Saturday 3rd April, 2021
The new single for Idi (Ras) Banamungu, the West Australian based vocalist, songwriter, percussionist, and music therapist, is Revelation of Oneness, the follow-up singles Smiling Face of Australia and My Sunshine.
The new track is once again an evocative combination of roots music, blues and Afrobeat. The music artist’s new track utilises various converging sound choices that surprise as much they pacify. Ras Banamungu and The Det-n-ators International have won the prestigious Akademia award and Poze productions award for best album and EP with I am Messenjah and Let’s Make our Business Forgiveness, and the celebrated Rastafarian was also awarded for his live performance at the Coast to Coast awards in Melbourne 2019.
Adding to this growing list are some more recent accolades; the 2020 Artistic Vision award for exceptional talent of the year, originality, and vision in the field of music, and the 2020 X-POZE-ING Music Award for Best Reggae Music Video, for My Sunshine. Revelation of Oneness is perhaps more of a meditative sort of song, one that both fits the aesthetics of previous releases as well as highlights another side of the act; a less obvious, more contemplative version that relies on a dreamy, gently rhapsodic series of sonic attributes.
Written and produced by Ras Banamungu, engineered, and recorded by Andrew Wright at Forest Studio Perth Western Australia, and mastered by Alex Saltz at APS Mastering New York USA, Revelation of Oneness is a subtly persuasive reggae-based song that reveals a somewhat quieter version of the band’s previous releases.
Revelation of Oneness is taken from the forthcoming new album Ras Banamugu believes will help guide healing in the community. As he has said about the new collection of songs, ‘This album is an invitation to all the musical community to discover a deeper connection with one’s emotions, and bring together individuals, whilst on their separate journeys, together into a common place of happiness and healing, whilst enjoying a new perspective of their present lives in style.’
