Mind Your Business is the #1 single to come out of the 3rd album by Meta and The Cornerstones: HIRA
Credits video:
Performance: Meta Dia
Director of Photography: Justin Bodenkamp
Producer: Misha Soesman
Director: Pirke Bergsma
Editor: Brian Ent
Grading/online: Justin Baker
Credits song:
Composed, produced and written by Meta Dia
Arrangement : Meta and The Cornerstones
Horn arrangement: Meta Dia & Aya Kato
Recorded at Real World Music Studios (England)
Engineer: Shane C. Brown, assistant engineer: Oli Jacobs
Edited by Meta Dia at HIRA Studio (New York)
Overdub | Chopz at Chopz Studio (Netherlands)
Overdub | Gilles Sohier at PY Studio (France)
Mixed by Shane C. Brown at Penthouse Studio (Kingston Jamaica)
Mastered by Mike Fuller at Fuller Sound Studio (Florida USA)
Lead Vocals: Meta Dia
Guitar Kubix
Piano, Organ: Aya Kato
Bass: Rupert McKenzie
Drums Ricardo Simons
Background vocals: Tamara Nivillac & Sylvia La Croes
Saxo: Tommy Tornado, Trumpet: Ruud Kleiss & Trombone: Selena Kuiper
Percussion: Beuz Thiombane
HIRA
Recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios, HIRA bears testimony to lead singer Meta Dia’s philosophy of undivided love, including love for one self as a precondition to all forms of love” (Werner Zips, Vienna University). Mixing world music genres with roots reggae and lyrically expressing Meta Dia’s spiritual background and growth, HIRA seeks to trespass boundaries and embrace differences between people, cultures and religions. Moreover, HIRA calls for spiritual unity, religious tolerance and finding oneself. Fllavors of Bossa Nova, Middle Eastern sounds, Moroccan Gnaoua, Classical Jazz, Flamenco, Rock and African Rhythms are mixed into a backbone of Roots Reggae. A genre Meta and The Cornerstones have reinvented since their first album ‘Forward Music’ (2008) and followed by their second album ‘Ancient Power’ (2013).
www.metaandthecornerstones.com