OST Of The Week: Duval Timothy & CJ Mirra – My Father’s Shadow

Mary Chiney celebrates the soundtrack to Akinola Davies Jr.'s debut feature film, depicting a single eventful day in Lagos, during 1993 My Father's Shadow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Duval Timothy & CJ Mirra The summer of 1993 in Lagos exists in the collective memory as a period of suspended animation. It was a time defined by the heavy, humid silence that precedes a storm, specifically the political storm of the 12 June election annulment and the subsequent creeping dread of the Abacha years. When Folarin, the patriarch in Akinola Davies Jr.’s My Father’s Shadow, mutters that “sometimes… it’s hard to know what to do,” he isn’t just speaking to his sons; he is articulating the paralysis of an entire middle class caught… The post OST Of The Week: Duval Timothy & CJ Mirra – My Father’s Shadow appeared first on The Quietus.