All genres move with the times, that is as it should be: that is as it must be. But the art of music keeping pace with fad and fashion is to embrace innovation and technical advances without losing the spirit, the essence, the heart of what that style of music is all about.
And this is precisely where we find starletste_official on the latest single, “Devil’s Dance.” The production of the song might embrace the latest studio techniques, but its soul is as timeless and evocative as the idea of blues itself. This is music that gets back to what that sound is all about, what it has always been about, forget all the sonic showboaters and twenty-notes-a-second guitar wielders, of the modern age, this is slow and soulful and seductive and sultry, atmospheric and, in the very best sense of the word, archaic, in that it echoes the very earliest of the genre’s sounds.
And if the music is authentic, the creeping and spacious six-string licks, the dark and earthy vocals, and slow burn from whispered delicacy to deft and textured shamanistic heights, lyrically, it also reverberates with another of the blues’ genres core tenets. Storytelling.
As the devils indeed dance, as the guitars wail, as the vocals implore, as the beats build, this feels as much like a sonic ritual as a song, a musical exorcism connecting this world and a lower realm.
Yes, the way music is made might change, but in the case of many established genres, blues more than most, it should still come from the same place it always did. “Devil’s Dance” is the sound of a modern take on the genre, connecting with its earliest and earthiest sonic creation myths.
Some things are just timeless, I guess.
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