Angel Bat Dawid - Requiem For Jazz [2LP]

Angel Bat Dawid - Requiem For Jazz [2LP]Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes poster. Composer, clarinetist, singer and educator Angel Bat Dawid announces the release of Requiem For Jazz. A 12 movement suite composed, arranged, and inspired in part by dialogue from Edward O. Bland's 1959 film The Cry of Jazz, the album is a wide ranging treatise on the African American story from one of it's most astute narrators. Itself an incisive critique of racial politics in the USA,

It's cover-a Sam Jones-shot image of Chicago's twin Marina Towers angled in looming fashion-bore an eerie resemblance to the felled World Trade Center towers

through the folk and peacefulness of Omninesia

Following the three genre bending albums MRS has already released this time round Richard Clarke turned to WONDERFULSOUND head honcho Miles Copeland to navigate the the vibe alongside mainstay of the band

" first popularized by Peggy Lee

stomping road songs

The album features the additional singles 'Not Scared Of Giants'

As small as the pause before I hit 'send'

bare-hearted soul with distinct touches of the greats (Holliday

Over the past three decades the band has continually pushed social boundaries and questioned authority and beliefs armed only with propulsive guitars

copies of the original LPs are incredibly tough to locate in anything approaching reasonable condition

Within each album comes an individual

The nine-track album lingers slowly