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Life Changes - Single Edit.
Edited version of the title track from my debut album, Life Changes. Most of the original elements and sections of the track are present. Mainly edited a couple of solos.
I'm a big fan of this type of material especially Wes Montgomery especially tracks like Movin' Wes from the album Bumpin' on Sunset.

Life Changes Single Edit

The thrid track from my album. Like almost every tune on the album thi one develops in a variety of ways. There aren't as many key changes as in others but there are quite a few changes in ambience and dynamics. However, this track is not to be confused with Coltrane's Ascension.

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Ascension

Another guitar led instrumental that tells a story via its use of ambiences and changes. The piece goes through a lot of changes but these may not be immediately apparent. Finishes a 4th higher than from its start.

Night Train

The penultimate track on the album that demonstrates a more soul based approach. Still quite orchestrated and, much like many of the pieces I've written, has a more free coda. Enjoy!

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Remix comp details here: remixcontest.cymatics.fm/contests/king-of-synths

There Are Other Stars In The Sky (King of Synths)

This track is an aural/oral document of growing up in this country and the strange dichotomy of being mixed race. Essentially not English enough for the English and not Black enough for anyone else. And yet, still subjected to the same levels of hostility and rejection, just not 'allowed' to belong!

The accounts in this are all very real and bleach is still a common aspect in a bid to feel accepted. My mother, in the picture, has the tell tale signs of bleach use on her skin. What you have to ask yourself is in the quest for equality, how does one 'square' the generational affects? Easily wiped away by legislation and some money. Don't think so.

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I recognise that I challenge racial constructs and the dividing lines between the binary, white and black, discourse (DiAngelo, 2019) favoured by whites. Whilst you want me to choose, I can’t. Either I deny the mother or deny the father. Either way I am expected to make a choice that is false, collapses all of the nuances and leaves me impoverished at the expense of assuaging white guilt and concern.

The included lyrics below illustrate a number of the areas identified by Ogbu (2004) which include a variety of discriminations both social and expressive, and intellectual denigration. Lipsitz (2018) also identifies a form of 'aesthetic pleasure' for White people in the transforming of suffering and pain of others for their entertainment. My argument is that the 'aesthetic pleasure' can also be extracted in the moment by creating tense, aggressive situations even within the casual application of the question 'where are you from?' and variants.

Bibliography

DiAngelo, R.J. (2019). White fragility: why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism. London: Penguin Books.

Lipsitz, G. (2018). The possessive investment in whiteness: how white people profit from identity politics Twentieth anniversary edition. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Ogbu, J. (2004). Collective Identity and the Burden of "Acting White” in Black History, Community, and Education. The Urban Review, 36 (1), . New York: Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

Lyrics:

Title: Not From Round Here
Music and Lyrics: Hussein Boon

‘Ere mate, where you from?
Nah, you don’t get me!
Where you from?
Down the road,
Lewisham.
Nah, you’re not from round ‘ere are ya!
It’s like, you don’t really belong.

Oi!
You know what my mum calls you?
Half past eleven

‘cos you’re not from round ‘ere, are ya
‘cos you’re not from round ‘ere, are ya
‘cos you’re not from round ‘ere, are ya
Are ya.

‘Cos you’re not from round ‘ere are ya.
What kind of food do you eat?
Do you eat with your hands or knives and fork?
Uhh!?
What’s that?
That’s the colour of your skin?
I thought it was dirt!
You should get some bleach.
Get some bleach.
If you put some bleach on it then you’ll be all white in the morning won’t ya!
Eh?
Do ya know what I mean!

‘cos you’re not from round here, are ya
Do ya know what I mean?
You’re not from round here.

What else have you got in ya?
Er, a bit of Viking
‘Cos I’m not from round ‘ere, am I!

Do not buy into their ideology
Even if they think you’re a criminal
Do not buy into their cultural displacement theories
Propagated by highly intellectualised individuals

‘cos you’re not from round ‘ere, are ya
‘cos you’re not from round ‘ere, are ya
‘cos you’re not from round ‘ere, are ya

Because you think it,
It must be true
Because you think it,
It doesn’t hurt me
Because you think it,
It must be true
Because you think it

‘Cos you’re not from round ‘ere, are ya
‘Cos you’re not from round ‘ere, are ya

‘Cos you’re not from round ‘ere, are ya

You know I’ve heard that word, before
It’s the sort of word that creeps around my door
I’ve heard you before
You only say it quietly
When no one else is listening

Hussein Boon

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