HeyJaredLondon Listening Sessions
A newsletter focused on contemporary Anglophone West African music, particularly Afrobeats.
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101. Dogs of Tirana (opens the original)
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In Tirana, there is an abundance of stray dogs. This is my wife’s observation three hours after we touched down. She makes these kinds of pronouncements matter-of-factly, slipped somewhere between silences. Paris and Bucharest have too many stray cats. Braga, too many decrepit buildings. Lagos has too many psychotic vagrants. She assigns Tirana its diagnosis in a taxi cab heading to Selekt Resorts. We are heading to a festival’s Miami Vice-themed party. A week ago, this was not our itinerary. Ev
100. Slice it any way, Saint Janet was a Legend (opens the original)
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99. Ancestral Grooves: Afrobeats & Apala (opens the original)
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My grandmother passed away earlier this month. She left us in the wee hours, left her bedroom, left her hometown where she had lived out her 93 years. Much as her death leaves me without grandparents, it is reassuring to know that she is reunited with her husband, who died 11 years ago, aged 103.This post is neither about longevity genes nor Grammie grief; it is about ancestral inheritance. And you may ask why? Why would I choose to commemorate my grandmother with a newsletter?I was not close to
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