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Rhythm's In the Melody

from Carry it On by Soulsha: Afro-Celtic Funk

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Elias originally conceived this song out of a desire for people to hear the rhythms in fiddle and pipe tunes the way they hear the rhythms in funk music. It includes a tune by his bagpipe teacher Murray Huggins of Colin Kyo Bagpipes, who also made the set of pipes that Elias plays on the album. Alasdair White plays a beautiful rendition of “Johnny Wilmot’s Fiddle” by Elmer Briand in the middle.

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If you cannot find your feet
Now let it move, let it move you
Feel it in your body
Now let it move, let it move you
It’s been there for three thousand years
Now let it move, let it move you
The rhythm’s in the melody
Now let it move, let it move you

The rhythm’s in the melody
The rhythm’s in the melody
The rhythm’s in the melody

It may be new it may be old
But it’s got roots down in your soul
It don’t matter where you come from
Go ahead and lose control

The rhythm’s in the melody
The rhythm’s in the melody
The rhythm’s in the melody

Beautiful Line
The band composed this as a whole at a rehearsal in 2018. Later, Elias wrote the lyrics and Lamine composed the bàkk.

He’s got his hands upon the wheel, eyes on the road
The rainy city goes by in streaks, out the window
Don’t you feel like we’re sleeping, feel like we’re dreaming
and if we could wake up, what kind of world would we grow?

His pain sits with mine, but we sit alone
Strangers and yet we both think it’s possible
In these conversations I feel there’s a home for all of us somewhere
He goes left at the bridge and I’m lost in the glaze of the evening glow

And it’s so hard to know where to turn or if this is our road
But I know there is peace and kindness where we go
And I can see the green valley of hope laid out before us
We have to walk towards it
We have to try for it

So what would it look like he says, I want to know
We’re sitting at a stoplight just waiting for the signal to go
I see houses of plenty where the doors are always open
He says I see my grandmother’s face, and it’s not quite so broken, so broken

And it’s so hard to know where to turn or if this is our road
But I know there is peace and kindness where we go
And I can see the green valley of hope laid out before us
We have to walk towards it
We have to try for it

credits

from Carry it On, track released May 31, 2019
Tunes: Alice Piel Walkway by Murray Huggins
Johnny Wilmot’s Fiddle by Elmer Briand

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Uniting the traditions of Scotland, Senegal, and American funk into a mind-bending danceable sensation.

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