WATCH: Kirani Ayat releases video for new song 'Journey'

Ayat Maqwam Salis, better known by his stage name Kirani Ayat makes a return in visuals after a hiatus from music.

While many may await the release of the much talked about debut album, ‘Aisha’s Sun,’ Ayat chronicles his bittersweet experience on a first-time road trip to Togo, before the lockdown in 2020.

His latest single ‘Journey’ which didn’t make it to the album arrives with a new self-directed documentary film.

“The weekend before the March lockdown last year I traveled to Togo, toured the country, ate some good food, got into an altercation with some army personnel and nearly got locked up” Ayat shared in a tweet. “All in the span of one weekend this inspired me to make this record” he added in a statement.

The weekend before the March lockdown last year I traveled to Togo 🇹🇬, toured the country, ate some good food, got into an altercation with some army personnel and nearly got locked up.

“Journey” https://t.co/lPiAdkzx64 out now.

Tell a friend 😊. @blaq_pages @KaySoFromTema pic.twitter.com/0u55NCcnNG

— Kirani Ayat + The Spireeet 🌍 (@KiraniAYAT) November 5, 2021

The song which features Blaq Pages is an Afro-EDM record– a trademark sound of the madina-born music maverick, with happy synths and pads is sang mostly in his native language, Hausa. “It talks about patience, persistence, and finding purpose in a chaotic world” he reveals.

Watch it below.