With the cadences of gospel and soul hardwired to his voice, Son Little has been on a personal revolution, turning trauma into music.
We’ve all got notebooks in the closet. We start leafing through them in quiet times and the flashbacks can be rough. Aaron Livingston’s has seventy-two of them in his own evolving hand and voice going back to his New York childhood.
“But fast forwarding a bunch of years... I was really trying to work on healing some of the [aforementioned] stuff and was really just hitting a wall. It felt like I wasn’t getting anywhere. I had a kind of ‘f--k it’ moment. I started with [psilocybin] mushrooms, but then I tried LSD. Standard doses at first, but I just gradually started taking less and less.“It ends up having a sobering effect, in a sense,” he says.
Or singing to it. Livingston’s palette as a musician is closer to church than pop. His father was a New York preacher; he’s worked with the great Mavis Staples; the cadences and textures of gospel and soul are hardwired to his voice, but there’s a more experimental feel on“That’s what’s funny,” he says. “I’ve had some teary moments in the past few years as I talked through some of these things, but for the most part, playful is the best word to describe all of it.
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