Samora Pinderhughes - Masculinity (feat. Immanuel Wilkins)
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🗓️ 16 March 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Samora Pinderhughes - "Masculinity (feat. Immanuel Wilkins)" from the 2022 album GRIEF on Stretch Music / Ropeadope.
GRIEF is more than just an album — it's a third of "The Healing Project," a multimedia effort from composer/artist Samora Pinderhughes, which also includes a forthcoming digital archive and an exhibition, opening on March 24th at the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in San Francisco. (Watch the accompanying film below, directed by filmmaker Christian Padron, and inspired by the black-and-white photography of Roy DeCarava.)
A Juilliard-trained musician, Pinderhughes wrote all the songs on the LP, inspired by artists from the '60's and '70s, like Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, and Curtis Mayfield. He tells Bandcamp, “What I love about Nina’s Pastel Blues, and Dylan’s first three or four records, is that when you listen individually, each song is a whole world about different ideas. But when you put them together, you get a picture of the time period.”
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| 0:00.0 | You may come down from that tower, it isn't yet your time |
| 0:09.0 | I'll tell you five years later, you may be died alive |
| 0:16.0 | Blank games going lead to that peel for real |
| 0:20.0 | It's such a thrill, you might get lost in the darkness |
| 0:31.0 | I'll sing since so much ain't good, wait till you put it on |
| 0:39.0 | You may best friends with dangers inside your walls |
| 0:46.0 | Someone's catching it tonight, you lose your pride |
| 0:50.0 | You let it rain down to show your all in |
| 0:54.0 | Cause you're a man, it's what you do and it don't matter |
| 1:04.0 | What you been through, yeah you're a weapon, yeah you're a gun |
| 1:09.0 | You ain't no father, you ain't no son, you might be canvas |
| 1:14.0 | You might be pain, just hide that damage, it fade away |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah you're a menace, play out your role and look that record and lose on the count of three |
| 1:27.0 | Am I gonna hurt somebody if I feel these things? |
| 1:34.0 | Is it gonna hurt me on the count of three? |
| 1:40.0 | I can hear my heart is running, if I let it see |
| 1:47.0 | Will it just erase my masculinity? |
| 2:17.0 | Cause all you need is a rock |
| 2:20.0 | It's all your need for |
| 2:24.0 | It's all your need for |
| 2:29.0 | I'll sing for you |
| 2:34.0 | Oh, I'll sing for you |
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