Nobody's Fool

Afrika by Leo Mkanyia and the Swahili Blues Band

Afrika

Two-time boxing champion in the super featherweight division, Rocky Lockridge was the terror of his fistic contemporaries. He wrested the championship from Roger Mayweather--uncle and trainer of today's superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr--with a brutal right hand; and beat the top contenders of his era with two-fisted power and a relentless swarming style of attack. His fall was as meteoric as his rise--parties, drugs, booze, women ... so began the undoing of that specious fabric of which stardom and transient greatness is composed. He ended up drifting away from his family, down from Atlantic City to Camden, Jersey; where he lived homeless, a crack addict, panhandling on the street corners and sleeping rough. Alienated, a time-out-of-mind waif, a refugee of his own past life, his only return to the rarefied heights of his one-time primacy--through the terrible desiderate portal of opiate oblivion. This is a hymn, in the blues mould, to the tortuous trials and heights of a pugilist's dharma.

High Tide (for Rocky Lockridge)

Kyanite tells the story of the moment when a lifelong unrequited love is accidentally revealed.

"I never saw you as a friend" is the thoughts of a person who has loved their friend, in silence for years, always being afraid to say a word.

"Kyanite" is a strong blue aluminosilcate mineral (or stone). It is the colour of the eyes of the person that is so long and deeply loved.

Collaborating Artists:

Kiruu - vocals, rhodes
Aidan Mulloy - guitar 
Gord Dunning - bass
Andre Antunes - drums

Song band session recorded live at Camelot Studios by Lancelot Smith. Fender Rhodes overdubbing recorded at Hellfire Studios by Joe McGrath. 

Produced by Cian Sweeney in Cork.

Video shot and edited by Monika Rumanova.

Find Kiruu here:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2ySlu...
www.instagram.com/kiruumusic 
https://www.breakingtunes.com/kiruu 
https://kiruu.bandcamp.com

Kyanite

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