{"id":9039,"date":"2017-08-11T21:09:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T21:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=9039"},"modified":"2017-08-14T22:21:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T22:21:43","slug":"father-sky-is-soulful-music-to-your-ears-and-to-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=9039","title":{"rendered":"Father Sky is soulful music to your ears and to the earth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Singer-composer-pianist Anthony Deutsch on the cover of his debut album. Photo by Danielle Simone Charles<\/em><\/p>\n

Father Sky \u2013 Father Sky<\/em> (self-released)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A capacity crowd recently at bucolic Villa Terrace for his debut CD-release celebration and Father Sky<\/em> itself are testament. Young Milwaukee pianist-singer-composer Anthony Deutsch has old-soul wisdom and gifts for speaking to people about matters of the heart, and of the mind\/body disconnect that often separates us from our deepest nature and from Nature.<\/p>\n

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Milwaukee’s bucolic Villa Terrace overlooking Lake Michigan, was Anthony Deutsch’s choice of location recently to perform his nature-oriented music, “Father Sky.” Photo by Kevin Hansen.<\/em><\/p>\n

His bluesy melodicism recalls the deceptively spare alt-jazz tunesmithing of The Bad Plus\u2019 Ethan Iverson, a thread strengthened by Father Sky bassist John Christiansen and drummer Devin Drobka.\u00a0 But Deutsch loves Nina Simone. His singing follows her forlorn, loamy eloquence \u2013 her world-weary persistence and faith. To me, Deutsch\u2019s style also mirrors the exquisite jazz singer-pianist Andy Bey \u2013 the naked willingness to reveal male vulnerability.<\/p>\n

Still, Deutsch\u2019s folky, Father Sky-meets-Mother Earth sensibility tends to personal ecological vision, like someone picking pieces of grimy dust out of a spider\u2019s web. Deutsch croons artfully but, unlike Bey, he\u2019s a tall, large person, so his spacious baritone sometimes projects like a wolf howling at the moon. He leans a lot on the sustain pedal for sweet wisps, but the piano also pirouettes in sun-lit atmospherics. And \u201cSoon, My Love\u201d has a funky kick Gil Scott-Heron would dig. \u201cGonna Find Home\u201d yearns for a home that\u2019s everywhere, like the holy land Lakota Black Elk spoke of. There\u2019s musical and spiritual substance here (he shows harmonic chops playing standards live). This beguilingly wayward talent might just take you away, home.<\/p>\n

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A slightly shorter version of this review was published by Shepherd Express.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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