Focus On Da Good copyright 2018

Hakim Woods

Fairmount Park exists on the ridge of our eternal memory. This ever sprawling place where I spent sun/moon/people time. TYME enjoying the beauty of Philly. The rich terrain of Fairmount, the world's largest and most beautiful park, is now the location of Hakim Wood's dissonant image. Here we witness the intersection of a highly ritualized live performance in real/reel Philly The rich terrain of Fair Mount Park became a different kind of universal Pan African site where sight was restored through Mulubah's West African song "Focus On Da Good: One Philly Afro-Folk Hip Hop Jaaawn"[6.03] HAKIM WOODS Our bones are in this land It must be ours in the living Our Ancestor faces form on film our minds form our contours out of deep wailing saxes. form in the voice of our would be leaders form child. form in the rush of war. form child. form in the sun's explosion and in the avenging waves. form in the prisons of America form child. form your image of men and women tearing into the open; and face the form of our love in the final clasping and embrace; form your faith out of the earth; form your face with searing waves of sound, as beyond the wall there is a painful calm... ...Larry Neal, North Philly's Poet Laureate Pt. 3 The rich terrain Hakim's down the bottom hip Hop presentation is grounded in rhyme, Hip Hop Nation Language, Jazz, Soul, African American poetry, field hollers, signifying and African American orality just as Mulubah's West African song is loop linked to the long history of Kpelle, Vai, Mandingo, Mende and other communities in West Africa. Mulubah's guitars playing in base in both West Africa string history and the latter western tradition of guitar playing. His singing has an even longer tradition. Is it any wonder that Jafar was chosen to bring melodic balance to this high rhythmic film. Who else but a cornetist could render an authentic NewOrleans jazz flavor that arks back to days when the lead soloist played cornet and not trumpet. Welcome to this historic and futuristic film that will force us to remember Lee Morgan (Moanin) and Popa Celestin (Marie Laveau).