Ein netter Artikel über das für und wider der trendy Gospel Kollaborationen.
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1732138,00.html
Howe’s Arbeit wird als positves Beispiel genannt:
This is particularly relevant right now because this week I received a record that proves that the gospel/rock interface can occasionally work wonders. ‚Sno Angel Like You is the latest home-baked masterpiece by Howe Gelb, a resident of Arizona whose wonderfully skewed music is treasured by a devoted fan-cult, but probably unknown to just about everybody else. On this record, with the aid of a Canadian gospel troupe called the Voices of Praise, he stages „a grand experiment to see if we could mesh the sounds of the muck I make with the dizzying effect of the choir“. The result is sublime: cracked, gut-bucket music, in which gospel is used not to disguise the music’s emptiness, but to emphasise its qualities of transcendence and endless ache.
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