Funny, I picked "Cookie" up when it came out a few weeks ago, and I'm still
not feeling it all that much. It's certainly good, but somehow isn't making
it to my player as often as I thought it would. Actually, the pieces I like
most are the more downtempo pieces, the ones that sound like they came from
the "Bitter" sessions. Personally, "Bitter" did it for me more than any
other record, in that it managed to get the raw emotion and words, contained
in each song, out in very convincing fashion. Almost kinda like a
modern-day Billie Holiday, but with all due respect, still a few notches
down.........
Stimp
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Allerton" <Mark@warmspot.cix.co.uk>
To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 3:32 AM
Subject: [acid-jazz] Wot - no Meshell?
> OK, I know I have in the past been the representation for the
> Meshell Ndegeoccelo fan club on this list, but I am kind of
> surprised that two weeks have gone by and no-one else has mentioned
> that "Cookie" has finally hit the shops. And it is funky as hell.
> None of that "Bitter" coffee-table Craig Street production either.
> Lots of interesting stuff going on at the bottom end, and the drum
> programming is also a step up from previous releases. Meshell or
> Allen Cato (her producer on this one) has probably been listening
> to Timbaland but in this cause you have the Meshell mark of quality
> and don't have to sit through the Tim/Missy/Escalade-driving
> nonsense to get to the good bits.
>
> Oh, anyway... I'm having a hard time placing "Cookie" within an
> absolute scale of Meshell's best work, but I can tell you I am
> feeling it bigtime. Listen to "Priorities 1-6", "Earth" or
> "Jabril". How can you not be feeling stuff like this?
>
> ..Mark..
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Sun Jun 16 2002 - 18:32:00 CEST