D'Angelo Maxwell
RAJ
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What happened to them?I like their music... yet they fell off the face of the earth.Help, plaese.
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As for D'Angelo: no news i knew of besides his guestspots on recent Common & Roy Hargrove albums...
I've heard interesting stories about Maxwell and certain "conflicts" that he's gone through with Columbia. He's still recording and (according to his Myspace page http://www.myspace.com/maxwell) he's releasing some new material over the course of the next 3 years.
Conlict that he's gay and the label doesn't know how to work that?
when i first heard d on imagine i was like his whole style was switched,
but man that shit grew on me.
"Be-fore you go/Can you imagine"
Once Maxwell stopped dealing w/ Stewart Matthewman of Sade, he never was the same.
And D'Angelo Voodoo is genius, but the window of opportunity has closed IMO.
That's what's up.
Yeah in my opinion that IS WHAT'S UP.
nah man. to even mention D'Angelo and Maxwell in the same sentence does an extreme disservice to D'Angelo. really they have nothing to do with each other.
Bullshit.
They along w/ Badu helped change the R&B game.
Maxwell's first album is INCREDIBLE.
As is "Embrya" and even more so "Now" (which is my favorite, that shit is mature.)
I'ma nip this in the bud and respectfully disagree. I don't think we're gonna convince each other on this. I'ma go to lunch and come back when this thread has (hopefully) become a gay-issues related thread.
EMBRYA(quasi-concept) is cool too, but URBAN HANG SUITE is like the missing SADE album while she was on hiatus.
I saw Maxwell live @ Hammerstein and ive never been in a place where woman scream like that.
Dude had a tight fuckin band. One of the best performances ive ever seen.
NOW hasnt stuck to my gut as a whole. There are some bangin tracks but it fell short for me.
I see where D'Angelo and Maxwell might appeal to a slightly different demographic. D has a lot more hip-hop swagger and pedigree, while Maxwell is on some straight grown and sexy late night shiznit. I can't agree with dissing one but not the other though. Both of them do soul music, straight up.
Urban Hang Suite is still that shit. I'm mega -
They are joined at the hip because that started the NEO SOUL movement, along wif Badu.
Some can diss it for being soft but I rode with that CD in 96
Stuart Matthewmans Sweetback CD was a winner at the time too
Some say that the "creation" of Neo-soul started with Tony! Toni! Ton??! (and also some crediting Mint Condition as well) but it was definitely the D'Angelo, Maxwell and Badu triumvirate that solidified it.
Maxwell seemed to ditch anything funky after the first set and just went for the shagging tunes, which were immaculately performed but an album of tunes exactly the same is just a FFWD fest.
His live band were horrifically tight though. That live MTV Unplugged set has some corkers to jam along to.