Corinne Bailey Rae's 'SilverCane' Is A Powerful Exploration Of Black Trauma

Corinne Bailey Rae has shared her new track ‘SilverCane’.

The songwriter’s distinctive ‘Black Rainbows’ album has been shorted for the Mercury Prize, with the winner as a consequence of be introduced this week.

Forward of this, Corinne Bailey Rae has shared one thing new. Her track ‘SilverCane’ was prompted by a horrible occasion from American historical past – the Tulsa race bloodbath, a two-day racial pogrom which resulted within the deaths of wherever between 150 to 200 Black People.

‘SilverCane’ goals to channel this sense of grief and paranoia, shifting between an outline of the Black American center class – “Generally we march on this parade / Generally we take our aeroplane” – to an eerie exploration of grief and loss.

Corinne Bailey Rae feedback…

Generally known as ‘Black Wall Avenue’, Greenwood was a rich district of an oil city on the flip of the twentieth century, with 600 black companies, together with inns, a bus firm, eating places, 21 church buildings, a hospital and put up workplace. A number of outstanding households owned non-public planes.

The destruction of Greenwood got here in 1921 with a well-documented enactment of white supremacist violence, the primary incidence of home firebombing in US historical past. However this track celebrates Greenwood earlier than that; the households, the liberty, the boldness, the sensation of getting created a spot away from hatred and worry. There’s an ominous feeling within the background as we, the listener, know what’s coming.

‘SilverCane’ is a part of my Black Rainbows undertaking. I’m thrilled to be celebrating the success of Black Rainbows because it shortlisted for the Mercury Prize, Album of The Yr 2024.

Hearken to ‘SilverCane’ beneath.