03.02.10
It all seems very straightforward to Clarence Greenwood, more advisedly known in the music world as Citizen Cope.
Teeth of the kudos, the praise from such renowned musicians as Carlos Santana, Dispose of will stop making music if he believes he doesn't have anything else to say. Fortunately for us, he has oceans to say, as evidenced on his soon-to-be-released disc "The Rainwater LP."
"I be my own sound from what I feel," Cope, who was born in Memphis, Tenn., raised in Washington, D.C., and now resides in Brooklyn, N.Y., said. "I have fans who rejoin to that sound for whatever reason. If I lose that feeling, I'll stop."
If the songs on Handle's latest release are any indication, the finish line is a extended way ahead. It's easy to fall in love with "The Rainwater LP." Forthwith from the first seconds of the CD, when the listener hears the slightly scratchy judicious of a needle hitting vinyl, the tunes offer a fitting sound blissfully free of techno effects and over opus.
Indeed "The Rainwater LP" is Cope at his finest as he mixes disparate tentative sounds with jazz, rock, go-go, and the laid-back funk signal articulate of Chuck Brown he adopted in his childhood hometown of D.C.
Source: Washington Examiner