Lara Downes - Some of These Days '2020

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Arr. S. Buck for Voices, Piano &
Tape)
02. Steal Away (After Ivess Piano Sonata No. 2 Concord)
03. Spiritual Suite (Excerpts): III. Troubled Water
04. Hold On (Arr. for Voices, String Quartet & Piano)
05. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (Arr. H. Choi for Piano)
06. Deep River (Arr. for Piano & String Quartet)
07. Down by the Riverside (Arr. S. Buck for Piano)
08. All Night, All Day (Arr. for Voice, Guitar & Piano)
09. My Lord, What a Mornin (Arr. for Piano & Trumpet)
10. Spiritual Suite (Excerpts): II. The Bells
11. We Shall Overcome (Arr. for Voices & Piano)
12. Fantasie nègre No. 2
13. Bandanna Sketches, Op. 12: No. 1, Chant (Nobody Knows de Trouble Ive Seen)
14. Some of These Days (Arr. L. Downes for Piano)
15. Commentary


The newest project by pianist Lara Downes, SOME OF THESE DAYS is a musical
reflection on social justice, progress and equality. In this time of global
unrest and upheaval, Downes turns to freedom songs and spirituals that invoke
our human capacity for optimism, activism, and unification in the face of
crisis. In Lara’s words: “We are strong. We are resourceful. We
have come through darkness into light, over and over again. Let’s lean on
our ancestors and the lessons they have taught us about hope, courage, and above
all unity.” 

Spanning diverse musical traditions including classical, jazz, folk, country and
R&B, Some Of These Days features collaborations with special guest artists
including Toshi Reagon, Howard Fishman, PUBLIQuartet, and The Chapin Sisters, in
arrangements by H. T. Burleigh, Hall Johnson, Florence Price, Margaret Bonds,
Nina Simone, Billy Taylor, Stephen Buck and Lara Downes.

This deeply personal project from an artist known as “an explorer whose
imagination is fired by bringing notice to the underrepresented and
forgotten”, Some Of These Days taps into our collective experience, as
well as Lara’s musical and personal history. In her own words:
“This music pulls at so many parts of me — and pulls them together.
The part that is a strong woman; the part that is an audacious artist. The part
that is my parents’ daughter. This is my history, and ours.”

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