I think the first place I heard UK act Reginald Omas Mamode IV was on Volume 7 of the Label Love series. Looking back at playlists from my show, I played "JumpWorkShakeMove" at the tail-end of November from that comp **important side-note take a look at the murderer's row of talent on that 2015 comp: Moonchild, Jane Weaver, Quantic, Nicola Cruz, Dexter Story - so many names that have popped up on RR and my shows**
When I saw his name on the latest Bandcamp Weekly I was excited to hear the newness and when "In Search of Balance" came on, that excitement amplified.
It's the only track currently available from the forthcoming Where We Going? which Mamode IV notes was:
partly recorded on a journey to the Mascarene Islands in search of family roots. 'he album is reflective of the search for this lineage, which branches from ancient Mauritian Maroons - whose rich heritage, music and culture includes an unrecognised, undocumented resistance to colonialism - though Swahili and Malagasy to sugarcane plantation Creole slave descendants.
You can hear the nod to this heritage in the choir of voices humming - mixed in such a way that some of them are mere echoes and whispers, the sound of ancestors joining in song. And the jangle of percussion certainly evokes chains, with the rhythmic pattern suggesting their being shaken off.
Where We Going? is out May 10th. Set your iCal accordingly.
"Our world, with a grace, and pride / search for that balance inside"
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