Rwanda: Rises Up! – Album is OUT NOW!!!!

Rwanda: Rises Up the album was released yesterday on itunes and the artist support we have been getting so far has been fantastic. It gave me pause to reminisce a bit about the trip to Rwanda in order to start the recording process and the journey that took place in order to complete it. As I was doing so I stumbled across a Walt Whitman poem that was very apropos and I would like to share the first stanza.

A Song

COME, I will make the continent indissoluble;
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon;
I will make divine magnetic lands,
With the love of comrades,
With the life-long love of comrades.

Some days I lament that perhaps music has a limiting factor on the help that it can do in developing nations but then I remember what an amazing galvanizing force it was/is. Dozens of musicians from Canada to Kigali all bonded over this mystical language that usurped any bonds of status or upbringing.

Life long comrades indeed..

iTunes album: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/song-for-africa-rwanda-rises/id377195935

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