With a fantastically fuzzy, funky bass line, funk disco style and punchy, dynamic vocal delivery, the New Orleans band’s new single has dance appeal, but its subject matter has more gravitas, referring to Black rights revolutionary Herman Wallace who was held in solitary confinement for over 40 years. Wallace was one of the one of the Angola Three imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary. During Wallace’s imprisonment, he became close with an artist, Jackie Sumell, and the two collaborated to create Wallace’s dream house, taking many years and hundreds of letters to design it as an art exhibition about solitary imprisonment, eventually leading to the art project The House That Herman Built. Wallace died in 2013 aged 71. Out on Rough Trade. To explore more of Special Interest, see the Bandcamp and Spotify embedded links below.
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