"Matriarch" by Hiatus

This track, "Matriarch by Hiatus (the nom de musique of British musician/producer Cyrus Shahrad) is pensive and touching...he explains below:

"That’s my grandmother laughing in the breakdown. She passed a few years ago at an age well over 100 – no one is sure of the exact number, but she lived through wars and revolutions, saw kings crowned and dethroned, societies rise and fall. Towards the end of her life all she seemed to do was laugh, like she’d finally gotten the joke at the centre of existence. Originally this video was intercut with footage of her laughing, which was supposed to say something about female power in a world run to ruin by self-appointed tough guys. At the last minute I decided I couldn’t use those clips without her permission, so now it’s just a bunch of men beating each other up, which she’d probably have found hilarious. She loved these films anyway. She was the best."

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