Writing
Rising with the tide of history
Redefining what a ‘novel’ can do
The House of Abracadia
turning walls into bridges and publishing the difference
Ancestral Mission
Writing As The Practice Of Freedom
Story as a medium has long been known for its healing and liberating qualities, look how Aesop’s fables won his freedom from Roman slavery, or how 1,001 Arabian Nights of story healed a psychopath and freed his captives.
With Abracadia writings, quality of product plus conviction in mission combine with an unmatchable aspect of Ancestral heritage to blast right through the lofty gates of the literary establishment:
Music and story have never been separable in our griot tradition!
It is not our problem if the West’s literary industry cannot match up.
What fool built their house of cards on the false dichotomy of song and story?
Abracadia is ‘Natty Dread Taking Over [for victory at last]’ (as one time associate Joseph Hill sang it) with our musical literary fine art.
Like Gary Sobers’ sixes or Jesse Owens’ golds, so what if the literary industry establishment and its middling elites cannot compete with our skills? No Foul! Play on!
That mission starts here, with Abracadia’s Maiden Voyage:
The Songtree: A Windrush Tale
By Dr Remi David
This novel is the ital BOOM!
.45 calibre Maroon literary fiction you can dance to!
‘The Songtree: A Windrush Tale’
Where literary fine art meets escape-velocity action.
Where imagination meets realism like flames in oceans deep
What’s it all about?
Under-fed, under-age, underworld underdog slips through this dimension into the mother of all conspiracies, where matching ends of past and future marry and the 21st century underground railroad is on the move.
A bit like a trip out of Phil K. Dick, ‘The Songtree: A Windrush Tale’ is a reality shifting game changing novel written to be once read, twice recommended.
Based on a true story, ‘The Songtree’ is the ultimate tale for our time. It stands at the wild frontier of fiction, exposing the matrix of reality and turning it on its head.
What’s in it?
Trace the epic life journey of Lafayette, a semi-feral Windrush child lost in the international underworld of 70's nightlife where thieves, pimps, hookers, killers and drugs mix with Voodoo priests, Chinese monks, Nordic elites and the leading lights of Jazz.
And trace the seventy thousand year history of Jazz unveiled through ancient mystery and wonder and emerging through the mother of all conspiracies revealed in the Bible.
‘The Songtree’ evokes the soul-penetrating writings of James Baldwin and Ishmael Reed and it aims to give the US giants a good run for their money. Could it actually stand up alongside such greats, in that league of artful, soulful, and vital for human progress? Read it and see for yourself.
Unavailable through any corporate retail outlets, ‘The Songtree: A Windrush Tale’ is reserved for sale through selected independents and through the Abracadia shop.
What does it signify?
‘The Songtree’ isn't just a blasting declaration of literary revolution, it is proof of blessed victory!
It overcomes a destructive and outworn reality by blurring and transgressing the reality-fiction line. And it crystallises the creative soul-revolutionary spirit of Jazz, infusing it into every page.
Remi wrote ‘The Songtree’ to be ‘once read, twice recommended’. So buy it. Read it. Hear it. Feel it. Dig it. And then, if you feel it’s ‘move-over-James-Baldwin’ or ‘scooch-up-Mumbo-Jumbo’, it’s for you to holler and pass it on. No corporate machines here. We are the change we need.
Sample the fruit of ‘The Songtree’
Is ‘The Songtree: A Windrush Tale’ really a new heavyweight contender for the titles of James Baldwin and Ishmael Reed?
Has there ever been a more audacious or more innovative novel written about Jazz? About being a junkie’s kid? About the dreams, nightmares, mythologies and religious ideas society is based on? And about the world changing moment we are living through in the 21st century?
Timely? Well written? Challenging? A new paradigm in African Jamaican British literature? A big and important new literary voice?
Or just a rudeboy kicking off doors?
Only YOU can say! Check the samples to decide for yourself!
