More reviews are coming in about Ascendant’s latest release, Illuminate: GREEN, part 2 in the 4 part concept album, Illuminate. The whole album spans the band’s lives, loves, and hopes. It’s about false starts, comebacks and 2nd chances. It’s about perseverance — having the strength to endure.
Here’s what Soul Tracks had to say about Illuminate: GREEN:
“In today’s world of R&B, the presence of household bands seem to be absent, at least in the bigger scheme of things — radio, TV, magazines. And because of the ever changing and evolving taste buds of black radio and its patrons, the world of bands has been thrusted into the background to make room for single entities, mostly quickly assembled hip-hop stars. But bands like Ascendant hope to change all of that. This exciting five-piece group, hailing from Chicago, is dropping an ambitious collection of projects that fall in the category of concept albums… Their highly anticipated follow-up, the saga’s latest entry, Illuminate: Green, just dropped, and is a six-track EP odyssey loaded with adventurous R&B floating on the wings of jazz, funk and gospel.” See more here:
https://www.soultracks.com/review-ascendant-illuminate-green
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