Anthony Joseph - Time : Archeology

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2014Feb 26

Subscribe here : http://bit.ly/AnthonyJosephMusic Music composed and produced by Meshell Ndegeocello From new album "Time", produced and composed by Meshell Ndegeocello ALBUM AVAILABLE : iTunes: http://smarturl.it/Time_itunes Amazon (CD): http://smarturl.it/Time_amzn Qobuz (HD audio): http://smarturl.it/Time_qobuz HS Shop (LP collector): http://bit.ly/Anthony_LP FACEBOOK : / ajpoet TWITTER : / adjoseph WEBSITE : http://www.anthonyjoseph.co.uk/ LYRICS If a father kills his own son in self defence then sets the bones in a calabash gourd the bones will turn to fish. And if the bowl breaks the water will fill the valleys, make rivers of streams, make lakes of waterfall, roots in the sky and branches in the sea. And there were Tolmec totem heads and pyramids, and African cotton that was found in the pre-Columbian Caribbean which must've travelled by sea. Whether aborigine or Asiatic black, these islands were travelled on long before the fifth century And in that once upon when the world was flat, everyone could see each other, so there were no secrets. And anything set sail from the Gambian coast or from the Senegalese was bound to drift to the Americas, eventually. They knew that if you threw a stone from Sierra Leone it would bloom into islands, they knew the sea. So they travelled by reed to reach the Haitian coast seeking the gold in the rivers and the nicotine. There is evidence to suggest that they were searching for that paradise of the West in the times of Ramesses. Because we find their footprints in Haiti, in Jamaica, we find words of their tongues. We find their breast bones in Trinidad, bone dry fetish of rainforests, and fragments of spaceships in Peru. And many years later in 1492, Columbus set sail for Japan but instead he found the caciques of the Bahamas sitting in a cipher smoking pipes. 1502, there came ships from a distance to a landfall in Mexico. What could you carry but your divinities and cosmology? In Ifa there are similarities. The zemi of the Taino for instance were like those loas of turtles and snakes. The Arawak also had spirits which took on human shapes, like the great gods of Guinea; distorted faces, mythical creatures with elbows on the knees. This is our lineage: the sea holds us here, saves us from falling off the side of the earth. The more we change is the more we stay the same. Sometimes we spew ourselves up, but underneath laughter can be heard. The struggle continues to define a space, to make this place our home. While the diaspora unravels like a broken necklace.