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Georgia Anne Muldrow is one of Stones Throw Records newest signings, and is the only female vocalist signed to the label. Inspired by solid '70s soul, free jazz and a bottom-heavy hip-hop thump, Georgia paints a unique musical canvas that has the underground stopping to gaze and take it all in. It’s just one 22-year old woman behind such a breadth of sonic expression – she does her own vocals, background vocals AND the beats.
Georgia springs from a family of creative musicians, whose roots run deep in the '60s and '70s progressive jazz scene: her father invented instruments for Eddie Harris, and her mother performed with Pharoah Sanders. Their innovation passed to their daughter, who approaches her labyrinth of keyboards, synthesizers and various instruments with a fresh perspective every time. She was noticed early on by fellow L.A. hip-hop trendsetters Sa Ra, as well as Detroit’s Platinum Pied Pipers – both of whom tapped her for collaborations. From there, the buzz brought Georgia’s sound to the airwaves of “Worldwide” with Gilles Peterson on the BBC, and naturally, to Peanut Butter Wolf, who signed her to a two-album deal on Stones Throw Records.
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I couldn't resist, just had to put this up here. Georgia is a young girl from the Cali, kid of musician family, that moved to NY and got early discovered by Platinum Pied Pipers & Sa-Ra. This sounds rather impressing, but wait until you fully listened to her full length debut album on Stones Throw. Fragments of an earth is very much just fragmentary, earthy beats you could say - sketches of grooves, harmonies, boom and soul. Georgia prooves to be a true genius, or how Archie Shepp would call it: original thinker. Producing, singing, background singing and rapping the whole album with no feature artists, this is some of the most stunning, impressing and best work i've heard in a long time. Inherited soul: yes! This girl got grooves and vibes on end, playing slick as well as beautiful basslines, pumps the heavy beats, having an unheard, fresh and free-ish way of singing, got beautiful naive Sun Ra like poems 'bout the world and even raps like a goodess: "Nigga is you bougie or not, you know I ain't got nothin', grab your bling on the spot and give it to the better nigga who ain't got what you got-damn you regular!" You can't compare this shit to something you have heard yet, it's just completely different, it's definitely better and will leave you mouth spread wide open. Her approach is free, her soul is deep and the breadth of music emerging from her talent forms 21 fragmentary pieces of shiny twinkling outerspace supervalue. Aaaaaaaaahhhh - heavy! |
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