Two years after their debut album 'One', Moja, the French band around Nantes Based singer Marine 'Mamatya' Annic, returns with 'Home'. For this 6 track EP Moja joined forces with producers Florian 'Flox' Gratton and Clément 'Tamal' Thouard (who we still remembered from 'Enter A Space', his 2019 collaboration with Marcus Gad). Just like 'Enter A Space', 'Home' also mixes reggae with influences from the Indian music tradition (illustrated by Sukdhev Prasad Mishra's violin in 'Tightrope Walker' or the use of 'Ra Ma Da Sa Se So Hung', a well-known mantra from the Kundalini yoga that can be translated as "Sun, Moon, Earth, Infinity: All that is infinite, that is what I am", in 'Ode To The Moon'). Moja describes 'Home' as: "Combining the intensity of reggae with the splendor of sacred music, where digital sounds and Indian melodies mix in a successful marriage, 'Home' is a call to travel, whether physical or spiritual". An English expression states: "Home is where the heart is", and for Moja your heart might as well be your mind. It is to this spiritual home that Izou's Indian-inspired cover illustration in the form of a decorative door lock also refers. Lyrically, we'd like to draw your attention to the slow-paced 'Citizen Of The World', a wake-up call about our collapsing Western social model with gripping lyrics we certainly don't want to withhold:
Are you really ready?
What's gonna blow?
Now the earth is calling, citizen of the world your kingdom is falling!
You've got to stand firm in these hard times, cause I see temptation deep in your eyes.
To keep the head above water, you need to clear it from all, false needs and desires, consumption propaganda.
You need to broaden your horizons to see the consequence of our fantasy.
Are you really ready?
What's gonna blow?
Now the earth is calling, citizen of the world your kingdom is falling!
Acceleration, innovation, but living hand to mouth, whatever we do, whatever we say, the suffering comes from the south.
Television, competition feeding paranoia and silently grows mass hysteria.
Mankind is burning, the candle at both ends!
Mankind is burning, the candle at both ends!
Are you really ready?
What's gonna blow?
Now the earth is calling, citizen of the world your kingdom is falling!
To keep the head above water, you need to clear it from all, false needs and desires, consumption propaganda.
You need to broaden your horizons to see the consequence of our fantasy.
Are you really ready?
What's gonna blow?
Now the earth is calling, citizen of the world your kingdom is falling!
Falling, falling... Citizen of the world, see your kingdom falling!
Falling, falling... Citizen of the world, citizen of the world...