The demo mixtape that I aim to present for my final project, will consist of a collection of tracks recorded by myself. The concept behind the tape is to give the Post-Colonial State/Third World a voice. It seeks to explore its different nuances, internal struggles, issues with identity, grief and lost sense of pride. The mixtape will hence be in first person and each track will end with a narration of different writers from our course e.g: Cesaire’s Journal of a Homecoming and the crux of that narration will inform what the following track will address. Hence, as listeners you will be aware of whats to come next but where its eventually leading to is this very question of “what is there left to redeem?”.
By personifying the Post-Colonial/Third World I intend to explore its different personalities through the African/American/Indian experience. The sonics of each track and the instruments etc used will represent that very locality, trying to transform the listener into the heat of that particular situation.
Lastly the picture used above is Bibighar Well which during the final stages of the Siege of Cawnpore 1857 (India) was filled with both bodies of Indian Sepoys (Colonized) and British Soldiers/Families (Colonizer). I aim to design and use this particular picture as the artwork for the tape as it (in my opinion) perfectly captures the dual effect of colonization in terms of dehumanizing the colonizer and the colonized. It shows that in the end both lay collectively in a dark pit.
Decoloniality and Decolonization 