{"id":42258,"date":"2018-09-06T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T13:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/byron-biroli-unveils-elegant-visuals-for-his-electronica-highlife-song-find-a-way\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:37:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:37:14","slug":"byron-biroli-find-a-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/byron-biroli-find-a-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron Biroli unveils elegant visuals for his electronica-highlife song &#8216;Find a Way&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YnmjCF6KV1w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Catch the noir wave.<\/h3>\n<p>London-based singer-songwriter Byron Biroli always blends perfectly his\u00a0Ugandan roots with electronic and pop music. His new tune is inspired by a Zambian roadside skit about the ravages of HIV. In \u2018Find a Way\u2019 Biroli\u2019s reverence for bush music is apparent, as he elevates sub-Saharan (Bantu) musical forms, juxtaposing electronica with hi-life and call and response harmonies.<\/p>\n<p>Biroli emails us: &#8220;I\u2019d like to dedicate \u2018Find a Way\u2019 to the people of Uganda and Bobi Wine, a Ugandan MP currently recovering from life threatening injuries dished out by Ugandan authorities. Maybe we can \u2018Find a Way\u2019 out of this that doesn\u2019t involve violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The visual, directed by Czech fashion photographer Kate Gui\u0107, is light-hearted as it enchants with dancing and a shot selection that references equatorial forests and savannah landscapes (interestingly, shot in Suffolk, England).<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read next:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/un-deux-trois-chassoleil-le-monde-comme-partition-musicale-vivante\/\">Chassol: having big fun putting the world to music<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16360\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Byron-Biroli.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Byron-Biroli.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Byron-Biroli-759x427.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Byron-Biroli-661x372.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Byron-Biroli-465x262.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Byron-Biroli-375x211.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catch the noir wave. London-based singer-songwriter Byron Biroli always blends perfectly his\u00a0Ugandan roots with electronic and pop music. His new tune is inspired by a Zambian roadside skit about the ravages of HIV. In \u2018Find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42258"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42258"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}