The first single from the album is Let It Rain by Sy’rai ft A.U.C.A.Y.D. The track was recorded this year in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where Artists United for the Development of Children and Youth (A.U.C.A.Y.D.) runs youth empowerment workshops using music, drama and dance. In early 2000, Abdul “Sy’rai” Yilla fled Sierra Leone with his siblings, to avoid the atrocities of a civil war that was notorious for recruiting child soldiers, and displacing over a third of the country’s population. He settled in Victoria, B.C, became a Canadian citizen, and eventually embarked on a music career. Read more at http://www.warchild.ca/features/feature/64