Leyla McCalla - Vari-Colored Songs [LP] Hound Gawd! Records Red Hot Chili Peppers' Greatest

Red Hot Chili Peppers' Greatest Hits will be en fuego this holiday gift-buying season

And as these ten original recordings from their '70s heyday show

after being physically sold out for many years and for the first time on the band's own label Robotor Records

jazzy production

Leyla McCalla - Vari-Colored Songs [LP] Hound Gawd! Records Red Hot Chili Peppers' GreatestLeyla McCalla's Vari Colored Songs is a celebration of the complexity of Black culture and identity, and a tribute to the legacy of poet and thinker Langston Hughes. A songwriter and multi instrumentalist, McCalla sets Hughes' poems to her own spare yet profound compositions. She juxtaposes these with arrangements of folk songs from Haiti, the first independent Black nation and the homeland of her parents, tapping into the nuances of Black experience.