While I Shower Music

Build An Ark: You Gotta Have Freedom
Peace With Every Step, Plug Research, 2004
Charles May and Annette May Thomas: More Faith Is What It Takes
Songs Our Father Used To Sing, Gospel Truth, 1973

L.A. DJ Carlos Nino creates soul music that Jimmy Carter would smile to while building houses for humanity.

In reaction to 9/11 and Operation Iraqi Freedom, singer Dwight Trible got busy with Nino in 2001 to create a radio concert called, Our Cry For Peace. The concert was a success that a collective of 20 musicians (Build An Ark) made happen. Trombonist Phil Ranelin, trumpeter Rahmlee Michael Davis, and pianist Nick Smith make music that Trible floats over in "You've Gotta Have Freedom" - backup vocals are sick too. Pharoah Sanders would be pleased with Build An Ark's recreation of "You've Gotta Have Freedom" - resurrecting that `60s pro-peace sound is a musical Band-Aid for today's soul.

Today's post-9/11, post-Saddam and post-tsunami world needs music from the likes of Charles May and Annette May Thomas. The brother and sister duo are children to gospel singer, Joe May. In `72 their father was laid to rest and the two made the album, Songs Our Father Used To Sing. Louie Shelton, Wilton Felder and Paul Humphery were cast to help put the album together via Stax executives that released Songs Our Father Used To Sing on their Gospel Truth label in `73.

"More Faith Is What It Takes" and "You've Gotta Have Freedom" bring a righteous ingredient that many of today's releases are missing - embrace that soul.

Nino puts people up on music at Beyond Jazz. Our Cry For Peace, Sound Directions, and Sa-Ra are just a few names on his two-hour playlist.