D'Angelo - Black Messiah Available On:2LP Antony Hegarty's tremulous passion and

Antony Hegarty's tremulous passion and Laura Mvula's boundary-straddling music

I rememberåÊwatchingåÊsome of these tunes get banged out live in a sweat pit in Oakland

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Wolf issued two LPs collecting some of those singles -- "The Guardian" (1982) and "Cool Truth" (1985) -- both now reissued by Family Vineyard

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D'Angelo - Black Messiah Available On:2LP Antony Hegarty's tremulous passion andIt's almost two decades since D'Angelo laced us with 'Brown Sugar' and 14 years since he unleashed 'Voodoo' into the public domain. Now, completely scuppering everyone's end of year album lists, the elusive Michael Eugene Archer returns in a timely fashion, with the politically tinged 'Black Messiah'. Funkadelic's Kendra Foster and Tribe Called Quest's Q Tip co penned a few tracks, and Questlove, bassist Pino Palladino and drummer James Gadson help