Maxwell is back after an 8 year break with not one but 3 new Albums!
I was wondering what happened to Maxwell after his 7 albums that fully defined the difference between R&B and Neo Soul.
I remember when I first heard 'Get to know ya' and my! wasn't that something. And the video to 'Till the cops come knockin', enuf said.
Pretty Wings is the only single from one of the 3 albums that has been officially released in various music sites. Maybe its just me but I didn't find it sounding neo soulish as his previous songs. It has alot of 'RnBism' to it.
I am hopeful though that he hasn't lost his touch with the other tracks in the 3 albums.
Maxwell will release his first new studio album in eight years on July 7.
"BLACKsummers ‘night," part one of a trilogy, will come out July 7, according to Columbia Records. The second CD in the trilogy, slated for 2010, will be called "BlackSUMMERS' night," while part three will be, you guessed it, "Blacksummers' NIGHT."
That seems like an ambitious release schedule-three albums in three years-from someone who has waiting eight years between CDs, but music from neo-soul singer Maxwell is a welcome thing indeed.
Maxwell will start a tour in support of "BLACKsummers' night" on June 20 in Milwaukee. Playing live last summer helped him get his groove back to finish the albums, he tells the AP.
"To have the gift of having people just need me to be onstage ... that was enough for me to make the best album I could make," he added. Additional info from hitfix
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From the kind of music you like I can guess that you also like Erykah Badu so much, I'm I right?
@Anonymous,
Yes, I am a great fan of Badu and a host of other phenominal neo soul artists.
How about you?
Really, I don't have specific kind of songs I listen to. I listen to any good song. Classic ones I like are like Bonnie Tyler "Turn around", Gloria Gaynor "I will survive", Miriam Makeba "Pata pata" (maybe I'll come with my version), Madonna "Don't cry for me Argentina", Lionel Richie "All night long, and MJ generally. In hip hop I'm so much to Bone Thugs-n-harmony. Jam - you can't take me away from Usher. Gospel - Ron Kenoly is ma man. Crunk - I've never followed it and I doubt if I will. That's a lot from me.
Maxwell can be considered to be part of the pioneers of the neo soul brand of music in the 90s and as such he is held to a high standard. Consequently, he must always maintain a certain standard of music and even surpass it...
In a nutshell, these 3 albums better be good if not they better be more than good...
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