Track listing

1. "Haditha" – 1:30
2. "The Sloganeer" – 5:06
3. "Shirk" – 2:53
4. "Article 3" – 3:33
5. "Elliptical" – 2:44

Personnel

• Me'shell Ndegeocello
  Me'shell Ndegeocello
  Meshell Ndegeocello is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, bassist, and vocalist. Her music incorporates a wide variety of influences, including funk, soul, hip hop, reggae, R&B, rock, and jazz. She has received significant critical acclaim throughout her career, and has had ten career Grammy...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
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  , guitar
  Guitar
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  , vocals, producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  , mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
  In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
  
  , hi-hat
  Hi-hat
  A hi-hat, or hihat, is a type of cymbal and stand used as a typical part of a drum kit by percussionists in R&B, hip-hop, disco, jazz, rock and roll, house, reggae and other forms of contemporary popular music.- Operation :...
  
  
• Hamza Yusuf
  Hamza Yusuf
  Hamza Yusuf Hanson is an Islamic scholar of the Sunni tradition, and co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, United States. He is an American convert to Islam, and is one of the signatories of A Common Word Between Us and You, an open letter by Islamic scholars to Christian leaders,...
  
   – vocals
• Oumou Sangare
  Oumou Sangaré
  Oumou Sangare is a Malian Wassoulou musician, sometimes referred to as "The Songbird of Wassoulou." Wassoulou is a historic region south of the Niger River, and the music there is descended from traditional hunting songs, and is accompanied by a calabash...
  
   – vocals
• Thandiswa Mazwai
  Thandiswa Mazwai
  Thandiswa Mazwai is a multi-award winning South African musician, and is also the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bongo Maffin.-Early life:...
  
   – vocals
• Sy Smith
  Sy Smith
  Sy Olivia Smith is an American Emmy nominated singer-songwriter. Born in New York, New York, Smith rose to fame in the late 1990s when she signed a recording contract with Hollywood Records. Smith released her first studio album Psykosoul in 2000, which spawned the singles "Gladly" and "Good N...
  
   – vocals
• Graham Haynes
  Graham Haynes
  Graham Haynes is an American cornetist, trumpeter and composer, the son of jazz drummer Roy Haynes....
  
   – cornet
  Cornet
  The cornet is a brass instrument very similar to the trumpet, distinguished by its conical bore, compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B. It is not related to the renaissance and early baroque cornett or cornetto.-History:The cornet was...
  
  
• Pat Metheny
  Pat Metheny
  Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
  
   – guitar
• Brandon Ross – guitar
• Herve Sambe – guitar
• Mike Severson – guitar
• Deantoni Parks
  Deantoni Parks
  Deantoni Parks is a new wave/avant-garde/experimental drummer, songwriter, film director, actor and record producer born in Newnan, Georgia. He is the founder; producer and drummer of the New York band, KUDU, and one-half of the writing duo, Dark Angels with producer and keyboardist Nick Kasper,...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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• Davi Vieira – percussion
  Percussion instrument
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• Chad Royce – programming
• Neil McLellan – programming, mixing
• Fran Cathcart – mixing
• Scott Mann – mixing
• Eric Elterman – mixing
• Eric Dyba – engineer
• Stephen Joseph – engineer
  Engineer
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• Emily Lazar – mastering
  Audio mastering
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• Sarah Register – mastering
• Rebecca Meek – design
  Design
  Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...