Katanga by ikigai cosmonaut

The idea of ​​making a song that
represents my childhood memories had been around for some time.

There are two sound moments very present.
The first one, in the morning, was the sound of knife sharpeners arriving to town, and the last of the day, was an oriental sound, which played like a jingle on the radio always at midnight, which I heard when I was in bed with my mother every day.

Katanga (Catujal) is more an emotional place than a physical one.
The fact that the beginning of my life started in the hood, gave me
autonomy and a sense of community comfort until today.

Having to move to a bigger city had an impact on my lifestyle change, which brought me emptiness and sadness at that point.
This is where, in the track, the nostalgia I always felt when I heard that oriental sound every night on the radio comes in.

I couldn't find the original radio theme so I used samples from the karate kid's movie soundtrack, as it was the movie I asked to watch every day, and has the same kind of music vibe.
Until today all oriental sounds make me feel the same has i did, a happy unhappiness, and a calming and wondering sense.

In the song's narrative I tried
to recreate this six-year-old child's freedom and the notion of loss of it.
A strong, secure and characterful
beginning leads to a place
of emotional detachment
and adjustment.

The creative process of this song, was one of the songs that connected me the most with myself and the one that made me understand better
who I am today and why.

Things as small as understanding my obsession with oriental things
or my search for total freedom as a personal truth, or even why this musical project started in the first place.

Born in the urge to overflow.

Narratives and senses become physical in the form of frequencies and their absence.

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