Land of Anaka

Land of Anaka es una hermosa canción del cantante ugandés Geoffrey Oryema que forma parte de su álbum de debut de 1990 que llevó por título Exile. El tema fue producido por Brian Eno y escrito por el propio Eno junto a Oryema, además de contar con la participación del artista británico Peter Gabriel, el cual hacía los coros.

La canción está interpretada en acholi, idioma que se habla en el norte de Uganda y con su ritmo hipnótico crea una atmósfera única, trasportándote a un lugar de esperanzas y sueños.

A mi consigue transportarme a mi casa, siendo yo muy joven, cuando la escuchaba en mi habitación y mi madre rondaba por la cocina, llena de vida y luz... me lleva a recordarla llamándome para que fuese a comer, al calor de su abrazo, al sonido de su voz.

In this land of Anaka
They call us Payira
In this land of Anaka
They call us Payira

Obiga wee Tela yoo

Tela yoo wek acet anen otara

Obiga wee Tela yoo

Meno woda maa kikome

Obiga wee tela yoo

Tela yoo wek acet anen otara

Obiga wee tela yoo

Wod woda Anaka

In this land of Anaka
They call us Payira
In this land of Anaka
They call us Payira

Obiga wee tela yoo

Wod woda Anaka

Obiga wee tela yoo

Tela yoo wek acet anen otara

Obiga wee tela yoo

Tela yoo wek acet anen otara

Obiga wee tela yoo

Wod woda Anaka

In this land of Anaka

We had hope in Obiga

In this land of Anaka

We had hope in Obiga

We had hopes, we had dreams

Of a clear green land

In place of of the family house

Dead sand, dead sand

Obiga wee tela yoo

Tela yoo wek acet anen otara

Obiga wee tela yoo

Wod woda Anaka

Blood Of Eden

Blood Of Eden es una canción que se lanzó en 1992 como tercer sencillo del álbum Us del músico inglés Peter Gabriel en la que la cantante irlandesa Sinéad O´Connor le hace unos maravillosos coros. Un tema lleno de armonía, con sonidos étnicos y con la voz de Sinéad con la que consigue llenar la canción de emociones que te pellizcan el alma. Maravillosa canción, maravilloso Peter Gabriel escribiendo una canción tan inmensa y maravillosa Sinéad O´Connor con su preciosa y melodiosa voz.

I caught sight of my reflection
I caught it in the window
I saw the darkness in my heart
I saw the signs of my undoing
They had been there from the start

And the darkness still has work to do
The knotted chord's untying
The heated and the holy
Oh they're sitting there on high
So secure with everything they're buying

In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman and the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man
We wanted the the union oh the union of the woman, the woman and the man

My grip is surely slipping
I think I've lost my hold
Yes I think I've lost my hold
I cannot get insurance any more
They don't take credit, only gold
Is that a dagger or a crucifix I see
You hold so tightly in your hand
And all the while the distance grows between you and me
I do not understand

In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman and the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man
We wanted the the union oh the union of the woman, the woman and the man

At my request you take me in
In that tenderness I am floating away
No certainty, nothing to rely on
Holding still for a moment
What a moment this is
Oh for a moment of forgetting
A moment of bliss
Oh

I can hear the distant thunder
Of a million unheard souls
Of a million unheard souls
Watch each one reach for creature comfort
For the filling of their holes

In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman and the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman and the woman in the man

In the blood of Eden we have done everything we can
In the blood of Eden, so we end as we began
With the man in the woman and the woman in the man
It was all for the union, oh the union of the woman, the woman and the man