D'Angelo is RnB Jesus

So.

D'Angelo is back.

^they are, reputedly and in my humble opinion from crappy youtube videos, one of the greatest live acts . The Soultronics. D'Angelo is in the centre. Also worth noting, Drummer ?uestlove of the Roots (dude with big fro) and Bassist Pino Palladino (tall, italian chap - from Cardiff - in the back row). Spanky Alford on guitar.... a young Anthony Hamilton on backing vox, and some seriously bad jazz cats on horns/accompaniment. yeah.

Hm. *clears throat*. This guy. He's one of my favourite all-time artists. And he's coming back. For sure. He's just played a few shows in Europe - and uhh... it has been what? nearly a decade? since ... well he became a recluse ... he's putting finishing touches on his album (which is guaranteed to be ace and will OUT HYPE all the hype building around him), he sounds good (and apparently he is now a pretty good guitar player - like think Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic good - he is a pretty accomplished blues/jazz/funk pianist already)

Shit. I am going all fanboy on this (more so than usual!). I am losing my cool. I cannot believe it. I have listened to his sophomore album Voodoo almost... well I've lost count of how many times I've listened to it... he has had a profound influence on the way I play keyboards... he is a master artist of soul and black music out there along with guys n girls like Erykah Badu, Grace Jones, Prince and Stevie Wonder (maybe not quite there, but only history will tell) who, spearheading the neo-soul/experimental-funk-groove soul movement, saved RnB from self-parody (at least for a short while).

Shit.

 I'm not scared that I'll over hype his new album - I know it will be good because it is made by D'Angelo. Anyway here's some D'Angelo flavoured goodies (courtesy of my fav music site OKAYPLAYER.COM and a cool little site called FUNKIT)

http://soundcloud.com/funk-it-blog/dangelo-solo-medley-january-29 (While you ideally want to see him live in a band, undeniably that man is DANGEROUS when he is playing solo piano and singing)

http://www.okayplayer.com/news/mixtape-mondays-sam-champ-x-okayplayer-dangelo-live-mixtape.html (awesome OFFICIAL pretty high quality mix of LIVE tracks from D'Angelo's voodoo tour in the 00's - I stopped what I was doing for an hour and a half, put on some good headphones and vibed out to it)