Weighty but vital, the composer’s spoken-word and soulful album of 26 tracks about the history of racism in America is profound, passionate, powerful and current, as well as harking back to the spirit of Gil Scott-Heron and Marvin Gaye. The album goes hand in hand with Younge’s short film T.A.N., and podcast titled Invisible Blackness (see below), while its score music ranges from small jazz group to full cinematic, particularly on A Symphony for Sahara. Other key tracks, some of which are shorter spoken pieces, others longer, include Revolutionize, which draws inspiration from Scott-Heron’s The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, the title track, which pulls no punches on slavery’s backdrop, the jazz-funk-soul Dying On The Run and Light On The Horizon, George Sinney Jr, and the starkly clear and spoken Race Is A Fallacy. Direct and undeniable. Black Lives Matter. Out on Jazz Is Dead. Also available via Bandcamp.
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