All is not lost, but where is it?

It is appropriate today to provide a heads up to the Suns of Arqa 2015 album All is not lost, but where is it? which features contributions from Youth, Raja Ram, The Orb, and the performance poet John Cooper Clarke. Like all Arqa albums it was masterminded by Michael Wadada, who famously defied the classical nimbies by successfully combining a re-imagined Fauré's Requiem with early rumblings of Dub Step, Hindustani ragas, and Nyabinghi Dub Poetry on another album. My 2020 interview with the now sadly-departed Michael can be read via this link. Track 6 on the album has a sampled John Cooper Clarke - who was a regular Arqa collaborator - reciting his poem The Truth Lies Therein. Here are some of the prescient lyrics. 

He shall be taken with out the walls of the city
Where pestilence shall hold dominion over all
The water will stink and prove bitter on his tongue
A plague of isolation shall deliver him to decrepitude
Wither shall he fly in such misery
He wants to run
Where can he run?
It’s blood uptown and blood downtown
Blood in the woods and blood in the country
He will crawl like a raving dog starving with a hunger
But the will therein lieth, which does not die
Who knows the mysteries of the will with its vigour
For a body is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intent
Man does not yield himself to the angels
Nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will

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