Sun of Makairo (Home Is Best)

The record

Most songs about villages are written from the city, in past tense, with apology in the chords. This one is written from the village, in present tense, with a jazz piano and a drop. The verse travels the whole map — coast, hills, the lines on the chart — and the compass keeps swinging back to one point at 0.5°S.

It is the studio’s geography argument set to log drums: talent does not have to leave to matter, and a place does not become central by being validated from elsewhere — it becomes central when the people there decide to build where they stand. The outro is the whole doctrine in seven words: We are home. And we are staying. 2063.