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Caroline Davis’ Alula: Captivity
Fisiologicamente marcata la componente ritmica, e una certa "acidità" di base su cui la musica si impianta, si muove e si svolge, libera da ubbie di piacevolezza (il che non significa che ci troviamo di fronte a un lavoro sgradevole, tutt'altro). Ci sono momenti più stralunati, quasi astratti (non molti), e altri decisamente più concreti, terragni, perché la varietà di situazioni non fa difetto a questi tre quarti d'ora appena scarsi di musica, decisamente calata nei nostri tempi. Nei nostri suoni e nei nostri ritmi. Con uno sguardo puntuale e preciso a un passato (ma anche un presente, oggi più che mai) da non dimenticare, in primis quello del mondo carcerario statunitense, come le molte dediche a vari prigiornieri ci ricordano.
Un motivo in più per ascoltare un album certamente coraggioso e mai banale.
Track Listing
[The Day Has Come]; Burned Believers [for Agnes and Huguette]; And Yet It Moves [for Galileo]; [The Malignity of Fate]; Synchronize My Body Where My Mind Had Always Been [for Jalil Muntaqim]; [Terrestrial Rebels]; A Way Back to Myself [for Keith LaMar]; The Promise I Made [for Joyce Ann Brown]; [I Won't Be Back, Mrs. Susan Burton]; Put It on a Poster [for Sandra Bland].
Personnel
Additional Instrumentation
Caroline Davis: juno, voice; Val Jeanty: turntables, samples; Chris Tordini: moog bass; Qasim Naqvi: modular synthesizer (#7,8); Ben Hoffmann: prophet 6 (#10).
Album information
Title: Captivity | Year Released: 2023 | Record Label: Ropeadope
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