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Reimagine Humanity

by Ensemble Mik Nawooj

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Ensemble Mik Nawooj just completed a theme song for the Global People's Summit organized by the Humanity Lab Foundation in partnership with the United Nations Office of Partnership, under the theme: Reimagine Humanity.

The music, composed by EMN’s artistic director, JooWan Kim, is a deconstruction of Introduction and Lion from Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals for 68 piece full symphony orchestra and a 20 piece choir with the EMN’s signature Hip-Hop orchestral sound. On top of this massive ensemble, EMN’s MCs, Do D.A.T. and Sandman, have written poignant rhymes regarding today’s political climate and what it means to come together for a positive outcome.

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So that old persona has died
unknown to glory
My soul that old persona defied
So good mourning
Meaning I’ve cried enough
Living in the middle of the violence
innocent pitted against the nihilists
But never give in to the venom and biases
The illegitimate I resist
Like limiting women’s legitimate right to lives
Like what isn’t benefiting the environment
Like when the US government is dividing kin
I resist
Writing the lore
On the plight of the poor
I Lie on the floor
Tired of war
All the infighting outside of my door
The sight of the bodies I try to ignore
You’re not alone
I know the powers are carrying on
And they’re burying homes with the aerial drone
And you look around to see everything gone
And you’re wondering why we just can’t get along
And bombs are flown
Salaam shalom
It ought to be known
Can’t wait for the day
When the babies can play
And not be afraid
to come out of their homes
It’s up to you and I to right all the wrongs
More that I can do than writing a song
For the life denied the right to belong
Side by side people are vital and strong
The lens of the eyes
Make the world large in size
But it’s small after all
when bold are the minds
Reaching over border lines
Walls and or confines
Toward what is known as foreign
Is nothing short of divine
And of course you will find
In the course the grind
you can’t afford to divide
We’re a force when aligned
In thwarting our decline
It’s important that we mind
In every endeavor
there’s nothing better
than coming together
it’s now or never
it’s time

CHORUS:
Seek the hand
Of your fellow man and
And see past (the) in-san-ity
Keep your passion
Be in action
Reimagining humanity
Keep your passion
Be in action
Reimagining humanity

ladies and gentlemen lend me your ears
now is the hour the present is here
now more than ever civic unrest rears
it’s head, to challenge our values and how we live
fear screams build walls
love says build a bridge
we standing in the middle of it all
tryna get it how we live
humans just being but not being what a human is
confined to our squares and circles truly vitruvian
it eludes me when
they try to exclude the Nubian
because of the hue We is
such foolishness
what will we do when our kids
look back and view this shit-
will they be proud
endowed to bloom or doomed
to exist
the dystopian
dozing off opium
snapchat and sodium
drowning in Petroleum
but you know we can
raise the vibratory zone we in
glow gold and then
heal the soul of men
and the globe we in

abolish the hatred
reset the matrix~
honor the ancients
regardless of race it’s
one love one light
one shine it’s basic
but you what complicates
greed fear and corporations
This rebirth and restoration
let’s reimagine this situation

CHORUS:
Seek the hand
Of your fellow man and
And see past (the) in-san-ity
Keep your passion
Be in action
Reimagining humanity
Keep your passion
Be in action
Reimagining humanity

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released September 20, 2018
Ensemble Mik Nawooj
Music composed and orchestrated by JooWan Kim
Original lyrics and performance by Do D.A.T. and Sandman
Background vocals by Christopher Nicholas
Produced by JooWan Kim and Christopher Nicholas

Creative direction by Ryan Hamlyn / Nichi Bay Productions and the Global People’s Summit in consultation and with direction by Hazami Barmada and Erin Dunne
Recorded at Ancient Owl Audio
Mixed by Christopher Nishimoto
Mastered by Jeremy Goody / Megasonic Sound
Video montage by Matthew Boman / dadass FILMS
Executive producers Ryan Hamlyn, JooWan Kim, Christopher Nicholas, Jenni Choi, Hazami Barmada and Erin Dunne

Special thanks to Jason Michael Paul Entertainment, Inc.

Ensemble Mik Nawooj: miknawooj.com @miknawooj
dadass FILMS: dad.film @dadassFILMS
Global People’s Summit: globalpeoplesummit.org @ThePeopleSummit

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Led by composer & pianist JooWan Kim, Ensemble Mik Nawooj samples hip-hop & classical, rendering metamusic.

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