Here’s a quick glimpse of one small handful of names skimmed off a list of hundreds who’ve influenced Remi’s development as a musician and songwriter …

‘The Songtree’ isn't just a blasting declaration of literary revolution, it is proof of blessed victory!

Among other things, it signifies the first ever work of serious literary fiction by a UK Jamaican Maroon or by an ancestral griot. And it signifies the first ever such work to include original audible Jazz and Reggae on the page, crystallising the creative soul-revolutionary spirit of the music and taking the whole experience of reading a novel to brand new places…

A cabin in the woods, a griot’s manyatta, an Ancestral sweat-lodge? The Griotcast: A hothouse of human wisdom where minds unfold and stories are unpacked, their wisdom applied to the needs of our time.

Abracadia’s Griotcast applies ancient wisdom to modern problems using the bright constancy of traditional tales like stars: to illuminate, orientate and guide us in our progress.

Gather round the fire with Remi D and guests as we unpack the wisdom of the tales of the Ancients.

It took some thinking which track to put up as a sample… 

More than any other field of human activity, the art of the griot has a history of creatively using legacies of cohesive human wisdom to guide, to buoy, to heal and to advance the human condition.

This is because when intellect and soul combine, a form of wisdom is produced against which customarily genocidal colonialism is impotent. It is the power of humanity’s nobleness outshining corruption like a candle lights up darkness…

Music is the soundtrack to human history. It sets the dance of the world’s heartbeat …