As an integral part of the Los Angeles music scene, Jimetta Rose has worked alongside prominent artists such as Shafiq Husayn, Georgia Anne Muldrow and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. Now, though, she returns as an integral part (and leader) of the gospel collective The Voices Of Creation. Composed of a diverse group of vocalists (including Novena Carmel, daughter of Sly Stone) and aided by some of the finest musicians in LA, their music fuses the foundational building blocks of modern music together—gospel, jazz, soul and funk converge to create a euphoric affirmation perfect for summer and beyond.
“I was very low at the time and I wrote most of the songs going through hardship,” Rose says of the joyous project in an official statement. “But I found comfort in the songs and a way to adjust my mindset to where things got better. So I thought ‘if this music works for me, maybe it will work for other people’ I believe that every person has their own voice and their own note and that we can use our voices to heal ourselves. That’s the intention behind creating the project.”
That intention is fully realized on lead single “Let The Sunshine In,” a cover of the 1978 soul-jazz classic by Sons and Daughters of Lite. The song is split between a stately and serene opening replete with sanctified organ, serene piano and the mellowed bliss of the choir for the first two-and-a-half minutes before it switches uptempo to become a raucous, testifying, soul-shaking blast of gospeldelic power.
“Let The Sunshine In” is the first single lifted from the collective’s forthcoming debut album How Good It Is, scheduled for release on August 12th courtesy of Day Dreamer, a subsidiary of Night Dreamer. Enjoy the official video below.
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