"Looking into Space."


"Great music comes from nowhere explosion. That’s when we come to rebel music, it goes strike inna person. You can’t study great music from the books of men. Only your destiny from that representation integrity to nature and it’s surrounding. Hit music don’t come from reading books, it is [an] art of prophecy. Word of one telling from meditation, but when it cross infront of a mental feeling.
There is no next time in music, unless I’m mad or into books of destructions. You can’t subdivide music but you let it come from it’s civilized state of mood. That is when we term it ‘original’, ‘great’ and ‘hit.’ The world of art is where one gets married and no think of divorce. You can’t do it alone. Yes, the idea can come from that alone number, it has to pair in common. Civilization wanna come from sharing amongst the atmosphere. Talking on great music, not talking on limitation, but the reality is it become more than one. Born from different lineage, make moves still on the same lineage. Love to love, do what you do, great is the answer. You cant charge the idea before action occupies into space. It can only be proved but not be charged after it is laid on the space. This is music is not made up of any ideology, but from nowhere records explosion. Where one comes in with a jam session… Then the contribution begin one after another from that read out of the session. With no remix vibration only one proves himself from creativity on that individual backup. Assembling different musical elements from his culture and how good relationship you got towards the elements humbling to each other.

Inspekta Jemo
(2005)

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"Halala" - 'Inspekta' Jemo & Friends.
This is the original version first self-released on Compact Disc in 2005.

A future folk fusion masterpiece mostly recorded in live sessions, it features the now legendary likes of: Roy Levari on sitar, DJ Snifta on Bass, Mutinda on guitar and vocals and of course the Doctor Inspekta Himself on Chivoti (flute) and vocals amongst others.

Recorded in a handful of informal live sessions between July 18th and August 4th 2004. The album was produced by Harvey Herr a.k.a Gearz and released by B.K.S.P. on CD in a custom A4 foldout cover in 2005 in a single run, but never online. It contained the soundtrack for the Nation Media's 2004 "save a life" famine relief campaign that ran on national television. The music fuses traditional percussion and instruments from Western Kenya with guitar, bass, and synth. Each song was tracked live without any overdubbing except on the songs “My Blackness” and “Too Much Respect I Give.” Certain tracks were completely improvised on the spot whilst others were rehearsed just a few times before being recorded. The entire exercise was simply an attempt to create a musical work on the basis of the energy and intuition of those present without much forethought of composition or post-production.
The focus of the musicians was to simply play together as best as possible whilst Gearz recorded the whole thing through a Mackie 808s mixer directly into his computer.
This technique imbued each song with an immediate charge and character, but of course also preserves the idiosyncrasies of each musician's work.

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BELOW IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE ORIGINAL LINER NOTES

Halala
An album of the artistic underground loaded with mystic fusion on all levels. It is time for research as the artistic field is concerned. A journey of many aspects we will come to encounter. The review in this album is on livity of that ‘oneness’ of yesterday, the old school…I roots. Iskuti drums are my identity, I roots from Western Kenya. The vocal lines maintain this identity, I language, Bantu-speaking motherland. ‘Halala, pamoja, togetherness...’ A time where introducing Kenyan elements, in cooperation with other global elements. This is an instrumental interchange of language and music. That is why this album is holding its own roots to grow globally. Iskuti drumming: it doesn’t force one to flow in it’s revolution. But you can realize you are in the revolution when it gets stopped. From the artistic line (roots) it is used to bring people together on various occasions: happy moment and sad moment too. When you humble it to it’s bottom line, you find it vocalizes itself. Instrumentally, it will only give it’s best show if you the player are humble to it, allow it to be a friend in the first place to enjoy it. This album is artist mingling ideas together from their weapons (instruments). A situation whereby not just singing and playing, but creating fire from these elements. The album is talking about the way we come from: that is life, the message of the time. The kings of deep language, here are the collaboration of the instruments and the artists behind the instruments featured in this work. It is all about ‘Halala ,oneness, pamoja’…everything… ‘Love comes number one!’ …East African elements are stepping forward for oneness globally.

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