Edwin Birdsong专辑介绍：by Jason AnkenyEdwin Birdsong's brilliant if deeply idiosyncratic cosmic jazz-funk opus What It Is emerges from the same mindspace that birthed frequent collaborator Roy Ayers' concurrent Polydor dates. While more political than Ayers -- dig &The Uncle Tom Game& and &It Ain't No Fun Being a Welfare Recipient& -- Birdsong is also less grounded in reality, and weird-beard groovers like the club classic &Pretty Brown Skin& and &Mongoose& seem to originate from a different plane altogether. Moreover, Birdsong embraces the spiritual dimension of his vision with true-believer fervor, yielding compositions like &My Father Preaches That God Is the Father& and &When a Newborn Baby Is Born, The World Gets One More Chance.& What It Is is a deeply personal statement of uncommon sincerity and scope -- there's nothing else quite like it.