{"product_id":"2018977","title":"Africatown Al - Ancestor Sounds [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of landmark recordings of residents from the Africatown neighborhood in Mobile, AL, '\u003ci\u003eAncestor Sounds'\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRun, If You Can (Don't Go Down that Road)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFamily Secret\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo You Hear Me Now?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLead Me Home\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack Part of Town\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllegal Factory (Smokestack Sighs)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfricatown in Their Face\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKept Me\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst Thing He Did When Freed Was Build a Drum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaunted by Her Capture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSent to Vietnam, But Never Been to Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly Black School\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReconstructed Memory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCudjoe's Statue Defiled\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirdsong Beside the Refinery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalk With Thee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraveyard Shift Emissions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Blues Returns (Taking Flight)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54421378662785,"sku":"2018977","price":16.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/0877746011528.jpg?v=1750649918","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/2018977","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}