Description: Various Artists - Modern Love (Various Artists) [New Vinyl LP] Artist: Various Artists Title: Modern Love (Various Artists) Format: Vinyl LP Genre: Soul/R & B UPC: 195497815234 Release Date: 2021 Record Label: Barely Breaking Even Album Tracks1. Life on Mars - Miguel Atwood-Ferguson2. Sound and Vision - Helado Negro3. Lady Grinning Soul - Kit Sebastian4. Soul Love - Jeff Parker5. The New Breed6. Panic in Detroit - Sessa7. The Man Who Sold the World - the Hics8. Right - Khruangbin9. Silly Boy Blue - Nia Andrews10. Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family - Foxtrott11. Move on - L'rain12. Modern Love - Jonah Mutono13. Where Are We Now - Bullion14. TNGHT - Eddie Chacon15. John Carroll Kirby16. Golden Years - Léa Sen17. Fantastic Voyage - Meshell Ndegeocello18. Space Oddity - We Are King19. Heroes - Matthew Tavares BBE Music is thrilled to announce the release of Modern Love, a diverse compendium of specially commissioned cover versions of rarities and classics in tribute to David Bowie. Featuring an array of artists such as Jeff Parker, We Are KING, Meshell Ndegeocello, Helado Negro, Khruangbin, Matthew Tavares, Nia and more, Modern Love seeks to champion Bowie's lesser-known connection to soul, R&B, jazz, funk, and gospel. The prominent jazz influences throughout Bowie's final album, Blackstar, were a key inspiration for curating this collection of reimagined Bowie songs with these artists. The resulting album is an eclectic tribute featuring a group of artists who not only fit together creatively, but who, like Bowie, straddle different worlds musically, with soul and jazz at their core. Modern Love offers a fresh look at Bowie's trailblazing career, aiming to highlight the often overlooked relationship between his back catalogue and musical genres traditionally pioneered by artists of color. The project was curated by music executive and DJ Drew McFadden, alongside BBE Music founder Peter Adarkwah. I felt that the connection between Bowie and R&B, jazz, funk, gospel and all things soulful, had never really been explored before - at least not so much in covers, which tend to lean more towards rock and pop," says McFadden. Certainly, there's been plenty of Bowie covers over the years, but none that have really tapped into what seems to have been a big part of his core musical style and direction. Modern Love is an interactive sonic map. Here, seventeen artists make their way into the varied regions of his sundry catalog and circle back with seventeen unique re-imaginings of both his cornerstone and lesser-known tracks. Some, in the atmosphere, feel like a sly alternate take from original sessions (Khruangbin's ethereal, funk infused version of Right" from Young Americans); others nod at the source, then wink before diving into the deep waters of another musical stratosphere (Sessa's sexy Tropicalia-drenched Panic in Detroit" from Aladdin Sane). Still others take tunes down to the studs and then re-arrange the moody interiors: Meshell Ndegeocello's pensive Fantastic Voyage" from Lodger and Tavares' clever take on Heroes" which is restructured into a kinetic hardbop-esque backdrop, fronted by ice-cool, held-back vocals. The bullseye these artists aim for is Bowie's fearlessness. Fame was an incredible bluff that worked," he once reflected. Very flattering. I'll do anything until I fail. And when I succeed I quit too." Modern Love packs us off on a journey that balances on risk's sharp blade. Track-to-track, it explores what happens when a musician throws out notions of should and safe and stretches beyond the known. These artists use Bowie both as a guide and a prism: A way of being and seeing. Their offerings, widely divergent, explore the inheritance from an artist who freed himself from labels, genres and, consequently, pigeonholes. While he was at it, he decimated fixed notions about territory (or terra) itself; boundaries hemmed in his creative process, but his essence remained free to roam. He may have vanished in earthly form, yet, as he also promised in the lyrics of Modern Love," But I never wave bye-bye..." This compilation assures us that his spirit swirls around us. His force is alive to all of us and, here, it is summoned with an incantation that celebrates possibility.Copyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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Title: Modern Love (Various Artists)
Album Name: Modern Love (Various Artists)
Type: Album
Brand: Barely Breaking Even
Release Year: 2021
Format: Record
Genre: Soul/R & B
Artist: Various
Record Label: Barely Breaking Even, Bbev
Release Title: Modern Love