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01. On Our Own Clock - How To Make Art In A Pandemic [Part 1]
02. On Our Own Clock - Be The Light
03. On Our Own Clock - Cuts And Pieces
04. On Our Own Clock - Ngikhethile
05. On Our Own Clock - Good Are Good
06. On Our Own Clock - How To Make Art In A Pandemic [Part 2]
07. On Our Own Clock - 808 O'clock
08. On Our Own Clock - Dune Dance
09. On Our Own Clock - How To Make Art In A Pandemic [Part 3]
10. On Our Own Clock - (Tell The Gods) We Still Building
11. On Our Own Clock - Revelation
ARTIST
TITLE
On Our Own Clock
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
M3H 008LP M3H 008LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/15/2021

Pre-pandemic, there was a plan. The plan was for musicians from South Africa and Senegal to travel to London's influential Total Refreshment Centre to make an album with musical kindred spirits in the UK. Like so many plans, it had to be adapted. During the first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns, groups of heavy-hitting musicians met for a day of intense recording in their home cities then sent the music to their compadres across the oceans. They returned to the studio a month later to respond to the music they'd been sent. The result is On Our Own Clock, a sonic testament to trenchant and collaborative creativity which digs into layers of South African jazz, traditional Senegalese instrumental music and London's rich diaspora-informed musicality. Individually these are powerful strands of music. Collectively, they are super-sized. The 14 players are individually stellar and include tuba don Theon Cross; Alabaster dePlume, whose album To Cy & Lee has been a pandemic panacea to so many people (including Bon Iver, who sampled it); top South African players including Siya Makuzeni (SPAZA), Zoe Molelekwa and Asher Gamedze, who appears on Angel Bat Dawid's critically-acclaimed The Oracle and whose debut album, Dialectic Soul, received universal acclaim upon its release in 2020; The Comet Is Coming's Danalogue; Senegal's highly-respected Kora player, Tarang Cissoko as well as Balimaya Project's Yahael Camara Onono. Collectively they've ascended their individual brilliance into an album that is variously warm and layered, full of tuff grooves, and steeped in moments of reflective transcendence.