D'Angelo — Voodoo [2× Vinyl LP]

D'Angelo — Voodoo [2× Vinyl LP]

Details

• Format: Vinyl 2xLP, Album Reissue, Stereo
• Catalogue Number: B0022835-01
• Barcode: 025407240842
• Genre: Soul / Neo Soul / Funk / R&B
• Label: Virgin / UMe
• Originally Released: 25 January 2000
• This Edition Released: 4 May 2015
• Pressing: 2×LP reissue on Virgin / UMe, pressed in the US
• Condition: New & Sealed

Description

Voodoo is the second D'Angelo album, released in January 2000 — five years on from Brown Sugar — and recorded almost entirely at Electric Lady Studios in New York, in a studio environment built, in Questlove's repeated description, to make time disappear. Surrounded by fellow travellers in what became known as the Soulquarian collective — Questlove, James Poyser, J Dilla, Pino Palladino, Roy Hargrove, Charlie Hunter, Raphael Saadiq — D'Angelo produced a record that deliberately pulled neo-soul back to its pre-drum-machine roots: live takes, wobbling time, vintage gear, the sound of a band in a room.

The thirteen-track sequence moves from the James Brown-referencing Playa Playa through the DJ Premier co-produced Devil's Pie, the Method Man and Redman-featured Left & Right, the cover of Roberta Flack's Feel Like Makin' Love, the slow-motion bedroom centrepiece Untitled (How Does It Feel), and the closing Africa. It won Grammys for Best R&B Album and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, and is widely considered one of the defining records of the last quarter-century.

This 2×LP reissue on Virgin / UMe presents the album across four sides, pressed in the United States.

Tracklist

Side A

1. Playa Playa
2. Devil's Pie
3. Left & Right (feat. Method Man & Redman)

Side B

1. The Line
2. Send It On
3. Chicken Grease
4. One Mo' Gin

Side C

1. The Root
2. Spanish Joint
3. Feel Like Makin' Love

Side D

1. Greatdayndamornin' / Booty
2. Untitled (How Does It Feel)
3. Africa

Credits

• D'Angelo — Lead Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar, Producer
• Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson — Drums, Co-producer
• Pino Palladino — Bass
• James Poyser — Keyboards
• Charlie Hunter — Guitar / Bass
• Roy Hargrove — Horns / Horn Arrangements
• J Dilla — Drum Programming
• Raphael Saadiq — Co-producer, Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals
• DJ Premier — Co-producer, Programming ("Devil's Pie")
• Method Man, Redman — Guest Vocals ("Left & Right")
• Russell Elevado — Mixing Engineer
• Recorded at Electric Lady Studios, New York
• 2×LP reissue on Virgin / UMe, pressed in the US