{"id":86832,"date":"2021-09-08T11:44:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T09:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/ife-fake-blood\/"},"modified":"2021-09-08T16:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T14:00:02","slug":"ife-fake-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/ife-fake-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ccF\u00c9 unveils video for \u201cFAKE BLOOD\u201d ahead of new album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This explosive new track was inspired by Adam Curtis\u2019 <em>HyperNormalization <\/em>documentary and by America\u2019s reaction to the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Awo Orunmila Otura Mun aka <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/ife\/\">\u00ccF\u00c9<\/a> is a New Orleans-based African American artist, songwriter, producer and Santeria priest. His debut <em>IIII+IIII <\/em>(2017), which combined&nbsp; auto-tuned Yoruba prayer, Cuban rumba tradition and dancehall\/trap 808 bass, was widely lauded. Now he returns with \u201cFAKE BLOOD,\u201d a track imbued with social critique. \u201c<em>As I watched politicians refuse to acknowledge what had happened in Vegas and disassociate themselves with its causes, I felt that they, and the public at large, were behaving as if what had happened hadn&#8217;t actually happened<\/em>,\u201d he says about the inspiration behind the track. \u201c<em>That the blood on the ground then in Las Vegas, later in Ferguson, and today in Palestine, couldn&#8217;t be real \u2013 that it must be FAKE BLOOD<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFAKE BLOOD\u201d is the first single from <em>0000+0000<\/em>, his second album, slated for release on November 5. Composed, produced and recorded entirely in New Orleans, the project features Herbie Hancock&#8217;s legendary percussionist Bill Summers, as well as Parisian Congolese vocalist and trendsetter Robby The Lord, Yoruban guitarist Saint Ezekiel, and The London Lucumi Choir. An internationally-respected rumbero percussion master and auteur of electronic roots music, \u00ccF\u00c9 has drawn from a deep well of life experiences where world-class competitive drumming, illicit drug sales, personal tragedy, Yoruban priesthood, Black American trauma and perseverance, Latin American sojourn, and a Baldwinesque return home have all played a part on this next album.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/maisum.lnk.to\/fake_blood\" target=\"_blank\">0000+0000<\/a><\/em>, out November 5 via Mais Um.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to \u00ab FAKE BLOOD \u00bb in our Songs of the Week playlist on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/spoti.fi\/2Pz0eyg\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/30zVbUA\" target=\"_blank\">Deezer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IFE-1010x1513.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86789\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>\u00a9 Trenity Thomas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ife-00000000-1010x1010.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86790\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This explosive new track was inspired by Adam Curtis\u2019 HyperNormalization documentary and by America\u2019s reaction to the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting. Awo Orunmila Otura Mun aka \u00ccF\u00c9 is a New Orleans-based African American artist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4096,5482],"location":[7976],"yst_prominent_words":[11021,23987,8539,13292,8414,9185,8402,9006,8543,11481,8449],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86832"}],"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=86832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86832"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=86832"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=86832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}