Bilal featuring floetry songs full#

Bilal featuring floetry songs full#

Stream and download BilalвЂ™s Key Studio Session below, watch the вЂњLove ChildвЂќ video and see the man live next Thursday, August 20th, when he and his full band headline Underground Arts at the WXPN-curated Red Bull Sound Select show, also featuring Son Little and Kate Faust. The ballad вЂњI Really DonвЂ™t CareвЂќ is my favorite, taking classic romantic songwriting from the 70s and recasting it in the present. вЂњSatellites,вЂќ the albumвЂ™s single, simmers in contemplative melancholy, while the вЂњLove ChildвЂќ has a sensual funkiness about it (watch a video of that one below). His voice is simultaneously unbridled and completely controlled, inflecting his songs with passion while pushing the melodic center forward. He and his band stripped the songs down to acoustic arrangements, giving the music ample space to breathe and BilalвЂ™s remarkable falsetto room to shine. ThereвЂ™s also a bit of Prince-ness to BilalвЂ™s vocal, something I noticed in particular while recording him in our studio this week for the Key Studio Sessions. But thereвЂ™s also a chameleonic, Prince-like way that the styles he works in feel unified, no matter how different they are. The Adrian Younge production gives the record a lively energy, while BilalвЂ™s collaborations with pop singers (Kimbra) and rappers (Kendrick Lamar) lend it a lot of variety. Next to the song titles is the album, soundtrack or single on which it appears.

The songs on the list are all included in official label-released albums, soundtracks and singles, and may include some white label or other non-label releases. Over the course of five records and myriad collaborations in the decade and a half since, Bilal has begun to explore some of those other avenues, and on his newest outing, In Another Life, he really stretches his wings. The following is a list of songs by Common organized by alphabetical order. At the same time, it sort of painted him into a neo-soul corner when he was interested in all manners of music, from funk to folk, psychedelic rock to pop. Being surrounded by an insanely talented family of artists, from Jill Scott to Music Soulchild to Floetry and King Britt, certainly gave Bilal a leg up and a platform to stand on. He emerged with a knockout LP called 1st Born Second in 2001, an auspicious time in PhillyвЂ™s music history. ItвЂ™s been a long and wild trip for Philly singer-songwriter Bilal.

Bilal | Photo by Rachel Del Sordo for WXPN |