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Voodoo
Album cover
Album by D'Angelo
Released January 11, 2000
Recorded 1999 at Electric Lady Studios
Genre Neo soul
Length 78 min 53 s
Record label Virgin Records
Producer D'Angelo, ?uestlove, DJ Premier, Raphael Saadiq and Dominique Trenier
Engineer Russell "The Dragon" Elevado
Mix engineer Russell "The Dragon" Elevado Professional reviews
Allmusic.com link
Q 01/2000
D'Angelo Chronology
Live at the Jazz Cafe
(1998) 		Voodoo
(2000)

Voodoo is a neo soul album by D'Angelo, released on January 11, 2000 (see 2000 in music). The follow-up to Brown Sugar, Voodoo failed to live up to the hype created by the critical success of its predecessor, Brown Sugar, which launched the hip hop-influenced neo soul trend of the late 1990s. After many delays caused by D'Angelo's record label folding and legal trouble with his management, Voodoo was finally released in 2000 and received mixed reviews, but sold better than its predeccessor Brown Sugar, and included the song "Untitled (How Does It Feel)", which became a hit video on MTV; the video consisting entirely of a naked D'Angelo singing.

Neo soul is a reaction against slick pop-oriented soul from the late 1980s and early 1990s, and is most strongly influenced by 1970s and 80s legends like Marvin Gaye and Prince. On Voodoo, the song "Untitled (How Does It Feel)", written with Raphael Saadiq, is intended as a tribute to Prince, and evokes that artist's earlier work. "One Mo' 'Gin"'s intro shows similarities to Marvin Gaye's paranoid reflection on a homicide "Shit, Damn, Motherfucker"; D'Angelo sings to a former lover instead, using the titular southern colloquialism (a conflation of one more time and again) to ask for another chance.

The DJ Premier produced "Devil's Pie", a funk and hip hop diatribe on money worship; it memorably appeared on the soundtrack to the film Belly, which starred several rappers.

?uestlove, drummer for hip-hop band The Roots, was the album's "co-pilot" according to D'Angelo, and helped designed the sparse funky soul and hip hop beats on Voodoo.

On some tracks, like "Left & Right" for example, D'Angelo appropriates all instruments, and in others sits in on the drums or guitar.

A notable aspect of this album are the heavily experimental grooves. D'angelo and Co. constructed many of the grooves on the album to sit far behind time, directly on top of time, or even pressing on the time. Each effect was done with great consideration, and has been a source of some controversy from breaking conventions of more traditional approaches to groove. A notable example would be the groove on "One Mo' Gin" which is placed so far back against the meter that it almost feels off-time.

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Track listing

  1. "Playa Playa" (D'Angelo/Thompson/Stone) - 7:06
  2. "Devil's Pie" (D'Angelo/DJ Premier) - 5:21
  3. "Left & Right" (D'Angelo/Method Man/Redman/Q-Tip) - 4:46
  4. "The Line" (D'Angelo) - 5:16
  5. "Send It On" (D'Angelo/et. al.) - 5:56
  6. "Chicken Grease" (D'Angelo/Poyser/Thompson) - 4:38
  7. "One Mo' 'Gin" (D'Angelo) - 6:13
  8. "The Root" (D'Angelo/Archer/Hunter) - 6:33
  9. "Spanish Joint" (D'Angelo/Hargrove) - 5:44
  10. "Feel Like Makin' Love" (E. McDaniels)(cover of Roberta Flack) - 6:22
  11. "Greatdayndamornin'/Booty" (D'Angelo/Hunter/Stone/Thompson) - 7:35
  12. "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" (D'Angelo/Saadiq) - 7:10
  13. "Africa" (D'Angelo/Archer/Thompson/Stone) - 6:13

Produced by D'Angelo

Engineered and mixed by Russell "The Dragon" Elevado

Personnel

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