Title: Alaafia - Alternate Cover Artist: Honour Label: Pan Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 756029613362 Genre: Electronic Release Date: 2024-09-20 Number of Discs: 1
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, Àlà áfÃà is a meditation on themes of life, death and love that pulls inspiration from the poetic profundity of God, remembered dreams, unexpected casual conversations, field recordings, literature, ephemera, and personal archives. The result is an impressionistic vision in Black and Blur that both exhausts and implicates language and that sublimates boundaries between everywhere and nowhere; history and the present; the individual and the universal.
Tracks: 1.1 Hosanna (Greeting2MYPPL) (Meridian) 1.2 First Born (Redeemed) 1.3 When Angels Speak of Love 1.4 dubbleUpptown (La Rocque) 1.5 W-I-S (Above Every Other) 1.6 Pistol Poem (Lead Belly) 1.7 Whip Appeal V6 (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 Àlà áfÃa (Cita's World)
