soulful

At every opportunity, she’d invite friends, old and new, to gather around a table laden with soulful flavor.

Over half a century into his career, Gaines is still generating new ideas: soulful songs born from writing, paintings derived from numbers, critical ideas grown from landscapes.

In 2016, after the group had gone on an indefinite hiatus, she released “iLevitable,” a sprawling, elegant debut that sounded more soulful and sophisticated than anything Calle 13 had ever done.

It’s a superlative biodoc fueled by how effortlessly O’Brien radiates the soulful bonhomie we want to imagine courses through all those dedicated to a life in art.

Superficially, this is a story of soul-sick Westerners in the soulful East, like “Lost Horizon” and “The Razor’s Edge” — but apart from Piper, enlightenment is not on any guest’s menu.