A gentle yet epic quality, yearning with quiet force, its strength in its circularity, spiralling upwards. Seckou wrote this song in a hotel room in Paris, before the beginning of Omar and Seckou’s tour in 2017. The lyrics revolve around a Manding proverb that says: The traveller who’s leaving knows he’s leaving, but he cannot know when or how he will return. The leaving feels like an act of freewill; the returning is decided by other things, yet unknown, beyond our control. ‘So in case you don’t see me again,’ Seckou sings, ‘know that it’s God’s will. And if you do see me, that’s God’s will too.’ “We’re talking about our connection with the supreme force. For Muslims, it can be Allah. For me, it can be Olofi,” Omar says, invoking the name of one of the three manifestations of the Supreme God in the Santería pantheon who rules over the earth. When Seckou and Omar played ‘Allah Léno’ together for the first time, back in 2017, they looked at each other: “Man! This is the first song we’re gonna record on our second album.” It became a tour favourite and a regular feature of the group’s encore. “If we didn’t play it, we didn’t feel good,” Seckou says.