Corinne Bailey Rae
Black Rainbows
Black Rainbows Music/Thirty Tigers
Released 09/15/23 | Listen Below
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Seven years on from the release of her most recent album (2016’s The Heart Speaks In Whispers), Corinne Bailey Rae has blessed us with her powerful fourth studio LP Black Rainbows. Preceded by official singles “New York Transit Queen” and “Peach Velvet Sky,” the 10-track album draws inspiration from Bailey Rae’s “encounters with objects in Chicago’s Stony Island Arts Bank, a curated collection of Black archives comprising books, sculpture, records, furniture and problematic objects from America’s past,” according to a press release. Released as a visual accompaniment to Black Rainbows, the book Refraction/Reflection of the Arts Bank features photographs of the installation by Koto Bolofo.
“I knew when I walked through those doors that my life had changed forever,” Bailey Rae confides in an official statement. “Engaging with these archives and encountering (artist and professor) Theaster Gates and his practice has changed how I think about myself as an artist and what the possibilities of my work can be. This music has come through seeing. Seeing has been like hearing, for me. While I was looking, songs/sounds appeared.”
Bailey Rae is currently on tour in the US and will perform in the UK and Spain later next month.
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