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	Podcast:		Soundcheck
	Episode:		Jake Blount Channels the Ancestors Into Afro-Futurist Survival Songs
	Category:		Health
	Duration:		00:39:00
	Publish Date:		2022-11-07 17:00:00
	Description:		Banjo player, fiddler, singer, and scholar Jake Blount’s latest feat is an Afro-futurist concept album called The New Faith, where instead of shiny interstellar travel, there's an enviro-apocalypse. Blount presents the music of the surviving community as a religious service in three sections, captured as a future field recording - one with a direct through-line to folk, gospel, the blues, and spirituals. There is an explicit tie-in with Octavia Butler’s visionary 1993 work of science fiction, Parable of the Sower. Combining cleverly deployed fiddle and banjo, hand claps, call and response vocals, and rapped verse from Demeanor, Blount connects the threads of ever-evolving Black folk music within these tunes. Jake Blount and his band play some of these songs, in-studio. Set list: "Once There Was No Sun", "City of Heaven", "Didn't It Rain"
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