The Bitter Fruit - Conscious Downtempo & Woke Folk

During the week it took for IRMA to actually hit us, it was always possible the system would weaken & dissipate; it might become a storm, it might just be a cloud passing us by. I had started work on two different shows & in the circumstances, gave one the working title of Storm, and the other, Cloud; storm was published as Storm Chills, once we saw the system wouldn’t weaken until after damage had been done.

That left Cloud ... Left it until after the storm, the clean-up & then the concern over what would become of MARIA which, in turn, passed SW FLA by. Left it til after vacation, when the intention shifted... [read more at www.beatconscious.org/#IRMA ]

Because of those influences, this show became more folk/protest-oriented, although there is also a nod to Bladerunner 2049 embedded in there, too. Bringing the word are Tracy Chapman, Ritchie Havens, Neil Young, Sade, Willi Wright, and the spirit of the whole guitar-strumming era of woke folk.