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We Have Come Here To Bury Caesar And Not To Praise Him

from Wedding (Me Ware Wo) - album by A.J. Holmes

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    Release 14/01/2013

    Wedding is the electrifying debut release from British-Afro-pop-band A.J. Holmes and The Hackney Empire.

    Fusing afro-pop, soukous and calpyso influences with classic London narratives in the vein of Ian Dury and Squeeze, AJ Holmes and The Hackney Empire have created a feel-good soundtrack for 21st century tropical pearly kngs and queens.

    Special guests on 'Wedding' include London based Nigerian Afro-grime star Afrikan Boy who features on 'Your Latest Status Up Date', Papa Milo - the guitarist from the Palm Wine Legend S.E. Rogie's band: The Morning Stars - who comes onboard the cover of his bands song 'Do Me Justice'; Kastro, the Congolese MC who features on Fraudian Slip and the celebrated Sierra Leonean musician Folo Graff, who joins the group for the Story Of The New Electric Hi-Life.
     
    Influenced by London's rich cultural melting pot 'Wedding' is a union of cultures; where Africa meets London and falls in love! Wedding (pronounced Vedding) is also a district of Berlin where A.J. met Les Beaux Gosses de Berlin who taught him to play Soukous, hot housed him in the Congolese community and fed him with their beautiful musical history (which served as inspiration for most of the songs on the album).

    Wedding embodies the mad professor genius of AJ Holmes, who fuses wildly different genres of music together with such a deft hand that you'd think they had always walked hand in hand. Take, for example, the Pan African guitar styles that are woven together with English lyrical wit and satirical observations that can only come from a man born and bred in deepest Barking & Dagenham. AJ's partners in crime (Abi, Ged, Martyn and Sabine) are the eponymous 'The Hackney Empire'; a multi-cutural tribe of über-talented musicians who bring even more colour to a fluorescently bright palette of sounds.

    Mastered by the same people behind Paul Simon's Graceland, DJ's have been scrambling to offer up remixes of Wedding, check out the ones we have for you here by João Brasil, who took a break from his official remixes of CSS, Bonde do Rolê, and N.A.S.A to take on 'Do me Justice'; Konrad Old Money, fresh from his collaboration with The Creators Project takes on The Story Of The New Electric Hi-Life, and extra-hot London based South African/British producer/DJ Moroka (The Very Best co producer) who takes a spin on 'I'll Never Forget You'

    Stream Wedding remixes:
    soundcloud.com/ajholmesthehackneyempire/sets/wedding-remixed/
     
    Wedding is the debut album for AJ Holmes and the Hackney Empire, but word has already been spreading like wildfire. Having pricked the ears of white-hot electro producer duo Radioclit (M.I.A, The Very Best, Amadou & Mariam) to become their resident house band at their Secousse club, they released their debut single 'Fraudian Slip' in 2011, (also produced by Radioclit) to critical acclaim. Even Billy Bragg wants to join the melee; keep an eye out for his cameo in their new video  A13 Trunk Road To The Sea: 
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdXsm81FkBo&feature=youtu.be

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Well history recalls

That every empire will rise and it will full

Every dog will have it's day

In the sun, then fade away

And the higher you climb

The greater the decline

From the bottom to the top

Get get ready for the drop


Cos if you ask me how far we will go

I'll tell you that I do not know

But if you ask if I know our aim is true

Then I'll tell you, I do


But it could all fall apart on a whim

Until then

We had Come Here To Bury Caecar and Not To Praise Him



Well it may come as some comfort to us all

To know there's always someone out there somewhere plotting your down full

And that could explain this feeling of unease

Supposition of shadows and sudden movements in the trees

But don't run from what you can't see

Cos you might run directly into danger

And supply has always exceeded demand

So why worry now about your future



Cos if you ask me how far we will go

I'll tell you I do not know

But if you as if I know our aim is true

Then I'll tell you, I do


But it could all fall apart on a whim

Until then

We had Come Here To Bury Caecar and Not To Praise Him


And we come here to reminded you

Of the things the lay behind you

We come here to reminded you of the things that come before

And we come here to reminded you

Of the things the lay behind you

We come here to reminded you of the things that come before


And we come here to reminded you

Of the things the lay behind you

We come here to reminded you of the things that come before

And we come here to reminded you

Of the things the lay behind you

We come here to reminded you of the things that come before

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from Wedding (Me Ware Wo) - album, released November 20, 2015
Written and performed by A.J. Holmes and The Hackney Empire

Produced and mixed by Martyn Potter, A.J. Holmes

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A.J. Holmes (aka Vanishing Breed) is a Musician, Recordist, Big fan of Pan-African music, Lover of 20th Century Architecture and Founder of The Hackney Empire (band)

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