Upcoming Albums To Watch For
It’s a new year, and the party is over. Now it’s time to get back to business. The past few months have been kind of dry on the retail music front. It looks like Spring 2010, will change all that.
January Releases
Maysa – Woman In Love (January 25)
Corinne Bailey Rae -The Sea (January 26)
February Releases
Solider Of Love By Sade (Feb. 10)
New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) By Erykah Badu (February 23): Everyone is awaiting this follow up album to New Amerykah Part One. Here is how Erykah Badu describes the album “I called it ‘Part II: The Return of the Ankh’ because this album is the sister of the left side of my brain — it is the right side,” Badu explained during a listening session this week at New York City’s Chung King Studios. “‘Part I was the left side of my thoughts — it was more socially political and my thought process was more analytical. This time there wasn’t anything to be concerned with — the album is more emotional and flowy and talks about feelings. It reminds of the days of ‘Baduizm’ — this is just about beats and rhymes in a cipher.”
The Love and War Masterpeace by Raheem DeVaugh (February 16)
Kings Ballad by Georgia Anne Muldrow (February 9)
Concrete Jungle by Nneka (February 2)
March Releases
It’s Personal by Angela Johnson (March)
Intermission/The Bitter Suite By Carmen Rodgers (March 30)
April And Beyond
Synthesis By Raul Midon (April 13)
Milk And Honey By Goapele (spring)
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Purple Saint James By Yahzarah (spring): With this upcoming album, being her third, I really feel music blossoming. After listening to her two previous albums, and then to her “The Prelude” EP, it’s a whole new world. So, personally I can’t wait for the album, so I can really enjoy this musical phoenix. She has also signed with The Foreign Exchange Music, so you know that all add extra goodness to the production.
SunStorm By Zo! (unknown): After the recent “…Just Visiting Too” EP that was released, more people are coming to appreciate his music and talent. There is also the “…Just Visiting” EP, which was released in 2006.
James River By D’Angelo (spring/summer): People have been talking about this album for a year or two. It will be ten years since his last album. A tour is also rumored this summer. The whispers have been getting stronger lately, with the news of the artists that he has working on the album. This is what his manager said of those collaborations,” “James River,” D’Angelo’s first studio effort in nearly 9 years, is also sporting a collaboration with Gnarls Barkley’s Cee-Lo Green. Green joins Raphael Saadiq, Mark Ronson, and Roy Hargrove, who have already contributed to D’Angelo’s forthcoming album.” It has also been reported that he is teaming up with Prince.
Darien Brockington (unknown): This release would be his second solo album, after “Somebody To Love”. The wait just got a lot harder with his latest EP “Cold Case Files“.
Carlitta Durand (unknown)