Honour: Alaafia
Honour: Alaafia
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Honour
Label: Pan
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 756029613300
Genre: Electronic
Honour's debut album is a ligament stretching from Lagos to London and to New York, curling across the diaspora andbrushing the darker hues of blues, hip-hop, free jazz, ambient, gospel with Christian mythology and Yoruba folklore. Ascinematic as it is painterly, Àlàáfíà is a meditation on themes of life, death and love that pulls inspiration from theunexpected poetic profundity of casual conversations, field recordings, literature, ephemera, or personal archives. Theresult is an impressionistic vision in Black and Blur that both exhausts and implicates language-substantiating a mythosproposed by Fred Moten that sublimates boundaries between everywhere and nowhere; history and the present; theindividual and the universal.Àlàáfíà delineates a gothic landscape cut by overdriven beats, swooping orchestral blasts, choral bursts and ear- splittingfuzz, where the fleshly and spiritual realms commune. Dedicated to Honour's late grandmother, the title track began totake form after their last embrace and remains steeped in her influence and spirit-a tape-saturated composition thatstarts in Lagos and ends in London's smoke-stained cityscape, the song's dream-like quality developed out of the artist'sgrief and PTSD coping with this loss. Beneath the stretched guitar drones and stuttering loops, their grandmother'sshared faith bubbles to the surface."When Angels Speak of Love," borrows it's title from two works by Sun Ra and bell hooks, respectively. Sculpting echoesof praise music into disorienting spirals perforated with syrupy DJ Screw-inspired breaks and sharp splinters ofmelancholic guitar, "When Angels Speak of Love" engages a conceptual dialogue with the spirits of both late thinkers,folding them into Honour's pantheon of ancestral guides. The album's ninth track, "Giz Aard ($uckets)," is a dirge ofregimented drums which anchor this somber melody as it whirls into a blizzard of heartache, uncertain if it's consequencewill be death or eternal joy.The album's sole lyrical offering, "Pistol Poem (Lead Belly)," begins with a darkly humorous bar, "He went thru hell andback/ came back/ 2 get the strap," that swells into a haunting allegory based on the life of Philip "Hot Sauce" Champion.A modern take on the Blues, Honour's lyrics reify the artist's status as a student of both literature and popular culture,crossbreeding the artist's clever wordplay with additional references to Richard Pryor, Robert Johnson, Kelly Rowland &Bryon Gysin.Setting core principles of hip-hop, R&B, jazz and gospel music to atemporal soundscapes and compositions, Honourcrafts a record that marinates in it's own knotty contradictions. The ghosts that sit on the artist's shoulders have neverbeen more tangible than with this emotive debut.
Tracks:
1.1 Hosanna (Greeting2MYPPL) (Meridian)
1.2 First Born (Redeemed)
1.3 When Angels Speak of Love
1.4 dubbleUpptown (La Rocque)
1.5 W-I-S (Above Every Other)
1.6 Pistol Poem (Lead Belly)
1.7 Whip Appeal V6 (PIPN8EZ)
1.8 Seven Trumpets
1.9 Giz'aard ($uckets)
1.10 Helpmeet (Iyadunni)
1.11 FLIR2A
1.12 U;Me (decemberseventeen)
1.13 ILLBETHERE, 4EVERANDEVER
1.14 Àlàáfía (Cita's World)
