![]() And then, of course, there’s that voice – deep and emotive, filling out every song with warmth and color that’s often missing from the twangy sneer of this decade’s most notable country hitmakers. The elevator pitch for Orville Peck’s debut for Sub Pop – gay country music by a guy who never takes his fringed lone ranger mask off – would seem gimmicky if the thing weren’t stuffed so full of genuine love and feeling for a genre that has often been so unforgiving of its themes. Light bulb by ColiNOOB ( Pixabay License / Pixabay) Orville Peck – Pony ![]() Recorded using a phone in situ and ad hoc during Dawid’s travels and performances, the essence of The Oracle is as much about the music it carries-free jazz, funk, gospel, hip-hop, and blues channeled through Dawid’s looped and quilted voice, clarinet, electronic effects, and found sounds-as it is about imprinting the life force and struggles that inform it into a singular work of art. ![]() ![]() Instead, she frames her story into larger, inescapable narratives to capture and reflect what it means and what it has meant to be black in a world still haunted by racism and oppression. But the Chicago based artist doesn’t limit herself to just archiving an individual’s experience. It is a most powerful document, a spiritual field recording of sorts, of the life and work of clarinetist and composer Angel Bat Dawid.
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