If I said, "In typical Delusions Of Grandeur style", regular readers will know that the only style they have is dancefloor winners with the twist, no two releases are the same as this time, we're at the alter of house (again)!
All the Delusions Of Granduer releases of last year were exceptional, especially the Declan McDermott debut EP, 'Doin' It All For U' (see review HERE) and the recent 'Why Don't You Believe Me' remixes (see review HERE), so can they top it? Well, they've certaintly equalled it with Gledd's 'spiritual' Gospel influenced house 4-tracker EP ' My House Is Your Church'!
Kicking off with 'On His Way' with a lengthy Afro-Latin percussion intro before the exclamation wail of 'He's On His Way' that could have come from the deep south that gets backed up by the xylophone and shakers - it's only 5 minutes long but it's a call to arms and highly addictive.
But it's taken Italian Gledd (aka Edoardo Barbi) over ten years of DJing and producing to arrived at his house to worship gospel, afrobeat, disco to find how to praise the house. And he knows 'It Not That Easy' (track 2) to get the mix of influences spot on. But the B-side is even better as it opens with the track 'Habibi Gospel' - getting all Batov/Habibi Funk percussive influenced with an undercurrent of 70s OST/TV theme with mod-Farfisa organ: could it be Lalo Schifrin's 'Mission Impossible'? This is going to move WOMAD back towards Salisbury Cathedral.
'Can You Hear My Noise?' sticks to the percussion and weaves in the gospel blues vocals before breaking out into pan left/right/repeat synth pop - again, influenced by Moby (at the time of 'Memory Gospel')/(Early)New Order/Fela?
I can safely say, I can hear Gledd's noise and his house is my church!
