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From a review of his latest CD Multiply:"Jamie Lidell sounds like everything you’ve ever heard, and yet nothing. More specifically, all the soul and rhythm and blues you’ve ever heard, and yet none of it. Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, even the aloof brilliance of Gil Scott Heron, they’re all here in spirit on this resplendent album, but they never interrupt.
The sound of street-corner harmonies, the drive of funk, the slappiest of slap bass, doo-wop to the power of ten, and everything else in between, it’s all here in spades. Yet where R ‘n’ B has become distinctly lacking in soul over the years, homogenised and trapped, Lidell injects it with the vibrancy and the urgency that it was always meant to have. In a way, and partly because of its heritage, Multiply can sound a little old-fashioned at times. But in another, more significant way, the hand-made and off-kilter feel to his arrangements ensures that Lidell’s music is timeless, perhaps even futuristic. Put it this way - if you think you know what to expect, you don’t." Read more at Pixelsurgeon.com
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coltraz,
July 2, 2005 at 12:32:30 PM CEST
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Swen's Weblog website of july 2005 in SoNHoRS