Episode 5 of Mary C's new podcast
When south-london multidisciplinary artist Gaika released his debut mixtape Machine in 2015, it was described as avantgarde grime influenced by dancehall and industrial music. But more important was his message, that there’s something wrong in the british society. Fear, police brutality, racism, inequality and debt. The empire is in ruins. It’s time to start building up based on new values. And so Gaika started building The Spectacular Empire - infrastructure of forward-thinking black art and music - together with DJ, manager and booking agent Mensa and a few years ago also with singer, composer and organizer Glor1a. Not waiting for authorities to support them, with their new project Nine Nights they are showing the industry how a sustainable and fair collective organization could look like.
Concept & narration: Mary C
Title music: Mary C
Translation: Dora Rodriguez
Dubbing: Kassory Condé, Hellwana, Martin Tvrdý
Visuals: Vladyslav Afanasiev & Jan Brož
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