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Hot Spot: Ibeyi, River

Rattling Stick director Ed Morris – winner of the YDA 2014 Charity Web Film category with his film Don’t Retaliate has come up with a genius simple idea for the soul sisters Ibeyi’s track River.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-1y8OaNk8&index=11&list=PL-hWzoiIELXKRmxDbRRk8hRvCQyoRvJ8p

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