SOUNDTRACK: KING-“Supernatural” (Field Recordings, September 17, 2014).
This Field Recording [KING Makes A Record Lover’s Paradise Even Better] was created before Prince died. Hard to believe that was two years ago already!
I mention this because the women of KING (Paris and Amber Strother and Anita Bias) speak of him in the present tense. Which is strangely comforting.
The women mention Prince because evidently he heard a song from their debut EP and contacted them out of the blue. His manager sent them a one line email: “Would you be interested in meeting Prince?” Get outta here!
On a steamy morning upstairs in a record lover’s paradise KING laid down a gorgeous version of “Supernatural,” one of the songs that lit up Twitter three years ago. While customers quietly thumbed through LPs — then stopped to stare — the singers gently and precisely intertwined their three voices in service of a love song.
Their voices and harmonies are quite lovely. Although this is not a type of music I enjoy.
[READ: January 19, 2018] “In the United States of Africa”
This is an excerpt from a novel originally written in French and translated by David and Nicole Bell.
The blurb says that the novel opens with “a brief account of the origins of our [African] prosperity and the reasons that have thrown the Caucasians onto the paths of exile.”
This excerpt is not terribly compelling. There’s a hint of a cool story there but it seems to be overtaken by philosophical musings. (more…)
I Just Read About That... 