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You are (we are) one light, / Myriad each one, / Reflecting among an infinity / Of lights from moment to moment.
You are (we are) one light, / Myriad each one, / Reflecting among an infinity / Of lights from moment to moment.
You are (we are) one light, / Myriad each one, / Reflecting among an infinity / Of lights from moment to moment.
THE TIME WE HAVE, Meld 1 was #3
Jazz in North America, November 2020.
It came back into the Top-40 for the Week of January 21, 2023.
You are one / Light among / Many Lights / And we're all / Here to shine
LOVE OVER WAR #1 on WODU of Norfolk, VA and WZRD of Chicago
two consecutive Weeks of July 2022.
STREAM on Bandcamp
and Download
there in full
fidelity.
DON PAUL and RIVERS ANSWER MOONS (the great musicians Roger Lewis, Herlin Riley, Kirk Joseph and Michael Torregano Jr.) deliver THREE (Count' em!) anthems
for Musing and Dancing--
"Get Your JAM On!" and
"Glory Glory Glory Is For Us All" and "Love Over War, Every Time
We Play".
The RIVERS ANSWER MOONS
musicians comprise 247 years
of performance, lore and spirit.
ROGER LEWIS alto, baritone, tenor
and soprano saxophones.
HERLIN RILEY drums-set.
KIRK JOSEPH sousaphone.
MICHAEL TORREGANO JR. keyboards
MARIO ABNEY trumpet.
The THREE anthems are blessed
to have ERICA FALLS
as guest singer. As you may hear,
Erica is perfect in her tones
and timing.
The album also features virtuoso
DHYANI DHARMA on "My Old Man".
Two more master musicians
KIDD JORDAN on tenor saxophone and MORIKEBA KOUYATE on kora
for the tribute, 'About Reinaldo,
Mourning, and Outrage'.
DON PAUL plays bhodran and sings
his first song, a lullaby for daughter
Paloma, "A Baby's Smile Is Sweet To See."
MAKE LOCAL GLOBAL.
LOVE OVER WAR and Roger Lewis
ALRIGHT! are available through Louisiana Music Factory online
and in New Orleans.
Counter-clockwise from lower left:
Kirk Joseph, Mario Abney, Herlin Riley,
Michael Torregano Jr., Roger Lewis,
David Farrell.
LOVE OVER WAR comes with
a 12-page booklet.
The triptych is of video-stills from Aristide Phillips and the recording
of Women Center Earth, Sea and Sky
at Rick G. Nelson's Marigny Studio,
July 24, 2014.
Dhyani Dharma, leftward, in concert.
Rick G. Nelson, Roger Lewis,
Don Paul, Herlin Riley, Kirk
Joseph, after Herlin introduced
us to a new language, August 3,
2011. Photo by Maryse Philippe Déjean.
Full moon, February 8, 2020,
after returning from the
Angela King Gallery.
Photo by Maryse Philippe Déjean.
"Love Over War, Every Time
We Play" and its melding
of Mario Abney's trumpet
and Erica Falls' singing voice
can be heard on BANDCAMP.
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