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Never Been Your Business

from Muramuke by Barbara Panther & Matthew Herbert

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A decade-long musical partnership takes on compelling new form as Barbara Panther and Matthew Herbert return to the studio and emerge anew as MURAMUKE. Guided by twilight revelations, shifting moon-lit textures, and the racing thoughts that deny sleep in the still of night, the duo’s new name is taken from the Rwandan term for goodnight. Their new self-titled album, metabolises the night and day terrors of real Black life into a post-colonial cry of rage that’s both contemporary and ancestral.

The album was pieced together through back-and-forth exchanges between Barbara in Germany and Matthew in England during the height of 2020’s lockdown. Muramuke is lyrically defined by Barbara’s lived experiences as a Black woman displaced by the horrors of war, then unable to escape the poisonous global reach of white supremacist anti-Blackness, in all its literal and coded forms.

The throbbing beat of “Never Been Your Business” finds Barbara spitting out admonishments close to the ear; “Don’t stay quiet now / this is a real riot now” she commands, part Grace Jones and part Poly Styrene, atop a classic Herbert beat with a swollen bassline and regimented drumming.

The deeply personal nature of an album that explores the roots of heritage and personal histories is reflected in the specially commissioned cover art’s combination of sacred and mythical imagery by Indian contemporary visual artist, Rithika Pandey.

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from Muramuke, track released August 26, 2022
Written & Produced by Barbara Panther and Matthew Herbert
Mastered at The Exchange
Words by Christine Kakaire
Artwork by Rithika Pandey
Animations by Gabriel Bryant @gabezz
Special thanks to Aisha Nanor Martin

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