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A Conversation With Lola

December 09, 2016

* You want me to do what? Share my thoughts on music? 

 

+ Yes.

 

* I think it’s a gift and they’re using it to dumb people down.

 

+ Music? They’re using music to dumb people down?

 

* Yeah the music….you have to hunt for intelligent music I think…nowadays…

   We’re oversaturated with nonsensical music. But music is a gift and it is a weapon.

   It does free people’s minds or it enslaves them.

 

  There’s a new song that we’ve got called ‘Puppet On A String’ on our new Album.

  Puppet-Who’s pulling your strings? We’ve all got to be puppets…puppet puppet. So

  yeah you can have a certain freedom but to do that you get branded certain things. 

  The mainstream society, the mainstream normality…there’s a line in there, a song or

  something..doesn’t allow an individual mind in this day and age. Maybe before in 

  the seventies or eighties, but the way that this…. it’s nice, it’s comfortable because I

  like it where I live and you know what I mean but there’s a formulaic type of  way 

  the mind has to be, it’s totally zombie.

 

+ Do you wish you lived in a different time?

 

* Time..time plays a big factor in music, you do a project and ten years go by and

  it feels like two days or just yesterday. You write a song five years ago and you use

  it or you write a song now and in five years time it’s out. The gestation period is 

  time and then also its your timing because you’ve got to have all the celestial bodies

  in play as it were to make an impact on normality I think, in respect to being a free

  mind-to be a free mind you’re always slightly a bit off key. But I like it though…

  doorway to the angels.

 

+ Rhythm

 

* Sound

 

+ Vibration

 

* My Macaba

 

+ What?

 

* My Macaba, my flight machine.

 

+ What’s Macaba?

 

* Your flight machine.

 

+ A flight machine?

 

* Your flight machine, our flight machine. Because if some intergalactical timelord  

   from the past comes to the future…do you know what I mean..or one from the 

   future comes to the past..hey who knows, and they say that we’re all star children

   right? That we can all do interdimensional flight, that we can all go to different

   dimensions, there’s different dimensions happening in this plane as well. It’s just

   that we’re tuned into the third….but if you know how to tune out into the seventh or

   the thirteenth.

 

+ Could you explain the relationship of an African cultural connection to a universal

   dimension and how it differs to a white perspective of the universe and it’s Star 

   Wars mentality. Is this relationship born from having an intimate understanding of

   this earth in order to have a better intuitive feeling for what lies outside of this 

   planet or plane?

 

* I hear you but um.

 

+ What do you..

 

* What are my thoughts on that! (laughs) My thoughts are…I’m a London girl so  I

   don’t really know the true existence of  being living in the country bush of an 

   African land..but the psychology of an African mind I have an experience of 

   because I live in amongst a white community and  have been born and raised in a

   white community so I’m dealing with their psyche, interacting with their psyche 

   because they’re interacting with mine on a daily basis for however long… forty

   years. But for me I think…do you know what I think….(laughs) I think this, I think

   there is some sort of portal over here in England because I believe that the Anglo 

   Saxon culture has been enslaved for two thousand years with this mentality from the

   Roman empire and the African mind is only a recent one. Like the kingdom of 

   Nigeria of Benin which is where my people came from, my kingdom, the spiritual

   centre, by the time they got into the castle and the royalty it was 1886..only a little 

   while ago. Nigeria and Benin has been a thriving city since 1100 and it was that 

   long before western civilization got to the royalty, so it was a strong cultural 

   identity and it was with the gods and the goddesses and different celestial beings, 

   not with a Christian mind set. So for me living with this interaction and knowing

   about my history…I used to know about it when I was little but possibly couldn’t

   express myself well…but we were the original pagans and have only been thrown

  into this existence, this present day first world ideology through slavery. What 

  they’re hiding is that we are the gods we create, our dreams create this dimension,

  but we’re enslaved here. Because in the European culture you’ve been persecuted for

  how many years for having the goddess stuff . Boadicea…there’s a plaque in 

  Lewisham shopping centre right..where Boadicea lost the battle to the Romans and

  that was like nine A.D. or eleven A.D., Lewisham shopping centre I tell you no lie,

  they lost it because the Celts were being painted blue and the Roman Army just 

  came and chopped them up at Deptford (Laughs).

 

Horny Pony Session - 'Diamonds & Dollars'

Horny Pony Session - 'Diamonds & Dollars'

+ Really?

 

* Really yeah no lie..Deptford because the marshes, they came up through the

   marshes and and..well I dunno I could have made that..I could have put my own 

   angle on that one, but there is a plaque saying that Boadicea lost the war to the 

   Roman empire down by Deptford fucking creek..Lewisham shopping centre..

 

Fun at the Gymkhana session - 'The Bone Woman'

Fun at the Gymkhana session - 'The Bone Woman'

'The Bone Woman'

'The Bone Woman'

   Yeah so and that was the beginning, you know when you go into your culture,

   your legends, the celtic cultural legends you find you were fighting the Romans

   around two thousand years ago for land and more gold, gold being one of the

   elixirs of life, the knowledge coming from Rome which came from Greece, which

   came from Egypt and before Egypt you’ve got Alexandria and the library there 

   about how architecture, how the power of mind, how to build the pyramid, how to

   levitate and how to activate your Macaba because we are interglactical beings 

   darling. But it’s hard baby because you’ve got to do lots of Yoga and eat raw foods

   and stop smoking…and drinking, because you’ve got to raise your vibration. So

   the slavery is..the sugar, tobacco, coffee, cotton, the stuff they induce your mind 

   with..it’s the stuff that’s free to trade on the open market…Mindblowing.

 

May Day session(click on pictures below to enlarge)

May Day session

(click on pictures below to enlarge)

View fullsize Spektrum perform Brixton Academy
View fullsize Chrome Hoof perform at 'Standon Calling'
View fullsize Spektrum perform Notting Hill Arts Club
View fullsize Spektrum perform The Astoria
Cargo Performance

Cargo Performance

Lola post show at 'Cargo'
Spektrum perform the Astoria
Lola post show at 'Metro'
Lola post show at 'Metro'

+ Any last thoughts on the music industry, how it can raise or lower your vibration

   for example.

 

* It’s censored..music is censored..no disrespect to Sheryl Crowe but fucking hell

   (laughs) its like baby girl..and that song that song..it’s just like what are you talking

   about babe. But you know I listen to Smooth..I like Smooth FM because they play a

   good all round style..they play middle of the (laughs) a good  all round selection for 

   my age group..See I can’t be listening to things like XFM because their vibration is

   just too tense man it’s like Waaa you get a headache after an hour or thirty minutes 

   it’s like AHHH..

 

Fun at the Gymkhana session

Fun at the Gymkhana session

Don't be Shy session

Don't be Shy session


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