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"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

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Slowly I lifted my head
Looked around carefully
Sisters on the left
Brothers on the right
Everyone laughing
Enjoying the moments before night
I searched into their eyes for acknowledgement
of what I had heard
To see heads nodding is what I would have preferred
But no one had registered what my ears had heard
A sonic intervention almost like a blur
Where do you think you are going
The women's voice from above
Said just to me
I swim in the ocean of timelessness
A sense of higher dimensions is already
present in me
I remember when the ancient keepers of knowledge said to me
In voices so stern
Hit me with three sets of knowledge
They felt I should learn

18th century literacy rates in west africa
in places like Senegal
were two to three times higher
than any place in Europe at the same time
Boom
Plantation records in America were often kept by enslaved African Muslims
using African languages written in Arabic script because the slave owners could not read or write
Boom
In 1770 before the French and American revolutions
there was a revolution in Futa Toro ,West Africa that not only abolished slavery but kings
Boom
They can not take the book from you if you are the book "

The sistren said to me
We send down the visions like rain
We send down the pure water
To those who walk with hearts open and clean
Ready to receive waiting state visions

Dub meditation took my hand

Guided me across the land
Placed me in the company of children
So I could further overstand
Sitting on tallest mountain peak
Surveying as far as I could see
Simultaneously looking deep within me

Where do you think you are going
The woman's voice said again
A hint of reverb on her refrain

Now that the airports are closed
The borders are closed
The ground transportation shut down

With a gentle smile
I waited a while
Before giving my reply

Okuteka dub Ku mutindo omulala
To take the dub to another level
More tools for those that rebel
Babylon ignores at their own peril
Transformation the essence of our endeavour
With no apology what so ever
We resist with truth
Because we know there is life that comes from truth
There is life that comes from truth

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