After losing his close friend Abnerd Joseph to senseless gun violence on Sept. 14, Law was in search of a way to cope, to bring some balance back in both his soul and the world. What resulted is Love Speaks (Live), a newly released compilation of five songs he curated specifically for their messages of love.
Averaging over an album per year over the past several years, Law has been on an impressive studio roll. But Love Speaks (Live) taps the live heart that propels Law and his band The Clutch on stage. Love Speaks (Live) is a crisp bottling of Law’s band fully in their live element. While his studio recordings highlight the composer and arranger in him, these sessions showcase Law as a bandleader, the nerve center who simultaneously sings and drums.
Unlike the field conditions of typical concert recordings, this live performance was actually captured in a studio (Orlando’s Audio Don Studios). With no step down in sound quality, the focus instead remains on the pulse of the performance. Like a good live set should, these recordings pop with extra electricity. Between the performative spark and the hi-def sound, everything here booms, baps and slaps just a little harder, like a reminder that love will not go unheard.
Love Speaks (Live) is a special Bandcamp-only release.
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This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2023.
