BEAMZ: Together We Rise & Shine | Music Album

Abstract

BEAMZ: Together We Rise & Shine captures the soundscape of Zambia, while collaborating with a multitude of music creators from different geographic music markets. This project contextualizes and translates Zambia’s rich palette of culture and traditions into cohesive storytelling that communicates to a global music market. The 9 track project focuses on their perspective of daily life experiences, culture and traditions, and efforts of trying to sustain it, while sonically amplifying authentic African Sounds with a contemporary influence.

Album Trailer

A global music collaboration featuring music creators from the UK, Ghana, South Africa, Zambia, The Bahamas, US, and more, with Grammy and Emmy-nominated sound engineer Rob Kleiner (known for his work on projects like Avatar II: The Way of Water and Euphoria) overseeing the Mixing and Mastering.

Tracklist

  • Waking up in the morning might come across as something trivial but in the context of most African culture, like in Zambia, it's considered a blessing, gift, and spiritual experience. This song captures the soundscape of a morning in traditional Zambia.

  • This captures the harsh reality of poverty and suffering in Zambia, as well as the experiences enduring it from the perspective of its own people.

  • This dives into the curiosity of Zambians who envision a better reality for themselves despite the current environment and lack of opportunities to build their own dreams.

  • Showcasing the narrative of the previous generation inflicting their fears onto the current generation, trying to set the standard and expectation for them. The resistance of the youth in challenging the status quo is very common in Zambian and most cultures around the world.

  • This song captures the battle to dream and go against the status quo from the fear-based experiences of past generations. This sets the stage for a renaissance and new generation who dare to dream for a better future for themselves and the ones that follow after them.

  • Chengelo is a Zambian vernacular term for light. Just like the cliché occurrence of the sun shining after a storm, this song signifies how the light within us comes again to illuminate the darkness around us.

  • This is an open letter to the youth and future generations of Zambians who are concerned about their futures. In this song Zambia is personified as a mother who is comforting and assuring her child that everything will turn out all right.

  • This song embodies the act of working in unison to move forward, towards a better future for all generations. This embodiment is also evoked in Zambia's “One Zambia, One Nation” motto.

  • This captures the power that unity can spark, especially after a community understands all of its differences to build commonality. It takes a play on the idea that it takes more than one lightbulb to light the world. We are the light bearers and by uniting we multiply the power of light projected.

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