{"id":42236,"date":"2020-07-22T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/premiere-raz-afla-combine-disco-funk-and-afro-house-on-secrets-lies\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T14:00:41","slug":"premiere-raz-afla-combine-disco-funk-and-afro-house-on-secrets-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/premiere-raz-afla-combine-disco-funk-and-afro-house-on-secrets-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiere: Raz & Afla Combine Disco, Funk And Afro House On “Secrets & Lies”"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Hackney-based producer Raz Olsher<\/a>\u00a0and Ghanaian musician Afla\u00a0Sackey\u00a0stirred up a lot of chatter earlier this year when they came together to fuse disco, funk and Afro house as Raz & Afla on “No Touch” and now they’re back to repeat (and even surpass) that success with their new single “Secrets & Lies”.<\/p>\n

Although an uplifting break-up anthem on the face of it, the pair decided to go a little deeper for the visuals, calling on\u00a0fashion photographer\u00a0Joel Cameron Bailey to put the track in a different context. The end result is a bold and stylish treatment with its own bittersweet story, a celebration of Blackness in the face of daily micro-aggressions.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Complex via email, director Joel Cameron Bailey explained, “This is a track that I immediately fell in love with. I wanted to create a piece that captured the song’s vibrant spirit, whilst offering a nuanced message about the struggle of black people in this country. We must keep pushing ourselves to think deeper about these issues, and this video works to do just that.”<\/p>\n

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