If you have not heard Regina Carter perform, you are missing out on a heart-stirring experience. A few Saturdays ago, Regina Carter performed her last show at Yoshi's in Jack London Square. The experience? Absolutely breathtaking. Violins, bass, ancora (spelling?), accordian, drums. African folk melodies in contemporary re-interpretations. We heard songs from the African diaspora, including songs from Uganda and West Africa. First, the field recordings of the folk songs would be played, then Carter's group would play for us the new, contemporary re-interps of the melodies and rhythms. Delicious rhythms and beat. Melodies that seemed to drift in and out of some strange land that is here, physically present, and now, but also distant and of the past and of the future.
All the songs performed were from her upcoming album, Reverse Thread (release date January 2010: "a collection of infectious African folk melodies in a beautiful, contemporary interpretation").
You must, must, must get the CD when it comes out. I will.
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