Cheeky-I Productions
2001
Tunin Up & Cosigin
About This Album
Little Lost Girl Blues was one of the most exciting (albeit slept-on) albums to hit soul music in the second half of the '90s, a debut better than dozens of efforts put out by peers the artistic inferior of N'Dambi, yet one that barely recorded a blip on the radar screen of mainstream urban radio. That album's successor leaves no doubt, however, that its creator is among the most stimulating and adventurous voices -- acknowledged or not, indie or established -- on the urban soul scene at the outset of the millennium. Tunin' Up & Cosignin' may be a bit daunting for some ears, filling a full two hours with its shambling, languorous burn, but it is worth every second of that time, closer in many respects to a spontaneous, early-hours acoustic blowing session than a studio set. Cool and off-the-cuff, barefoot and Bohemian but in no way casual, the album is like a pair of organically spawned albums recorded in the previous year: former employer and mentor Erykah Badu's Mama's Gun -- an album, in fact, to which N'Dambi contributed -- and D'Angelo's Voodoo, buoyed by substantial live instrumentation and overflowing with a maverick spirit. It is a thrillingly eclectic and demanding record that stretches out its legs fully.
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