I looked this singer/songwriter up and have discovered that Mon Rovîa is a an “Afro Appalachian folk artist,” a label I’ve never come across before. His Youtube Channel says he was “rescued by grace from the Civil War in Liberia” and is “here to instill peace.”
Bloodline is, indeed, a peaceful song, quiet, intimate and woven with threads of the kind of roots music–spiritual, gospel, old-time country, blues, bluegrass and folk–that enlivens the soundtrack of the movie “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Mon Rovîa is a winsome raconteur. This production is hymn-like, heavy on acoustic guitar, steel drums, banjo and gospel-style backing chorus. It makes you think. Despite living In a world so soaked in technology as to be dehumanizing, we can’t entirely erase our given name. Meanwhile, our bloodline guides us, unseen, from our DNA to the shape of our lips and eyes, and from our biography to our inherited trauma.
Our inheritance is both a gift and a bitch, depending on who you ask and when, but Mon Rovîa makes it sound awfully sweet.
–Sarah Torribio
See more songs of the day curated by Sarah Torribio HERE
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