In 2022, Jimetta Rose (LA-based singer, composer, arranger and choir leader with a star-studded resumé of collaborations from Anderson. Paak and Georgia Anne Muldrow to Carlos Niño and Angel Bat Dawid) brought The Voices of Creation into the studio to record what would be their debut album How Good It Is. Produced by ex-Beastie Boys producer Mario Caldato Jr. and released on Day Dreamer in partnership with Amor in Sound, the album captured the group’s raw, righteous and uplifting live sound in all its incantatory glory, encapsulated by the vibrant opener ‘Let The Sunshine In’. Or as Jimetta puts it: “We are channeling energy. Let the sunshine in, let it shine through you.”

Far from drawing only on traditional gospel roots, Jimetta’s arrangements engage the vast and varied world of Black music, weaving new visions from old hits, such as Funkadelic’s ‘Cosmic Slop’, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s ‘Spirits Up Above’ to Pharoah Sanders’ ‘Love is Everywhere’, or Faith, Hope & Charity’s ‘To Each His Own’. Doing so has embedded Jimetta and The Voices of Creation in a rich lineage that rejects genre definitions, united under what she calls Black spiritual classical music. “It’s all the hodgepodge of being an African American but also with creativity and vision for the future. It has a taste of what is to come and what we can do.”

 Jimetta Rose and The Voices of Creation are now on the cusp of releasing their second album Things Are Getting Better. Produced alongside Jack Maeby and Allakoi Peete, and mixed by Ben Baptie, whose credits include Sault, Little Simz, and Cleo Sol, the album manifests the group’s growing confidence, expanding their palette, and stepping between house, funk, soul, RnB and hip-hop with an assurance that lives up to the album’s rousing title.