There's an interview with Ben Kane in the newest Tape Op, he says that he worked on Black Messiah for a decade, just hoping it would come out at some point. And now that they're back in that process, so working on new music that maybe will be released someday.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
i think maybe the most unbelievable "moment" in music that year is from the introduction to The Charade, from 18 to about 26 seconds in, as the vocals rev up like a train and the drums fading in as well. it's a feat of wizardry to pull it off as smoothly as he does. if you're not paying attention, you don't even notice how it's rolls up into the verse. just beautiful
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
typo city but great song A+
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
‘1000 Deaths’ slays me...Eddie Hazel soundtracking a Vietnam vets final bad trip...awesome!!!
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
"the charade" is a miracle of a song, agreed
― covidiot wind, blowin every time you lift your mask (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
Another life is sublime,beautiful,tragic, just one of his all time best songs. Incredible. Esp that fractured vocal. Black messiah makes a lot if brown sugar sound tentative, and voodoo sound over ambitious, puffed up, and like he was trying on soneone else's clothes on. This album is when he really started showing himself.
― candyman, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 21:58 (three years ago) link
I don't care about 2020 opinions, I care about hearing this viny-only vanity project by some Italian keyboardist with D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, and Chris Dave.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
it'll show up eventually
― covidiot wind, blowin every time you lift your mask (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
I'm surprised it hasn't already!
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/who-the-hell-is-slingbaum-dangelo-fka-twigs-erykah-badu
Ok, apparently he's not Italian. But almost certainly independently wealthy.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
all the descriptions of it sounded terrible tbh
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 October 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
the slingbaum album is indeed easy to find on soulseek fyi
― ufo, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 23:28 (three years ago) link
xp Karl--heck yeah, great point: haven't listened to it in a while, but yeah, the way the drum machine and synth and brief bass harmonics and guitar and vox all 'wake up' in those 25 seconds is so seemingly effortlessly exciting
And also hard agree that, while having admitted it's been a minute, Black Messiah has likewise def become my go-to D in recent years
― call mr zbow that's my name that name again is mr zbow (Craig D.), Thursday, 15 October 2020 02:17 (three years ago) link
I could barely even tell D was on that Slingbaum track. I think I remember one song seemed okay
― bunny slopes, Thursday, 15 October 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
Another Life does this wonderful thing where it keeps switching from tentative to confident, and has these chords that are like an unsure ascent, and the infinite D'Angelos harmonise in the most bewitching and unexpected ways. It really sends me.
― Walter Draggedman (stevie), Thursday, 15 October 2020 13:01 (three years ago) link
https://m.mixcloud.com/sonos/radio-hour-with-dangelo/
― candyman, Friday, 5 February 2021 20:57 (three years ago) link
whoa
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 5 February 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
Ah, man. This was from a while back, right? Any links to a download floating out there?
Just played Black Messiah for the first time in eons, actually.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 February 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link
I need to write down the tracklisting. I could see d'angelo as a DJ. God knows he has the time in between albums!
― candyman, Friday, 5 February 2021 22:16 (three years ago) link
Good thing he knows "the secret to beating writer's block".
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 5 February 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link
Actually I have no trouble believing that he has no issue with writer's block, he just takes forever laboring over a record and deciding he wants to release something.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 5 February 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link
Wonder what his discogs username is.
― candyman, Friday, 5 February 2021 22:47 (three years ago) link
questlove has said that he's a perfectionist and a tinkerer who never thinks his music is good enough to be released
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Friday, 5 February 2021 22:48 (three years ago) link
and yet Black Messiah sounds the opposite of laboured; the influences and references are all upfront, but it still sounds fresh, spontaneous, rough almost. certainly not overproduced.
― mahb, Friday, 5 February 2021 23:33 (three years ago) link
i was at the press event where they played black messiah for the first time ever and i remember questlove saying that they essentially had to wrest control over the music from d’angelo during a very small window of time in order to get a track list done and the album released, or else he never would’ve put anything out. but it’s not like the songs weren’t done
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 6 February 2021 02:03 (three years ago) link
Hed never over produce his music. He likes early 70s stuff too much to do that I think his tinkering is more in the Coppola sense. There will always be something else he thinks of.
― candyman, Saturday, 6 February 2021 04:58 (three years ago) link
over under finished
it's just words
― Scampi reggae party (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 February 2021 05:01 (three years ago) link
also thinking about the record as a finish is just not
― Scampi reggae party (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 February 2021 05:02 (three years ago) link
think he's just kinda neurotic basically
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 February 2021 05:33 (three years ago) link
unprofessional to diagnose on the fly imo
― Scampi reggae party (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 February 2021 05:34 (three years ago) link
Hopefully he has a therapist but I doubt it somehow
― candyman, Saturday, 6 February 2021 07:01 (three years ago) link
tracklist to that mix - sly - i cannot make itnick hakim - i dont knowmahavishnu orchestra - you know you knowgeorge duke/billy cobham - almoustafa the belovedlewis taylor - i dream the better dream (not heard this guy in years)prince - sister (lol)prince - headohio players - silly billypete rock/cl - soul brother #1fishbone - subliminal fascismgangstarr - take 2 and passfunkadelic - chollyde la - potholesslum village - get dis money unknown mortal orchstra - ministry of alienationfunkadelic - grooveallegiance marvin gaye - soon ill be loving you againbrentford all stars - greedy g (love that the one dub record he picks is a JB cover lol)dangelo - the root
― candyman, Thursday, 18 February 2021 11:47 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxMYh9TwEbs
to demonstrate how long stuff can gestate with him, questlove leaked this version of "really love" all the way back in 2007 and while it's missing a few details that were added to the final version, it's not like it was radically reworked or anything since then
― ufo, Thursday, 18 February 2021 12:10 (three years ago) link
fishbone - subliminal fascism
feel that D'Angelo's Fishbone love doesn't get enough attention
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Thursday, 18 February 2021 13:53 (three years ago) link
He’s doing a Verzuz on the 27th!
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
exciting. i predict it wont be maxwell or anyone like that, it will just be a friendly kind of battle with his usual buddies like questlove, q-tip, etc.
― candyman, Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link
he should challenge 20 different artists to pit their best song against cuts from the three albums and casually obliterate them
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
well that seems like that's the plan right? it's "vs friends"
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
not sure what the actual plan is, seems like it'll be more of a performance than past verzuz events
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
it's hardly a true analogue but the only contemporary artist i can think of off the top of my head that i'd like to hear go song-for-song against d'angelo song for song is usher
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:17 (three years ago) link
yeah it's at the Apollo so i think it'll be more of a performance than just pressing play and awkwardly dancing to it or whatever the fuck artists do at these things now (sorry haven't watched a Verzuz in months)
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
xp i'd like to see d'angelo vs. badu, but she already did a charming edition with jill scott
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:20 (three years ago) link
(this is the part where i say that i saw d'angelo at the apollo during the black messiah tour and that it was a top 25 concert for sure)
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:21 (three years ago) link
brandy vs dangelo would have also been a fucking knockout
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:22 (three years ago) link
usher would be kinda unexpected but actually kind of cool and interesting. trying to think what dangelo would come back with when usher plays OMG though. trying to picture him singing along with "honey got some boobies like wow, oh wow".
id have loved a badu vs dangelo battle. partly to see what they picked, but really just to see what they talk about to each other.
"not sure what the actual plan is, seems like it'll be more of a performance than past verzuz events"
def hope so.
― candyman, Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link
saw him at the (Hammersmith) Apollo on that tour and it's easily Top 3 for me
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link
yeah i saw him at the playstation theater (rip) and it was totally amazing (chris dave, jesse johnson, pino palladino, can't really top that)
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
I saw the First Ave show and even though it started real late, was so crowded that you didn't even want to think about using the bathroom for fear of never being able to get back to your spot, the sound was way too loud & noisy, and my knees never hurt so much...it was easily one of the best shows I've ever seen and I'm so glad I did.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
I know everyone was hoping for the Prince sighting/sit-in but also I think everyone knew deep down it was never going to happen. He would never do what everyone expected/wanted, if nothing else.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
prince was darth vader to dangelo's luke.
he would prob have preferred to slice dangelos arm off.
:)
― candyman, Thursday, 18 February 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link
he just took the stage for his verzuz. on instagram and apple music
― maura, Sunday, 28 February 2021 03:06 (three years ago) link