Landmark Collection Of Powerful Field Recordings From Witch Camps In Ghana Released
The album was produced by GRAMMY Award-winning producer and author Ian Brennan.by BWW News Desk
Six Degrees Records is proud to announce a landmark new album from Witch Camp (Ghana); I ve Forgotten Now Who I Used to Be released via Six Degrees Records on 12 March 2021. Produced by GRAMMY Award-winning producer and author Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Zomba Prison Project) in collaboration with his wife, Italian-Rwandan filmmaker, author, and photographer, Marilena Umuhoza Delli, whose idea it was to record the album inspired by her own upbringing.
Marilena says, My own mother is a disabled widow from Rwanda and is the same age as most of these women we met at the Witch Camps. We grew up poor, living in a factory. It is impossible for me to look at these women s circumstance and not see my own mother and an inhumane fate that but for a matter of geography could as well have been hers. It is impossible t