The Message Coates

"Je me réveillais enfin, avide de comprendre."
À West Baltimore dans les années 1980, les gangs et le crack sont le seul horizon des gosses du quartier. Ta-Nehisi est voué lui aussi à devenir un bad boy. Mais son père Paul, ancien Black Panther passionné de littérature, lui fait découvrir Malcolm X et James Baldwin. C’est une révélation. L’adolescent rêveur, égaré dans les frasques d’une famille hors norme, se jure d’échapper à son destin. …

While it's true this is gospel music re-visioned by Scofield, it's still a gospel record, and carries within it the heart of that music's great traditions – melody, complex harmonics, and lyricism. This is a winner all the way through.

As a leader, guitarist, and composer John Scofield has made many different kinds of records over the course of his long career, as well as played on dozens more as a sideman to people like Miles Davis and Charles Mingus, to mention just two. His last offering, and his first for Emarcy, was This Means That, an adventurous blend of straight-ahead blowing and funk-oriented numbers that worked beautifully and yielded a slew of critical acclaim. Piety Street is a different story altogether. Scofield has assembled a crack band of more roots and groove-oriented sidemen to cut his version of a gospel album..

Of Montreal is an American indie rock band from Athens, Georgia. It was founded by frontman Kevin Barnes in 1996, named after a failed romance between Barnes and a woman "of Montreal." The band is identified as part of the Elephant 6 collective. Throughout its existence, of Montreal's musical style has evolved considerably and drawn inspiration from 1960s psychedelic pop acts.

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