“Music, it’s a beautiful, spiritual and powerful thing” says Reginald. “It transcends boundaries and cultures, brings people together, it can instigate the worst and the best in us.”
Running through ‘Stand Strong’ are themes encompassing a distaste for humanity’s collective responses to the hierarchical systems that the ruling classes have conjured, past abuses and present economic and physical slavery on our and our children’s future. Throughout, the overall message remains of hope for a better future. There’s a subtlety in delivering these ideas and concepts: Afro Mulatto expressions and inspirations of negro spiritual are articulated with clarity through intuitive instrumentalism, raw drums, natty funk bass, soulful fender Rhodes, and Creole percussive patterns.