Kaie Kellough 'creole continuum'

Drawn from linguistics studies of the 1960s, the title creole continuum refers to the degrees of language shift between speakers from the dominant language to Creole. Kaie explores from this point, the social and racial distinctions brought about through colonialism of person and language. Reaching far back to his African origins, he draws out the drums of voice.

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Ivy 'Va faire ta guerre'

Va faire ta guerre (Go make your war) was written in 2011 for Amnesty International project Partners for Peace. A letter to the fat cats, to the warmongers, to “M. le Grassouillet / Le Souillé / Le Suprême de Poulet”.....

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Faithfull feat. Samy Labrute, Dark Spirit: "L'afrique"

Turned onto this today in a somewhat random-discovery-kind-of-way, via Yas (of the Lightmotiv) - L’Afrique from Cameroon poet Faithfull Baana Enono Arnaud, with Samy Labrute. I just wanted to share this brilliant track, great video. More about Faithfull (”le Chirurgien“) ... bientôt!


Tanya Evanson 'Language of Gods'

Out of Vancouver, Tanya Evanson brings her third ‘spoken wor.l.d’ music album exploring concepts of family, mythology, dialect, silence & technology…

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