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The Mumagi People

by ADM

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Wage Slave 05:44
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Silence 00:07
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Yellow 04:26
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Viski 05:13
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Rhonda 09:24
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Euro 11:35
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Afro 05:29

about

This is the first album released by ADM, at the time it was released under the moniker Yourson Dahu.

I had been making recordings for a number of years and I set about forming a band called the DuKru. No one in the band really understood Mumagi was about and I didn't really explain it as I didn't think the would understand, I kept it more about the music.

I had developed a musical system called Formalodic music theory, this was a precursur to my Oruko Clumpiset and Lingustic Music Method and was similar in name to Ornette Colemans Harmolodic theory. I used this theory to compose Viski and Rhonda, named after some women that I encountered and liked at one point. These were recorded in Adrian Lawrences (drums) Studio flat in Kilburn with some students from the Guildhall school of music and Drama. I thank all of the participants on this recording which included Ben an original bandmate from 'Root Source' the band I moved to London with in 1996. These recordings also employed some interesting rhythmic structures. The bass player asked me at the end of this recording 'where is this band going', I could not really answer that question and didn't see them again.

'The Mumagi People' was recorded at Kingston university recording studio with Alicia Davies on percussion, Ben Epstein on guitar, Adrian Lawrence on drums and Ben from 'Root Source' on guitar.

I created 'Yellow' on a Fostex FD4 and it employs a recording of a poet friend that I knew in Brixton at the time and is named after the title of the poem that she reads and that she wrote. I'm sorry I can't remember her name, I think it may have been Yolinka.

The album encapsulates some of the principles of the Mumagi cosmology: multiplicity, experimentation, anthropology, ecological concerns, improvisation and innovation.

The album cover is based on the Album covers of 'Illmatic' and 'It Was Written' by the artist Nas where his face is faded over the image of the ghetto. Instead I have faded my face over the image of a burning world which is headed towards ecological and nuclear disaster if we do not do anything to stop it.

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released May 5, 1999

Some of the musicians on this album: Adrian Lawrence Drums: Viski, Rhonda

Kyasi: Guitar on Simply with Kyasi

Saxophone, electronic instruments, composition and production by Anthony Dahu Mumagi

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MuMaGi MuSound Granada, Spain

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Anthony Dahu Mumagi (ADM)

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