Meshell Ndegeocello: RFI

kind of thought this was maybe her most direct/immediate album since the '90s. the lyrics are just gorgeous.

the moment on "oysters" when she murmurs "everybody talking 'bout changing the world / the world ain't ever gonna change / but you can always change it for me..." <3 <3 <3

prince covers : http://uheardat.blogspot.com/2011/08/meshell-hearts-prince.html

a friend of mine just played drums with her on a gig (not a meshell gig, backing up arooj aftab...anyone go to that?)

The NYC club listing below is not clear--are they playing Pakistani music?

An incredible incredible stupendous stupendous group of humans will walk and run and dream and weep through an evening of songs by Arooj Aftab and Grey Mcmurray.

The Sea Gazing Family Band for the night of October 29th 2011 will be:

Arooj Aftab
Mathias Kunzli
Joshua Valleau
Conor Elmes
Norman Vladimir
Grey Mcmurray
and Meshell Ndegeocello

pakistani jazz?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLvAAzEOqM0

I'm loving the Prince covers gig...sounds incredible...who she playing with??

On the Prince gigs she's been accompanied by guitarist Chris Bruce, keyboardist Keefus Ciancia and drummer Deantoni Parks,

Liked my first listen to Weather last night...

think my favorite meshell album is still the world has made me the man of my dreams but weather one might be second? it's restrained in comparison to both world and devil's halo but it still has all this detail.

man the "chelsea hotel" cover is just completely draining to listen to, in the best way

this is on spotify by the way

i love how the differences in mood and performance between the intimate love songs where she's cocooned w/her gf and the bleak heartbreak songs are so slight and subtle that the whole album ends up variations on one overall mood

lex convinced me to listen to this and this is great!

if prince released an album this good all the rock critics in america would collectively shit their pants at once

Collective Soiled

This album is kind of too subdued for its own good? Enjoying the live Prince covers a lot more.

i'm disappointed with this new album, i miss the flights of melody.

live in London tonight iirc

This album is kind of too subdued for its own good?

i don't hear that it's any more subdued than meshell usually is...

i am going tonight! first time i'm seeing her live. hyped

Here's an excerpt from a review of her last week at a club near Washington DC

One must not show up to a Meshell Ndegeocello show with a set of expectations based on listening to one or two of the records she’s made over the past two decades. On each outing, she embraces a new set of creative impulses and totally immerses herself in them when bringing the recordings to the stage. On Tuesday at the Birchmere, an artist known for nasty funk and sultry rapping gave a delicate performance that fit the spare character of her recently released “Weather” album.

To watch Ndegeocello is to observe a musician who bares naked emotion that creates connection while still being staunchly committed to doing things her way. And that means disappointment for the exuberant fan who repeatedly shouted for 1993’s provocative dance jam “If That’s Your Boyfriend (He Wasn’t Last Night).” It was clear it wasn’t going to be that type of party once she quietly took the stage accompanied only by her guitarist and eased into an acoustic take on the melancholy love song “Grace.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/vocalist-meshell-ndegeocello-embraces-her-soft-side/2011/11/16/gIQABeUGSN_story.html

so she's like the r&b jandek then

http://soundcloud.com/naiverecords/meshell-ndegeocello-petite

^^^^ that is amazing

second fantastic ndegéocello/migs collab of late after this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKg7jiRwlCY

she has a new album out tomorrow called "Pour une âme souveraine (A dedication to nina simone)".

!!!!

oh wow, i saw that she was doing a tribute tour (a la prince), but didn't think she would do a record.

i have a gig the night she comes to town, but purposefully took the opening slot so i can go see her. :)

I will have to check that out

yeah her prince tribute was a+, nina will be aces

Is the album gonna be covers of Nina Simone songs? I love both Simone and Ndegeocello, but I'm not sure if she's the best to cover her... Would love to be proven wrong, though.

tracklisting on Amazon plus a few details below

1. Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
2. Suzanne
3. Real Real (feat. Toshi Reagon)
4. House Of The Rising Sun (feat. Toshi Reagon)
5. Turn Me On
6. Feelin' Good
7. Don't Take All Night (feat.Sinead O'Connor)
8. Nobody's Fault But Mine (feat. Lizz Wright)
9. Be My Husband (feat. Valerie June)
10. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair (feat. V
11. See Line Woman (feat. Tracy Wannomae)
12. Either Way I Lose
13. To Be Young, Gifted and Black (feat. Cody Chesnutt
14. Four Women

Meshell Ndegeocello, the American singer-songwriter, rapper, bassist and vocalist and her musicians Chris Bruce (guitar), Jebin Bruni (keys), and Deantoni Parks (drums) recorded a tribute to Nina Simone and play some of the tracks made famous by the icon of black music. Meshell also invited a few guests to take part of this dedication to Nina Simone, such as Sinead O'Conner, Lizz Wright, Valerie June, Toshi Reagon and Cody ChesnuTT.

I don't know why she didn't record an album of Prince covers...the clips of her doing them in concert sounded great...

i bet that would get into some weird territory both legally and personally, i read somewhere that they're not exactly close personal friends? would love to hear that record though.

otm

Yep, Prince might try to block it. For an interview with her that I did, she said:

Ndegeocello, who said in a 2000 interview that her goal was to tour as Prince’s bass player, answered a bit cryptically when I asked if she had ever performed with him. “He's an amazing musician, an amazing player, an unparalleled creator. He wasn't the nicest dude to me.”

prince why u gotta be mean 2 our girl?

I mean could/would Prince block that...I mean I know he's not as keen as Larry David on the whole lesbian issue but that would be a whole nother level of 'WTF'...oh yeah I forgot...he's Prince...

The versions of "See Line Woman" and "Four Women" are so good. I kind of wish the guest vocalists would go away tho.

fuck. The World Has... is a masterpiece.

I mean, I already knew I loved this album but it's completely undoing my head right now.

:D

fuck. The World Has... is a masterpiece.

― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Friday, October 26, 2012 9:53 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

that album cracks my head open slightly wider every time i listen to it

kinda f'ed up world when she's probably best known for that van Morrison cover mellencamp did years ago, she's basically a genius.

yeup

Otm

my brother celebrating his birthday the other night!

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/261250_10152596907085298_83951970_n.jpg

! <3

WHOA

super cool!

new song! new album!

http://i.imgur.com/CbyXOnt.jpg

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2014/04/song-premiere-meshell-ndgeocello---conviction.html

https://twitter.com/OfficialMeshell/status/458005316215775232

bang bang