Both ÌFÉ full length albums on vinyl at one discounted price! Includes an autographed thank you card from Otura Mun aka ÌFÉ.
This 2 album vinyl bundle includes the 0000+0000 Special Edition Hyacinth/Candy Cane colored vinyl 2LP and the newly reissued IIII+IIII LP on black vinyl. Ships with an exclusive “bundle only” autographed thank you card from Otura Mun aka ÌFÉ. Includes a digital download of the new album 0000+0000 on it’s digital release Nov 5th as well as an immediate download of the lead off single FAKE BLOOD feat. Robby The Lord.
ÌFÉ’s new album 0000+0000 (pronounced Yay-koon May-yee) is a companion piece to the first album, IIII+IIII. A sort of “ying” to the “yang” of the first album, both combining to form one complete expression. 0000+0000 is the night, contraction, femininity, darkness, death, the storm that compliments the IIII+IIII’s day, expansion, masculinity, light, birth and calm. Finally with the release of 0000+0000 this musical body of work can be heard in it’s completed form.
Includes unlimited streaming of 0000+0000
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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$50USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
This is the vinyl version of the new ÌFÉ álbum 0000+0000. Released by Discos Ifá / Mais Um and literally hand pressed and packaged by ÌFÉ at the New Orleans Record Press in Louisiana, this Special Edition 2LP contains the entire 0000+0000 album on 2 separate vinyl records.
A/B sides on Purple and White “Hyacinth” vinyl and C/D sides on Red and White “Candy Cane” vinyl in a lush gatefold featuring cover photo by Luke Atwood Abiol + Illustration and photo by ÌFÉ + full album credits. Straight up and down, the thing looks hot to death and sounds AMAZING!! And when we say hand pressed and packaged by ÌFÉ, we mean Otura Mun literally took a job at the New Orleans Record Press plant 4 blocks from his house in NOLA and pressed and packaged these records at the plant himself! Seriously y’all, new levels unlocked! Limited to 500 copies, this pressing is going to sell out FAST! Get yours now! Shipping Worldwide.
Includes a digital download of the full album on Nov 5th and an immediate download of the lead single FAKE BLOOD feat. Robby The Lord
ÌFÉ
0000+0000 (Special Edition 2XLP)
A-Side
PRELUDIO II feat. Lex
FIREFLIES
FAKE BLOOD feat. Robby The Lord
B-Side
TU SABES K SI
WEDNESDAY’S CHILD feat. Saint Ezekiel
THE TEARER (Bembe)
C-Side
PRAYER FOR SHANGÓ
VOODOO ECONOMICS (WolfMan)
HEART FULL OF LOVE
D-Side
MR. ENVY
CLOSING PRAYER feat. The London Lucumi Choir
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$30USDor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
This the new album 0000+0000 on CD in a beautifully designed gatefold digipack. Features cover art by Luke Atwood Abiol + Illustration and photo by ÌFÉ.
Includes unlimited streaming of 0000+0000
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Streaming + Download
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
FAKE BLOOD feat.Robby The Lord
Written By Otura Mun aka ÌFÉ, Robby The Lord
San Juan people hear me
Gaza people hear me
Stand strong when you're near me
The devil paints a lovely lie
We will surely buy
Black Lives people hear me
All Lives people fear me
Stand strong when you're near me
The devil paints a lovely lie
Must we always buy?
Verse One..
Fake blood, Fake lives, Fake ends
Fake innocence, Fake drama, Fake friends
Fake fives, Fake tens,
Fake founding fathers, Fake now, Fake then.
Fake bills, Fake change, Fake sense,
Fake politicians, Fake pounds, Fake pense.
As the country stares,
Fake conversation, Fake table, Fake chairs
Fake hopes, Fake prayers,
Fake indecision, Fake talk, Fake cares
Fake diamonds, Fake pearls,
The system wants to gas light the whole damn world!
Chorus...
Little Lies and Stranger Things
Tremé Coco Tangerine
Margaret Attwood, Stephen King
Social Network, La La Land
Sunday Service Jackie Chan
Lying King and Rocketman
Gucci Prada Maybelline,
Daddy Yankee Crystalline
Corporate culture Elohim
Party Down DiCaprio
Gravity Incredibles
Brooklyn Never Let Me Go
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Verse 2....
Fake blonds, Fake ease
Fake freedom fighters, Fake shots, Fake deeds
Fake wants, Fake needs
Fake moral compass, Fake gods, Fake creeds
Fake gear, Fake guns, Fake slugs
Fake family values, Fake laughs, Fake hugs
Fake smiles, Fake cops, Fake thugs
Fake mental illness, Fake cures, Fake drugs
Fake tears, Fake blood
Fake climate action, Fake peace, Fake love
As the system implodes,
if you want to hang on we have got to let go!
Chorus...
Little Lies and Stranger Things
Tremé Coco Tangerine
Margaret Attwood, Stephen King
Social Network, La La Land
Sunday Service Jackie Chan
Lying King and Rocketman
Gucci Prada Maybelline,
Daddy Yankee Crystalline
Corporate culture Elohim
Party Down DiCaprio
Gravity Incredibles
Brooklyn Never Let Me Go
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Balati ba Gucci ba Dolce ba Prada
Fraîches sont les Sista, Frais sont les Broda
Toujours à la Moda, Bamoni nga Zoba
J'aime m'habiller, nalula kolata, beaucoup de billets,basi ebele,
cash money, toujours à ma bleta "Chico en or - colliers Louboutin souliers
les renois pètent- des becla....
Bakolata Nguanzo Bakolata Nguanzo
Kaka pona kombo
Yeah yeah
Little Lies and Stranger Things
Tremé Coco Tangerine
Margaret Attwood, Stephen King
Social Network, La La Land
Sunday Service Jackie Chan
Lying King and Rocketman
Gucci Prada Maybelline,
Daddy Yankee Crystalline
Corporate culture Elohim
Party Down DiCaprio
Gravity Incredibles
Brooklyn Never Let Me Go
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Que es lo que pasa aquí?
Ekila. Na yo kobosanaka te
Mvuata ku Mvuata
Ideologie ya le Ngansthie
Ideologie Ya Imperatore
Ideologie Ya Papa Wemba
0000+0000, the second album from ÌFÉ (pronounced Eeeh-FAY), is a companion piece to the critically acclaimed 2017 debut album IIII+IIII (pronounced Edgy-Og-Bay).
Like it’s predecessor, the numbers and symbols of the album’s title, 0000+0000 (pronounced Yay-koon May-yee), form a prophetic sign from the Ifá religious practice, this time heralding the birth of night and a fearless embrace of death.
The artist Otura Mun—working under the conceptual alias of ÌFÉ—wrote, performed, and produced the entire album, with an array of special guest contributors, including: Lex, a gifted, emerging vocalist from the New Orleans underground; Robby The Lord, a dynamic performer from the Congolese Sapeur culture of Paris; and the soulful young Yoruban guitarist Saint Ezekiel. The London Lucumi Choir contributes vocals to the album’s final track, “Closing Prayer”, with storied New Orleans percussionist Bill Summers—of Herbie Hancock’s legendary Headhunters— joining Mun on drums for the album’s finale. In addition, Polish American singer Lavoski, a steady ÌFÉ collaborator, contributes vocals to the majority of album’s eleven songs. 0000+0000 was mixed in Austin, Texas by engineer Stuart Sikes. Known for his work with Cat Power, Jack White, and Loretta Lynn, Sikes functions as a crucial collaborator on the album, bringing his own unique analog warmth to the electronic landscape created by ÌFÉ.
Otura Mun (pronounced Oh-too-rah Moon), a Bàbálawo, or high priest, initiated into Ifá in Cuba, sees his ongoing ÌFÉ project as an extension of his spiritual life, the Ifá and Orisha religious practices being the lens through which the music is conceptualized. ÌFÉ is also an extension of Mun’s lifelong study of African diasporic percussion, a pursuit that has taken him from collegiate drumlines through the same Dallas jazz and soul scene that birthed Erykah Badu to Puerto Rico, where, for 20 years, Mun studied under master drummers tied to the island’s rich Afro-Latin musical traditions. While living in Puerto Rico, Mun built up an extensive discography producing tracks and albums for singers and MC’s drawn from the island’s underground hip-hop and indie scenes. Out of this hyper-creative environment and cultural work, the concept and direction for ÌFÉ was born in Mun’s San Juan studio in 2015.
ÌFÉ moved to New Orleans in 2020, a change meant as a creative catalyst and for further musical study, but equally as a political decision, the African-American artist deliberately seeking to engage with a city rooted in Black American culture, community and history. 0000+0000, which began as early sketches in San Juan, was fully realized in New Orleans, becoming a necessary bridge for Mun between his past experiences and a new era, while still acting as a continuation of his efforts to connect dots within the African diaspora in the Western Hemisphere.
Explosive first single, "Fake Blood" - inspired in part by Adam Curtis’ HyperNormalization and America’s reaction to the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting - asks "Why do we like fiction more than we like the truth?”, powerfully asserting“Black lives people hear me, all lives people fear me”. The lilting "Wednesday's Child" is "about someone who feels they were born cursed - I come from a line of people abandoned by parents, this is generational trauma, but can it be turned around?" The ambition of this record is vast. It is a ritual for healing and strength in itself, constantly connected to the “invisible world”. At times it’s contemplative and dream-like, as in the unabashed, unabated cover of US soul trio The Invincibles’s raw 1965 gospel single, “Heart Full of Love”, which levitates the listener into its clouds of sound. Always that invisible world is connected to reality and real bodies: “Voodoo Economics (Wolf Man)” with its slow lope, dubbed out snares and multiple-personality vocal processing brings out all the complexities of reggae’s innate sensuality, while the extraordinary “Prayer for Chango” and its constantly accelerating tempo and complexity, takes dance music and DJ culture’s adrenalising qualities to a higher dimension. Finally, all of these elements combine and culminate in the heart-stoppingly beautiful seven minute choral "Closing Prayer".
The album’s overarching themes of night and death find their origin in the signs of Ifá, but also in the traditions of New Orleans’ culture, where the transitioning of life into death is honored with celebrations of dance and music. ÌFÉ’s new album expresses Otura Mun’s exploration of where we are now, collectively as a country and as a planet: examining how a death, an ending, offers a chance for new birth, new life. “In 0000+0000 the sun has set in the visible world. The night and the 'magical’ world has come to life,” states Mun, “In many ways the record is saying the sun has set on Western world. It is the fear of it’s inevitable death that we must overcome if we hope to transcend and survive as human beings. Nothing lasts forever.”
credits
released November 5, 2021
All Songs Recorded and Produced by Awo Ni Orunmila Otura Roso Mun aka ÌFÉ
All songs mixed in Austin, TX by Stuart Sikes
All songs mastered in London, UK by Bob Macc
Art Direction: Otura Mun
Cover photo: Luke Atwood Abiol
Design work: Tristan Manco
Otura Mun plays LP Percussion exclusively.
PRELUDIO II feat. Lex
Written M. Underwood aka Otura Mun (ASCAP)
Publ. Discos IFÁ (ASCAP)
All music produced and performed by Otura Mun aka ÌFÉ
Ending lead vocal by Lex
Accompanying vocals Lavoski
FIREFLIES
Written M. Underwood aka Otura Mun (ASCAP)
Publ. Discos IFÁ (ASCAP)
All instruments produced and performed by Otura Mun aka ÌFÉ
Ending lead vocal by Lavoski
Additional vocals by Beto Torrens, Andrea “BelTron”, Anaelis del Mar Rodriguez
FAKE BLOOD feat. Robby The Lord
Written M. Underwood (ASCAP) Robby-Ange Kimvula (SACEM)
Publ. Discos IFÁ (ASCAP)
All music produced and performed by Otura Mun aka ÌFÉ
Third Verse Lead vocal and ending vamp by Robby The Lord
Backing vocals by Lavoski, Beto Torrens, Andrea “BelTron”, Anaelis del Mar Rodriguez, Lex
TU SABES K SI
Written M. Underwood aka Otura Mun (ASCAP)
Publ. Discos IFÁ (ASCAP)
All music produced and performed by Otura Mun aka ÌFÉ
Backing vocals by Lavoski, Andrea “Beltron”.
WEDNESDAY’S CHILD feat. Saint Ezekiel
Written M. Underwood aka Otura Mun (ASCAP)
Publ. Discos IFÁ (ASCAP)
All music produced and performed by Otura Mun aka ÌFÉ
Lead vocals Otura Mun
Guitars by Saint Ezekiel
Shakers and Mini Bells by Pedro Segundo
Backing vocals by Lex and Lavoski
THE TEARER (Bembe)
Written M. Underwood (ASCAP)
Publ. Discos IFÁ (ASCAP)
All Music produced and performed by Otura Mun aka ÌFÉ
Chekere’s by Beto Torrens
Ending lead vocal by Yarimir Cabán Reyes
Additional vocals by Pia Love, Beto Torrens
PRAYER FOR SHANGÓ
Traditional
Arranged and produced by M. Underwood (ASCAP)
Publ. Discos IFÁ (ASCAP)
All music produced and performed by Otura Mun aka ÌFÉ
Additional operatic ending line Lavoski
Additional vocals, Beto Torrens, Lavoski, Andrea “BelTron”, Anaelis del Mar Rodriguez
VOODOO ECONOMICS (WolfMan)
Written M. Underwood (ASCAP)
Publ. Discos IFÁ (ASCAP)
All music produced and performed by Otura Mun aka ÌFÉ
Shekeres by Beto Torrens
Ending lead vocal by Yarimir Cabán Reyes
Additional vocals, Beto Torrens, Pia Love
In memory of Adolf Wolfgang Siemon-Otero
HEART FULL OF LOVE
Written C. Knight, L. Johnson, D. Richardson
Publ. Circle Seven Music Co. (BMI)
All music produced and performed by Otura Mun aka ÌFÉ
Guitars by Saint Ezekiel
Backing vocals performed and arranged by Lavoski
MR. ENVY
Written M. Underwood aka Otura Mun (ASCAP)
Publ. Discos IFÁ (ASCAP)
All music produced and performed by Otura Mun aka ÌFÉ
Secondary lead vocal Lavoski
Additional vocals, Lavoski, Lex
CLOSING PRAYER feat. The London Lucumi Choir
Traditional
Vocal arrangement Daniela De Armas
All music produced arranged and performed by M. Underwood aka Otura Mun aka ÌFÉ (ASCAP)
Publ. Discos IFÁ (ASCAP)
Electronic Iya performed by Bill Summers
Electronic Itotele performed by Brad Broomfield
Choral performance by The London Lucumi Choir
Featuring Daniela De Armas, Liz Gre and Sonia Kounasso
Coro: Jimena Pardo, Jennyfer Parnasse, Mish Aminoff, Dan Greifer,
Samuel Horsley, and Michelle Brillouet.
Choir recorded by Duncan Thornley at Map Studio, London UK
All other instruments recorded by Otura Mun at ILÉ ÌFÉ, New Orleans, LA
The electronic music moniker of New Orleans based African American producer and percussionist Otura Mun, ÌFÉ blends
elements of Afro-Cuban folklore and Yoruban religious music with the sounds of modern day Jamaican Dancehall, Trap and AfroBeats. The single most important electronic act in Afro-Caribbean music today, ÌFÉ’s long awaited sophomore album 0000+0000 drops November 5th, 2021....more
One of my all time favorites from the incredible London Lucumi Choir! Stunning choral arrangements of Ocha music from an amazing ensemble directed by Daniela De Armas. Required listening!! ÌFÉ
I produced this album with Puerto Rico based artist MIMA back in 2011. It was my first go at indie rock production and it's one of the works I'm most proud of. Incredible album from this artist! ÌFÉ
This was a record I recorded and produced back in 2009. It's the last project I made before starting work on ÌFÉ. Excited to see it finally go to vinyl! It's something of a classic in Puerto Rico. ÌFÉ
The late master’s album is an expert concoction of indigenous beats and patterns that encapsulates its creator’s dedication to his craft. Bandcamp Album of the Day Mar 28, 2019
