Labelle - Nightbirds
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Artist: LabelleEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-03-01
Music Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Soundtracks:
- Lady Marmalade
- Somebody Somewhere
- Are You Lonely?
- It Took a Long Time
- Don't Bring Me Down
- What Can I Do for You?
- Nightbird
- Space Children
- All Girl Band
- You Turn Me On
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Music Review: CLASSIC
Rating: 5 Stars
Philly soul, P-Funk, James Brown, soul was flowering into so many wonderful mutations in the 1970s. If the 1960s were about absorbing musical influences in to rock, soul in the 1970s was taking rock and putting strains of it into the music. There is a reason AM pop of the time seems dated, but soul always stays fresh.
You can embrace it all, but no one did it better than Labelle. Like most of their 1970s work, Nightbirds defines them.
Make my point. All you have to do is put Nightbirds on, and "Lady Marmalade," both jolts and welcome you with its stomp. The track, like most of this band's music, is both a contradiction and a perfect equation. This is obviously not sweet soul like the Stylistics, but Labelle don't come on like Betty Davis afro sex monsters, either.
I know I am harping on this wonderful song but let's keep on it. It illustrated everything that I just adore about this band. The style is New Orleans funk played by the best Big Easy session cats. Loose but taunt. Hard but sweet. It is incredible how economical yet juicy the playing is. It is candy the hardest and sweetest. It is bare bones but there is nothing it needs. It is simple as Zen but big as Buddha.
The '70s were a new time for African Americans and their music. Officially, segregation was over. There were divides, of course, but African American musicians could play where they had not before. They could go places in the south with less fear. Their were more musical options than love songs or protest.
Labelle took full advantage. They dressed in spacesuits. They had attitude to spare, but it was friendly attitude, embracing attitude: the kind, in fact, our friend Lady Marmalade might have used to lure you into her silk sheet lair.
All this was done with the best musical instincts. The amazing composition of Nona Hendrix. The voices that no longer sang in 1960s girl group vocal style, but seemed to layer in and out like collective jazz horns. This music had the warmth of soul, the attitude of funk, the pollyphony of dixieland.
Diana Ross said she heard a symphony in the 1960s. Maybe she thought so, but she couldn't have. Labelle was not born yet.
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