Unbound: Limited Sky Blue Vinyl LP The Live New Departures Jazz Poetry Septet Licking Dew

Licking Dew

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Unbound: Limited Sky Blue Vinyl LP The Live New Departures Jazz Poetry Septet Licking DewUnbound opens with a single, trembling chord that rises and descends before meeting a warm, beguiling voice, a voice singing in a tradition thats been heard in this northern river country for millennia. The music that follows is a soulful dialogue between the ancient tradition of powwow singing and a contemporary musical palette. On Unbound, the powwow style of singing is entwined with synthesized voice modulation, and hand drumming is accented with