BlackMatter

by Fifi

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1.	Chasing Phases 03:24	buy track
2.	Sun don’t Shine 04:14	buy track
3.	River of Love 04:22	buy track
4.	ManMonkey 04:52	buy track
5.	BlackMatter 04:49	buy track
6.	Portal Lines ft Yugen Blakrok 04:15	buy track
7.	Hollow Moon_Sirius A 03:33	buy track
8.	Spell of Time 06:28	buy track
9.	Calypsonics 04:15	buy track
10.	ColdMan 04:03	buy track
11.	No Fire No Water 03:14	buy track
12.	Gold Dream 04:49	buy track
13.	Timbuktu_Sirius B 02:01	buy track
14.	Stay Gray 04:52	buy track
15.	Star Colonies 05:54	buy track

about

If indeed the universe was sung into existence, on the far side where I stand, I believe music resuscitates life. This album depicts a journey I once took to a place I call BlackMatter. It's a time capsule in retrospect of a certain period I dedicated to human life while questioning its significance in this planetary field. Therefore it's genre-free but conscious.
My music is what I call period music. This is music I write and release during a certain period in history. During the time spent on creating BlackMatter, racial wars we're spewing worldwide and the youth of South Africa took to the streets in protest for free education in institutions of higher learning. So like any other artform, my body of work juxtaposes what is happening in society, through song and wordplay (spelling spells!), especially in the so-called post-colonial times.
This album marks these imprinted memories which were settling into my subconscious mind and caving into my heart; forcing me to grow distant from this planet yet bringing me closer to who I was meant to be in the now, then and in the after. I am a master healer the carrier of burdens. The RaiBlaster. This music became my healing process.

credits

released May 1, 2017

Executive producers: Refiloe Motau and Kanif Sebright.
All lyrics written and performed by Refiloe Motau
except Timbuktu Sirius_B; lyrics were written by Kanif Sebright.
Raps for Portal Lines were written and performed by Yugen Blakrok.
All the songs were produced, recorded and mixed by Kanif Sebright at Iapetus Records Studios, except Portal Lines, produced by Refiloe Motau and Kanif Sebright, and ColdMan, produced by Joel Assaizky at Akasa455.
Kuts on No Fire no Water by DJ Raiko.
Final mix and mastering by Joel Assaizky at The Score Machine.
Cover art by Refiloe Motau and Nathan Jones of Soopanatural

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Fifi South Africa

I view music as a gift of healing and channel through which I can speak to God. I give thanks for this gift.

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