Local artist/instrumentalist Khari Lemuel performing his song “Come With Me” with Yaw (video by Bobby Rocwell)….Super talented brother who I’ve seen perform live multiple times. His voice combines some of the best elements of Chicago Soul’s legacy: rootsiness, spirituality, truth, and beauty.
Below, Khari’s composition “Good Morning Love” summons the power of Curtis Mayfield (and arranger Johnny Pate) in their Impressions days. The bells and snare brush conjure church, smoky jazz club, and brownstone rooftop at dawn simultaneously (quite a feat).
“Good Morning Love”
(NOTE: listen to The Impressions do the bell-and-brush back in 1964, below)
“Long, Long, Winter” (from the album “Keep on Pushing”)
According to Khari Lemuel’s official Bio:
[He] knows he will one day rise into heaven on a cloud of musical composition. For him music is a daily meditation; an alter where he can unfold the purpose of his life. Above all, Khari Lemuel is an artist painting with sound, composition and the mystical force of creation. Since the age of 3, Lemuel has been studying the instrumental aspect of music. First on cello then moving to flute, bass, guitar, violin, keys, trumpet and voice.
click here for more snippets of his album, Morning Music, or to purchase tracks.
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April 17th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
nice post..!!
April 30th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
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