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Mind Block (Instrumental)

Chinese Man - Racing With The Sun

This is a French (my mother tongue) EPx17 song for those who’d rather be awake than reassured—the ones who’d rather KNOW & GROW than BLOW & SHOW blindly, even if “Some Truths Are Harder to Swallow” 🍌💦  i.e. my BJ (banana joke:) sister-song of “L’Embobinage”… 

The lyrics are rooted in one of Carl Sagan’s most haunting and relevant psychological insights: 

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: 
If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge (even to ourselves) that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

“Une des leçons les plus tristes de l'histoire est celle-ci: si nous avons été embobinés assez longtemps, nous avons tendance à rejeter toute preuve de l'embobinage. Nous ne sommes plus intéressés à découvrir la vérité. L'embobinage nous a capturés. Il est tout simplement trop douloureux de reconnaître, même pour nous-mêmes, que nous avons été dupés. Une fois que vous donnez du pouvoir à un charlatan sur vous, vous ne le récupérez presque jamais.”

It’s a story rooted in the GROWsutra spirit: a philosophy of fierce compassion, where curiosity is stronger than comfort, where questioning is a form of kindness, and where truth, though sometimes bitter, is ultimately the beginning of healing.

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Lyrics: 

[Verse 1]
Une des leçons les plus tristes de l’histoire,
Est celle-ci, Carl Sagan nous a dit,
Embobinés depuis longtemps, c’est illusoire,
Chercher la vérité, c’est si troublant,

[Chorus]
L’embobinage nous a pris,
Trop douloureux, la vérité,
Nous avons été trahis,
Le charlatan a pris pied,

[Verse 2]
Difficile de reconnaître,
Que nous avons été dupés,
Le pouvoir au charlatan,
Jamais récupéré,

[Chorus]
L’embobinage nous a pris,
Trop douloureux, la vérité,
Nous avons été trahis,
Le charlatan a pris pied,

[Outro]
La vérité, toujours elusive,
Nous sommes capturés, l’embobinage nous tient,
Le charlatan règne, et nous restons perdus.


[11] L'Embobinage (d'après Carl Sagan) • French GROWsutra World Peace La Poesita Flamenco INDIE DUB

feat Ari, recorded back in the day, singing in her back garden with her children.

Fade away

Mermaid (feat Elenna Canlas)

Reggae Roast today release their eagerly awaited debut album ‘Turn Up The Heat’ via Trojan Records newest label imprint Trojan Reloaded. The release of ‘Turn Up The Heat’ marks a new era for reggae through reimagining the roots of the sound in a way that makes it accessible for the streaming era. Listen to ‘Turn Up The Heat’, here. 

The album follows a series of singles which have been released off the record in the form of ‘Never B4’ featuring Mr Williamz, ‘Do It Again’ featuring Horseman and Natty Campbell as well as the most recent drop ‘Good Love’ alongside the inimitable General Levy. 

Having become a mainstay in the reggae scene, the album features an array of incredible artists all of whom are long time friends and collaborators of Reggae Roast which collectively creates a sound that has so much musical variation all whilst simultaneously marrying together to form a body of work and bold array of sounds all of which fuse together seamlessly.

A music collective that continues to push boundaries whilst simultaneously keeping the spirit of the genre alive, ‘Turn Up The Heat’ exemplifies Reggae Roast’s skilled musical craftsmanship in working with both new-gen artists and legends from the scene to create a sound that is both new and classic.

During such trying times, ‘Turn Up The Heat’ brings a burst of sunshine through its tropical reggae sounds underpinned by beats that encompass real reggae grit. With reggae often lauded for its music boasting such positivity and optimism, the new album is destined to add warmth to people’s playlists and radio waves marking the start of summer.

Reggae Roast is a sound system collective based in London. They have been running events at venues and festivals across the UK for over a decade and built their custom built sound system in 2015, in order to bring the sound to the people. Along the way partnering with an array of incredible talent the album is a collaboration project featuring some of their favourite artists.

Turn Up The Heat

12 Six Plants (Feat. XL Mad)

Nuit De Noël

Music Never Dies

Real Woman

Max Romeo-One step forward

Granular Meets J Dubby at Echo Mountain to produce the vibrations of J dubular. The union and resulting journey is not one of ascension or descent, but about how to sonically (and scenically) navigate the terrain. J Dubby’s drums and Granular’s bass establish the foundational “riddim” of their travels as the duo takes us spelunking through caverns of reverb haunted by flocks of bats screeching ambient white noise. The splash of metallic puddles resonates in the space between our ears and drones in the ether of our mind’s eye. And just as one becomes disoriented by the soundscapes within Echo Mountain, people all over the world join hands as J Dubby’s righteous organ propels the locomotion of a “Dub Train.” In these moments of resolution we are reminded that our tour guides are not the first to traverse the crags of Echo Mountain, yet in their voyages they have found new paths through a rich tradition mapped by dub explorers.

Mermaid (feat Elenna Canlas)

Jdubular