SFF Presents Jake Blount at The Belfry

Jake Blount is an award-winning musician and a scholar of Black American music. Blount will perform his new album, “The New Faith”, a towering achievement of dystopian Afrofuturism. “The New Faith” is spiritual music, filled with hope for salvation and righteous anger in equal measure. Stomps and handclaps form the rhythmic basis for Blount’s interpretations, with trance-inducing fiddles, the leaden crunch of electric guitar, textural synthesized sounds, and the ecstatic whirl of the banjo filling out the margins. The bedrock is Blount’s voice, channeling the ragged triumph of a people still standing after centuries of continuous confrontations with death.