I have been fortunate since my youth to sit among the
conversations and at the feet of Master Teachers
close and far
sometimes divided by time as well as space
and I was a channel then
often in spaces where the word and drum clung fiercely to their reconnection
I channel still
DrumLanguage is a journey, a radio trance-mission
an intergenerational multilingual conservation of what matters most
my contribution to a long tradition
That's the perspective. As for the music itself, Fela, Steel Pulse, Makeba, Boukman and Sparrow were the types of artists played in my childhood home, so a lot of times, the music was the news
If you're not dancing at some point, it's not working