★★★★★
Track List: 1. Friends 2. Tom 3. Good Day Bad 4. Forget My Name 5. And Yet It Moves 6. Comet, Come To Me 7. Continuous Performance 8. Shopping For Jazz 9. Conviction 10. Folie A Deux 11. Choices 12. Modern Time 13. American Rhapsody Photo courtesy of the artist
- www.kcrw.com
2014-06-10
★★★★★
If you don't know who Meshell Ndegeocello is by now, you're missing out. Following this spectacularly talented woman's career now for just more than 20 years has been nothing short of fascinating as she's managed to weave various musical cultural influences in and out of her albums, overlaying them with lyrics that run the gamut of post-feminist discourse, socioeconomic race relations, and good 'ole fashioned love and sex...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-06-06
★★★★★
Though many try, there are few artists who successfully traverse countless genres --particularly on a single album -- with the ease and confidence that bassist and singer Meshell Ndegeocello does on her 11th studio release, . Ndegeocello shared with Exclaim! that the making of was a particular joy, and that pleasurable backdrop pervades the entire album...
- exclaim.ca
2014-06-12
★★★★★
Track List:
1. Friends 2. Tom 3. Good Day Bad 4. Forget My Name 5. And Yet It Moves 6. Comet, Come To Me 7. Continuous Performance 8. Shopping For Jazz 9. Conviction 10. Folie A Deux 11. Choices 12. Modern Time 13. American Rhapsody
Photo courtesy of the artist
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- www.kcrw.com
2014-05-26
★★★★★
Nina Simone's been in the entertainment news of late thanks to the controversial casting of Dominican-American actress Zoe Saldana in a planned biopic of the influential shoot-from-the-hip chanteuse. Meshell Ndegeocello is unlikely to generate commensurate media coverage with Pour Une Ame Souveraine, a tribute to Simone in song, but the project brings up some analogous questions of authenticity and intent...
- dustedmagazine.com
2012-11-16
★★★★★
Recording and releasing a covers album is a tricky situation. You basically have to have a new enough spin on old classics to stamp your own personal brand on them in order for the whole thing to be successful. Or, you have to choose numbers that are more obscure, so most people will be listening to your version before they hear the original--thus associating the song with you...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-10-15
★★★★★
Considering how eclectic her output has been over the course of her career, it seems fitting that Meshell Ndegeocello would eventually croon the iconic chorus of "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood." Ndegeocello's soulful, blues-inflected rendition of the pop standard opens her tribute album to Nina Simone, Pour Une Âme Souveraine...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2012-10-15
★★★★★
Release Date: Oct. 9, 2012 She''s been called an antagonist, hyper-political, and an arch-feminist, to name but a few. She's been marginalized, scrutinized and criminally overlooked. But twenty years into her career, Meshell Ndegeocello is soldiering on. That commitment to her craft explains why her latest album, Pour Une Ame Souvraine (For a Sovereign Soul): A Dedication to Nina Simone, is arguably one of her absolute best...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-10-11
★★★★★
Meshell has been around for 10 albums now and she has grown into a deeply engrossing and very able singer as well as being a fine songwriter ? this might be her best yet. The best tracks on this gem are miles on from that ?drowning in chocolate? tone that first appeared on Madonna?s Maverick label and what we have here now is less overtly sexual and far more sensual, less about the pure emotion and more about exploring feelings and moods...
- www.music-news.com
2011-12-07
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