Lokumbe: Can You Hear God Crying?

Release Date: 3rd Nov 2014
Catalogue No: 2110357
Label: Naxos

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A Spiritatorio
Janice Chandler-Eteme (soprano), Rodrick Dixon (tenor), Homayun Sakhk (Afghan rubab), Paula Holloway (vocals) & Rev Dr Alyn E Waller (readings)
The Celebration Choir, Music Liberation Orchestra & Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
Dirk Brosse

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Award-winning composer and trumpet player Hannibal Lokumbe is a leader in expressing the African-American experience through his orchestral and choral music, with a special focus on civil rights leaders.

Can You Hear God Crying? is a 'spiritatorio' which takes us on a journey from hardship and suffering to healing and celebrations of courage and peace, told through the forced migration aboard a slave ship endured by Lokumbe's great grandfather, Silas Burgess.

Combining jazz, gospel and chamber music together with West African prayers and songs, this is both a moving commemoration and a spectacularly festive event which faces past and present with honesty and deep spiritual understanding.

World Premiere Recording.

Lokumbe: Can You Hear God Crying?

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