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Howard Wiley and the Angola Project: 12 Gates to the City

Read "12 Gates to the City" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il penitenziario dello Stato della Louisiana lo chiamano l'Alcatraz del Sud o meglio ancora Angola. È il più grande carcere statunitense. Là, prima il libro “Dead Man Walking," poi il film omonimo hanno descritto in modo crudo e puro la pena di morte. Quelle inferriate controllate da sistemi di massima sicurezza hanno ospitato migliaia di prigionieri e, tra i tanti, anche Leadbelly che per quattro anni stazionò prima di essere rilasciato per buona condotta. Un carcere che puzza di blues, ...

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Howard Wiley: The Angola Project

Read "The Angola Project" reviewed by Troy Collins


Music has often been used to commemorate the indefatigable resolve of the human spirit in the face of great suffering. Countless interpretations of field hollers, slave chants and spirituals have been re-envisioned by trained musicians, only to have the raw, unrefined soulfulness of the originals smothered by academic excess.

Bay Area saxophonist Howard Wiley's fervent tribute to the prison music of Angola State Prison avoids this fate. Wiley uses recordings of the gospel spirituals and work song hollers ...


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