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Omnivore Recordings Announces Reissue of The Mighty Clouds Of Joy’s “Kickin’” LP | Coming Dec. 8th, 2023.1975 R&B, Gospel Classic Includes Single Edit of the #1 Billboard Disco Action Track “Mighty High” Plus Two Bonus Tracks. October 30, 2023: On December 8, Omnivore Recordings will release the reissue of The Mighty Clouds Of Joy’s 1975 R&B, Gospel classic album, Kickin’. This reissue contains the original album, plus the rare, single versions of the #1 hit “Mighty High” and the ever present “You Are So Beautiful.” Packaging contains a new essay from Tim Dillinger-Curenton, a music historian with a focus on the worlds of gospel, soul, contemporary Christian, and women’s music. Kickin’ is a look back at music evolution in the mid ’70s and demonstrates how music transcends genres.

An Auditory Survey of the Last Days of the Holocene is a fearless work. It focuses on the environment from an auditory perspective, presenting a catalogue of our created world’s sounds by tallying the noises, echoes, reverberations and refrains associated with environmental degradation that leads to climate change. The sequential recordings of traffic, machinery, drilling, fracking and more serve as a backdrop for musical responses and reflections from the piano and percussion instruments, that simultaneously respond, reflect and develop the soundscape journey from one of hostile discord to one of reconciliation and peace.

An Auditory Survey of the Last Days of the Holocene is a fearless work. It focuses on the environment from an auditory perspective, presenting a catalogue of our created world’s sounds by tallying the noises, echoes, reverberations and refrains associated with environmental degradation that leads to climate change. The sequential recordings of traffic, machinery, drilling, fracking and more serve as a backdrop for musical responses and reflections from the piano and percussion instruments, that simultaneously respond, reflect and develop the soundscape journey from one of hostile discord to one of reconciliation and peace. The audience is faced with the sounds of our man-made environment, stripped bare of visual distractions, and taken on a journey of action and possibility. We see this as a way to reach people on a whole new, visceral level. As humans, we get to decide what sounds we take forward with us into a new era and which ones we resolve to leave behind.