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“Call ‘Em Out” is an urban tune featuring the spoken word talents of NINE BEATS COLLECTIVE member, playwright, spoken word artist and m/c, Eric Leroy Wilson. Written and performed by Eric, with music by MOBO-award winning UK producer Tony Bean, this is a track of originality and substance.
With dynamic music and free verse poetry, “Call ‘Em Out” is unpredictable, melodic, with a hard-edged beat. Against a constantly building, almost mystical pulse, Eric delivers deep lyrics that channel the revered USA theologian/civil rights activist Howard Thurman. This is music with a message, shards of jazz, R&B, and hip-hop essence pulling the listener in. The unfurling, swirling quality of the track is underpinned by the heart and soul of passionate, emotive spoken word.
Eric performs the track with NINE BEATS COLLECTIVE - an international collaboration of world class musicians, artists, and songwriters who have come together from different continents, different cities, and different experiences, exploring the ancient biblical wisdom known as ‘the beatitudes’. Malibu-based Eric wrote the lyrics after one of the initial creative hothouse sessions with other Collective members who had come together to share thoughts, ideas and collaborative talents.
Eric shares, “[One of the] NINE BEATS COLLECTIVE shared this idea that was just so evocative aboutcalling forth ghosts of those things that need to be woken up in our lives; so I’ve written “Call ’Em Out” which attempts to call out and evoke those ghosts of our better selves that are inside of us.”
The original version of “Call ‘Em Out” is found on the NINE BEATS COLLECTIVE double album NINE BEATS TO THE BAR. Acclaimed by critics, it is an eclectic soundscape of R&B, soul, rock/pop, acoustic threads, classical, jazz/funk, African vibes, and a hint of gospel. It's a haunting, a cry, a new beat. It's soul, adventure, lament, and rage. It's a love song. And most of all it's a movement.
lyrics
There is within us all a place of truth in safe-keeping
Where all we hold sacred is bound in kept care
Where our truer selves live
Where our real consent dwells
Whether winsome or woe-some it’s where your “you” resides
It’s the sacred self
The holy thou
The clarity of identity
It’s the temple of your kinder spirits
Deep buried long ignored the temple of our familiar
Holds the ghost of our forgotten but needful things
Our forgotten but needful things
Held hidden by fear
Cowardice kept cover
Once you become responsible so just let it lie the false self says
Until a realer, deeper, truer voice cries
Call ‘em out let ‘em come call ‘em out
Call ‘em out let ‘em come call ‘em out
Call ‘em out let ‘em come call ‘em out
Call ‘em out let ‘em come call ‘em out
Call out your emptiness, whole hollow to be filled… let ‘em come
Call out the you who mourns for what’s been relinquished and recklessly removed… let ‘em come
Call out your meekness, power open handedly held… let ‘em come
Calling out that thing in you that craves fairness like food and justice like real drink… let ‘em come
Call ‘em out let ‘em come call ‘em out
Call ‘em out let ‘em come call ‘em out
Call ‘em out let ‘em come call ‘em out
Call ‘em out let ‘em come call ‘em out
Calling forth your mercy, letting favour fall… let ’em come
Call out pure purpose, mix motives no more… let ‘em come
Call out that you that demands peace, dives into the gap, building bridges for the breech… let ‘em come
Call ‘em out let ‘em come call ‘em out
Call ‘em out let ‘em come call ‘em out
Call out the side of yourself who’s willing to wear the scars, dismiss the bars, bear the pain of persecution for something or someone bigger than one’s self
Call ‘em out let ‘em come call ‘em out
Call ‘em out let ‘em come call ‘em out
Call ‘em out let ‘em come call ‘em out
This is spirit willingly evacuating the shrine
This is a world recovering from itself
This is the sky of consciousness parting
This is ground giving way, graves bursting open
Living saying yes to life
This is the invocation of the ghost of your greater good
Call ‘em out let ‘em come call ‘em out
Call ‘em out let ‘em come call ‘em out
Call ‘em out let ‘em come call ‘em out
Call ‘em out let ‘em come call ‘em out
NINE BEATS COLLECTIVE is a collaboration of world class musicians, artists, & songwriters exploring the ancient wisdom of
the beatitudes. An eclectic soundscape of R&B, soul, rock/pop, acoustic threads, classical, jazz/funk, African vibes, and a hint of gospel. It's a haunting, a cry, a new beat. It's soul, adventure, lament, and rage. It's a love song. And most of all it's a movement....more
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