This is our good friend John Matthews’ take on Elijah: “...makes roots music that’s steeped in mythology and mysticism. Like all great artists Elijah operates in his own self created universe, one that’s a million miles away from the fast moving, disposable, digital streaming world we currently inhabit. His music is based in reggae and dub but references folk, blues and cumbia which give it a very unique sound. Simultaneously uplifting but mournful, modern but traditional, strange but familiar, it’s full of contradictions that shouldn’t work together but somehow, in Elijah’s hands, they do. Often with spectacular results. There really is no other current artist that sounds anything like Elijah Minnelli.”
Fri, 9-10pm, Château Comtal
