“In this song I’m evoking, generally or particularly, a hope sunrise,” Seckou says, “because SUBA is a hope album. The album started like that, imagining a sunrise. I’m a morning person. You wake up and whatever you have dreamt, you see the sunrise and hope that the day is going to carry a bright future. Suba also means tomorrow, what it’s going to give us after this strange 18-month period of pandemic life is over.” The song is sung in both Wolof and Mandinka, the key phrase, fajar jatna, meaning ‘the sun has risen’ in Wolof. It’s a hymn to a new day, a beautiful day, a happy day, a hopeful day. Seckou wrote the song in lockdown and Omar added harmonic layers that lend the piece more depth. “In the moment it was cooking,” says Omar, “we both threw some spices into the dish. And then we said ok, now we got the spices right, we got the plate right, let’s eat!”