{"product_id":"the-ark-qs","title":"The Ark","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith each new recording Anthony Joseph presents an imaginative, personal vision of contemporary black culture, and The Ark is yet another compelling album by the award-winning Trinidadian poet and musician. This second part of a sequence of two albums launched with 2025's Rowing Up River To Get Our Names Back, there is a specific thread running through the glorious offering of sounds. \"I was especially interested in the idea of using Afrofuturism as a means of using the future in order to correct the wrongs of the past,\" explains Joseph. \"And so a lot of lyrics reimage or imagine an alternate black history. At the same time there are elements of autobiography.\" The aforesaid cultural phenomenon, a view of the black experience through the prism of science fiction and ancient Egypt and Africa, as mapped out by visionaries from music and literature such as Sun Ra, Parliament-Funkadelic and Octavia E. Butler.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heavenly Sweetness","offers":[{"title":"2LP - Black","offer_id":56980682604875,"sku":"R4549-4592","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":56980682637643,"sku":"R4549-4247","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3521381605297.jpg?v=1775659987","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/the-ark-qs","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}