"The recording quality is extremely high. Transparency and timbral accuracy are high points, the ‘stereo' spread, the low point. This sounds as if it was a two track recording meant to be mixed to mono and in fact, I have a mono original that I prefer spa
The album finds Ayler experimenting with soul music and digging back into his R&B roots, fusing it with the avant-garde free jazz and adding the vocals of Rose Marie McCoy, The Soul Singers and Ayler himself.
Including “Stop, Look, Listen”, “You Are Everything”, “Betcha by Golly, Wow”, “People Make the World Go Round”, “I’m Stone in Love with You”, “Break Up to Make Up”, and “You Make Me Feel Brand New”.
Original soundtrack to the 2021 Aretha Franklin biopic Respect starring Jennifer Hudson. Features 18 tracks: 17 Aretha Franklin covers and one original, all performed by Jennifer Hudson.
If Words Were Flowers is Harding's 2018 follow up to the 'Face Your Fears" album. It features " Hopeful", where Harding croons over a classic soul groove, textured with infectious horn playing, background singers and modern psychedelic flourishes.
