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The Harlem Gospel Travelers - Look Up! Artist_orbeThings are looking up for The Harlem Gospel Travelers, who return here with a new album, a new lineup, and a new lease on life. Produced by Eli Paperboy Reed, Look Up! marks the groups first full length release as a trio, as well as their first collection of totally original material, and it couldnt have come at a more vital moment. The music still draws deeply on the gospel quartet tradition of the 50s and 60s, of course, but theres a distinctly

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music can happen anywhere

White is Relic/Irrealis Mood

” The heart of the track is a somber loop

touching on loss and resignation — a musical counterpart of the fleeting smile elicited by forgotten old photographs of treasured times

The score evolves through the different

HAIM will also play Splendour in the Grass in Australia

delicate pop music by carefully stitching a sound palette that gently recalls elastic funk

serene ambient passages

jamming in the studio and crossing paths at festivals and airports around the world

Children of God was a major turning point for Swans and the musical tendencies that are first engendered here were fertile ground for the remaining future records

* Translated liner notes by Masakazu Kitanaka