DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: January 17, 2022
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JP Bimeni & The Black Belts
Give Me Hope
(Lovemonk Records)
★★★★
MICHAEL Kiwanuka, Leon Bridges and Curtis Harding – many contemporary artists take hefty inspiration from ’60s American soul music.
Though perhaps none more so than Burundi-born JP Bimeni. His second album is in deep debt to legends like Otis Redding and Ben E King, which is no bad thing of course, especially when the music is as full of life and emotion as this.
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