This is the sounds and smells of where I stay, Oxel village in Goa. Its animal and plants are in sync with humans, sounding different than in the forest. There is also acceptance here, under Portuguese influence, of people not like them. Yet as I enjoy the smell of cafreal chicken with a sip of Kingfisher beer at Café Amancia by the river, I overhear a local leader speak proudly of the lynching of a farmer after the death of a cow.
lyrics
You see the space that I needed to further observe trees
House flies and bees
Pollens to make me sneeze,
get down on my knees for the natural breeze witnessing you and me.
Filled with gratitude climbing a tree not the ladder of fame
At the pace of options presented what to contain?
“Buy my product for free”
Abuse nature, collectively!
As I like to learn to accept the concrete analogy
Not only of home, but seen segments of globe.
Just bribe a bride, till a sister confides her goal,
Mislead by glamorous manifolds
We do tone up our faces if truth be told,
Carving a struggle richer than gold,
I see, We taking life for granted I cant be surprised as I get past your concrete road!
My mind, customizes my locality
Easily quoted … easily quoted… saffron wisdom
compressed to a torn banner,
im filtering districts like your bar scanner
yet how come this hokum become a news
cow piss that you politically booze on,
in my hood the local MPs are having fun,
unda the elder rather oldest sun,
no matter the weather races dry together
like semi naked semi tanned roadside clans like to fake it!
Tell me, hit by enigma of oshel I foretell growth,
your motel room that couldn't match it
If you see a coconut fall you gots catch it!
Amidst the drug rackets the herb runs passive,
I come back massive like funk attacking upon your shore.
yours truly
MC Kaur
Oh nana oh nana typa shit that rihaana sings
Hold on now, hold on now, what is it that you try to bring?
credits
from NEOPHILIA,
released December 24, 2018
Written and Performed by: MC Manmeet Kaur
Recorded at: Studio 52 (Assagao, Goa)
Beat Production by: Fatbabs and Olderfy
Keyboard: Julian mauvieux
Guitar : Quentin Dupont
Horns: Tribuman
Audio Post Production & Mixdown: Arnold Misquitta (AFM Studio,Bombay)
Mastered by: Pierre-Henri Demel at ODN Mastering, France
his Voice is one of a kind, and he is one of the very few hard working emcees I had an honour to work with, go buy and support his project. Manmeet Kaur