So I’ve returned to Connecticut for the next couple of days to enjoy the pleasures of nature and family. I don’t plan on doing much work, which is good because I have a few posts that I’ve been waiting to put up for the past couple weeks. It’s been busy but life is always busy. There are no excuses as to why, and it’s pointless when we try to explain our lack of time organization, as if somehow defending our right to be busy. The truth is that some things just get priority, and when they do, you just have to accept it and allow that to happen. There’s no point in explaining it as if it’s bad — embrace your lack of time. Because those areas of your life that don’t always get the time of day now, will have their moment to shine at some point. And when they do, it will be beautiful.
So much of my life is like this song. A soft and sensual introduction, followed by distant drums that only get louder and louder. When the horns and other percussion enter the musical picture, it’s just a musical symphony of epic proportions. The horns are trying to tell a story that we have all heard, and that’s why it’s beautiful and familiar. But it’s also unexpected, because it’s only halfway through the song that we begin to hear vocals. And that’s life! It’s a constant cycle of what seems soft, but is actually loud and metaphorical. And then something really unexpected happens, and we have to adapt. It’s remarkable.
This song warms my heart, and I hope it warms yours too.
Until next time,
keep up the good work!
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Absolute classic. There’s so much energy coming from this music and it all has to do with the absolute madness in Nigeria back then.
Zombie (the album) was a direct criticism of the Nigerian government. Zombie (the song) had such an impact in Nigeria that people would go up to soldiers and sing the lyrics in their faces to mock them -
“Zombie don’t go go unless you tell them to go. Zombie don’t go think unless you tell them to think…”
This undermined the establishment so much and embarrassed soldiers to the point that it sadly led to the death of Fela’s mother.
This is what they talk about when they say music is power. Music is SOO much more than just love songs and party music and this is an artist who fully understood that power.
Quite true.im a nigerian and Fela is a legend.i live close to the african shrine and the atmosphere is energetic as is ‘zombie’
‘zombie no go go unless you tell am to go’
thats in pidgin english and the it means
zombie won’t go unless you tell him to go.
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