Beginning of 2020

06 Recondite - Detach

A new single from late outsider gospel artist Pastor Champion. 

“Gettin Me Ready” and “Song For My Brother” were two songs that unfortunately didn’t make it onto the final album, "I Just Want To Be A Good Man," so we decided to turn them into a 45—in an eclectic color no less, a deep translucent red.

We recently called Pastor Champion’s son Bernard to talk about “Song For My Brother,” which we heard for the first time way back in 2018 in a video on his Instagram.

“Oh I love this song! My father used to play this with his brother, Willie”, Pastor Champion’s eldest son, Bernard, recently told us. “My uncle could play all kinds of instruments … and all at the same time, too. He’d play the organ and the harmonica, and then have a tambourine at his feet. My pops would play the guitar, and they had a great sound together.”

In the months leading up to our recording with Pastor Champion in the fall of 2018, we got to  spend time with his family in California. That’s when we got wind of Bernard’s Instagram account—a true musical gem, where he occasionally posted videos of his father practicing and playing at home. Unaware of his son’s filming, these short clips were incredibly powerful and featured the very best of his father as an artist: raw, honest, urgent.

That’s how we heard “Song for My Brother” for the first time. But Pastor Champion was unsure about having this song on the album. His brother had passed away in 2010 and he said it was very painful to play it without him, and it didn’t sound the same, either. With his son’s insistence, and by showing him the videos, Pastor Champion finally agreed to play it in the recording session.

Fast forward a few years, and we still hadn’t finished Pastor Champion’s album—for a variety of reasons. In the summer of 2021, we made one final attempt. This one experimented with a new sequence that included fewer songs of traditional length in favor of more raw takes, longer builds and even Pastor Champion practicing  practicing with the band. It felt a little more honest than anything we tried earlier. Finally, it felt like an album that was representative of what had compelled us so much about him in the first place.  

Still, we were unsure when and how to release this. Would anyone care about these songs? We have been slightly torn amongst ourselves about what to do. But a few weeks ago, when Sam Shepherd (Floating Points) was in town, we sent him home with a copy …  and then saw “Song For My Brother” pop up in his latest show on NTS!  So we figured that if Sam wanted you to hear it, then maybe it was the right time to share it?

Song For My Brother

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