Black Mountain - Black Mountain (ReVINYL Edition) Format:Random Colour Eco Mix Vinyl (inc. Black) Whitney Johnson

Whitney Johnson

But the city of Brazzaville on the north shore of the river – capital of the Congo Republic – played an equally important role in spreading Congolese sounds continentally

a non- Album ‘b’-side

and some of it was me harking back to the experience of growing up there

songs like “Lockdown” expertly articulate the hope many of us have felt during months of isolation (“Where will we go / When di quarantine ting done and everybody touch road

Black Mountain - Black Mountain (ReVINYL Edition) Format:Random Colour Eco Mix Vinyl (inc. Black) Whitney JohnsonBlack Mountain, the front line soldiers for the Black Mountain Armyan arts collective from Vancouver, British Columbiawrite, perform, and record music that speaks (and sings) to this realization: that solutions are rarely simple, that the world is as complex as it is ambiguous, and that music sprinkled with an inoculating dose of madness may well be the Pied Piper that takes us all back into the primordial mountain, where our hearts can be made steady