Singing of Home

Posted by J on Dec 10, 2012 in Audio Postcard, J Posts | 1 comment

The men in this picture are singing Gnaoua music. Their ancestors were West African slaves, taken from an area once known as Ancient Ghana. They created their music to heal their pain, to exalt the memory of their ancestors — and to simply live in a hard place far home.

Here is a song they sang for us inside a tent in Merzouga, Morocco — they sang it twice, by request. It’s called “Soudani” from their album “Gnaoua: Music Khamlia”:

I’m told this is a heartbreaking and deeply passionate song — about HOME.

There’s an obvious tie-in, of course, to our journey … to our home here AND our home back home. Our song, so to speak, is now telling the story of our world adventure home and our Virginia home — even our greater Home — a little bit of all these things at the same time.

We don’t look as cool as the Moroccan musicians in these pictures, but we are singing a song of our own on this journey. It’s a song of healing, of deep memories, and of life in homes far away from Home.