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Charles Laster II & Silvia Pratesi: Believe What You Say and See
Whether you call it praise music or New Jack gospel, this genre is most often a classic case of "preaching to the choir," with song lyrics lifted artlessly from the King James bible and histrionic music calculated to "reach out and touch somebody's hand." Dear god. Luckily, Charles Laster II and Silvia Pratesi don't make this mistake on their new record Journey of Life. Their songs reference salvation, heaven, and living the Christian life but, like secular soul music, have an uplifting universality. Those of us who aren't Christian - agnostics, Muslims, those whose spirituality can't be pigeonholed - can still understand the positive spirituality that is the wellspring of Laster and Pratesi's music, and still get our groove on. Laster, who composed the excellent lyrics, and Pratesi, who created most of the music with a seamless combination of live musicians and samples, remind us how gospel and rhythm and blues gave birth to soul music in the early sixties and how a new kind of soul is still possible.
It is also possible to have, in this era of the run-on CD (dude, you really don't have to fill up every second of a 74-minute CD-R) and the random iPod mix, a record that has a theme and takes the listener on a ride. "Journey of Life" does just that in a way that reminds one of Stevie Wonder's work in the early '70s, and with a melting pot of influences that are forged into a personal style, at once familiar and quite different.
The first cuts have a rock and dance music flavor, but are rooted on old soul music. The title cut starts with sampled strings, and a drum beat by David Heddon that is all about Motown and Philly soul. The vocal melody has a perfect simplicity in tune with the song's message, sung over expansive keyboard chords: "Life is a journey filled with so many things / It can bring some pain it will be some rain / don't be afraid to explore it... just imagine far past everyday comprehension / ...have a little faith." This song is an overture for the entire record, and is comprised of snippets of the different styles Laster and Pratesi draw from. This song is a journey in itself: the vocals soar with smooth complexity one minute, then break down to a gospel stomp, with funky percussion and a nasty drum line the next. Fuzz guitars by Brett Farkas and wailing synths from Laster enter strongly then glide down into a quiet ballad-ish section, followed by a smooth chorus. The following song "I Believe" comes on with hard-hitting rock funk, featuring a fat bass line, scratchy wah-wah guitar and blaring brass. It then goes into a jazz influenced section with muscular vocals by Laster and, throwing in another left field element, a verse of speed rap. The song ends with a coda of B.B. King-style blues guitar.
This album is based on the idea of change and spiritual growth and revelation. From the opening song, the journey goes through faith ("I Believe") to questioning ("In My Mind") then the moment of revelation ("Wrong To Right"). Stylistically the music reflects the emotions of the songs, going from intense and strident rock to pensive Latin-tinged ballad to a sparse Neptunes-style electro pop groove.
This flow leads to the show stopping apex of the album "Eternal Dancing." This song describes the party that awaits in the promised land of Christian heaven where there will be dancing and joyous experience. This is sure more appealing than the vague heaven told of by dour TV preachers, where "you will sit at the table by the left hand of god" while angels play celestial trumpets, blah, blah, boooring. Now dancing in a land of eternal love with others, especially women, and celebrating oneness on the dance floor? That's a heaven you can feel: "This life is filled with history / living in rhapsody / there are even mysteries / I know that you agree / One day we'll have this dance / and it will never end / we'll step from side to side everybody will be vibing / life in paradise / I can't wait it will be nice... When we walk through heaven's doors... and see the faces of those we love / dance to the eternal groove..."
Adding to the music and enjoyment thereof is Laster's complete lack of braggadocio, insincerity, and underlying cynicism that plagues pop music and the evangelical movement in equal nasty chunks. His positivity, mad skills and music, music that is not dumbed down to appeal to and manipulate the "masses," are a thousand times more effective in spreading and celebrating the gospel than some fire and brimstone huckster ranting on TV. Journey to Life is a modern evocation of the spirit expressed in the bible passage Psalm 95:1 that states "O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation."
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My wah pedal sounds bad?
My vox wah pedal doesnt come through very clear when I use it. Even when I set the tone clean it sounds like its creating some sort of static or fuzz over the sound that sounds terrible. It only happens in the middle of the wah part not all the way front or back. What should I do? My set up is a line 6 spider amp a boss distortion ds-1 then the vox wah and then my guitar?
Hello there,
Try running the wah pedal without the distortion pedal and run it into one of the clean channels on the Line 6. Those are probably the A and B channels. If you still have that problem, you need to take the wah pedal to someone who does electronics repair to be worked on (as suggested in the prior answer). That or simply buy a different wah pedal. It may be cheaper to buy another one than to have yours repaired.
Later,
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