Let Us Dance
Beverley Glenn Copeland
It is rare to see someone sing with as much joy as the legendary seventy-seven-year-old Beverley Glenn Copeland, an American song and songwriter of the extraordinary kind who has spent most of his life in Canada as a black trans-man. The New Age composer is surrounded by musicians two generations his junior, it took a lifetime before he found a large audience, and when he was about to take off and had scheduled a world tour, the pandemic happened, and that was that. Beverley was born into a musical family, in Philadelphia. His father played classical piano, his mother loved spirituals and sang in church. Beverley started her career as a folk singer, integrating blues, jazz and classical elements into her music and had a role in a Canadian tv show for children called Mr. Dressup for many yeary. He was also politically active in Montreal, where he lives. (sgs)
Find it here |released January 2021
Live at Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, Australia
King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizzard
The versatile rock band was founded in Melbourne in 2010 and has released twelve studio albums since, of which five in 2017 alone! They are «Stu Mackenzie (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, flute, sitar), Ambrose Kenny-Smith (vocals, harmonica, keyboards), Cook Craig (guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals, sitar), Joey Walker (guitar, bass, keyboards, vocal), Lucas Harwood (bass, keyboards), and Michael Cavanagh (drums, percussion).» Drawing on fusion jazz and psychedelia, they are rather heavily into hard rock, but have also dropped acoustic albums with a more folkloristic sound. In these dreary times, their spectacle awakens, surprises and sometimes shocks – just what some of us might need. It is therefore my pleasure to introduce more than two hours of a respectable genre of music not often found here. (sgs)
Suga Records | February 2021
Pay Your Way in Pain
St. Vincent
If you ask me, St. Vincent is the new Blondie. Born Annie Erin Clark in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she, her mother and two sisters moved to Houston when she was three. Annie began practicing the guitar when she was twelve and evolved into a mysterious mezzo-soprano and songwriter who plays multiple instruments. She attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston for three years before dropping out and has had a successful career with seven published albums to date, many of which won awards such as the Grammy for Best Alternative Album 2018. Her videos are original, humorous and often colorful, and she has been on stage with artists such as David Byrne or Sufian and contributed back-up vocals for many others. (sgs)
Loma Vista Recordings | March 2021
Muima
Neta Elkayam
The New York recently featured Neta Elkayam, an expressive singe and visual artist with an extraordinary voice, reminding us why Arabic and Pakistani singers are considered to be among the best in the world. She uses her talent to keep the memory of her heritage alive while living in Jerusalem as an Israeli, descended from Moroccan Amazhigs. Jewish Berber tribes have been around since biblical times and spoke Amazhig, the language of their culture. It is to this heritage as well as to the Moroccan Jews living in Israel as well as in the diaspora at large that Neta addresses herself. It is a work of healing she is undertaking with the help of her husband, Neta’s website