gospel
Album: Larkin Poe - Blood HarmonyFriday, 11 November 2022![]() The Larkin Poe story goes back to 2010, when they released four beautiful and distinctive seasons-related EPs, displaying the Lovell sisters Rebecca and Megan’s rich, absorbing vocal harmonies, slippery slide guitar work and a winning with with... Read more... |
Album: Beyoncé - RenaissanceMonday, 01 August 2022![]() There’s polarising discourse and there’s polarising discourse, and then there’s Beyoncé discourse. On the one hand, there’s “the Bey Hive”: the very model of a furious modern fandom who will boost her and monster her critics at a microsecond’s... Read more... |
Album: Linda Ayupuka - God Created EverythingSaturday, 18 June 2022![]() Africa is an endlessly surprising source of new music: sounds that grab you instantly, and combine the wisdom and grace of the ancestors with the creative and playful use the latest technologies. Linda Ayupuka is the latest singer to look out for,... Read more... |
Album: Alabama 3 - Step 13Monday, 16 August 2021![]() It’s almost 25 years since Alabama 3 unleashed their “sweet, pretty country acid house gospel music” on an unsuspecting world with Exile on Coldharbour Lane – one of the finest records of the late 20th Century. 12 albums later and with their first... Read more... |
Album: Peyton - PSAWednesday, 21 July 2021![]() For 25 years now, LA label Stones Throw records has become one of the most reliable brands in music. It began with, and has always been associated with, the leftfield hip hop of founder George “Peanut Butter Wolf” Manak, and regular contributors... Read more... |
Disc of the Day 10th Anniversary: the level playing fieldFriday, 19 February 2021![]() Theartsdesk is a labour of love. Bloody-mindedly run as a co-operative of journalists from the beginning, our obsession with maintaining a daily-updated platform for good culture writing has caused a good few grey and lost hairs over the years. But... Read more... |
Albums of the Year 2020: Phoebe Bridgers - PunisherThursday, 07 January 2021![]() Music has been a solace during a year when we’ve both retreated into our private spaces and reached out more feverishly than ever on social media.There’s been very little live music: I’ve almost obsessively trawled YouTube for the best old footage:... Read more... |
Little Richard (1932-2020) - sexuality, spirituality and rock'n'roll's gospel rootsWednesday, 13 May 2020![]() The day that Little Richard’s death was announced, my friend the soul singer PP Arnold wrote on her Instagram feed, of a “sanctified boogie-woogie piano style that was just electric”. She went on, recalling first hearing the man’s undiluted... Read more... |
Lonnie Holley, Cube, Bristol review - outsider with visionTuesday, 11 February 2020Alabama-born Lonnie Holley, the seventh son of 27 children, more or less abandoned as a child, comes from a tradition of African-American visionaries who reach back through the generations to a culture of great aesthetic and ethical sophistication,... Read more... |
Ghost Quartet, Boulevard Theatre review - a beguiling journey into the beyondFriday, 01 November 2019![]() London’s latest new theatre opens with an appropriately otherworldly Halloween offering: American composer Dave Malloy’s teeming 2014 song cycle, which played at the Edinburgh Festival in 2016. It’s a superb piece for demonstrating the benefits of... Read more... |
DVD/Blu-ray: Amazing GraceTuesday, 10 September 2019![]() Over two days in 1972, the great Aretha Franklin, undoubtedly one of the greatest American voices of the 20th century, performed and recorded gospel classics in Los Angeles, with a predominantly African-American audience, the red-hot Los Angeles... Read more... |
CD: Foy Vance - From Muscle ShoalsSunday, 23 June 2019![]() Endlessly gigging Northern Irish performer Foy Vance's profile first rocketed after touring with fellow singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. The pair became pals, Vance went onto support the likes of Elton John, and signed to Sheeran’s Gingerbread Man... Read more... |
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