Meshell Ndegeocello: RFI

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

"past is prelude aint it" is one of the all-time beef shots ever fired, lolling all day about it

song is amazing shade is amazing meshell is amazing

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

sooo excited I get to be in the same room as her in a couple days ^__^

fans of Meshell’s will no doubt be intrigued by her cover of Whodini’s “Friends”, a seminal hip-hop track originally released in 1984. Commenting on her inspiration for choosing this song, Meshell explains: “I play with a lot of people who play improvisational music and jazz, and I thought it would be fun to take something that they might think of as easy or straight-forward, and do something different with it. I also like how language is morphing, and 'friends' is such a malleable word, I don't even know what it means anymore.”

yeah i'm so psyched for that. cover of "love you down" on devil's halo is all time

this new song is not getting enough love, it's really something

it sounds so good

Sup.

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Cool!

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rev = hero

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Awesome!

Her thoughts at the keynote ruled.

fyi this album is amazing

halfway through it struck me that, despite being VERY different artists, meshell is one of very few singers whose aesthetic could be compared to sade's

Direct quote from booklet:

Thank You Naïve
Thank You Girlie Action
Thank You Reverend

that's me! :D

revvvv

http://www.npr.org/2014/05/25/314280889/first-listen-meshell-ndegeocello-comet-come-to-me

Some nice tunes here

listening now, the groove on 'Forget My Name' is so sick.

interviewing her in an hour!

Whoa rev!

really dig this record. it's less directly melodic and rhythmically shifting than her last few but i'm into that, these are really gorgeous, discrete explorations of mood and groove. "continuous performance" is my favorite i think

the "friends" cover kicks so much ass

yes

idk, I don't think I've loved one of her albums in its entirety since Devil's Halo but I'm always willing to sit down with them and try to work them out

same, but weather felt more disorganized than this one

Really must get this.

Yeah, Weather might be my least favorite album of hers, this one definitely has more going on.

New album is fantastic. Perhaps not as out there as TWHMMTMOMD or as raw as Devil's Halo, but super super pretty. It feels like a nice summation of her previous 4 "proper" albums.

ha i disagree with everyone (except re: the quality)!

i think it's her most direct, most accessible, most straightforwardly melodic album in years and years, possibly since the '90s. (when i talked to her she talked about this being more spontaneous and less heavy than other recent ones)

weather is possibly my favourite of her albums, full stop, though it's not a definite thing and a large part of it might be "oysters", but i've definitely never thought of it as disorganised, whereas this one shares with the new tori amos a v freeing sense of there being no overarching theme or sound, just "some songs, here you go"

favs so far are "forget my name" (which has the same vibe as sade does when she does reggae), "choices", "folie à deux" (well, "conviction" and "friends" are the two immediate standouts obv)

Well i for one definitely agree with:

"i think it's her most direct, most accessible, most straightforwardly melodic album in years and years"

I like Weather a lot too, though probably slightly behind those mentioned in my last post.

http://music.thetalkhouse.com/talks/meshell-ndegeocello-talks-michael-jacksons-xscape

I'm actually not wowed by the cover of "Friends" but do like much of the rest of the release.

huh i think devil's halo is her most outwardly melodic record though perhaps not straightforwardly (and perhaps it just hits a specific sensibility for me that the new one interestingly eludes)

i do like weather more than rev. "objects in the mirror"! kinda crash-lands with the chelsea hotel cover though

haha i remember reading this thread, downloading devil's halo, and getting immediately overwhelmed by "slaughter"

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/06/02/meshell-ndegeocello-on-why-d-c-got-rid-of-go-go/

I interviewed her a few years back circa her Prince tour, here's a colleague's interview with her re the new album and her DC go-go and more roots.

xpost "spontaneous": yeah, was thinking it seems more like continuous takes, live in the studio, whatever the actual process: stuff happens, instruments show up, do what they do, and it's not like repeat section C, lick 5, on cue, on cue---so many "performances" get static so fast, you know? Although, in my first listen to that xpost First Listen post, I played each track sep, and thought they tended to start great, but lose momentum. When I played it again opting for the whole, uninterrupted album, this didn't happen, for the most part, although when that little piano part showed up and took over "Colore," I did lose some involvement. Good headphones album, esp. when you turn it up (the vocal undersell is disarming, but risky).
Oh yeah, "Friends" now seems patterned on "Fame"! And the way she brought in Doyle Bramhall reminded me of Bowie and Stevie Ray: blues as a feeling, not a genre. Otherwise (re the way she talks about music in the NPR quotes and links, re "patterns on patterns," building up emotion, and atmosphere, I'd add) Sade comparisons prob pertain a bit more. Her own challenging approach to seduction though (you gotta not be too skurred of women speaking their minds for it to work that way).
Hope she gets to sit in with the Roots---maybe she has? Sorry, I can't get past Fallon himself lately.

"when that little piano part showed up and took over *"Choices,"* I meant.

She went to the same high school as me and had the same guitar teacher as me. I had no idea she was a bassist for Rare Essence though.

She also played in Prophecy and in Little Benny & the Masters. Her Dad is Jacques Johnson, a still-active D.C. jazz musician.

adore this

Listening to Comet rn, this is so awesome. Tim F otm about how it kind of draws together all the disparate threads of the last 4 albums

I love how the oblique flirtation w country is one of the things that kind of binds everything together. Super subtle, not out of place, but totally distinct