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Acoustic Soul (CD)

By: India.Arie (Artist)

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India.Arie Artist Snapshot:

With the runaway success of her 2001 debut ACOUSTIC SOUL, India Arie became one of the most important figures in contemporary R&B. Though she's often lumped in with the neo-soul movement, she comes more from a '70s singer-songwriter orientation, influenced by James Taylor and Bill Withers as much as she is by Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. Her stripped-down production and straight-ahead songs, built around her own acoustic guitar, eschew cookie-cutter R&B production for a refreshing simplicity.

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DISC 1 for Acoustic Soul (CD) Album By India.Arie (Artist)
1   Intro
2   Video
3   Promises
4   Brown Skin
5   Strength, Courage & Wisdom
6   Nature
7   Back To The Middle
8   Ready For Love
9   Interlude
10   Always In My Head
11   I See God In You
12   Simple
13   Part Of My Life
14   Beautiful
15   Outro
16   Wonderful (Stevie Wonder Dedication) - (bonus track)
 
DISC 2 for Acoustic Soul (CD) Album By India.Arie (Artist)
1   Video - (Urban Wolves/Dreamteam remix, featuring Supercat)
2   Video - (Urban Wolves/Dream Team remix, featuring Super Cat)
3   Brown Skin - (Bedroom Rockers Radio remix)
4   Brown Skin - (E-London Club mix)
5   Brown Skin - (Mind Trap mix)
6   Strength, Courage & Wisdom - (remix)
7   Strength, Courage & Wisdom - (Live From Paradiso)
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (3/30/01, p.68) - "...Her balmy soul stylings and positive lyrics illuminate the entire album...and may stir you to put a flower in your hair..." - Rating: A
Q (6/01, p.100) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Arie's warm, folky sound and credible songwriting...may be just enough to give her a niche [amongst] the headscarf-wearing crooning in the vein of Lauryn Hill, Angie Stone, Erykah Badu [and] Jill Scott ..."
Mixmag (6/01, p.179) - 4 out of 5 - "...Pulls up next to the organic, pure aesthetics espoused by the likes of Jill Scott and Erykah Badu....A compelling set..."
Muzik (5/01, p.96) - 5 out of 5 - "...Faultless. Absolutely. 100% faultless...this is the future of soul music..."
Mojo (Publisher) (6/01, p.114) - "...A classy start, Arie's Tracy Chapman-like acoustic guitar underpinning the grooves with real finesse..."

Title Note

Personnel includes: India Arie (vocals, acoustic guitar, bass, percussion); Bob Power (conductor); Blue Miller (acoustic & electrc guitars, programming); Marlene Rice, Kelly Hall-Tompkins (violin); Judeth Insel-Stack (viola); John Catchings, Nioka Workman (cello); Mark Batson (celeste, Fender Rhodes piano, organ, Mellotron, keyboards, synthesizer, drums, percussion, programming); Larry Goldings (Wurlitzer piano, organ); Tony Harrell (keyboards); Avery Johnson, Doug Kahan (bass); Steve Grossman (drums, percussion); Abe Fogle, Ralph Rolle (drums); Dave Spak, Terry MacMillan, Bashiri Johnson (percussion); Carlos Broady (programming); Kerisha Hicks, Tony Harrington, Joyce Simpson, Duane Covert (background vocals).

Producers: India Arie, Kevin Haywood, Blue Miller, Bob Power, Mark Batson.

Engineers: Mike Tocci, Kevin Haywood, Avery Johnson.

India Arie was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. ACOUSTIC SOUL was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Awards for Album Of The Year and for Best R&B Album. "Video" was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Awards for Record Of The Year, for Song Of The Year, for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and for Best R&B Song.

Personnel: India.Arie (guitar, percussion); Mark Batson (keyboard, programming); Abe Fogle (drum); Kerisha Hicks, Tony Harrington, Duane Covert, Joyce Simpson, Laurnea Wilkerson (background vocals).

Cut from the same rootsy R&B cloth as Erykah Badhu, Atlanta-born India Arie's full-length debut after her first public emergence on Spike Lee's BAMBOOZLED soundtrack is a down-home affair, where acoustic guitars, live drums, and stand-up bass share space with more contemporary production devices. Arie's voice has an insinuating, seductive undertone that works its way into the listener's subconscious.

Songs such as "Video" are both catchy and centered on a subtly feminist theme, proving that Arie is up to having her cake and eating it, too, while the unimpeachably sexy "Brown Skin" is quintessential bedroom mood music. Arie's debut promises much, and delivers even more.

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