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6 Degrees Entertainment

Title - Love Over War
Artist - Don Paul

For those of you not in the know, Don Paul is the leader or producer of over 20 albums. He currently works with Hamid Drake and Alex de Grassi in the GALLOP Trio and with them and Kidd Jordan, William Parker and Paul Plimley in the GALLOP Sextet.

He is the youngest winner of Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University and the former world-record holder (1982-1992) for running 50 kilometers and was a logger or roughneck between 1973 and 1980.

He began with music in 1988 and led or produced 14 albums over the next seven years in the San Francisco Bay Area, collaborating with his brother Kenton, Babatunde Lea, Henry Kaiser, Chuck Prophet, John Baker, Dhyani Dharma, George Cremaschi, Richard Howell, James Henry, Glenn Spearman, Lisle Ellis, India Cooke, Larry Ochs, William Winant, Anthony Carrillo, Jeannette Armstrong, q.r. hand, Alfonso Texidor, devorah major, Jack Hirschman, Jerry Anomie, Paul Plimley, Donald Robinson, Myles Boisen, Miya Masaoka, Ben Goldberg, Francis Wong, Genny Lim, Daniel Higgs, Nilak Butler, Lee and Salas of Hedzolleh Soundz, Ustad Salamat Ali Khan, Ustad Shafqat Ali Khan, and many more.

Since the year 2000 he has co-founded Housing Is a Human Right, From the Ground Up, and Rebuild Green, and served as Operations Director for Common Ground Relief in New Orleans and Executive Director for a Central City project known as the Wesley United Digital Arts & Training Center.

Also, he and his wife Maryse Déjean co-direct Sticking Up For Children, thanks to an idea from Cyril and Gaynielle Neville.

His brand new album is Love Over War out July 1st, 2022 via Irresistible / Revolutionary Records, is an album of jazz, funky, Gospel, Rock and Poetry, where the first three songs (and six tracks, as a whole) are Don Paul and Rivers Answer Moons, recorded in New Orleans in January and February 2022.

1. Get Your JAM On!
2. Glory Glory Glory Is For Us All
3. Love Over War. Every Time We Play (instr.)
4. Love Over War Every Time We Play
5. Glory Glory Glory Is For Us All
6. Get Your JAM On! (instr.)
7. My Old Man
8. About Reinaldo. Mourning and Outrage
9. A Baby’s Smile is Sweet to See
10. Bobee (What a Spirit Walks That Way)

Opening on the righteously funky and groove-laden Get Your JAM On! and a rousingly sumptuous, piano-led instrumental Glory Glory Glory Is For Us All, next up is another instrumental, this time the trumpet-led Love Over War. Every Time We Play, a soulfully vocalized Love Over War. Every Time We Play and then comes the spiritualized vocalization of Glory Glory Glory Is For Us All.

Along next is the funky instrumental of the opening track Get Your JAM On! and the short, but sweet acoustic renderings within My Old Man, before the spoken-word excellence of About Reinaldo. Mourning and Outrage is brought forth, the album rounding out on the acoustic, drum-led A Baby’s Smile is Sweet to See, closing on the gently bombastic and quietly fervent rhythms within Bobee (What a Spirit Walks That Way).

Personnel:
The RIVERS ANSWER MOONS band
ROGER LEWIS saxophones
HERLIN RILEY drums-set
KIRK JOSEPH sousaphone
MICHAEL TORREGANO JR. piano and B3 and electronic keyboards
MARIO ABNEY trumpet
DON PAUL
+ ERICA FALLS guest singer
DHYANI DHARMA
KIDD JORDAN and MORIKEBA KOUYATE

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