The New Faith' tells an Afrofuturist story set in a far-future world devastated by climate change. Jake Blount and his collaborators embody a group of Black climate refugees as they perform a religious service, invoking spirituals that are age-old even now, familiar in their content but extraordinary in their presentation. These songs, which have seen Black Americans through countless struggles, bind this future community together and their shared past; beauty and power held in song through centuries of devastation, heartbreak, and loss.
Track Listing:
1. Take Me to the Water/Prayer - Jake Blount
2. The Downward Road - Jake Blount
3. Didn't It Rain - Jake Blount
4. Tangle Eye Blues - Jake Blount
5. Parable - Jake Blount
6. Death Have Mercy - Jake Blount
7. City Called Heaven - Jake Blount
8. They Are Waiting for Me - Jake Blount
9. Psalms - Jake Blount
10. Just As Well Get Ready, You Got to Die - Jake Blount
11. Give Up the World - Jake Blount
12. Once There Was No Sun - Jake Blount
Year of Production: 2022
