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About "OLOKUN (THE OCEAN)"
This is a video collage of our tune 'Olokun' from our 2023 album 'PRIMITIVE FIRE' (SANGO RECORDS (TM) SR-WM003). It contains the album's audio track combined with the band's live footage in different performances of this song together with ocean-related footage that represents the spirit of the composition.
'Olokun' is the Yoruba word for 'Ocean' but it means more than the English word. The same word is used for the physical ocean, as well as the spirit governing it. In fact, Olokun is a major Yoruba Orisha (deity) and, according to Ifa' (the religious belief system of the Yoruba people), he has been existing since time immemorial.
Salvador, who has been living together with the Yorubas by the ocean for years, was inspired to write this 'song' after The Ocean Club's* barman came to his house early on a Sunday morning and reported having seen the night before, together with a group of others, three mermaids dancing, playing in the ocean and calling on the onlookers to join them. The incident allegedly happened right in front of the club at a distance short enough to earn a detailed description of these beautiful but equally fearsome supernatural beings. However nonsensical this story sounds to Western ears, for the Yorubas it is a rare but very real encounter and this is not the first time Salvador has heard of such.
* The Ocean Club, located some 30 metres from the Atantic Ocean is Salvador Sango's performance home
'Olokun' is the Yoruba word for 'Ocean' but it means more than the English word. The same word is used for the physical ocean, as well as the spirit governing it. In fact, Olokun is a major Yoruba Orisha (deity) and, according to Ifa' (the religious belief system of the Yoruba people), he has been existing since time immemorial.
Salvador, who has been living together with the Yorubas by the ocean for years, was inspired to write this 'song' after The Ocean Club's* barman came to his house early on a Sunday morning and reported having seen the night before, together with a group of others, three mermaids dancing, playing in the ocean and calling on the onlookers to join them. The incident allegedly happened right in front of the club at a distance short enough to earn a detailed description of these beautiful but equally fearsome supernatural beings. However nonsensical this story sounds to Western ears, for the Yorubas it is a rare but very real encounter and this is not the first time Salvador has heard of such.
* The Ocean Club, located some 30 metres from the Atantic Ocean is Salvador Sango's performance home
