Can’t believe it’s been 5 years since One Day Soon. A lot has gone on in Ian Kamau’s life since then including, unfortunately, the passing of his sister, Roxanne. Here he pays tribute on “An Ocean Between Us”.

I lost my sister on March 3, 2016. She passed away abruptly in Trinidad. I wrote this song for her and her two sons Emmanuel and Kyle. It contains a conversation with my father Roger McTair that I recorded on my phone in his apartment in downtown Toronto. As much as this song is about a lost life, it is about health, and migration, and the distance (physical and emotional) that immigration creates. Rest in peace Roxanne.

-Ian

This song contains a sample from Brazilian guitarist Bola Sete’s track Bettina from the Album Workin’ on a Groovy Thing (1970)

Link: youtu.be/F2ozbTOu_vc

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