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Lisala​-​Over​-​inna​-​Oakanda

from Angels Over Oakanda ~ Digital Edition by Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber

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‘Lisala Over inna-Oakanda’ is a collaboration between longtime Burnt Sugar vocalist Lisala Beatty, (described by V. Jeffrey Smith as ‘’the last of the real red hot soul singers’’) MARQUE Gilmore tha’ Inna Most and Greg Tate, who generated the lyrics. Lisala was given the bulk of the Oakanda recordings and rough mixes to vibe with and chose to snag the first 3-minutes of Gilmore’s ‘Repatriation’ to flex Tate’s lyrics over.

About his lyrics Tate says, ‘’The verses pay an abstract homage to the ghost-lineage of American born Black radical artists and activists — from those of the transatlantic trafficked who sustained their humanity and mind, body soul throughout that 90-day ‘’Auschwitz on the water’’ (per Arthur Jafa) horror-show, to the Maroon communities of Black and Indigenous freedom fighters of Florida who created free nation-states in fugitivity, fighting off the US Army for 30 years (at the height of chattel slavery, and beyond), to the 60’s modern warrior formations of the Freedom Riders, The Black Panther Party, Black Liberation Army, The Black Arts Movement (led by Amiri Baraka), and the Republic of New Africa who helped free Assata Shakur.

Lisala took Tate’s stark lines and gave them a buoyant melodicism, at once “anthemic, aspirational, spiritual, operatic, and Afro-Angelical.’’

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Lisala-Over-inna-Oakanda ~ Lyricist ~ Greg Tate

ANGELS OVER OAKANDA
YOU'RE SLIPPING AWAY 
FROM MY SYMPATHY
FAST BEING ERASED 
FROM ANY EMPATHY
TAKING MY BLUES BACK
AND ALL MY UNRULY SYMPHONIES 
MAROON TERRAIN
SUBJECT TO PAIN
MAROON TERRAIN
A WHOLE WORLD TO GAIN

ANGELS OVER OAKANDA
WE TEND THE FLAMES 
RECALLING  ALL THE NAMES 
IN WONDER AS WE WANDER 
IN WONDER AS WE WANDER
THESE RUINS
HEALING WHATS BEEN TORN ASUNDER
THE  ANGELS OF OAKANDA 
AVENGERS OF THE TERRORS AND THE PLUNDER 
ANGELS OF OAKANDA
THE TRUE PANTHER MODERNS
THE TRUE PANTHERS
THE TRUE PANTHER MODERNS
THE TRUE PANTHER MODERNS
ANGELS OF OAKANDA
OAKANDA
OAKANDA
OAKANDA

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from Angels Over Oakanda ~ Digital Edition, released September 23, 2021
Lead & Background Vocal Composition & Arrangement: Lisala Beatty
Arrangement & Production:  Marque Gilmore tha' Inna•Most
Lyrics: Greg Tate
Flute: Satch Hoyt
Tenor Sax: V Jeffrey Smith
Fender Rhodes: Leon Gruenbaum
Additional Drum Programming: Marque Gilmore tha' Inna•Most
Electric Bubble Bass: Jared Michael Nickerson

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BURNT SUGAR is a neo-tribal thang, aspiring to the condition of all that is molten, glacial, spacial, telepathic.
''A multiracial jam army that freestyles with cool telekinesis between the lustrous menace of Miles Davis’ On The Corner, the slash-and-om of 1970s King Crimson, and Jimi Hendrix’ moonwalk across side three of Electric Ladyland.”- David Fricke, Rolling Stone.
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