"When Visions Falls From Sky” is a dub collusion between the Sankara FDR musicians at the Dub Museum in Uganda and Herman " Soy Sos "Pearl at this Tuff Sound Studio in Pittsburgh,Turtle Island.
The collusion is not about the places they come from, but rather the energies they bring to this project: raw dub actuality, mystical vibes, and unique sonic interpretations.
Sankara FDR recorded flute, djembe, nyabinghi drums and vocals at the Dub Museum using only a single cell phone. Some of the natural ambience of the insects and birds nearby that open-air space seeped into their recordings and were utilized by Soy Sos for the intro and outro of the track.
The recording of the vocals, the mystical poetry and documentary style of the lyrics, required many days and countless takes and tinkering to get it right. At times, the process required long-distance instructions and guidance from folks like Dhangsha. Soy Sos then brought his own elements and musical contributions from his side of the world to create a track that was obviously connected to traditional roots dub reggae as its anchor, but firmly pointed and placed in a new time and space. The end result is an aesthetic Sankara FDR calls “future dub."
this EP is incomplete without director Joshua Black Alibet's film visualization of the track “When Visions Fall From Sky.” Filmed on the beautiful Ugandan island of Senene, it uses the natural lighting of the early morning sunrise to create luminous, soft textures. It draws on the subtleties of the colour spectrum in ways that evoke Daughters Of The Dust (1991), a landmark work of African-American cinema in which director Julie Dash handled lighting in ways that caressed its Black protagonists in a beautifully affirming manner. You can watch Alibet’s film here on Vimeo:
vimeo.com/473864476