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Floetic (Dreamworks). Review by Bill Campbell.
FLOETRY FLOETIC Dreamworks When one looks at the influences of neo-soul, New Jack hip-hop of the late '80s/early '90s and funk from the late '60s/mid '70s, you will notice a marked originality that is lacking in the burgeoning genre. There were serious differences in the music of Stevie Wonder, Marvin ...
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Operating in a genre dominated by paint-by-numbers R&B, Zaki Ibrahim paints soul -- outside the lines -- with a purple paint brush. S D Green talks to the emergent Canadian soulstress about globalism in her sound, the unlikely influence of Tom Waits, and why critics refuse to believe Canadian artists have soul.
... Muldrow and Tiombe Lockhart, who use their voices as the raw elements to build sticky beats. Around the edges are the exposed bones of a Sadé and Floetry framework, but Ibrahim is informed by a much broader and elemental palette of rhythm and heartbeat, a global pulse covered in gauzy layers of synths ...
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The Tortoise and the Hare (Cool Hunter / Ryko). Review by Bill Campbell.
... the Les Nubians (basically, the French Zhane) phenomenon. Now, the female duo of Mercedes Martinez and Tracy Moore, Jazzyfatnastees (along with Floetry) is here with The Tortoise and the Hare. One can easily place these sisters in the quickly codifying neo-soul movement, with their neo-funk, hip-hop ...
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Geoff “Double-G” Gallegos,daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra,San Francisco Debut, Unfinished Symphony,Kufala Recordings,Shelton Hull
... . The gimmick resonates best, I think, when the strings are used prominently as a counterpoint to the vocals, which recall stuff like Heavenly Noise, Floetry and Princess Superstar. The MCs hold up well in what must be a challenging environment, spitting the abstract “backpack” lyrics that have taken ...
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