Can You Hear God Crying (2014)

World première recording of Hannibal Lokumbes spritatorio Can You Hear God Crying which combines jazz gospel and chamber music with West African prayers and songs The piece commissioned by Philadelphia philanthropist Carole Haas Gravagno is about the composers greatgreatgrandfather who was born in the Sahara kidnapped and enslaved in Liberia and sold at auction in Charleston SC He escaped to Texas where he bought land and had a family