Arts Fuse Editor
A listener’s response to this album would largely depend on whether or not the sound of Jeff Denson’s voice and the instrumentation strike a chord.
Even after decades, The Damned is still grandly flying its freak flag.
In a culture that seems hell-bent on distracting us from painful realities, the intimacy of this production comes off as redemptive and inspiring.
Sleeping Beauty needs not only to thrill us but to carry us somewhere back into its own history.
“It seemed worthwhile to me to think about how the spiritual currents Billie Holiday navigated might have shaped her life and her sound and what she and others made of them.”
So Lucky is a tough, accomplished novel, a book that readers didn’t know they needed.
Both galleries have successfully paired photographers who work in parallel idioms and who, through simple visual details, deliver a vivid sense of place tinged with memory and nostalgia.
Sometimes Pharoah Sanders came back and played like a primordial saxophone deity, cutting into the rhythm section like an act of penetration.
Everyone should avail themselves of such opportunities for inter-generational collaboration.
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