E.T Le Créateur – Psalm Ritual
You ever hear a record that you feel fundamentally unqualified to write about? Well that’s me with every record, but especially this one. On a technical front it’s the chaotic ad-libs deep in the production, the driving drums, the visual imagery (“full moon, blazing, midnight, bleeding”) and the pulsing hearbeat of the track, hypnotic as it thuds on and on, thick with life. But then there’s the lived experience of E.T, real name Etima who was born in DR Congo to a father of significant political position, so much so that when regime change occurred, his life was thrown into flux. While just a child, Etima was captured by mercenaries while playing in the street and held captive for six days before rescue. He still doesn’t know what happened to his friend Aura, who was left behind.
He’s a self identified student of metaphysics and has been since birth, prodding and probing the experience of life, death and the afterlife having emotionally engaged with these concepts since birth. Later on he’d dive into the words of Frederic William Henry Myers and his book ‘Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death’ (peep the book in the music video) and found truth in them, in the idea that the soul continues on after the death of the body. Somehow, discovering this didn’t surprise me in the slightest having heard Psalm Ritual. Something about it reeks of both life and death with the repeated chorus “Nzambe ya ba Koko” – Lingala for “Ancestral GOD”.
Hopefully you’ll understand why I feel the effect of this song but don’t have the frame of reference, the frame of experience to pull it apart in any meaningful way. Similar to my experience though, hopefully you’ll find the chaos and transcendence of it pierce you much the same. Real special one!
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