ALS features a trio of female voices like a front line of flutes, light and lyrical. Song lyrics that run far, far deeper than simple "moon/June, I love you/do you love me" re-treads. A wonderful mix of pop and jazz: rich harmonies, floating melodies, enticing rhythms. They are a full band with horns and keys, percussion, guitar, bass and drums. I know it was impossible to keep this unit together without major support from a patron or an enthusiastic public.
Actually they are a throwback to an earlier era of music, fit right into the middle of late seventies soul/jazz hybrids, sort of like when Earth, Wind & ire’s leader Maurice
White was producing The Emotions, or maybe some Denice Williams kind of vibe with a touch of new age spirituality. An overall warm, ethereal, laid-back groove with filaments of steel resolve and social consciousness running through. Unfortunately, this sound is not in sync with what is popping in the hip hop dominated new millennium.