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Showing posts with label Georgia Anne Muldrow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Georgia Anne Muldrow. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
SomeOthaShip: Production By Georgia Anne Muldrow
Georgia Anne Muldrow and Declaime: SomeOthaShip
Review by David Amidon
Once referred to as the female Madlib, the past year has seen Georgia Anne Muldrow embrace more than just Otis Jackson’s off-kilter style. She is beginning to embrace his qualities of prolificness and diversity as well. Fans and newcomers alike best be prepared for SomeOthaShip sonically, if nothing else, as the Radiohead circa-Amnesiac synths of “WhatCh’allKnowAboutThis?” signal yet another step forward for Muldrow and Declaime’s ever-evolving empire of hip-hop funk. But it’s not just Georgia who’s on a roll here, though she does have plenty of other highlights, like the instrumental “Pad Kontrol”, the faux-symphonics of “fOnk w/ an O”, and “Endure”, or Holy Smokes transplant “Boogie”.
What initially puts this release in a different position than Muldrow and Declaime’s last few projects is the heavy amount of collaboration. There are predictable allegiances on display, like Stones Throw’s MED and Roc ‘C’, as well as fellow soulful rappers Kazi and LMNO. But there are also left field inclusions like Kool G Rap (though his verse is one of the weaker available on the disc) and Prince Po that lend a bit of golden era credibility to music that is largely considered an outsider’s scene.
Read the Full Essay @ Popmatters
Review by David Amidon
Once referred to as the female Madlib, the past year has seen Georgia Anne Muldrow embrace more than just Otis Jackson’s off-kilter style. She is beginning to embrace his qualities of prolificness and diversity as well. Fans and newcomers alike best be prepared for SomeOthaShip sonically, if nothing else, as the Radiohead circa-Amnesiac synths of “WhatCh’allKnowAboutThis?” signal yet another step forward for Muldrow and Declaime’s ever-evolving empire of hip-hop funk. But it’s not just Georgia who’s on a roll here, though she does have plenty of other highlights, like the instrumental “Pad Kontrol”, the faux-symphonics of “fOnk w/ an O”, and “Endure”, or Holy Smokes transplant “Boogie”.
What initially puts this release in a different position than Muldrow and Declaime’s last few projects is the heavy amount of collaboration. There are predictable allegiances on display, like Stones Throw’s MED and Roc ‘C’, as well as fellow soulful rappers Kazi and LMNO. But there are also left field inclusions like Kool G Rap (though his verse is one of the weaker available on the disc) and Prince Po that lend a bit of golden era credibility to music that is largely considered an outsider’s scene.
Read the Full Essay @ Popmatters
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Remember My Name: Dionne Farris & R&B's Outliers
from The Root
What Happened to Dionne Farris?
by Mark Anthony Neal
The crooner who stole Arrested Development’s track nearly 20 years ago is back—on the Internet. While you’re reuniting with Farris, check out the new crop of black female artists who are keeping soul music honest.
Singer Dionne Farris had become little more than a musical footnote, that talented backup singer on Arrested Development’s alternative hip-hop classic “Tennessee,” who wrested the song from lead vocalist Speech as she wailed, “won’t you help me, won’t you help me, understand your plan.”
Thankfully, she has resurfaced—on the Internet. For Truth If Not Love and Signs of Life, released on her own label, Free & Clear, and on MySpace, mark a new phase in Farris’ career and, with it, a new wave of attention to underplayed soul songstresses.
Farris’ return comes after a nasty parting of ways with her former label, Columbia, which wanted her to produce black-radio-friendly, neo-soul tracks, even though her post-Arrested Development breakout single, “I Know,” was a mainstream video pop hit. At a creative impasse, she requested and gained a release from her contract.
That was more than a decade ago.
Farris’ story is not unlike countless black women in the recording industry. But the marginalization—some of it self-imposed—serves as a necessary function, allowing the tradition of R&B to remain rooted in a politics of remembrance and accountability that simply couldn’t survive in the full bloom of the marketplace.
This is the role being played by a new crop of dynamic women soul singers, including Imani Uzuri, Muhsinah Abdul-Karim and Georgia Anne Muldrow.
Read the Full Essay @
What Happened to Dionne Farris?
by Mark Anthony Neal
The crooner who stole Arrested Development’s track nearly 20 years ago is back—on the Internet. While you’re reuniting with Farris, check out the new crop of black female artists who are keeping soul music honest.
Singer Dionne Farris had become little more than a musical footnote, that talented backup singer on Arrested Development’s alternative hip-hop classic “Tennessee,” who wrested the song from lead vocalist Speech as she wailed, “won’t you help me, won’t you help me, understand your plan.”
Thankfully, she has resurfaced—on the Internet. For Truth If Not Love and Signs of Life, released on her own label, Free & Clear, and on MySpace, mark a new phase in Farris’ career and, with it, a new wave of attention to underplayed soul songstresses.
Farris’ return comes after a nasty parting of ways with her former label, Columbia, which wanted her to produce black-radio-friendly, neo-soul tracks, even though her post-Arrested Development breakout single, “I Know,” was a mainstream video pop hit. At a creative impasse, she requested and gained a release from her contract.
That was more than a decade ago.
Farris’ story is not unlike countless black women in the recording industry. But the marginalization—some of it self-imposed—serves as a necessary function, allowing the tradition of R&B to remain rooted in a politics of remembrance and accountability that simply couldn’t survive in the full bloom of the marketplace.
This is the role being played by a new crop of dynamic women soul singers, including Imani Uzuri, Muhsinah Abdul-Karim and Georgia Anne Muldrow.
Read the Full Essay @
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