Brother Down

The band’s name, Brother Down, encapsulates an amalgamation of meanings. The name was originally inspired from an account in the book of Genesis where one day the light did not shine as Jacob’s sons came to him with a sun-shrouded message from Egypt, from the Black Land, where they had journeyed to find nourishment during a worldwide famine. Dark-soiled from the fertile Nile, Egypt’s “blackness” now loomed before Israel for a wholly different reason: a harsh ruler had demanded that the “spies”