David Sancious Opens Our Eyes to Good Trouble
by Gregg Chadwick “A time comes when silence is betrayal” - Martin Luther King Jr. April 4, 1967 "So you have a moral obligation, a mission and a mandate, to speak up, speak out, and get in good trouble. You can do it. You must do it. Not just for yourselves but for generations yet unborn." - John Lewis Lawrence University, June 2015 David Sancious’ new album Eyes Wide Open evokes Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On , Gil Scott Heron's Winter in America , Herbie Hancock's The Prisoner , Steely Dan's Kid Charlemagne , and Terence Blanchard 's music for Spike Lee's films. Sancious describes the album as “a movie for your ears.” Sancious' vocals, keyboards, and guitar are combined with spoken word passages, chants from protest marches, and news clips that form a cinematic soundscape which ventures into the urgent concerns of our time. Racial injustice, police violence against black folks, and the environmental destruction of our burn...