{"product_id":"anthony-joseph-the-ark","title":"Anthony Joseph - The Ark","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"Description_reasons-to-buy-wrapper__0CthD\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Content_description-wrapper__XbO9z\" data-is-open=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Content_inner-wrapper__xBJ2L\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Description_truncated-text__yUXZD\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Description_descriptionBody__bEN2t\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Description_descriptionText__Lgv7A\" data-testid=\"description-product\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith each new recording Anthony Joseph presents an imaginative, personal vision of contemporary black culture, and The Ark is yet another compelling album by the award-winning Trinidadian poet and musician. This second part of a sequence of two albums launched with 2025's Rowing Up River To Get Our Names Back, there is a specific thread running through the glorious offering of sounds. \"I was especially interested in the idea of using Afrofuturism as a means of using the future in order to correct the wrongs of the past,\" explains Joseph. \"And so a lot of lyrics reimage or imagine an alternate black history. At the same time there are elements of autobiography.\" The aforesaid cultural phenomenon, a view of the black experience through the prism of science fiction and ancient Egypt and Africa, as mapped out by visionaries from music and literature such as Sun Ra, Parliament-Funkadelic and Octavia E. Butler.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dash The Henge Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57040885318007,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4875\/3922\/files\/int-49bf7eded0739836f14c279d291e6b14-pohdbdmi.webp?v=1777029961","url":"https:\/\/dashthehengestore.com\/en-us\/products\/anthony-joseph-the-ark","provider":"Dash The Henge Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}