D’Angelo - Brown Sugar
Until this record, what I’d heard of R&B never really did it for me. I wasn’t very excited by it nor identified with it. When I heard D’Angelo, the earthiness of his voice and his sonics struck me. This record comes from a darker realm of human experience and has the ability to take you into an experience, feeling or thought. I remember when I heard the title track of this record I thought ‘how has he managed to get it to sound like that?’ In the 90s when I had limited gear as a producer, I used to try to figure how different musicians got things to sound as good as they do by playing a record in my stereo system and use my auxiliary to try make my music match the level of the music I was playing, and Brown Sugar was a record I’d do this quite often with.
Baker's Dozen
Don't Call It Fusion: Nitin Sawhney's Favourite Music
Don't Call It Fusion: Nitin Sawhney's Favourite Music
The Quietus
, September 17th, 2020 08:17
In this week's Baker's Dozen, Nitin Sawhney talks Malvika Padin through 13 favourite records, from Kae Tempest to Miles Davis, D'Angelo to Joni Mitchell, Little Simz to Nils Frahm and more