Mixing different cultures in one tune is not only a funky thing; it also could be the conviction of a possible world.
Nowadays, in a time where some of the most obscure minds want to create opposition between communities, use fear as leader of existence and proclaim a cultural apartheid, we want to resist and believe that exchanges, coexistence and art, can motivate respect for life, freedom and democracy, beyond any mental slavery as extremist religious behavior or political temptation of dictatorial formats and authoritarian system.
We do not want to let anyone reduce our liberties with false arguments. We don’t want to give up our rules of democracy.
Fear must not win!
At a time when exchanges have never been so easy through social media and technology, we want to meet each other for the best, and fight the
struggles of life by resisting to the obscure path of ignorance.
We want to have humanity as a value to keep away the darkest instincts of hatred and violence and we want to keep our mind as clear as we
can, to have the strongest discernment to beat intellectual, ethical and spiritual misery.
I would like to thanks Mr. Raoul K to let me create my own version and add my music to his original song.
Also, I would like to thanks Joaquin "Joe" Claussell to trust in my musical project and his non-stop support to it by releasing my music through his strong network.
Thanks to my family for supporting my choices every days since so long, and to my buddy Rain for his always entouthiastic perception of music.
My last words go to these 17 persons’ who died because of their attachment to the freedom and democracy on January 2015 in Paris. Your soul survives and you will always be in our heart.
ARNO E. MATHIEU
4/26/2014
credits
released December 15, 2021
Original version written & produced by Raoul K for Baobab Music, 2008
Vox & Guitar: Doungous Degospa.
New music imagined, composed & produced by Arno Emilien Mathieu for Clima Records, 2014
Influenced by spiritual jazz, Afrobeat, and various forms of African club music, the Senegalese producer's grooves contain multitudes. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 25, 2024