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I can only imagine the reaction of many people when Erykah Badu followed up her hugely successful debut album with this live recording. But hey-she knew from history that momentum can really boost up such a potentially idiosyncratic move so 'Live' became as much of a hit as the debut! And artistically it is more then worth it. Erykah was (and still is) one of the "artiste's" of the often formuliac neo soul crowd. Her jazzy rhythms,soaring vocals and saucy "raps" permeate every single thing on this album from the opening "Rimshot" (I hear a little Miles riff in there) on through great versions of "Other Side Of The Game","Apple Tree" and the sassy "Tyrone". She even mixes it up with some terric covers in keeping with her style and savvy;the Roy Ayers classic "Searching" and the Rufus & Chaka Khan standard "Stay";her vocals on this song almost revival Chaka's passion,maybe even less subdued if you can imagine it. She also has a great talent for musical juxtoposition;melding her own "All Night" with the jazzy intro to the Heatwave tune "Boogie Nights". There's even a reprise here featuring a beat poem style narration by Badu about her feelings on her pregancy;she is photographed on the back and inner sleeve of this album with her very pregnant belly proudly showing. I am glad that she felt no shame in the fact she was brining a new life into the world. And it's kind of symbollic in a way because many of these songs had already been done in the studio,but now she was performing them live so they were themselves getting "born again" such as it were. So a sense of recreation and rebirth hang over this recording.And she sounds particularly alive scatting her way through,into and around songs like "Next Lifetime". One could tell from the fact that a modern soulstress from this era could hold her own on a live album and come out looking even rosier was a sure fire sign Erykah Badu was a musical powerhouse to keep an eye on.
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