03/10/2022
https://inspektaroots.bandcamp.com/album/halala
👽 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 idiosyncracies of each musician.
