{"product_id":"the-ark","title":"The Ark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthony Joseph","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57748992164175,"sku":"5118","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0887\/6785\/6975\/files\/The_Ark_Anthony_Joseph.png?v=1779360004","url":"https:\/\/secondlinerecords.com\/products\/the-ark","provider":"Second Line Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}