I have been fortunate since my youth to sit among the conversations and at the feet of Master Teachers close and far sometimes divided by time as well as space and I was a channel then often in spaces where the word and drum clung fiercely to their reconnection I channel still DrumLanguage is a journey, a radio trance-mission an intergenerational multilingual conservation of what matters most my contribution to a long tradition That's the perspective. As for the music itself, Fela, Steel Pulse, Makeba, Boukman and Sparrow were the types of artists played in my childhood home, so a lot of times, the music was the news If you're not dancing at some point, it's not working