Three considerations: Lisa hasn´t lost her claws (when she wants to, she bites just like in her fiercest moments, although she appears to be enjoying herself like a teenager, letting herself be rocked by the hottest funk – check out the hypnotic “Stop the DJ”), she still has a clinical eye for choosing the songs to be included in her album (isn´t her first single one of the best songs that she´s recorded?) and finally, to say she has helped spread soul across the world wouldn´t be an overstatement. How? By repeating what used to be considered a miracle and nowadays seems like something normal: she´s managed to make a band formed mainly by Spanish musicians fuse with her American soul. By breaking down creative frontiers, geographic and spiritual.
LISA & THE LIPS
Friday 2 May 2014 2014
Many nights were spent listening to the Heart of Gold managers heaping praise on the new project of Ms Kekaula and her Lips. Discussing whether her band was good or not, if the combination of Madrid musicians (with a lot of funk in their blood…and in their hair) and American musicians (including the omnipresent Bob Vennum) had been a perfect fit, and if they sounded better than the BellRays, a difficult feat…