Late-Night Heat: Black Masala’s Brassy Midnight Party Grooves from NoLa to Punjab on Trains and Moonlight Destinies
You want to have a good time? You need brass.
This is what DC’s Black Masala blasts to the world, harnessing all the good times sunk in the Romany, second-line, bhangra, and funk horn parts that have gotten huge swaths of the planet up and dancing. With rock drive and a willingness to be as weird and wonderful as the party demands, Black Masala woos fans and new listeners with Trains and Moonlight Destinies, a tribute to the ins and outs of love, fate, and wanderlust.
Black Masala’s originals hit both elements head on, telling stories of powerful women, rascally dudes, raucous nights, and life on the road that are tinged with a hint of the fantastical, as the video for the title track reveals.
The whole band brings everything to their live shows, which have gained a bit of a reputation for their fever-pitched intensity.
lyrics
“Trains and Moonlight Destinies”
On the east side of town not far from my home
Mistakes come a callin’ and they won’t let me go
Too many nights, Too many drinks, Too many roads I’ve known
Still the voice calls me and always grabs a hold
Yeah oh yeah she dances through the night
Her voice sings to me through a tunnel of light
Far away away with this vagabond soul
World keeps a spinnin’ and she won’t, she won’t let me go
How can you tell me it’s all just a dream
You and I we seal our fate on things that we believe
Trains and moonlight destinies, such a bright fantasy
You know it’s not lost on me, I’ll run until I’m free
Yeah oh yeah she dances through the night
Her voice sings to me through a tunnel of light
Far away away with this vagabond soul
World keeps a spinnin’ and she won’t, she won’t let me go
Yeah oh yeah she dances through the night
Her voice sings to me through a tunnel of light
Far away, away with this vagabond soul
World keeps a spinnin’ and she won’t let me go
Yeah oh yeah she dances through the night
Her voice sings to me through a tunnel of light
Far away away with this vagabond soul
World keeps a spinnin’ and she won’t, she won’t let me go
from Trains and Moonlight Destinies (Album),
track released September 21, 2018
Recorded: Ben Green @ Ivakota (Washington, DC)
Written: Michael Ounallah
Horns: Kirsten Warfield/ Mike Ounallah
Art: Ordovich (ordovich.com)
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