the conductor

✍🏻 WRITTEN & POST-PRODUCED BY EME LATINA (2026) ------------ ABOUT: ------------ The Circuit, Round 4: Tuareg Desert Blues × Detroit Techno Instructions: Vocal - Female Instrument - Ngoni Word to use - Current Tuareg desert blues is the hypnotic electric-guitar music of Saharan nomads, built on rolling grooves and call-and-response. The ngoni is a bright, percussive West African lute, and Detroit techno is minimal, futuristic, four-on-the-floor rhythm. Lyrically, I wanted to take apart all the definitions of current I could, and build my story around it. In a nutshell, this is about the current surging between people, nature, life itself. ------------ LYRICS: ------------ You've got this flow, momentum directed at me head to toe... [chorus] You're the conductor I'm the lane This flow of electricity, measured in the veins, it's charging up... Current going up Currently going up Current going up [verse] You're continuous movement like a river, ocean, or stream; a directional flow, currently coursing thru me... A steady movement of air, wind to and fro; Any particular direction, the current of you goes... [pre-chorus] [chorus] [bridge] It's happening right now; this present moment; You're popular, You're dominant Like an emotional, social, psychological force, a wicked current, the worst... [buildup] Current going up Currently going up Current going up Currently going up [pre-chorus] [reprised chorus] You're the conductor I'm the lane by which this flow of electricity, rushes thru.... It's charging up It's charging you... [outro] Current going up Currently going up Current going up Currently going up Current going up Currently going up Currently going up Current going up Currently going up