VICE features Jaimeo Brown Transcendence in guest article on the influence of historical work songs on contemporary music

VICE has just featured a fascinating guest essay by Jaimeo Brown on how historical work songs have influenced contemporary music.

Click here to see the feature, as well as Jaimeo Brown Transcendence’s powerful new animated video to the track “Be So Glad”!

“Chris Sholar (co-writer and co-producer of Work Songs) and I discussed how powerful hooks are in early work songs. A hook is a repetitive mantra. When you repeat something over and over again, it creates a message that all people can connect to, just as they do in the majority of popular music we listen to today.” – Jaimeo Brown