Edd Bateman
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3:13Diamonds, Gold & Mobile Phones
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3:34Understand This
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3
3:38Casamance
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3:27No Future In This Government
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3:07Love In The 21st Century
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3:03Tree
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4:07Mariama
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4:56Madrugada
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4:02Born To Dance
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4:53Flowers On My Grave
I recorded this album in Senegal in my friend's living room on my 10 year old laptop, a 15 year old version of Cubase, and the cheapest drum mics I could find.
25 people lived in the compound including screaming babies and goats but despite the settings and resources, I had amazing local musicians join this recording journey. An album is a journey. You write the songs, arrange them, arrive in the studio (or living room), hopefully prepared and the recording is followed by an intense process of mixing, editing and accepting. Often followed by a tour where you get overexcited by the mass printing discounts on CD quantities and end up with boxes of albums left, which you over ambitiously weren't able to shift.
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I wrote this song while already in Senegal working on the album, after one evening researching some of the history in Liberia and Sierra Leone about the effect that the diamond mines had on the community.