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Mith

Mith

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The expansive American experience Lonnie Holley quilts together across his astounding new album,* MITH,* is both multitudinous and finely detailed. Holley's self-taught piano improvisations and stream-of-consciousness lyrical approach have only gained purpose and power since he introduced the musical side of his art in 2012 with Just Before Music,* followed by 2013's Keeping a Record of It. But whereas his previous material seemed to dwell in the Eternal-Internal,* MITH lives very much in our world *- the one of concrete and tears; of dirt and blood; of injustice and hope. Across these songs,* in an impressionistic poetry all his own,* Holley touches on Black Lives Matter *("I'm a Suspect"),* Standing Rock *("Copying the Rock") and contemporary American politics *("I Woke Up in a Fucked-Up America"). A storyteller of the highest order,* he commands a personal and universal mythology in his songs of which few songwriters are capable *- names like Bob Dylan,* Joni Mitchell,* Joanna Newsom and Gil Scott-Heron come to mind. MITH was recorded over five years in locations such as Porto,* Portugal; Cottage Grove,* Oregon; New York City and Holley's adopted hometown of Atlanta,* Georgia. These 10 songs feature contributions from fellow cosmic musician Laraaji,* jazz duo Nelson Patton,* visionary producer Richard Swift,* saxophonist Sam Gendel and producer/musician Shahzad Ismaily.
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Release Date:
2021-12-31
Publication Date:
2021-12-31
Publisher:
Jagjaguwar
Languages:
Original: Italian
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