{"id":93960,"date":"2021-12-09T11:18:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T10:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=93960"},"modified":"2021-12-09T11:18:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T10:18:22","slug":"sprlua-magnum-dopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/sprlua-magnum-dopus\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal\u2019s SPRLUA announce their debut album MAGNUM DOPUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Mozambican-Canadian pair will drop their first official body of work in February, a project filled with debate and questions of our time.&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Sonically, <em>MAGNUM DOPUS<\/em> will explore \u201c<em>the spaces between South African amapiano\u2019s sophisticated rhythmic foundations, classic house filtering, techno, and those sounds that can only be ascribed to Montreal\u2019s indie scene<\/em>\u201d. To this guideline, the duo will add its Portuguese vocal melodies, and themes like&nbsp; identity, influence, modern love, and social norms in the digital world. The track \u201ceBoy\u201d, already available, was born from a palette of beat-driven instruments, serving as a bed for lyrics exploring the depth of passion involved in some of our current major conversations, particularly around activism through technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/sprlua-2\/\">SPRLUA<\/a> takes its name from the Portuguese \u201cSuperlua de Sangue de Lobo\u201d (or Super Blood Wolf Moon in English), a rare lunar eclipse that takes place in the middle of winter. It symbolizes the meeting of two producers, Samito, a singer-songwriter\/producer originally from Mozambique, and eclectic beatmaker and music producer Haig V. Their collaboration over the past two years has been \u201c<em>driven by a common desire to explore creative ideas outside conventional music frameworks<\/em>\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>MAGNUM DOPUS<\/em> by SPRLUA, out on February 25th via FEZIHAUS.&nbsp;<\/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-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"SPRLUA, Samito, Haig V - eBoy (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/907oLDh-rq4?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>SPRLUA, Samito, Haig V &#8211; eBoy (Official Lyric Video)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mozambican-Canadian pair will drop their first official body of work in February, a project filled with debate and questions of our time.&nbsp; Sonically, MAGNUM DOPUS will explore \u201cthe spaces between South African amapiano\u2019s sophisticated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":93962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[34102,4096,40579,40576],"location":[7916],"yst_prominent_words":[8403,27751,8995,8414,8447,10275,9464,16813,19580,8488,36090,9006,8858,8543,16590],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93960"}],"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=93960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93960"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=93960"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=93960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}