{"id":91999,"date":"2021-11-09T11:58:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T09:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=91999"},"modified":"2021-11-19T18:47:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T16:47:44","slug":"daedelus-joshua-idehen-holy-water-over-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/daedelus-joshua-idehen-holy-water-over-sons\/","title":{"rendered":"Daedelus and Joshua Idehen combine beat making and poetry on Holy Water Over Sons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Collaborating remotely between Boston and Stockholm, the pair have announced a new album that speaks directly to the times.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Having collaborated with Madlib and sampled by Drake, Alfred Darlington AKA Daedelus is a pre-eminent and influential beat creator. On this new project, they are joined by Joshua Idehen, a rising poet who has appeared on albums by <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/sons-of-kemet\/\">Sons Of Kemet<\/a> and The Comet Is Coming.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On <em>Holy Water Over Sons<\/em> powerful yet vulnerable poems contemplating life as a black man are accompanied by otherworldly, future electronics. The record weaves through a world at extremes, bringing back to light the racial injustices which ignited the Black Lives Matter movement. Its eight tracks of minimal mechanoid lamentation and ethereal electro-blues pulsate under meditations of race, depression, identity and grief. \u201c<em>We are living in a dark timeline<\/em>\u201d, Joshua says. \u201c<em>It felt dishonest not to speak on what I was feeling, watching everything unfold in the UK and US at the time<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=856142301\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/daedelusmusic.bandcamp.com\/album\/holy-water-over-sons\">Holy Water Over Sons by Daedelus &amp; Joshua Idehen<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Two tracks are already available : \u201cHaunted\u201d, which brings a chopped and screwed flavour, and \u201cStanding In My Own Way\u201d Part I, a meditation on lost friendship, accompanied by soft, melodic Rhodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a href=\"https:\/\/daedelusmusic.bandcamp.com\/album\/holy-water-over-sons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Holy Water Over Sons<\/em><\/a>, out on November 26.<\/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\" width=\"632\" height=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hand_holywateroversons_3000x3000_00.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-92001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hand_holywateroversons_3000x3000_00.jpeg 632w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hand_holywateroversons_3000x3000_00-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hand_holywateroversons_3000x3000_00-465x465.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hand_holywateroversons_3000x3000_00-375x375.jpeg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hand_holywateroversons_3000x3000_00-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hand_holywateroversons_3000x3000_00-85x85.jpeg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hand_holywateroversons_3000x3000_00-73x73.jpeg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collaborating remotely between Boston and Stockholm, the pair have announced a new album that speaks directly to the times. 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