A roots-and-dub reggae album for the cloud-native faithful. Babylon is the monolith and the pager. Zion is the self-healing cluster at Five Nines. Jah is the Reconciliation Loop. Sung by the whole parish: a different voice on every roots track, dub in the valleys between.
Zion Cluster is the exodus record. Babylon, in this theology, is the monolith: the single server, the single point of failure, the pager that rings at midnight because one machine holds the whole world and the world is tipping. Zion is the self-healing cluster at Five Nines, where no single loss is fatal and the Loop restores what Babylon would mourn. Twelve tracks of roots, rock and dub walk that migration one step at a time: chanting down the monolith, streaming the rivers of logs, learning that redemption is a rolling update and not a big bang. The basslines are load-bearing. The horns are notifications you actually want to receive. Recorded in one love and several availability zones, with vK on drums and the airtists on everything the riddim required.
The theology of this album has a home of its own. JAH-vaScript is the Rastafari-inflected sister site where the Runtime is the Spirit, Babylon is the compiled and proprietary, and Zion is the interpreted and free. Where Zion Cluster is the record, JAH-vaScript is its liturgy. Flee Babylon, overstand the Loop, run free as non-root.
Enter JAH-vaScript →✠ attend the parish -> fivenines.church
Give thanks to all the airtists who chanted pon this riddim, and to vK for holding down the bassline, one drop, irie.