Psychedelic soul may have had some exposure over the years, yet the funkier it gets the more obscure it becomes, which is why recent interest towards CYMANDE should be deemed immense progress in assessing this subgenre. The three platters the British ensemble issued back in the early ’70s have retained their diminishing brilliance, if not freshness, despite the passage of time, and connoisseurs who used to listen to those records before they were “rediscovered” by many thanks to 2022 documentary “Getting It Back” feel free from following fads, although quite a few of those aficionados didn’t pay much attention to the band’s 2015’s comeback album “A Simple Act Of Faith” – but ignoring the veterans’ forthcoming longplay “Renascence” will amount to a cultural crime.
Scheduled to be out on January 31st, this platter aims to reinstate the troupe’s importance by taking on the ever-relevant subjects of political and spiritual awareness by trying to tell the collective’s own story – but why it’s said to be picking up where their “Promised Heights” left off in 1974, the point ignoring the aforementioned record from the last decade remains unknown. At least for now.
Renascence
1. Chasing An Empty Dream
2. Road To Zion
3. Only One Way (feat. Celeste)
4. Coltrane
5. Sweeden
6. How We Roll (feat. Jazzie B)
7. Heart Of The Willing
8. I Wanna Know
9. Darkest Night
10. Carry The Word
