Nine Beats Collective Release 'Call 'Em Out' Single Featuring Eric Leroy Wilson
'Call 'Em Out' is an urban tune featuring the spoken word talents of NINE BEATS COLLECTIVE member, playwright, spoken word artist and m/c, Eric Leroy Wilson. Written and performed by Eric, with music by MOBO-award winning UK producer Tony Bean, this is a track of originality and substance.
With dynamic music and free verse poetry, “Call ‘Em Out” is unpredictable, melodic, with a hard-edged beat. Against a constantly building, almost mystical pulse, Eric delivers deep lyrics that channel the revered USA theologian/civil rights activist Howard Thurman. This is music with a message, shards of jazz, R&B, and hip-hop essence pulling the listener in. The unfurling, swirling quality of the track is underpinned by the heart and soul of passionate, emotive spoken word.
Eric performs the track with NINE BEATS COLLECTIVE - an international collaboration of world class musicians, artists, and songwriters who have come together from different continents, different cities, and different experiences, exploring the ancient biblical wisdom known as ‘the beatitudes’. Malibu-based Eric wrote the lyrics after one of the initial creative hothouse sessions with other Collective members who had come together to share thoughts, ideas and collaborative talents.
Eric shares, “[One of the] NINE BEATS COLLECTIVE shared this idea that was just so evocative about calling forth ghosts of those things that need to be woken up in our lives; so I’ve written “Call ’Em Out” which attempts to call out and evoke those ghosts of our better selves that are inside of us.”
The original version of “Call ‘Em Out” is found on the NINE BEATS COLLECTIVE double album NINE BEATS TO THE BAR. Acclaimed by critics, it is an eclectic soundscape of R&B, soul, rock/pop, acoustic threads, classical, jazz/funk, African vibes, and a hint of gospel. It's a haunting, a cry, a new beat. It's soul, adventure, lament, and rage. It's a love song. And most of all it's a movement.
