Shumaila Hemani - Mannat (2022)

Mannat (A Prayer, A Wish) offers prayers for the health and wellness of the world as it goes through the extremities of climate change. Based on Sufi poetry from South Asia and sound recordings of heavy rainfall, floods, and other environmental sounds from Pakistan, Mannat features, “Perils of Heavy Rainfall,” an acousmatic composition featuring Sufi poetry from Sindh and recorded in Edmonton Studios, which won the Second Prize, Listening During COVID contest (2020) and was published in the Goose, the Journal of Environment, Arts, Culture (2022) in Canada. This album is an awakening about climate emergency and the need for action. “It’s an appeal to the world to come together to support 33 million climate refugees as a result of heavy flooding in Pakistan that drowned a third of the country in August 2022.”

Tracklist:
1.01 - Shumaila Hemani - Perils of Heavy Rainfall (9:58)
1.02 - Shumaila Hemani - Displacement (9:49)
1.03 - Shumaila Hemani - Forgotten Ways of Thinking (6:04)
1.04 - Shumaila Hemani - Mannat (7:26)
1.05 - Shumaila Hemani - Living with Purpose (Live) (3:44)