Robert Glasper Experiment
Black Radio 2
Release Date: October 28th 2013 (Blue Note)
“This rare artist can straddle idiomatic gaps, and doesn’t compromise to do it”
The Guardian
Follow-Up To Grammy-Winning ‘Black Radio’ Featuring Collaborations with Common, Brandy, Jill Scott, Anthony Hamilton, Norah Jones, Snoop Dogg, Lupe Fiasco, Emeli Sandé and more
On their 2012 breakout Black Radio, Robert Glasper Experiment laid out a new paradigm for creative music, reaching beyond entrenched genre boundaries to create a singular vision that drew from all reaches of contemporary black music and beyond. Black Radio drew unanimous praise from critics across the board and earned Glasper the highest chart positions of his career when the album debuted at #10 on Billboard’s Top Current Albums chart, also claiming the #1 spot on both the Billboard Jazz chart and the iTunes R&B chart. The album kept earning accolades all the way to the 2013 GRAMMY Awards where Black Radio was awarded Best R&B Album.
On October 28th, RGE ups the ante with the release of Black Radio 2 (Blue Note), another genre-defying effort that takes the Black Radio blueprint and builds to even greater heights. The core remains the Experiment, as astoundingly versatile a band as has ever existed, featuring Robert Glasper on keyboards, Derrick Hodge on bass, Mark Colenburg on drums, and Casey Benjamin on vocoder and saxophone. Providing the vocals throughout is another jaw-dropping roll call of vocalists including Common, Patrick Stump, Brandy, Jill Scott, Dwele, Marsha Ambrosius, Anthony Hamilton, Faith Evans, Norah Jones, Snoop Dogg, Lupe Fiasco, Emeli Sandé, Lalah Hathaway and Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
On Black Radio 2, the emphasis is on songwriting with 11 of the 12 tracks new originals, from the soaring lead track I Stand Alone featuring rapper Common and vocalist Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, through Jill Scott’s sensual ode to connection Calls, to the reinvention fantasy Somebody Else featuring BRIT Award winner Emeli Sandé, and Norah Jones as you’ve never heard her before on drum’n’bass roller Let It Ride. The lone cover is the album closer, a spine-tingling version of Stevie Wonder’s Jesus Children of America by vocalist Lalah Hathaway that also features a poignant spoken word tribute by poet Malcolm-Jamal Warner to the 20 young victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The album was produced by Glasper along with executive producers Nicole Hegeman and Eli Wolf.
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