TBGB Pick of the Week: January 14, 2008

“Lift Him Up”
Dexter Walker & Zion Movement
From the Found Sound Music CD Move (2007)
http://www.zionmovement.org/

Rev. Dr. Stanley Keeble says that what makes the Chicago gospel choir special is its attack: attack on the melody, attack on the lyrics, and attack in its physical movement. That said, Dexter Walker’s vivacious Zion Movement chorale is Chicago through and through, exciting to watch and invigorating to hear.

So what better way to get 2008 off to a great start than to hear Walker and fellow Chicagoan VaShawn Mitchell singing the latter’s own composition, “Lift Him Up,” supported by the wave of high-intensity kinetic energy that is Zion Movement.