Cat No:
DIRT0115
Release Date: 08 March 2024
Label: Free Dirt Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 877746011528
Genres: Folk Experimental
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Description
A collection of landmark recordings of residents from the Africatown neighborhood in Mobile, AL, 'Ancestor Sounds' features descendants from the Clotilda, the last ship to bring enslaved people across the Atlantic to America. Conceived by GRAMMY-winning producer Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Zomba Prison Project) and his wife, Italian Rwandan filmmaker and photographer Marilena Umuhoza Delli, the project features musical accompaniment from the local community as well as ambient recordings from the factories that surround and pollute the community. Meant as an impressionistic document rather than a definitive historical narrative, all recordings were captured on-site as live, first takes. The outdoor nature of the recordings graphically renders the encroaching and ominous industrial sounds and foregrounds the environmental racism that has plagued the community. Years before, in rural northern Ghana, Brennan had been struck by a hand painted "Alabama Barbershop" sign. This seemed particularly telling given the region's link to the transatlantic slave trade. In another uncanny parallel, a Blues musician in Mobile pulled out a Kologo, a northern Ghanaian instrument, which he knew by another name. These surprising and often arresting "ancestor sounds" resonate across centuries and continents on this important, irreplaceable document.
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Tracklisting
- 1. Run, If You Can (Don't Go Down that Road)
- 2. Family Secret
- 3. Do You Hear Me Now?
- 4. Lead Me Home
- 5. Black Part of Town
- 6. Illegal Factory (Smokestack Sighs)
- 7. Africatown in Their Face
- 8. Kept Me
- 9. First Thing He Did When Freed Was Build a Drum
- 10. Haunted by Her Capture
- 11. Sent to Vietnam, But Never Been to Africa
- 12. Only Black School
- 13. Reconstructed Memory
- 14. Cudjoe's Statue Defiled
- 15. Birdsong Beside the Refinery
- 16. Walk With Thee
- 17. Graveyard Shift Emissions
- 18. The Blues Returns (Taking Flight)
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