Saturday, December 16, 2006

Jamie Lidell - Multiply (song)

I just heard this song on CKUA the other morning. I was sure it was from the 60s/70s with some famous black soul/R&B singer like Otis Redding, James Brown, or Marvin Gaye. Very soulful. But the voice didn't quite seem to match. Well it turns out that Jamie Lidell is actually white, alive and can sing like a black man.

http://music.aol.com/artists/the-interface/jamie-lidell


I downloaded his Multiply album and was fairly disappointed by the other songs though. It's really cool how he's combining soul and electronica, but other songs really don't groove the same way Multiply does. Possibly because they're trying to be new? The title track is just plain good soul and doesn't try to be anything else.