1. |
Ahel Allel
05:08
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Ahel Allel
(Trad./ A. Kheir)
O people of the night
O blessings and beauty
Today our good fortune has come
O messenger of God
O good fortune, O white dove
O angels sing with me
Today our good fortune has come
O messenger of God
The day the girls gathere
They clapped their hands and ululated
Today our good fortune has come
O messenger of God
They clapped their hands and ululated
And sang 'our groom scored'
Today our good fortune has come
O messenger of God
O people of the night
O blessings and beauty
Today our good fortune has come
O messenger of God
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2. |
Mashena
04:22
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Mashena
(A. Kheir)
We walked
And we will continue to walk
We walked
And we will always continue to walk
As musch as we fall
We get back up
As much as time takes away
We will keep walking
As much as the ages bring
We will continue
We walked
That's enough
What has happened has happened
We've forgotten
/we walked to the edges of the world
And on our way we got lost
But many things we found
That we are on one journey
And that from a long time ago
It was known
That we are the future, the present
And the past
Tell them it's enough - it's enough
What has happened has happened
For how long, for how long
an we continue this way?
Tell them it's enough - it's enough
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3. |
Allaleya
03:11
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Allaleya
(Trad.)
Allaleya the lemon tree's watering is by night
Allaleya he was young like a bird
Allaleya one day they dressed him in a 'kumama'
Allaleya they took him to Khashm Allgirba
May he return safely to our village
Allaleya the lemon tree's watering is by night
Allaleya to you the Italian
Allaleya and to you the German
Allaleya if you hit the Sudanese
Take your wealth out side it's no good here
Allaleya the lemon tree's watering is by night
Allaleya an airplane came flying around
Allaleya it came to hit our groves
Allaleya it came to hit Khartoum
But it hit the donkey of Kaltoum the milk lady
Allaleya the lemon tree's watering is by night
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4. |
View From Somewhere
03:39
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View From Somewhere
(A. Kheir/ I. Macleod)
Streets full of brick houses
All the same
runk coming home
Stumbles on his trail
Just another day
Just another picture
Just another night
Just another abyss
There is a font of
Acute perception
Trying to define its vessel
Stream into its channel
But it all quietly comes down
In the peace of this
Lack of consciousness
In the unfolding of this absurd
In the view from somewhere
In the view from somewhere
There was once you
Who decided it was time
Time to bridge the street
Bridge the street with the world
With the world inside
But you will know
That it all quietly come down
In the peace of this
Lack of consciousness
In the unfolding of this absurd
In the view from somewhere
In the view from somewhere
I am high
I see nobody
And nobody sees me
There is a truth
In the view from somewhere
There is a peace
In the view from somewhere
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5. |
Shoft Alnur
06:23
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Shoft Alnur
(A. Kheir/ A. Wight)
The breath of the soul O people
Its visions that of light O people
It was a thunder that split the sky
From the depth of slumber it awoke
The breath of the soul O people
Its visions that of light O people
It was a sight that shook the oceans
Until today the ramnants of fire
The breath of the soul O people
Its visions that of light O people
It was a moment that lit the darkness
For the rest of nights and days
The breath of the soul O people
Its visions that of light O people
It was a journey that lasted a lifetime
It opened the doors to the heavens
The breath of the soul O people
Its visions that of light O people
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6. |
Kullu Wahid
04:41
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Kullu Wahid
(A. Kheir)
Each one of us
Will go on their way
Until our day is done
Until our day is done
And in the end
There is no wrong there is no right
In the end
There is no wrong there is no right
But each one will find their conscience
Each one will find their destiny
Each one of us
Will go on their way
Until our day is done
Until our day is done
And from the beginning of time
And until its end
We will continue to search for truth
And every time we find it
We so easily lose it
Every time we find it
We so easily lose it
Each one of us
Will go on their way
Until our day is done
Until our day is done
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7. |
Disposable World
04:19
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Disposable World
(A. Kheir/ I. Macleod)
Why don't you take a little time
Deconstruct me
Strip me down to the core
You will see that I am just
The same as you
Why do our differences have to be
Divisive when they are
Really unifying, fortifying
But at the core is something
That is stronger
It can overcome the spirals of
Destruction that you impose
Every moment that passes we
Continue to annihilate
What a sick way to live when
We could use our energy to create
Desire's infected our souls and now
We turn on each other and our home
We provide the devil's entertainment
But at the core is something
That is stronger
It can overcome the spirals of
Destruction that you impose
It's stronger than you or me
Or the fallacies that engulf us now
Will we ever attain a state of
Existence where we are free?
We've poisoned our world
And now it's spitting us back out
What's the need for antagonism
We're victims of consumerism
Can't you see that we are one?
Are you scared of
Where you come from?
Disposable people in a
Disposable world
Throw them away
Cause it don't matter
Watch them starve
While you get fatter
Disposable people in a
Disposable world
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8. |
Fattish
08:01
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Fattish
(A. Kheir/ I. Macleod)
Search for the day
Search for the way
There is no option but peace
There is no substitute for equity
We must wake up
Our sleep has been long
Our sleep has been so long
Because we are tired of the lies
Because we no longer want death
For how long will they
kill our possibility?
For how long will they
kill our possibility?
If you can, search for the day
If you can, search for the way
Search for the day
Search for the day
There is no option but peace
There is no substitute for equity
We must wake up
Our sleep has been long
Our sleep has been so long
Because we are tired of the lies
Because we no longer want death
For how long will they
kill our possibility?
For how long will they
kill our possibility?
We cannot forever endure injustice
We must awaken into emancipation
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9. |
Transience
06:29
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Transience
(A. Kheir/ I. Macleod)
An old friend
On a bridge one day said
Smile, life is only fro a little while
My meandering thoughts
To that moment return
When forever was ours
And we were always on the run
Everything's in transcience
And so are we
The futility of this world
You made me see
Everything's in transcience
A million possibilities
Drift eventually
Who are you today
When that life is done?
Who are you to the sun
To the stars and the trees?
And to all our shared memories?
An abstraction, a deception
Or just an old friend
Washed away like the bridge
And the fragile truce it held
The fragile life it kept
Everything's in transcience
And so are we
The futility of this world
You made me see
Everything's in transcience
A million possibilities
Drift eventually
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Amira Kheir London, UK
The music of Sudanese-Italian singer Amira Kheir, who has been tagged by BBC World News as the "diva of the Sudanese desert", is rooted in ancient Nubian and Niolitic melodies, and is confidently married with experimental jazz and bursts of electric desert blues. She has previously released two albums, both to critical acclaim, View From Somewhere (2011) and Alsahraa (2014). ... more
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