Hey AJlist,
About that whole Q-Tip thing. I've had the promo for a while now and
there are elements of it that I really really dig. He's looking to
Roy Ayers on this one, definitely bringing in a lot of soul
influences. He's got a great, warm sound. I heard it's entirely
self-produced - but I can't confirm that.
There are some discouraging moments on the album though - too many
out of key solos, some sequencing problems. The reviews based on the
pre-release have been less than glowing. The people I've played it
for generally react badly. So I've been kind of wondering what kind
of reception it's going to get from the public.
As I understand it, the US release date for Q-Tip's new Kamaal The
Abstract LP is September 16th. Now, the promo has been out and about
for a couple of months already. This probably means that Arista has
sent the album back to the studio for more work. We'll see in
September I suppose.
Cheers,
.aaron shinn
At 11:50 PM +0800 5/23/02, drafus wrote:
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>were they playing the full lp? or the promo that's been out? so is the lp
>finally coming out soon? all i've been hearing are rumors about the label
>not wanting to put it out.... that was a while ago though.
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>recently picked up 12' from rawkus with a q tip track 'what lies beneath'.
>mos def on the flip side. don't know if it's old or not though...
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>From: helen szirtes <hszirtes@yahoo.com>
>Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 02:10:19 -0700 (PDT)
>To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>Subject: [acid-jazz] Q Tip
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>They were playing Q Tip's forthcoming album in Reckless Records on Berwick
>Street yesterday - it's quite a change from Amplified, which except for a
>couple of tracks, I found a bit disappointing...Has anyone else been lucky
>enough to hear this new one yet? From what I heard, it's very jazzy, very
>musical, very smooth, very warm. I'm definitely looking forward to getting
>my hands on it...
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