Hey wow.
The new installment of Thomas Brinkman's "Soul Center*" is better than the
first.
It feels he's really hit his stride with this idea. The new one uses a lot
of samples of stage patter from live concert albums of the "Soul Center*"
era (which, right off the bat seems a path less trod than sampling motown
songs). As on the first "Soul Center", there seems to be some kinda
"essence of blackness" thing going on, the exact intent of which eludes me.
However, rather than dessicating soulful music, it seems this time around
he is willing to exploit the drama of the live moments; the roar of the
audience heard during call and reponse exchanges gives some of the tracks a
massiveness of scale unthinkable in previous Brinkman outings. the way the
spoken dialog is edited is often lovely, creating odd moments of poetry,
and highlighting the mask worn my certain of the performers. the musicality
of the whole thing seems more generous and effective than the first "Soul
Center*".
kurt
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