Title - Let Go
Artist - Acute Inflections
For those unaware, Acute Inflections will release their fifth album on November 11th, 2022, entitled Let Go.
The powerful title track, Let Go, was recently featured on NPR, and the collection includes soulful takes on uplifting songs from a wide range of artists, including Ella Fitzgerald, Sam Cooke, and Andra Day.
The album is actually inspired by their fans’ requests during their popular online pandemic concerts.
Elasea Douglas is a gifted singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. Like many other singers, she started in church as a young child. For a short time as a toddler, she believed she was why everyone attended the services and took advantage of quiet moments like the choir’s pauses to make her voice heard.
Sadiki Pierre is a talented upright bass player who is uniquely capable of playing and fusing almost any style of music, including classical, jazz, latin, reggae, and R&B.
When her first started playing the upright bass, he had no interest in actually learning the instrument and instead was only looking for a way to get out of his sixth-grade class. Fortunately, he chose the right distraction from his schoolwork.
1. Blue Skies (2:28)
2. We Are The Champions (4:47)
3. Let Go (5:23)
4. Everything That I Wanted (5:27)
5. A Change Is Gonna Come (6:07)
6. Nature Boy (3:23)
7. Only Together (4:49)
8. Rise Up (5:19)
9. What A Wonderful World (5:25)
10. Let Go Remix (4:41)
This soulfully-crafted and genuinely heartfelt new album opens on the summer’s breeze of Irving Berlin’s Blue Skies and a remarkable rendition of Queen’s We Are The Champions and they are followed by the quieter gossamer of their original song, Let Go, then comes a quite remarkable take on Billie Eilish’s Everything That I Wanted and then an artfully constructed, waning yearn is brought to the for on Sam Cooke’s A Change Is Gonna Come.
Up next is one of my own personal favorites, both in its original state and here on this album, their magnificently soulful cover of Nat King Cole’s always-lush Nature Boy and that is itself backed by the subdued, yet euphorically implored original, Only Together, and then we get an infectiously melodic Rise Up (Andra Day), the album rounding out on the robustly crafted What A Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong), closing on a remix of their original song, the titular Let Go.
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