{"product_id":"anthony-joseph-the-ark","title":"Anthony Joseph - The Ark","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/le7UcMfa2fI?si=sQuGLzkAS_oMaflO\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003eWith each new recording Anthony Joseph presents an imaginative, personal vision of contemporary black culture, and The Ark is yet another compelling album by the award-winning Trinidadian poet and musician. This second part of a sequence of two albums launched with 2025's Rowing Up River To Get Our Names Back, there is a specific thread running through the glorious offering of sounds. \"I was especially interested in the idea of using Afrofuturism as a means of using the future in order to correct the wrongs of the past,\" explains Joseph. \"And so a lot of lyrics reimage or imagine an alternate black history. At the same time there are elements of autobiography.\" The aforesaid cultural phenomenon, a view of the black experience through the prism of science fiction and ancient Egypt and Africa, as mapped out by visionaries from music and literature such as Sun Ra, Parliament-Funkadelic and Octavia E. Butler.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Heavenly Sweetness","offers":[{"title":"180g 2LP Edition","offer_id":45517780287532,"sku":"HS279VL","price":275.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD Edition","offer_id":45517780484140,"sku":"HS279CD","price":155.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0388\/0461\/9308\/files\/anthony-joseph-the-ark.jpg?v=1778066654","url":"https:\/\/whitenoiserecords.org\/products\/anthony-joseph-the-ark","provider":"WHITE NOISE RECORDS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}