Disclosure is experiencing a slight delay with the release of their new song. The track is a club version of Dur-Dur Band’s top song, Dooyo.
Initially, the song title of Disclosure’s version was going to be Warya. But they received a bunch of backlash for the song name choice. Something they didn’t understand, the word Warya is a disrespectful word in the Somali culture. The DJ duo got a mistranslation of the word, which led to the mistake. They have admitted their mistake and have mentioned that the track name will remain Dooyo.
But the real reason the release of the song was delayed is that rumors have been spreading that they don’t have permission to use Dur-Dur Band’s song. Disclosure did not want to release the song with these rumors in the air. So they paused the release and have expressed to their fans and the music community that the rumors are entirely untrue. In their discord, they wrote:
“We want to reassure everyone that whenever you hear a sample of anyone else’s music on an officially released Disclosure song (including this one), it will ALWAYS be cleared, legally & through all the proper channels such as record labels publishing etc. This has been done with the owners of the rights to this song & our team have spoken with Abdinur Daljir who confirmed that he and his wife Sahra Dawo (both original Dur-Dur members) are the sole writers/composers of the song. They will be paid every time the song is played, and the owners of the rights to the song were also paid a fee when we signed the contract to clear the sample. That being said, it has more recently come to our attention that there is another current iteration of the group known as ‘Dur-Dur band international’ who live in London & are still active & touring the original bands songs. SO, we are also now in conversation with them to make sure they’re happy too.”
It appears they have done everything ethically and legally correct. They are making sure everyone is getting their cut and crediting them as a featured artist, as they always intended to. This helps create more attention to the band’s music and Simolia’s culture.
They also wrote to keep their fanbase informed, “Sadly we decided to pause releasing the track as we don’t want to risk anyone seeing these rumours & not knowing the truth. We don’t want to be known for doing something that portrays us in this way. Ultimately we want to still release it as we love the track so much & we want the original writers to benefit from it too, but we’ll see what the response is here, and time will tell. We love and respect the people of Somalia & we love your music so much. We hear you & see you. In the meantime, we will be listening to Dur-Dur Band & hoping we can still make this work soon.”
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