Voodoo is my 2nd fav ever
― Spottie, Friday, 15 January 2016 06:43 (eight years ago) link
<3
― j., Thursday, 2 February 2017 17:54 (seven years ago) link
yup
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 2 February 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Clicked on this hoping that Trump spurred him to finish his next album.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 2 February 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
Chris Dave, the drummer on this album, has made an album of his own which will be out on Blue Note next month.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 8 December 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
hmmm, i know Questlove, james gadson, and chris dave all played on Black Messiah, but i've never seen a track by track breakdown on who plays on what - until now.
https://storify.com/amaah/black-messiah-liner-notes
ain’t that easy - james gadson1000 deaths - questlovethe charade - questlovesugah daddy - gadsonreally love - started with questlove, ended with gadsonback to the future, pt 1 - questlovetill it’s done (tutu) - unclear?prayer - chris davebetray my heart - questlovethe door - d’angeloback to the future (pt 2) - questloveanother life - questlove
― Karl Malone, Friday, 8 December 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link
Tutu is unquestionably Questlove on drums.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 8 December 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
Among other things (just the sound, and the press roll at the beginning), I think of that three note fill (that starts on the 4 and has a flam at the beginning) as one of his signature licks.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 8 December 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
has a new song on the RDR2 soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obJuKmMjFG4
― Number None, Monday, 29 October 2018 11:43 (five years ago) link
https://images.ctfassets.net/5jh3ceokw2vz/3QfGPJD8zMvifV37RhuOne/b97ad8c2ab17e28986cc5a192306c2c6/0Z0A9862.jpg?w=1600
https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/dangelo-the-devils-pie/
^^ Great photographs and story about Carine Bijlsma's documentary about D'Angelo.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 11:08 (four years ago) link
The doc is great!
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 11:56 (four years ago) link
Is there any way to watch this online yet?
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link
You might need a VPN, but it's here:
https://www.2doc.nl/documentaires/series/3doc/2019/devils-pie-dangelo.html
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link
Listening for the first time since probably 2016 and i'm not sure why i haven't been pumping this one a month minimum
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
you are hereby ordered to pump it 4x month for the following year to make up for your mistake
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
Be nice if The Charade weren't always so timely and poignant
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
it's been awhile for me too
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 22:12 (four years ago) link
Just listened to this album a few times the other week, it has definitely continued to justify its immediate hype.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
Sooo did any intrepid slskrs ever happen on a rip of that 'slingbaum' track with D & Badu?
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
His best album. Thank God hes gotten better album by album. Even if they do take a while.
― candyman, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
Agreed. As amazing as Voodoo is, this one is where it's at imo.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
Not sure why it took so long for "Another Life" to click in for me but ... man ... it really is among the best things he's ever done.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
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