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wr0kgdu is the debut studio album by Ugandan art rock project I'm a 7, self-released on 7 July, 2016.

Background and recording
I'm a 7 posted five promotional acoustic pieces on Deezer, and thereafter embarked on a year-long countdown to the release date of their debut album; via their Facebook page. Meanwhile, Monténégro recruited sessionists to aid him in performing and recording wr0kgdu. All the ten tracks on the concept album were recorded in various make-shift studios installed at different locations including sessionists' residences, St Paul's Cathedral Namirembe's backyard and Alliance Francaise center in Kampala. The recording, production, mixing and audio mastering took place between September 2015 and January 2016, and the record was eventually released on July 7th 2016.

Concept of lyrics
Theme; Contrast and Doom

Apparent authors; Biased narrator, paranoid spectator

Protagonist; Elizabeth, a royal in the Western Hemisphere of a spherical planet

Plot; The latter (Elizabeth) is back from her voyage to the Arid Diaspora, only to be met with a lukewarm reception in form of indifferent grins and “unparticular salutations”. It is the dawn of the Era of Ambiguity. The realm-of-time is gradually burning out. Consequently, the “de-moded cycle”—typified chronologically as bureaucracy→hierarchy→ tyranny—has recently been reduced to memorial traces shelved away in “concealed vaults”. Vast multitudes (in the pre-Plot setting) are believed to have barter-traded their memory to a revered entity; that both the biased narrator and paranoid spectator are reluctant to reveal. In return, they were offered what is currently perceived as Peace.

Interlude; However, both the biased narrator and paranoid spectator believe and disseminate divergent claims about the apparent absence of conflict, in accordance with their respective traits.

Characterization: Biased narrator; cynical—sarcastic, blatant, slanderous, shallow, sensual—hedonist.

Paranoid spectator; comical—shy, curious, suspicious, self-depreciating, soft-spoken—extremist

Personnel

 * Monténégro – vocals, production, mixing, mastering
 * Zia Khalid – rythm guitar
 * Dan Mbabazi – electric guitar
 * Cathbert Hayley – bass guitar
 * Joseph Kato – drums, cymbals
 * Thomas Mugabe – organ, piano
 * Stephanie Koenig – harmonica, flute