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We are so grateful to be able to share in the power of this record. A many streams of energy coming together across space and time to allow this to happen. This is really something special. If gives new meaning to art, work, value, and heritage. Thank you
Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning is a complex work, as the artist formerly known as Christian Scott leads us on a new path in his journey. Bark out Thunder Roar Out Lightning bridges past and future by marrying the folkloric styles, ceremonial and ritual practices of the Maroon and Afro-Indigenous Chiefdoms, and culture of New Orleans with Stretch Music. The result is a spellbinding exhibition of Afro-New Orleanian and West African expression where music, dance, and cultures unite.
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released July 28, 2023
All songs written by Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (Stretch Music Publishing (SESAC) - Downtown Music Publishing)
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah – Vocals, Chief Adjuah’s Bow, Adjuah’s N’Goni, SPDSX, Pan African Kit, Bells, Tambourine, Percussion*, Synth Percussion, Sonic Architecture and Production (All Tracks)
Trail Chief Kiel Adrian Scott – Vocals, Percussion (Tracks 3, 5, 8, 9 )
Weedie Braimah – Djembe, Congas, Tambourine, Dun Duns, Percussion*, Vocals (Tracks 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9)
Luques Curtis – Bass, Guembri Vocals (Tracks 2, 3, 5,8, 9)
Elé Howell - Pan African Kit, Drums, Bells, Tambourines, Vocals (Tracks 3, 5, 8, 9, 10)
Brian Richburg Jr. – Drums, SPDSX, Percussion, Tambourines, Vocals (Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9)
Marcus Gillmore – Drums (Tracks 3, 5)
Joe Dyson Jr. Pan African Kit (Track 6)
Corey Fonville - Drums (Track 6 )
Alfred Jordan – Drums, Percussion, Tambourine, Vocals (Tracks 3, 5, 8, 9)
Mizan Willis – Dun Duns, Bells, Shekere, Percussion*, Vocals (Tracks 3, 5, 9)
Amyna Love – Vocals (Tracks 3, 5, 9)
Amina Scott – Vocals (Tracks 3, 5, 9)
Lioness Sia Fodey – Vocals (Tracks 3, 5, 9)
Executive Producers
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, Cara Harrison Daniels, and Louis H. Marks
Recorded by Dave Weingarten at The Champagne Room West and Westlake Studios, Los Angeles, CA
and Chris Finney at Trombone Shorty Studios, New Orleans, LA
Mixed by
Qmillion at Flyin' Dread Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Dave Weingarten at The Champagne Room, Los Angeles, CA
Mastered by
Paul Blakemore, Cleveland, OH
Art/Design:
Creative Direction
Devan Mayfield
Concept Ideation
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah
Kiel Adrian Scott
Devan Mayfield
Photography
Photographer Eric Ryan Anderson
Photo Assistants - Colin Fatke and Landon Edwards
Design
Eric Hurtgen
Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning is dedicated to Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr. of the Guardians of the Flame. and Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr. of the Congo Square Nation.
with Special Thanks to our matriarch Queen Mother Herreast Harrison Guardians Institute founder and Grand Griot of New Orleans, Michele Harrison, Nkem Big Chief Brian Harrison Nelson and Maroon Queen Cherice Harrison Nelson of the Guardians of the Flame, Trail Chief Kiel Adrian Scott and Obahema Cara Harrison Daniels of the Xodokan.
To the ancestors, the true nations of Alkebulan, the peoples of Africa, the First Nations of the Americas, the descendants of Congo Square, the Maroons of the Diaspora, the Guardians of the Flame, Congo Square Nation and the mighty Xodokan.
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah [formerly Christian Scott] is a two-time Edison Award-winning, six-time Grammy Award-nominated, Doris Duke Award in the Arts Award-winner.
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Unlike any other. Its feel is both reflective and down to earth, and the compositions are easily differentiated despite their relative shortness. Not only a pleasure to listen to, this album is rhythmically complex, but not in a maddening, hard to process way. Also, very clever album title. ianjworsomething
