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2017 | Alternative
Swans and Moby collaborator Ladan Hussein, aka Cold Specks, digs deep into her Somali roots on her new album Fool’s Paradise.
In Somali folklore there is the tale of Araweelo, a powerful queen who ruled the country by upending gender roles, striking fear in the hearts of men with her practices of hanging them by their testicles and, alternately, castration. Her stories likely inspired an equal mix of terror and awe as stories were passed down from generation to generation and she reigns over the title track of Fool’s Paradise, the new album from Somali-Canadian singer Ladan Hussein, aka Cold Specks.
Having grown up with the story, Hussein found herself revisiting it while working the album. She discovered links between the mythic figure’s fearsome power and her own struggle to stay alive in a time of global turmoil and instability. On ‘Fool’s Paradise’, she volleys between singing in Somali and English.
Cold Specks
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