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The thirteenth piece in the Bad Apples book, and the second piece in the third chapter Growing Pains.

A Murder of Memories has three distinct parts, separated and connected by the repeated couple of lines that symbolize the changes in the state of emotions within the persona.

The poem speaks on love, the theme of materialism, and self-awareness.

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FEEL is a four-track extended play and the official debut release by G3mini – all tracks written by G3mini; who also co-produced on the opening song “Paranoid”.

Zack Wondaboi & Carter Beatz appear as producers on FEEL, laying the foundation for G3mini to express their lyrics. Zack Wondaboi also mixed and mastered the project.

FEEL is a raw and artistic expression of who I was, going through those feelings that were present at the time.

Through her vivid and introspective lyrics the first couple of songs are filled with powerful epiphanies as G3mini tries to navigate through her feelings in an ongoing relationship that is hanging in the balance.

On the song Winning, G3mini takes back control and transforms it into something more positive — with lyrics of hope and self understanding.

Glimpses of recapturing G3mini’s true identity within the Distortion close the project. A journey that started with confusion in relationships to self discovery.

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Ratios”, is the opening song and title track of the debut release by Cool Shirts, featuring Darryl th3 Wordsmith.

The song starts off with a vocal sample urging the listener/creator to stay true to themselves which plays into the lyrical exercise by the rapper Darryl th3 Wordsmith.

The beat for this song was the first one the producer duo, Cool Shirts made for the project in early February 2021.

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Ratios” is the debut extended play by Cool Shirts. The producer duo, Frxn and Kid Wasabi worked on the production, mixing and mastering process during the early months of 2021.

The music explores the sampling and live aspects of creation. Spontaneous chops; lyrical saxophones; screaming electric guitars; and roots from hip-hop/jazz drumming, help to shape the sound of the “Ratios” project across the six songs.

Ratios” brings together talented creatives from different sectors of the art movement in Namibia today. Frxn and Kid Wasabi at the helm of producing and directing the sound and concepts for the collab project. Wesandlee worked on the artwork. G3mini and Peacemakers provide the melodies, and Sonny Vision, Nobody from Namibia & Darryl th3 Wordsmith provide the bars.

Released as an exclusive art piece available temporarily online and on physicals (as Cassette/CD Box Sets).

Ratios” is a shift in the culture of southern African art bringing new elements to the soundscape while still having that universal connection.

The collaboration between Dead Kids Grow and Fusee allows for new unfiltered ideas to come out and artists taking ownership of their hard work.

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Producer duo, Frxn and Kid Wasabi performing under the moniker Cool Shirts since 2021 with the release of their debut extended play, Ratios released on March 31st, 2021.

The two producers have worked on a number of songs in the Peacemakers' discography. Released under Fusee and Dead Kids Grow labels.

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Independent media company; currently based in southern Africa. Founded by Francis Nhamu in 2016.

Fusee’s corporate mission is to bring sustainable, innovative, creative technical or natural mediums to augment conceptual arts and luxurious elements within our lives.

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This song samples “Riot” by Hugh Masekela, throughout, as a close to album.

Earl leads way to this song as he pays homage to the jazz legend with his last words on the album.

My Uncle Hugh

This album is filled with family and friend tributes in the lyrics and this track serves as an instrumental tribute to a close family friend “Bra Hugh,” who died only two weeks after Earl’s father, Keorapetse Kgositsile.

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“Playing Possum,” features sample recordings of his mother speaking about him and audio of his father reading his poem “Anguish Longer Than Sorrow.”

The addition of both his parents to the album was intended to be a surprise that he’d planned – as a conciliatory gesture, but tragedy struck again when Keorapetse (Bra Willie) Kgositsile passed away on January 3rd 2018, before Earl got a chance to send him the album.

Keorapetse Kgositsile reciting his poem @poesiefestival in Berlin 2009.

The title “playing possum,” refers to the idea of feigning death, usually when faced with a situation one does not want to deal with.

In this very retrospective album, here, Earl embodies the role as he chooses not to directly face the past, by rapping on the track, but allow his parents, to inadvertently, make the placatory gesture themselves.

‘'That song is way less about my dad dying than it is about what both of [my parents] were talking about, and the conversation I was trying to have them in with each other. Just like them back and forth. It’s crazy. …

Which just like, for me and people that are in my life, there’s word association with that, and emotion associated with that, that’s just like…scratches a good itch.‘’

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Little Dragon take a different approach to their musical projects almost a decade after creating their self titled debut studio album.

Lover Chanting EP is the group’s first Extended Play after five albums. The 4-track project was teased earlier in October 2018 with the lead single “Lover Chanting”

Well, we’ve been putting out albums for such a long time. After our fifth album, we just started going in and writing without too much expectation on what we were going to produce. We’ve just had a new start with Ninja Tune so we’re kind of testing things.

Sometimes with albums there’s this whole package that comes with the thing – which is great, I do kinda love that – but it was fun to release something in another format. Something a bit uptempo and feel-good. I like the spontaneity and the directness of it, everything is more immediate. It takes a lot longer mixing a whole album of songs. Everything is transformed with making an EP.

— Yukimi Nagano (CLASH)

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Flora Purim (born March 6, 1942) is a Brazilian jazz singer known primarily for her work in the jazz fusion & Bossa nova styles.

Her uniquely gifted six-octave voice has earned her two Grammy nominations for Best Female Jazz Performance and Downbeat magazines Best Female Singer accolade on four occasions.

Her musical partners have included Gil Evans, Stan Getz, Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie and Airto Moreira, with whom she has collaborated on over 30 albums since moving with him from her native Rio de Janeiro to New York in 1967.

When I arrived in America at the end of 1967, my only purpose was to observe (for a couple of months) my idols, which were mostly instrumentalists. I wanted to play jazz, not sing it

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