23 year old Northern Irish songwriter Daniel James channels the rhythmic and meldoci structures of gospel and spirituals on new track “A Lonely Man”. In writing “A Lonely Man” James wanted to convey struggle and how his personal notion of it relates to its historical context; he had this say about the track, “‘A Lonely Man’ is based on parallel stories. One part expresses my own struggles with everyday life and another part expresses my imagination of what ‘struggling’ actually entails. Researching old reference books and documentaries, I focussed on the struggle of the slaves in chain gangs in America in the nineteenth century. I tried to harness old slave/gospel type vocal rhythms in the track to reflect the parallel story. ‘A Lonely Man’ is a story of one man’s battle, both real and imagined.”
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Rating 8.5
Reviewed by b3
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