D’angleo / Voodoo – CD

Description

Author: D’angelo

Features:

• VOODOO MUSIC

Format: Explicit Lyrics

Release Date: 25-01-2000

Details: Amazon.ca Halfway through the languid midtempo ballad « Send It On » from D’Angelo’s new sophomore effort, Voodoo, the young retro-soul maestro and band shift tempo and melody. It’s a move so understatedly dramatic that it elicits comparisons not just to obvious touchstones Marvin Gaye and Al Green, but to the Jimi Hendrix of Axis: Bold as Love and Electric Ladyland. While Voodoo is hardly in a league with such major statements, it’s a record inviting enough to attract repeated plays of its 78-minute length. As on his 1995 debut, Brown Sugar, D’Angelo covers a wide range of concerns–sex, home cooking, the destructive side of current street life–in a deceptively offhand manner. But he’s a crafty craftsman: even a throwaway workout like « Chicken Grease » is blessed not only with a slinky groove and a guitar lick that deserves to be called just that, but bursts of Gaye-style vocal harmonies; the whole track, for all its retro flavor, ends up sounding like nothing else around. Throw in the blasts of anger that fire « Devil’s Pie, » the restatement of Bono’s « I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For » in « Greatdayindamornin’, » and the complete takeover of Roberta Flack’s « Feel Like Makin’ Love, » and Voodoo proves one jam that was well worth the nearly five-year wait. –Rickey Wright Product Description D’Angelo

UPC: 724384849924

EAN: 0724384849924

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: New