Meshell Ndegeocello's New Album Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape To
Now Arrive in Stores March 12, 2002
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December 4, 2001 ^V Look for Meshell Ndegeocello's Cookie: The
Anthropological Mixtape to now arrive March 12, 2002. Produced by Allen
Cato (her longtime guitarist) and Meshell, it features guest
appearances from Talib Kweli (Black Star), Caron Wheeler (Soul II
Soul), Lalah Hathaway, Marcus Miller, and the legendary Michael Hampton
(Parliament/Funkadelic). The album's songs about love, sex, beauty,
religion, and politics are built on what Meshell calls "improvisational
rhythm and blues" grooves -- a mix of hip hop, go-go, funk, soul,
spoken word, jazz and rock 'n' roll. "It's all black music," she says,
"so I use it all in my palette."
Pre-dating and setting the pace for the "neo-soul movement" that has
brought such artists to national attention as D'Angelo, Erykah Badu,
Maxwell and, more recently, Jill Scott, Bilal and Indie.Arie, Meshell
arrived on the scene in 1993 with her Grammy-nominated debut Plantation
Lullabies. Her two follow-up releases, Peace Beyond Passion (1996) and
Bitter (1999), helped Meshell to establish a loyal underground
following among fans, musicians and industry folks alike.
Meshell describes her new album as "a very open record with a lot of
different styles pumping through it. This album is looking at how I
came to be and who I am." She explains that the title derives from this
exploration of self: "That's why I call it an anthropological mixtape;
it is a musical and thematic excavation of my own journey, one that I
hope others might relate to. It is what I see in the world, what I see
in myself; it is as much a self-critique as a critique." Some of the
new album's songs include "Pocket Book," "Hot Night," "Better By The
Pound," "God.Fear.Money," "Criterion," "Priorities 1-6," "Earth" and
"Dead Nigga Blvd," the latter referencing the futility of campaigns
that merely result in renaming streets after departed major black
political figures while living conditions remain unchanged. The album
will also make a presence in the clubs via remixes of "Pocket Book" by
Rockwilder & Missy Elliot and "Earth" by Ben Watt (Everything But The
Girl).
--
gender is just an excuse, relationship shouldn't just be an excuse,
love is often an excuse, although sometimes these excuses are all
we have to hold onto,
death is the reason and living is the celebration
- Beth Orton
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