Lady Blackbird - Slang Spirituals [CD]

BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.

£13.86

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: 4099964058147
Release Date: 13 Sep 2024
Genre: Jazz

Tracklist:
1. Let Not (Your Heart Be Troubled)
2. Like a Woman
3. Reborn
4. Man on a Boat
5. When the Game Is Played On You
6. The City
7. Matter of Time
8. If I Told You
9. No One Can Love (Like You Do)
10. Someday We'll Be Free
11. Whatever His Name

Collaborating once again with Black Acid Soul producer Chris Seefried, the pair produce a second album that not only embodies the freewheeling, emotive Lady Blackbird sound, but that also taps into deeply vulnerable lyrics that recount the singer’s challenging ascent to musical stardom.
In taking charge of her own life and her own sound, Lady Blackbird walks a new path, making each note on Slang Spirituals a step in a radically different direction. Across 11 tracks Lady Blackbird puts her sweeping, cinematic vocal power to use on everything from the soulful orchestral fanfares of ‘Let Not (Your Heart Be Troubled)’ to the finger-picking folk storytelling of ‘Man On A Boat’, euphoric gospel empowerment of ‘Like A Woman’ and the seven-minute psychedelic soul instrumental of ‘When The Game Is Played On You’.
Lady Blackbird will be touring the new album Slang Spirituals in Europe and the UK through 2024 and into 2025.

Other Information:
Premier league sync which was used to close all coverage of final games of the season on Sunday 19th May, average audience figure estimate is 800 million households.
‘Black Acid Soul’ reached #1 in the UK Jazz chart, #6 in the UK album chart upon release and #11 in Germany. The campaign saw her break into the spotlight with performances on a number of television shows, including The Graham Norton Show [UK], The Jonathan Ross Show [UK], BBC Radio 2's Piano Room [UK], ZDF MorgenMagazin [DE], Propaganda Live [IT] and Matthijs Gaat Door [NL].
She was dubbed “the Grace Jones of jazz” by BBC 6Music’s Gilles Peterson and won 2022 International Jazz Act of the Year at the Jazz FM Awards.
Black Acid Soul released to critic acclaim in 2021, with countless noteworthy quotes:
• “Black Acid Soul is a delight from start to finish”- The Times [UK]
• "Every track a showcase for her knockout voice" – Uncut [UK]
• “a tremendous debut album" – MOJO [UK]
• “Black Acid Soul announces the arrival of a bright new star” – The Sunday Times [UK]
• “The debut album of the year.” - Deutschlandfunk Kultur [DE]
• “a captivating and exciting debut” – Rockol [IT]
• “A voice like this comes along once every few million years.” – De Telegraaf [NL]
• “Lady Blackbird is a name you’re going to want to remember.” – Albumism [US]
• “…one of the most stunning voices we've heard in a while…” – npr [US]
• “…enigmatic and arresting.” – NY Times [US]