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Lucas/Heaven
12+ albums
rnbsoullos angeles
about
Lucas Andres Gorham has long been a fixture in the electronic music movement and beat scene community. As Heaven The Dude, he's worked with Fat Tony and Dent May on the cheeky yet sincere ode to the direct deposit, "Waiting For A Check." He teamed up with Tony for 10,000 Hours, giving the Houston MC a country-rap sound without it ever sounding gimmicky or forced. Slide guitar and sick bars have never sounded so good together. But sometime in the past few years, Gorham was moving further away from his personas as Heaven The Dude and Hevin, instead wanting to create something truer to the name he was born with. That turned out to be Blues of the World, which Gorham dropped under the name Lucas/Heaven. It's an album of striking honesty, desperation, and optimism, blended into a sound that combines the urgent poetics of Gil Scott-Heron with the undeniable rhythms of jazz stars like Makaya McCraven. In short, it's a triumph, built from Gorham's decades-long journey to finding his most authentic self in music. Throughout the album, Gorham, who spends his days working as a librarian in the Los Angeles school system, proves that there can be joy in hard reckonings, and that even the darkest of situations can be looked at with a touch of optimism. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
