(April 29, 2017) — Brass, thumping bass and kicking drums: these are elements that have drawn party goers from chairs and walls and onto dance floors like musical magnets for generations. Factors such as music industry economics, changing musical tastes, and changes in technology and production techniques make music for the club more producer-driven, and more dependent on synthesized drums, horns and beats. Now 21st Century digitized music can be funky and many of the creators have imaginations out of this world.
However, there is a reason why we put on the EW&F, Frankie Beverly and Maze and the sounds of Detroit and Memphis at the family cookout. And, ironically, church is the one place where funk lifts people from pews to do a holy dance and, well, get excited. On “Get Excited,” Dallas native Shelia Moore Piper is simultaneously unashamed in declaring the joyful news of the gospel while crafting a sound that is unabashedly and jubilantly analog in a digital world. “Get Excited,” with that bouncy bass and tightly synchronized horn section, could have be in an EW&F show, and have folks wondering if a “new-old” song has been unearthed. Check it out.
By Howard Dukes
Shelia Moore Piper – “Get Excited”
