The album also peaked at #13 on Billboard's Top Internet Albums chart and #40 on Billboard's R&B Albums chart. Bitter is an appropriate title for Meshell Ndegéocello's third album. It’s ethereal.” The difference manifests in her treatment of “Feeling Good,” one of many songs that Simone didn’t write but seemed to own. “She made them her own and added a quality that can never be reproduced.”It’s a useful disclaimer given the album’s subject, the mercurial, commanding singer and pianist Nina Simone, who died in 2003 and has since had her music appropriated by ad agencies, club remixers, Kanye West and assorted other cultural properties, including a biopic reported to be starting production soon, with Zoe Saldana in the title role.But where the hallmark of Simone’s style was a defiant moral clarity, Ms. Ndegeocello has long centered her own work in a shroud of ambiguity. It was an opportunity to pay a new kind of tribute.” Ndegeocello filters “Tender Love” through a folky, Californian filter and brings Vaudevillian accents to “Sensitivity”. Devil's Halo. Meshell Ndegeocello VENTRILOQUISM. 2011. New Album "Ventriloquism" Comet, Come To Me. Some albums are testimony, some confessions and some are escape.
“Sometimes It Snows In April” has an extended intro, an accidental result of the band’s desire to delay the new and inevitable sadness of the song. But in times so extreme and overwhelming, when there is no known expression for the feeling, no satisfactory direction for art or action, then they might take refuge in a process, a ritual, something familiar, the shape and sound of which recall another time altogether, so that they can weather the present long enough to call it the past. An artist can make a choice about concept and content, or heed a vision, follow their muse or their manager. 2010.
A portion of the profits from this album will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union.Some tracks were selected for their reflections: The album opens with “I Wonder If I Take You Home”, which marked the early influence of Prince and Hip Hop on commercial pop, and was a reference for Ndegeocello’s own “If Thats Your Boyfriend”. The Official Meshell Ndegeocello YouTube Channel. “I’m really unclear,” she acknowledged. Lasting and collaborative relationships with her fellow musicians is among the most important parts of music making for Meshell, prompting her to say on more than one occasion: “Meshell Ndegeocello is a band”.“The year around the recording of this album was so disorienting and dispiriting for me personally and for so many people I know and spoke to all the time. Chris Bruce plays guitar, Abraham Rounds is on drums, Jebin Bruni co-produced the album and plays keys. Review: Meshell Ndegeocello, 'Ventriloquism' The cover album becomes an unlikely site for deconstructing gender norms — and R&B's staid '80s tropes — in Ndegeocello's genre-bending care. Meshell Ndegeocello. MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO is wary of giving the wrong impression with “Pour Une Âme Souveraine: A Dedication to Nina Simone” (Naïve), her 10th studio album, due out on Oct. 9. New album 'Ventriloquism' out March 18th. The Official Meshell Ndegeocello YouTube Channel. Chris Bruce plays guitar, Abraham Rounds is on drums, Jebin Bruni co-produced the album and plays keys. Bitter is the third solo album by Meshell Ndegeocello.It was released on August 24, 1999, on Maverick Records.The album peaked at #105 on the Billboard Top 200 list in 1999.
Undoubtedly, the relationship was painful, but it has given Ndegéocello an artistic focus missing on her two previous albums.