Optimo Godcast - If You're Going To Get Down, Get Down And Pray

Optimo (Espacio) Podcasts

It has been a while since the last podcast so apologies for that. Hopefully they should appear a bit more regularly from now on (famous last words!) This podcast is called "If You're Going to Get Down, Get Down and Pray - The Optimo Godcast". We are not trying to evangelise anything apart from the music here. I have accidentally amassed quite a lot of gospel records from around the world over the years and originally the podcast was going to include music from many faiths, but it seemed to work better concentrating on songs from the Christian faiths. Hopefully there will be another podcast in the future that will contain songs from other faiths. A couple of the songs are secular songs in a gospel style but the majority are one take recordings capturing the performers singing their Christian praises live. The songs range from very early blues recordings of psalms to ecstatic psychedelic and funk devotionals. The songs included here date from the 1920s to the 1980s. Most of the music is from the US of A but there are also songs from Rwanda and The Congo. The fidelity may be a bit compromised in places due to the quality of the original recordings and the age of the records they were recorded from but whatever the fidelity, the beauty of this music shines through; straight from the soul! Once again we aren't making a tracklisting available for the podcast but if you want to know what anything is, feel free to get in touch and we will let you know. None of the tracks are mixed but all are segued together. The mix contains 23 tracks and lasts 76 minutes and the download is a 192kbps mp3 (104mb). Enjoy.