Nigerian-French soul singer has a devil of a time…
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Alfred Soto: A modern take on a folk ballad with a Tune-Yards effect.
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Anthony Easton: This flows from French to Igbo to English, an almost ritual call against the demonic with a smooth jazz-influenced voice and a piano riff in the midst of the drums, It’s so well-constructed, it might be a perfect example of flow.
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Katherine St Asaph: Not too far off from certain beloved/reviled folksy-stompy sounds, but those didn’t have such unshowy resolve or nonchalant scratch to their voices, not to mention Old Scratch.
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Iain Mew: Yeah, KT Tunstall probably would have been more enjoyable if she was singing about Satan.
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Will Adams: The chorus is the winner, its IV-I-II chord progression adding conviction to the words’ casting out the devil. Best to repeat it as much as possible during the short runtime.
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Micha Cavaseno: Nothing objectionable to it, but oddly not as stirring as it means to be.
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Megan Harrington: Every summer just outside Chicago there is this thing called the Ravinia Festival, which a quick Google tells me is the oldest outdoor music festival, but to me is the music festival for revelers of a certain age. Unlike the massively oversold festivals of the young, where grimy bodies rub up against well-used portable toilets and vice versa and perpendicular, Ravinia is well spread out, and attendees sit in chairs and eat dinners packed in picnic baskets while the sun sets. Even within this demographic there are acts with a lot of cool cachet and acts with relatively little. Sheryl Crow is a typical Ravinia act, and she’ll sell out her night no problem, but no one’s impressed that you saw Sheryl Crow eating dressed up Cheez-Its in a park. Asa, on the other hand, is a similarly Ravinia ideal performer, but her music is intriguing, listenable but not quite commercial. I can’t help but think she’d sound perfect on a muggy mid-summer evening.
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