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The new faith / Jake Blount.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 26948
Available
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Blount, Jake, composer, performer.
- Series:
- African American legacy recordings series.
- African American legacy recordings
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk music--United States.
- Folk music.
- Folk songs, English.
- Spirituals (Songs).
- Afrofuturism--Songs and music.
- Afrofuturism.
- African Americans--Music.
- African Americans.
- Blues (Music)--2021-2030.
- Blues (Music).
- Psalms (Music).
- Genre:
- Negro spirituals.
- compact discs.
- Folk music.
- Spirituals (Songs)
- Blues (Music)
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc (43:23) ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, [2022]
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- stereo
- audio file
- CD audio
- Summary:
- The album tells an Afrofuturist story set in a far-future world devastated by climate change. Jake Blount and his collaborators embody a group of Black climate refugees as they perform a religious service, invoking spirituals that are age-old even now, familiar in their content but extraordinary in their presentation. These songs, which have seen Black Americans through countless struggles, bind this future community together and their shared past; beauty and power held in song through centuries of devastation, heartbreak, and loss.
- Contents:
- The Psalms of the Sentinel. Take me to the water/Prayer (3:38) ; The downward road (3:36) ; Didn't it rain (3:05) ; Tangle eye blues (3:51)
- The Psalms of the Gravedigger. Parable (2:20) ; Death have mercy (2:59) ; City called Heaven (4:52) ; They are waiting for me (4:27)
- The Psalms of the Teacher. Psalms (2:54) ; Just as well to get ready, you got to die (3:08) ; Give up the world (4:09) ; Once there was no sun (4:21).
- Participant:
- Jake Blount, vocals, fiddle, banjo, banjo bass, strings, percussion ; with additional musicians.
- Notes:
- Title from disc label.
- "Recorded in Firehouse 12, Acadia Recording Co., but mostly Jake's bedroom, Brian's house, and Mali's shed."--Program notes, page 30.
- Program notes by Jake Blount (31 pages : portraits) inserted in container.
- OCLC:
- 1342050155
- Publisher Number:
- 093074024720
- SFW CD 40247 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (disc label)
- SFW 40247 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (notes)
- SF-40247-CD Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
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