• 1.1. hosanna (meridian)
  • 1.2. first born (redeemed)
  • 1.3. when angels speak of love
  • 1.4. doubleupptown (larocque)
  • 1.5. w-i-s (above every other)
  • 1.6. pistol poem (leadbelly)
  • 1.7. whip appeal (pipn8ez)
  • 1.8. seven trumpets
  • 1.9. giz'aard ($uckets)
  • 1.10. helpmeet (iyadunni)
  • 1.11. flir2a
  • 1.12. u&me (decemberseventeen)
  • 1.13. illbethere, 4everandever
  • 1.14. alàáfía (cita's world)
20. September 2024
Label: PAN

honour

alaafia

ALAAFIA

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Honour's debut album is a ligament stretching from Lagos to London and to New York, curling across the diaspora and brushing the darker hues of blues, hip-hop, free jazz, ambient, gospel with Christian mythology and Yoruba folklore. As cinematic as it is painterly, Alàáfíà is a meditation on themes of life, death and love that pulls inspiration from the unexpected poetic profundity of casual conversations, field recordings, literature, ephemera, or personal archives. The result is an impressionistic vision in Black and Blur that both exhausts and implicates language_substantiating a mythos proposed by Fred Moten that sublimates boundaries between everywhere and nowhere; history and the present; the individual and the universal. Alàáfíà delineates a ... read more