Cat No:
GBEP030
Release Date: 22 January 2016
Label: Glitterbeat GmbH
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4030433603079
Genres: World Music Rap & Hip-Hop
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Description
Remembering Grace, a Girl with a Gun:
After spending the night listening to Girlz with Gunz, I spent the day remembering Grace Maseva. She was always cheerful, always smiling, and always making bawdy jokes. For her, sexual organs were a normal part of life. A person must pee and play with something. That’s just how things are; a tree has fruit, a baboon has that prideful butt, we have our special business. She would laugh and laugh. She was also a great cook. Always did the greens just right. She also fought in the Second Chimurenga, the war that ended white rule in Zimbabwe.
Grace was a trained killer.
Grace, who survived a brutal war but not the spread of AIDS, could clean, assemble, and load an AK-47. She knew when to duck for cover, when to charge, and when to fire her weapon. There were many women like her in the War of Independence, and their sacrifice, dedication, and general brilliance is celebrated in Girlz with Gunz. This is the spirit of the work. The collaboration between two very talented American-based African musicians, Tendai Maraire and Hussein Kalonji (aka Chimurenga Renaissance), translates the fire of the revolutionary African woman into a music that’s richly and thickly innovative.
It is fitting indeed that the most experimental, dazzling, and even dangerous work by Chimurenga Renaissance, a duo that is a part of the trans-African Black Constellation (Shabazz Palaces, THEESatisfaction, Erik Blood), is inspired by women like my cousin, Grace. She was once a girl with a gun. She was trained to kill her oppressors. She wanted to build and live in a better world. Peace always has a price.
--- Charles Tonderai Mudede -
Tracklisting
- 1. I See You For Who You Are 02:15
- 2. Our Purpose Is Forever 01:19
- 3. Everything Comes Off Tonight 01:52
- 4. I Like You The Way You Are 01:33
- 5. Nunya Buziniez 01:41
- 6. Queenz With Cannnonz 02:54
- 7. She Is The Fairest Of Them All 02:11
- 8. Prepare To Shoot 02:05
- 9. Peace Always Has A Price 02:59
- 10. When It's True Love
- 11. Shoot Farther03:19 . Girlz With Gunz 03:54
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