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about
This is a song crossing language and culture frontiers
and our singers’ words, the rhythms and the music flowed far and deep..
For now, it can be called ‘We are the Bridge’.
Conceived, written, arranged, rehearsed and recorded live in a 1 day session at Yellow Arch Studios Sheffield.
lyrics
Lyrics
1.Vesna’s verse
(first line is in Serbian, the second line is a translation)
Da pevam, da delim je sreca, a sreca je sada.
To sing, to share is happiness, and happiness is now.
Who I was before was a seed of who I am now.
Who I was before was a seed of who I am now.
My land was my beginning, my land flows through me now.
My land was my beginning, my land flows through me now.
2. Mbuya Bea’s verses
(translation summary from original Shona lyrics)
Been waiting at the river-bank
Wondering about how to cross
We been waiting at the river-bank
Wondering about how to cross
Now at last we’ve found that bridge
Thank you for showing us the way
To our destination
Thank you for showing us the way
Thank you for helping us to find the path
You have led the way for us
3. Phitso’s rap
you know every street but can't go alone
you know there's peace but never too sure
everyone's free but you can't trust though
follow your instincts you can't go wrong
when its really dark you hear dogs bark
only the brave can be seen outside
once in a while there is a child crying
though you really can't tell where you heard that from
everytime you go you got to check your back
coz you really never know when it's gonna rain
coz any minute its just bang bang
like Sodom & Gomorra back in the days
the drugs the killings the tears and pain
the rape and deceiving, the fear.. what then?
I wish I could be brave and leave this place
but I can't coz that's where I was born and bred
home is in me and I am home
take me out of home not home out of me
I was born here and I'll die here
home’s my becoming.. home is my ending
4. Goran’s verses
(from original Kurdish lyrics, translation re-edited by Seni Seneviratne)
From the start of my life I was with you
From then until now I love you
Many, many years
More than the love of all
The lovers in the world, I love you
Always and for eternity
Now, I am far away from you
It feels like my life has ended
Happiness is lost
Without you
Oh…oh…oh…
credits
released December 15, 2011
Featuring singers Vesna Panic, Mbuya Bea & Goran Karani and performance poet Phitso Ncube with Ebbi Baghi on santoor.
Directed by Tony Bowring & produced by Arts on the Run: Arts & Refugees Network Yorks & Humber, with Konimusic Ltd and members of Rafiki Jazz.
Sound recording, mix & master by Robin Downe
Video recorded & edited by Paul Newman of ASSIST
Funding Support from SCC Small Grants, Arts on the Run, Platforma
'We are the Bridge' is the first release from Arts on the Run: Arts & Refugees Network for Yorks & Humber, one of a group of
organisations who work to promote the creative contribution refugees and asylum seekers can make to life to the UK.
For the We are the Bridge video see: www.vimeo.com/konimusic/sanctuarysession...more
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