{"product_id":"honour-alaafia-1","title":"Honour- Alaafia (Vinyl)-BoldPlay","description":"\u003cp\u003eHonour's debut album is a ligament stretching from Lagos to London and to New York, curling across the diaspora and\nbrushing the darker hues of blues, hip-hop, free jazz, ambient, gospel with Christian mythology and Yoruba folklore. As\ncinematic as it is painterly, Àlàáfíà is a meditation on themes of life, death and love that pulls inspiration from the\nunexpected poetic profundity of casual conversations, field recordings, literature, ephemera, or personal archives. The\nresult is an impressionistic vision in Black and Blur that both exhausts and implicates language-substantiating a mythos\nproposed by Fred Moten that sublimates boundaries between everywhere and nowhere; history and the present; the\nindividual and the universal.\nÀlàáfíà delineates a gothic landscape cut by overdriven beats, swooping orchestral blasts, choral bursts and ear- splitting\nfuzz, where the fleshly and spiritual realms commune. Dedicated to Honour's late grandmother, the title track began to\ntake form after their last embrace and remains steeped in her influence and spirit-a tape-saturated composition that\nstarts in Lagos and ends in London's smoke-stained cityscape, the song's dream-like quality developed out of the artist's\ngrief and PTSD coping with this loss. Beneath the stretched guitar drones and stuttering loops, their grandmother's\nshared faith bubbles to the surface.\n\"When Angels Speak of Love,\" borrows it's title from two works by Sun Ra and bell hooks, respectively. Sculpting echoes\nof praise music into disorienting spirals perforated with syrupy DJ Screw-inspired breaks and sharp splinters of\nmelancholic guitar, \"When Angels Speak of Love\" engages a conceptual dialogue with the spirits of both late thinkers,\nfolding them into Honour's pantheon of ancestral guides. The album's ninth track, \"Giz Aard ($uckets),\" is a dirge of\nregimented drums which anchor this somber melody as it whirls into a blizzard of heartache, uncertain if it's consequence\nwill be death or eternal joy.\nThe album's sole lyrical offering, \"Pistol Poem (Lead Belly),\" begins with a darkly humorous bar, \"He went thru hell and\nback\/ came back\/ 2 get the strap,\" that swells into a haunting allegory based on the life of Philip \"Hot Sauce\" Champion.\nA modern take on the Blues, Honour's lyrics reify the artist's status as a student of both literature and popular culture,\ncrossbreeding the artist's clever wordplay with additional references to Richard Pryor, Robert Johnson, Kelly Rowland \u0026amp;\nBryon Gysin.\nSetting core principles of hip-hop, R\u0026amp;B, jazz and gospel music to atemporal soundscapes and compositions, Honour\ncrafts a record that marinates in it's own knotty contradictions. The ghosts that sit on the artist's shoulders have never\nbeen more tangible than with this emotive debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHosanna (Greeting2MYPPL) (Meridian)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e First Born (Redeemed)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e When Angels Speak of Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e dubbleUpptown (La Rocque)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e W-I-S (Above Every Other)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pistol Poem (Lead Belly)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Whip Appeal V6 (PIPN8EZ)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Seven Trumpets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Giz'aard ($uckets)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Helpmeet (Iyadunni)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e FLIR2A\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e U;Me (decemberseventeen)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e ILLBETHERE 4EVERANDEVER\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Àlàáfía (Cita's World)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59791663694149,"sku":"756029613300","price":31.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0985\/5267\/6677\/files\/4358539-3204357_95aefd74-56ca-474c-8f23-3ddfb5620a8f.jpg?v=1792225516","url":"https:\/\/jg1gp0-u4.myshopify.com\/products\/honour-alaafia-1","provider":"BoldPlay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}