

That’s the most powerful thing.” Wayne Francis aka Ahnansé, founder of Steam Down, emulates the musical sanctuary that they have built over the last four years. We treat each other with that positivity we feel no matter where we come from.

“When we all feel the energy of music at the same time, that becomes our perspective of each other and therefore we are unified. Steam Down embodies this sonic journey with a diasporic consciousness in its rawest and most honest form. Truly grasping the place of music in our communities means surveying the self-understanding articulated by the musicians who have made it, the symbolic use to which their music is put by other artists, and the social relations which have produced and reproduced the unique expressive culture in which music fills a central and foundational element.
