Music / soul

White Jesus black problems


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2022 August

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Nick Hasted

2022 August

"Autobiographical, slave-era psychedelic soul blues: In 1750s, pre-USA Virginia, white Scottish indentured servant Elizabeth Gallimore loved an unknown black African slave, siring eventually free children. Seven generations later, Fantastic Negrito's recent discovery of his head-spinning heritage has sparked this wild psychedelic soul suite, mixing his ancestors' impossibly defiant love with America's enduring slavers' mentality. 'White Jesus Black Problems' fizzes with indignation and exults in contradictions ... [This] indomitable, black freak-power pioneer would have made his still-braver ancestors proud and wonderingly hopeful".