If this year was a color, what shade would it be? If this year was a scent, what would it remind us of? If two thousand twenty was a metaphor for a season... what would the scenery look like?
"Winter in America" is not a musical answer to this question, but rather an impression that Johannes Brecht has gained in the past months by observing the social climate and glimpsing at the Western hemisphere.
A mixture of political ice wind, turbulent questions of faith and societal climate changes.
These are also the topics that have always connected Johannes Brecht and Fetsum, personally and artistically. As big Gil Scott-Heron fans, the classic "Winter in America" has almost offered itself to be reissued and contextualized.
Two very different friends, with two very different biographies, but a complementary view forward.
credits
from Winter in America,
track released December 11, 2020
composed by Gil Scott-Heron
vocals by Fetsum
all Instruments by Johannes Brecht
recorded, mixed and produced by Johannes Brecht
mastered by Zino Mikorey
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