The Ones Ahead: CD Bear in Heaven and African music

and African music

“We’d made a couple of LPs

an emotional Hollywood score or William Basinski's sound of decay

you’d think it was in their blood

The Ones Ahead: CD Bear in Heaven and African musicIn the tumult of this world, there are constants. People need each other. Every motion brushes against others, moving. None of us are siloed and none of us are still. The music of Beverly Glenn Copeland drinks deeply from these truths. For decades, the Philadelphia born, Canada based singer, songwriter, and composer has drawn myriad musical practices toward a single, luminous conviction: that music can shake us loose from what closes us off from each