Passionate, theatrical soul with a serious concept by the Filipino Wiradjuri artist Mojo Ruiz de Luzuriaga with an LP named after a 1982 film by his late uncle, the director Peque Gallaga, translated as Gold, Silver, Death. It relates to the architectural superstition that a house’s design concept should not be in multiples of three. So accordingly, as form of warning, the album follows a three-part structure along these three key words with a overview of society’s key problems. In the Oro (Gold) section, announced with a short Oro title track, with the songs Gold, Money and Midas, Mo’Ju cries out against but is also trapped a world of materialism, expressing this with strikingly smooth and sincere, bass thrumming soul and R&B. In the Silver section, he seeks spiritual enlightenment in which the album’s strongest songs appear, from the slower Something I Believe In and particularly passionate funk of Change Has to Come. The third section is darker, pertaining to a bleak future for the next generation and eco meltdown. Heavy, dramatic, moral message heavy and sometimes perhaps a little too literal in its lyrical message, but musically rich, with Mo’Ju’s impressive high, voice soulful voice, at times echoing Michael Jackson, soaring all the way to the final track, Swan Song. Out on Virgin.
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