{"id":24232,"date":"2015-07-11T18:46:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T02:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=24232"},"modified":"2015-07-11T22:04:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T06:04:15","slug":"check-out-alekesams-alluring-all-is-forgiven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-07\/check-out-alekesams-alluring-all-is-forgiven\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Out Alekesam&#8217;s Alluring &#8220;All Is Forgiven&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-excerpt\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alekesam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-24233\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alekesam-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"Alekesam\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alekesam-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alekesam-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alekesam-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alekesam.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once again we&#8217;ve missed the mark.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong> It took us entirely too long to unearth a take-over song entitled <em><strong>All Is Forgiven<\/strong><\/em> by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesoundofalekesam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alekesam<\/a>. <\/strong>We&#8217;ve had it on repeat for an embarrassingly long time, and so should you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alekesam<\/strong> is duo <strong>Sal Masekala<\/strong> (NBC\u2019s Red Bull Signature Series host and son of musician <strong>Hugh Masekala<\/strong>) and musical pal <strong>Sunny Levine<\/strong>.\u00a0 Their latest collaboration is from their forthcoming second album, which is the follow up to 2012\u2019s <em><strong>The Sound Of Alekesam<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Watch the video for the stupendous <em><strong>All Is Forgiven<\/strong> <\/em>below.\u00a0 The song&#8217;s lyrics are at bottom.\u00a0 You can buy it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iamalekesam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aphLC4edfcY\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>All Is Forgiven<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;sometimes i think about<br \/>\nthings before they happen<br \/>\nfloat it around in my head for a while<\/p>\n<p>all of a sudden<br \/>\nits grown too big to handle<br \/>\nchanged it\u2019s clothes<br \/>\nand grown a mind of its own<\/p>\n<p>too loud to listen<br \/>\ntoo proud to put the paper to the pen<br \/>\nclean up this place<br \/>\nrun the vacuum of my head<\/p>\n<p>too many time zones<br \/>\ntwo thousand planes<br \/>\ntack on the distance<br \/>\nit only brings me back again<\/p>\n<p>these books are overdue<br \/>\nthere\u2019s tenderness inside<br \/>\nthe depth of the lineup<br \/>\nwatch the characters come alive<\/p>\n<p>dip into the system<br \/>\nfeel the volume fill the space<br \/>\nbending horizons<br \/>\nfall into place<\/p>\n<p>all is forgiven<br \/>\ntimes will clean us<br \/>\nabsolute, absolution<br \/>\nall is forgiven<br \/>\ntime is a genius<br \/>\nabsolute, absolution<\/p>\n<p>shift these shapes<br \/>\nmake the landscape disappear<br \/>\ntech tonic plates<br \/>\nserving powers to your fears<\/p>\n<p>sometimes I hear that voice<br \/>\nwhen words were never spoken<br \/>\nproceed with caution<br \/>\nbefore glass has ever broken<\/p>\n<p>quantize the groove<br \/>\nwhile it\u2019s dancing in your head<br \/>\ncontrolled emotions<br \/>\nfind me drifting instead<\/p>\n<p>till we feel better without it<br \/>\ngo and knit some sweaters about it<br \/>\ntwo stone statues<br \/>\ntrying hard not to laugh<\/p>\n<p>maybe there\u2019s something in the movement<br \/>\nor the stillness of the air<br \/>\nput that good stuff on ice<br \/>\nand keep that elephant over there<\/p>\n<p>let\u2019s shift through modern times<br \/>\ni hold a future pass<br \/>\nnon existent obstacles<br \/>\nsquarely in our path<\/p>\n<p>all is forgiven<br \/>\ntimes will clean us<br \/>\nabsolute, absolution<br \/>\nall is forgiven<br \/>\ntime is a genius<br \/>\nabsolute, absolution&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again we&#8217;ve missed the mark.\u00a0 It took us entirely too long to unearth a take-over song entitled All Is Forgiven by Alekesam. We&#8217;ve had it on repeat for an embarrassingly long time, and so should you. Alekesam is duo Sal Masekala (NBC\u2019s Red Bull Signature Series host and son of musician Hugh Masekala) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24236,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24232\/revisions\/24236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}