound the horn
Hoards for the harvest of the corn
Stomping the lawn to build the foundation
Calm is the sea
As he holds a handful of pomegranate seeds
Still water runs deep, low-tide coast-liner
Part-time ghostwriter, full time gold miner
Old timer, still hate po-niner,
Co-sign a deal to hit em with the clothes-liner
Iron out the ting, heads are now about to ring
Slept on the announcement yo, a Jester cannot joust a king
CHORUS
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More on https://chinesemanrecords.com
#ASM #ColorWheel #CMR
CD/LP: http://bit.ly/aziza_sahari
Digital: https://idol.lnk.to/Sahari
Release Date: 15/11/2019
Glitterbeat Records
On the front cover of Aziza Brahim’s new album, Sahari, a young girl poses in ballet shoes and a glistening white tutu. It’s a common childhood scene, but it’s tipped upside down. She’s not privileged and the backdrop isn’t a comfortable suburban home. She’s an exile, living nowhere near her homeland, and behind her stand the tents and buildings of a refugee camp. There’s a desert on the ground and a burning sky above. Yet even in this bleakness, she has optimism. She believes in a better future.
The music Aziza Brahim makes reflects both the sorrow and the hope of these people. She grew up in one of those camps in the Algerian desert, along with thousands of other Saharwai who were removed from their homes in the Western Sahara. The refugee camp was the place that formed her. It lives in her every heartbeat.
Her grandmother was a famous Saharwai poet, her mother well-known as a vocalist, and they passed their strength and fearlessness to her. Now, as one of North African most lauded singers, Brahim uses her position to make the plight of her people known – and of the refugees across the world who have no choice but to exist in the camps. Sahari is for them as much as it’s for her own family.
The political remains intensely personal for Brahim. She lives in exile, in Spain, and the music for Sahari – her third album for Glitterbeat - was written there. And while her songs remain grounded in her homeland, her gaze is increasingly global. To achieve that, Brahim worked with the acclaimed Spanish artist Amparo Sánchez of the band Amparanoia on the album’s pre-production, and the collaboration has made a transformative impact on the music. The focus is broader, with programming and keyboards a vital part of the new sound.
“Amparo is an artist I’ve always admired,” Brahim observes. “She suggested introducing electronics, and that meant recording in a different way. Before, we’d record everything live. This time we all worked in different studios then put the pieces together. I produced the album, the first time I’ve done that since Mabruk in 2012, and it was a very difficult job, a very interesting challenge: to work in a new way yet make your own songs sound exactly as you want.”
When Brahim began as a composer, her work reflected her own reality, growing up in the far, rocky desert known as the hamada. These days she’s become a voice for refugees across the globe, and what she sees every day on the news has inevitably affected her writing.
“The normalisation of injustice is something that the Saharawis know well,” she observes. “By addressing that in the songs, I’m trying to fight against the prejudices some people have. We all see tragic news caused by the policies of reactionary governments. Of course that’s influenced the writing of the songs on this new album. How could it not?”
And one of the most powerful pieces on Sahari is a cry for home from someone caught in the flux of exile. “Ard El Hub,” Brahim explains, speaks of “the impossibility of returning to the homeland for us. The lyrics of the song are by Zaim Alal, a great Saharawi poet. I saw him the last time I was in the refugee camps, and he wrote this poem for me to sing.”
Sam Lee - The Garden of England (Seeds of Love) | Official Music Video
The Garden of England (Seeds Of Love) taken from the new album, 'Old Wow', out now: https://slee.lnk.to/OldWow
Follow Sam Lee:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/samleesong
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samleefolk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/samleesong
Official Site: https://www.samleesong.co.uk
Directed by Jon Kwan
https://www.cuckoohillstudio.com
With thanks to Corin Stuart & Windyridge, Forest Row, Sussex
THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND (SEEDS OF LOVE) Lyrics
We sowed the seeds of love
We showed them how to sing
Grown with a knowing of something in their blood
Where ceremony begins
When the apron string unpinned
My garden was forsook
To weigh in on industry
Raised beyond the altar, under oak and ash
I grew to a bony rowan tree
Freely in my own country
But some oak trees won’t twist
For they’re brittle beneath the bark
Better that limbs be broke and brought to ground
And service the light to dark
We’re just servants unto the dark
For the gatekeeper can’t stand by
For they must be bound to be free
Lightworking the liminal, listening to the land
Fingering at mystery
Not Sally, fee and easy
Oh grief, oh grief have I
For the songs they go to decay
The garden of England once bloomed it’s sound assault
Now destined for some bouquet
No roses in this display
For the rose it bore a thorn
A spritz of wilful spark
But taming its temper to never pierce the palm
We’ll never touch the heart, the heart
No poison tip to the dart
We sowed the seeds of love
We showed them how to sing
Grown with a knowing of wildness in their blood
More than the sum of the everything
The old wow never wears thin...
Sweet as the birds in the spring
Home is when the heart sings
The songs that tell of our own kith and kin
The old wow never wears thin...
Out of decay new life springs
As the anima sheds its own skin
While this pebble rolls its big rings
The old wow never wears thin
The old wow never wears thin
Some of my favourite things
The old wow never wears thin
#OldWow #TheGardenOfEngland #SamLeeMusic
Official Music Video for Vula Viel - My Own Skin
From the upcoming album 'What's Not Enough About That?'
Lyrics:
Even not fitting in, hey!
I am comfortable in my own skin.
Bandcamp : https://vulaviel.bandcamp.com
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1jT...
Live painting by Dora the Drawer, prints available: https://www.instagram.com/dorathedr...
Vula Viel are:
Bex Burch - Gyil
Ruth Goller - Bass
Jim Hart - Drums
Guest vocals - Jamie Doe, Tamatha Weiser, Jahleel Weiser, Tara Franks, Lyra Knapp Franks, Jim Hart, Ruth Goller, Bex Burch, Peter Zummo
Music and lyrics by Bex Burch
Directed and edited by: Louise Boer
Concept by: Quinton Scott
Filmed by: Louise Boer and Silvia Gin
Supported by PRS Foundation and Sound and Music
https://vulaviel.com
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