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i am: 40...a capricorn / moon in pisces / libra rising...an old soul with a young spirit...older than i look...contemplating my 3rd tattoo...NOT a web designer...a lesbian...working things out with the g.f....a native iowan...a graduate of cornell college and ohio state...a critical reader and thinker...really rather shy...agnostic...an ardent feminist...a bleeding-heart liberal...a pacifist...and so not your average white grrl...
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October 20, 2003
cosmic love letterunlike her last record—which i was lucky enough to own almost a year before its release—méshell ndegéocello's comfort woman just hit my mailbox on friday, a full 4 days after its release. needless to say, it's been in heavy rotation ever since. in fact...aside from what's been playing almost exclusively in my car for the last few weeks, and a few snippets of songs on mtv and vh1, comfort woman is literally the only music i've listened to since friday.
i've heard it called "a make-out record," "songs to shag to," and "music to chill by". but what comfort woman is, is a love letter. a love letter to rebecca. how absolutely incredible it must be, to possess the talent to create something for someone that, if it doesn't completely capture the depth of your feeling, at least explores and communicates it. and how magical it must be to be on the receiving end of such a gift. to know that someone made that, for you.
méshell's own favorite is "love song #3". while "fellowship" blew me away every time i heard it performed live, right now i'm really loving "body" (check the bass, and guitar by both méshell and the inimitable allen cato), "good intentions," and "andromeda & the milky way."
i'm not musically savvy enough to write a credible review...as with art, architecture, and wine, i just know what i like...and plenty of folks (check here) have reviewed it already, some of whom seem not to have been listening to the same songs i am...but this album is gorgeous. lush. sensual. sweet. seductive. exactly what you'd expect, knowing her work...but at the same time—with diverse influences such as reggae and electronica—absolutely different than anything she's done before. full of the undulating bass lines and intricate guitar work we all know and love. and well worth whatever you have to pay for it.
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