Tag: Loraine James

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The sound world that Loraine James creates often seems pinched by a certain sadness or psychological strain. That pervasive quality as well as a mottled and vaporous sound palette can make her feel like a somewhat difficult or uneasy artist to approach. Yet time and again whenever I take the plunge, what I find and come away with is music...

Loraine James exists on her own frequency, to such an extent that it can often take some time to properly attune oneself to her sounds, which might seem amiable or even vaguely familiar but carry more than a trace of something deeper and tend to reward many repeated listens, over the crackle and sweep of seasons as days and months...

"The men who placed themselves above the rest of society through guile, fortuitous outcome of circumstance and sheer brutality have developed two principal institutions to deal with any and all serious disobedience – the prison and institutionalized racism." So wrote the activist and revolutionary theorist George Jackson from the confines of San Quentin Prison, in the manuscript to his second...