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 AftabMathias KunzliJoshua ValleauConor ElmesNorman VladimirGrey Mcmurrayand Meshell Ndegeocello
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
pakistani jazz?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLvAAzEOqM0
― this is unusual for batman. (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
I'm loving the Prince covers gig...sounds incredible...who she playing with??
― The Pastiche Liberation Front (sonnyboy), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
On the Prince gigs she's been accompanied by guitarist Chris Bruce, keyboardist Keefus Ciancia and drummer Deantoni Parks,
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 November 2011 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
Liked my first listen to Weather last night...
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 November 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
man the "chelsea hotel" cover is just completely draining to listen to, in the best way
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
this is on spotify by the way
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
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
― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
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
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
Collective Soiled
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
This album is kind of too subdued for its own good? Enjoying the live Prince covers a lot more.
― The Reverend, Friday, 18 November 2011 11:17 (twelve years ago) link
i'm disappointed with this new album, i miss the flights of melody.
― sisilafami, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
live in London tonight iirc
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 November 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
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
― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Friday, 18 November 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 November 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
so she's like the r&b jandek then
― yo zuccotti (J0rdan S.), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/naiverecords/meshell-ndegeocello-petite
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Saturday, 7 July 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
^^^^ that is amazing
second fantastic ndegéocello/migs collab of late after this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKg7jiRwlCY
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
she has a new album out tomorrow called "Pour une âme souveraine (A dedication to nina simone)".
― sisilafami, Monday, 8 October 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
!!!!
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Monday, 8 October 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
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. :)
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Monday, 8 October 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
I will have to check that out
yeah her prince tribute was a+, nina will be aces
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 October 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 08:39 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know why she didn't record an album of Prince covers...the clips of her doing them in concert sounded great...
― The Pastiche Liberation Front (sonnyboy), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
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.”
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
prince why u gotta be mean 2 our girl?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
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 Pastiche Liberation Front (sonnyboy), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
The versions of "See Line Woman" and "Four Women" are so good. I kind of wish the guest vocalists would go away tho.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 07:12 (eleven years ago) link
fuck. The World Has... is a masterpiece.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Friday, 26 October 2012 09:53 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, I already knew I loved this album but it's completely undoing my head right now.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Friday, 26 October 2012 09:54 (eleven years ago) link
:D
― IMP of the perverse (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 26 October 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
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― IMP of the perverse (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 27 October 2012 06:50 (eleven years ago) link
that album cracks my head open slightly wider every time i listen to it
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Saturday, 22 December 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Saturday, 22 December 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
yeup
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Saturday, 22 December 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
Otm
― when worlds coincide (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 23 December 2012 03:47 (eleven years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Thursday, 21 February 2013 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
! <3
― The Reverend, Thursday, 21 February 2013 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
WHOA
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 February 2013 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
super cool!
― harvester of lols (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 21 February 2013 06:52 (eleven years ago) link
new song! new album!
http://i.imgur.com/CbyXOnt.jpg
http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2014/04/song-premiere-meshell-ndgeocello---conviction.html
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 21 April 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/OfficialMeshell/status/458005316215775232
bang bang
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, 21 April 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
"past is prelude aint it" is one of the all-time beef shots ever fired, lolling all day about it
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 21 April 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link
song is amazing shade is amazing meshell is amazing
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 11:11 (nine years ago) link
ha, she had said before that Prince had said some not so nice things to her but I always assumed it was regarding her sexuality
― steendriver dysphoria hoos (The Reverend), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link