Sendai Era - Calamansi Dreams

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🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Sendai Era - Calamansi dreams from the 2023 self-released album Kalayaan.

Sendai Era are a Seattle-based music duo of emcee Era and producer Sendai Mike. They’ve been making music together since 2013 and released their sophomore full-length Kalayaan in January. “Kalayaan” is the Tagalog word for “Liberation,” which is a feeling the duo tried to capture throughout the album. “This album carries the lessons and experiences over the past few years,” explains the duo. “Forming a myriad of songs that signify a new beginning for us.”

Our Song of the Day, “Calamansi dreams,” features guest vocals from Clarissa Abadesco and uses the economically important citrus hybrid predominantly cultivated in the Philippines, calamansi, as a metaphor for growth through discrimination and getting back to one's roots. "We wrote Calamansi dreams during lockdown,” says Sendai Era of the song. “It describes our experiences growing up in the diaspora through the lenses of family, culture, and music.”

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0:00.0	I have thoughts to complete pages Usually how my day is Feel a lot for the patience
0:19.3	Night shift and day shift Watch my mind shift for the wages
0:24.3	How I line the plan to hold that How to really plan to hold that
0:27.6	Understand the lies they told back Daydreams in that old class
0:31.0	Real life for my old rap Back when I knew I had a dream
0:34.3	Learning to let my soul out Used to be a shoe head
0:37.2	And now I'm asking what else I was at Grounding in people
0:41.0	Shining from my island These dreams are like a seizure
0:44.4	If you listen closely you can hit them with a C-swamps
0:47.6	Memories tied to where my piece was Yeah
0:53.4	Lola told me keep the faith Did you ever change?
0:56.8	Right now help me turn the page Use it help me navigate
1:00.1	Mark it back or what you say What my tackle with your days
1:03.4	Keep the people in your ways Dream for a brighter day cause
1:06.9	All my friends know where they're showing us
1:12.6	We stand on the edge we sing
1:19.2	Colour my sea dreams Colour my sea dreams Colour my sea dreams
1:29.2	Colour my sea dreams Close my eyes and let the world speak
1:35.2	What I find when those records place And I in these sessions
1:38.1	Reflecting lessons impressively That's what the years talk
1:42.3	Expression here is here It's here how to learn and let the tears fall
1:46.1	See all the boxes that they put us in as kids The homies woke them down
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