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LP – Cat: 4050538711486 Barcode:4050538711486
CD – Cat: 4050538709407 Barcode:4050538709407

Record Label: BMG

Format: Album

Genre: R&B

Release Date: 28/01/2022

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Description

The debut album Black Acid Soul from Lady Blackbird. It’s instant and within a minute you are hooked. Think Nina Simone, Hot Buttered Soul-era Isaac Hayes, Billie Holiday and Chaka Khan. Gilles Peterson called her “the Grace Jones of Jazz”.

Minimal yet rich, classic yet timely, the album connects backwards to Miles Davis (his pianist, Deron Johnson, plays Steinway Baby Grand, Mellotron and Casio Synth throughout) and forwards to Pete Tong (he made the Bruise mix of ‘Collage’ his Number Two Essential Selection tune of 2020).

It’s 11 tracks have a sound, feeling and attitude that speak of Lady Blackbird’s deep experiences in music, stretching all the way back to infancy. Standout tracks include the sad, elegantly simple tune, ‘Nobody’s Sweetheart’, plus two killer cuts written by Lady Blackbird and Seefried, ‘Fix It’ and ‘Five Feet Tall’. The former is an elegant piano ballad that sounds like a Great American Songbook standard sung by a woman on the side of the angels. Her ability to nail the song in the studio in minimal takes was clearly something to behold. The album also includes Wanted Dead or Alive, a rare groove classic recorded by funk/gospel collective Voices of East Harlem in 1973 and co-produced by Curtis Mayfield, an inspired reinvention on the aching ‘It’ll Never Happen Again’, written by Tim Hardin and a stunning take on Nina Simone’s Blackbird.

This is Black Acid Soul. Are you ready to fly with Lady Blackbird?

Track Listing

LP Track Listing

Side 1

  1. Blackbird
  2. It’s Not That Easy
  3. Fix It
  4. Ruler of my Heart
  5. Nobody’s Sweetheart

Side 2

  1. Collage
  2. Five Feet Tall
  3. Lost and Looking
  4. It’ll Never Happen Again
  5. Beware the Stranger
  6. Black Acid Soul

CD Track Listing

  1. Blackbird
  2. It’s Not That Easy
  3. Fix It
  4. Ruler of my Heart
  5. Nobody’s Sweetheart
  6. Collage
  7. Five Feet Tall
  8. Lost and Looking
  9. It’ll Never Happen Again
  10. Beware the Stranger
  11. Black Acid Soul
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