I had heard of speech debelle but never really bother to listen to her debut cd until i read she won the mercury prize for best new debut album and thought i should check her music out.Took a trip to HMV in canary wharf with the wifey and i can fairly say i wasn't disappointed.
The cd is titled ' speech therapy and it's kinda of autobiographical capturing her troubled upbringing and homelessness, released on the big dada label, home to roots manuva and the rapper ty. Really laid back and thought provoking . Musically it sounds organic and sparse and does not sound over produced like most new cds . For me, i would not class it as strictly a hip hop album because yes it sounds hip hop,but has a bit of every thing in the mix
It effortlessly flows from hip hop, poetry, soul and a bit of jazz and grown folk music but my only gripe is that the tracks are damn too short, when it hits that high note.. boom.. it finishes.
but all in all a very very good debut from corryanne elliot or should i say 'speech debelle' Debelle happens to be the fashion label run by her grandma
Enjoy
Stand outs -the key, searching, bad boy finish this album (which is the first song she played for big dada executives)
I honestly hope she can keep it up and not go the lady dynamite way.make a good first album and struggle afterwards
the guardian reviews
the times online says
Album-recommended
lets see wot happens on CD 2
Sunday, September 13, 2009
marcus miller day
sunday 13th
Listening to marcus miller's 2005 cd 'silver rain', haven't listened to it in a minute and just decided to listen to the first to last songs, its really interesting how you have a cd for a long time and havent really listened to it that much except for stand outs.
I have had it for over 5 years and this is about the first time that i have given it a good good listen and i must say i am rediscovering how much a great little gem of a cd it is.The title track silver rain is such a classic, then followed by his cover of prince's 'girls & boys' and not forgetting marcus's take on stevie wonder's boogie on reggae woman (i think marcus seems to woship at the altar of stevie wonder).
The thing i like about SR is the fact that every track comes with come sort of history to each song and this is captured beautifully in the album's in lay.He also covers songs written by writers as diverse as Duke Ellington (sophisticated lady), jimi hendrix(power of soul)beethoven 's midnight sonata and edgar winter's frankenstein.Featuring on this album are the usual suspects poogie on drums, patches on trumpet. lalah on vocal and vocal samples, dean brown on guitars, roger byams tenor sax, kenny garrett alto sax keys benard wright then guests include kirk whalum, gerald albright,macy gray,gregoire maret and kevin hicks for his operatic chops.
all in all a very very good cd by M2
Here are some amazon reviews
enjoy
Listening to marcus miller's 2005 cd 'silver rain', haven't listened to it in a minute and just decided to listen to the first to last songs, its really interesting how you have a cd for a long time and havent really listened to it that much except for stand outs.
I have had it for over 5 years and this is about the first time that i have given it a good good listen and i must say i am rediscovering how much a great little gem of a cd it is.The title track silver rain is such a classic, then followed by his cover of prince's 'girls & boys' and not forgetting marcus's take on stevie wonder's boogie on reggae woman (i think marcus seems to woship at the altar of stevie wonder).
The thing i like about SR is the fact that every track comes with come sort of history to each song and this is captured beautifully in the album's in lay.He also covers songs written by writers as diverse as Duke Ellington (sophisticated lady), jimi hendrix(power of soul)beethoven 's midnight sonata and edgar winter's frankenstein.Featuring on this album are the usual suspects poogie on drums, patches on trumpet. lalah on vocal and vocal samples, dean brown on guitars, roger byams tenor sax, kenny garrett alto sax keys benard wright then guests include kirk whalum, gerald albright,macy gray,gregoire maret and kevin hicks for his operatic chops.
all in all a very very good cd by M2
Here are some amazon reviews
enjoy
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