FONO4// Harmony Holiday- The Black Saint and the Sinnerman

$16.95


Release Date: April 24, 2018

Run Time: 42:00

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Description

A man and a woman meet in the marketplace. She is selling her body and he is beating his drum. A man and woman meet in a concert hall. She is thinking the music he spins loose as tantrum.  Ah Um and other standards of misused/freedom.  A man and woman meet on the radio. He calls her a hoe and she calls him a prince. Jokes are science. She wears white lace and he wears no rubbers. What eagles, also shrugs. Slugs Tavern smells like burnt wheat and hussies. A man and a woman meet there to touch. A man and a  woman meet at University. She is studying Frederick Douglass and he is learning to count the bones. Jesus was a geneticist and we are mapping our way home. A man and a woman meet on the way home. He tries to corrupt her as if the sins of the father are being visited in prison. Dial tone. Heart bone. Copper and carbon make electricity. Ringing and spinning into thought. The copper in your pineal gland and the carbon in your cerebral cortex. A man a woman meet in the mind. She is electric and he is legba, the trickster, sluggish under her lucky sun. Not every love story is a fairy tale. In fact the best ones simulate the process of waking up from a nightmare; a man and a woman meet in that glare, fuzzy-hearted almost despair of morning. This is a story about the body. Brown in white lace, disgraced and redeemed. There are no more sour grapes. My teeth glow like a railroad. A man and a woman meet on a train. Your brother and your sister don’t speak to you, and I don’t blame them. Do you blame them? Sin is not as simple as breaking a man made rule. Sainthood is not as simple as being good. This is a story about the body. Sweet grapes. Sweetback. Sweet race. Sweet runner. Sweet earth/rising.

Charles Mingus’s classic 1963 album The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is swerved into Harmony Holiday’s classic 2018 album The Black Saint and the Sinnerman. The albums are not the same, not at all. But they speak to one and other across time and language, motion and sound.

The Black Saint and the Sinnerman was recorded live at Machine Project in Los Angeles, CA on September 9, 2016. The album was mastered and engineered by Gus Elg at Sky Onion in Portland, OR in the Fall of 2017.

Purchase of The Black Saint and the Sinnerman includes a 11×11 insert of Holiday’s poem “To the black female children,” as well as a download card for the entire album.

Track List

Side A

1. Meeting/ Pimping

2. Our Corrupt Affections

3. Holy Outlaws

4. What Jimmy Taught me

5. And you liked that shit?

6. Forensics outside of Miles Davis’ Jail Cell

7. Tearing up the town/ I was torn up too

8. The City Admits no Wrongdoing/ You worship the one you’ve broken

9. Turn ‘em on

10. That Abiding/ We’re all full of nightmares

11. The Attempted Lynching

12. I deal with it everyday

13. For Dreamers, For Drummers

Side B

1. Seven Meditations

2. I’m tired of y’all/ So with that being said

3. Black Privacy/ We were so happy

4. See how nature can expose a nigga

5. Ratchet TV

6. Toward the apotheosis

7. How did all of this trouble begin

8. Are you whistling the same jive as them

9. Fat black asses flailing the moonlight like this a magic cottonfield

10. Look for me in the whirlwind

11. We shook that in Los Angeles

12. The Sun Came

13. Was it the bone, was it the skin?

14. Midnight Girl