MITH

by Lonnie Holley

MITH cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 21 September 2018
  • Label: Jagjaguwar
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:16:57
  • Community rating: 3.82/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The self-taught visual artist and improvisational musician delivers a staggering, deeply profound exploration of African-American history and spiritual jazz. Supported by musicians from the modern avant-garde scene, his incredibly raw, cosmic vocal delivery tackles systemic injustice and ancestral pain with overwhelming emotional weight. It is universally revered as a monumentally vital, spiritually intense outsider masterpiece.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, political, existential, avant-garde, male-vocals, experimental, improvisation, spoken-word, soulful, improvisational, spirituality, vocal

Tracklist

  1. I鈥檓 a Suspect (7:24)
  2. Back for Me (6:59)
  3. How Far Is Spaced-Out? (4:43)
  4. I Snuck Off the Slave Ship (17:52)
  5. I Woke Up in a Fucked-Up America (5:34)
  6. Copying the Rock (6:47)
  7. Coming Back (From the Distance Between the Spaces of Time) (7:49)
  8. There Was Always Water (5:25)
  9. Down in the Ghostness of Darkness (7:18)
  10. Sometimes I Wanna Dance (7:02)

Credits

  • David Nelson - trombone, loops, written-by, trombone, loops, synthesizer [op1]
  • Laraaji - piano, piano, computer [thumbjam app], piano, electric piano [fender rhodes]
  • Sam Gendel - soprano saxophone
  • Anna Roberts-Gevalt - backing vocals
  • Courtney Hartman - backing vocals
  • Elizabeth LaPrelle - backing vocals

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