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Oshun

by Anna Ling

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Full Moon Release #2
Oshun

The words to the chorus of this song come from a Yoruba song blessing Oshun, the Orisha for sweet water, divinity, femininity, fertility, beauty, and love.

A friend who speaks Yoruba helped me with the pronunciation, which is in an old Nigerian dialect that probably traveled over to South America and the Caribbean with the atrocities of the slave trade, kept alive by those who continued to praise Oshun and their other ancestral Gods despite extreme oppression. Today versions of this song are sung all over the world.

Singing songs from other cultures is a tender thing, especially when I come from England, and I'm singing lyrics originating from cultures within our dark imperial history. I hope I have met it with enough understanding and respect, and that it works toward my ongoing attempts to decolonize my worldview.

An Oshun song was one of the first choir songs I taught as a teenager, and I've sung it and taught it innumerable times all over the world since. The two great river loves of my life are Ganga and the Dart. I live next to the Dart and feel the spirit of Oshun in her majesty. I have received so much from Ganga and the Dart, and feel one of the ways we can give back is through song. The video was in part recorded at the Dart.

This song was first written next to a river in Yosemite in the US and finished next to the Ganges in India. It was the first song I produced and recorded by myself, a project I started over lockdown.

50% of profits from this song will go to www.hopespring.org.uk/our-projects/, a charity supporting communities in Nigeria to get access to clean water

Filmed and edited by Nirvan Murrell www.cidermillfilms.com

Ft. Misha Mullov-Abbado, Elad Neeman, Isis Wolf-Light, Micheal Stanton, Tom Ling, Chloe Wykes, Teo Valentine and Ben Mali. Mixed by Leon Itzler.

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Anna Ling Totnes, UK

Anna Ling is a singer-songwriter, choir leader and teacher based in Devon. She loves nothing more than creating spaces for people to feel their shared human experience through song.

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