Robert Glasper
Experiment have announced the forthcoming release of Black Radio 2, both a
standard as well as an expanded Deluxe Edition of Black Radio 2 that will also
be available October 29 digitally and on CD and will include 4 additional
tracks featuring special guests Macy Gray, Jean Grae, Bilal, Jazmine Sullivan,
and Eric Roberson, as well as a cover of the Bill Withers classic “Lovely Day”
that includes a spoken intro from Mr. Withers himself.
On their 2012
breakout Black Radio, Robert Glasper Experiment laid out a new paradigm for creative
music, reaching beyond entrenched genre boundaries to create a singular vision
that drew from all reaches of contemporary black music and beyond. Black Radio
drew unanimous praise from critics across the board and earned Glasper the
highest chart positions of his career when the album debuted at #10 on
Billboard's Top Current Albums chart. The album kept earning accolades (a BET
Centric Award nomination, a Soul Train Award win) all the way to the 2013
GRAMMY Awards where Black Radio was awarded Best R&B Album.
Robert Glasper
Experiment ups the ante with the release of Black Radio 2, another
genre-defying effort that takes the Black Radio blueprint and builds to even
greater heights. The core remains the Experiment, as astoundingly versatile a
band as has ever existed, featuring Robert Glasper on keyboards, Derrick Hodge
on bass, Mark Colenburg on drums, and Casey Benjamin on vocoder and saxophone.
Providing the vocals on the album’s standard edition is another jaw-dropping
roll call of vocalists including Common, Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, Brandy,
Jill Scott, Dwele, Marsha Ambrosius, Anthony Hamilton, Faith Evans, Norah
Jones, Snoop Dogg, Lupe Fiasco, Luke James, Emeli Sandé, Lalah Hathaway, and
Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
The track listing
for Black Radio 2 (Deluxe Edition) is as follows:
1.Baby Tonight
(Black Radio 2 Theme) / Mic Check 2
2.I Stand Alone
featuring Common and Patrick Stump
3.What Are We Doing
featuring Brandy
4.Calls featuring
Jill Scott
5.Worries featuring
Dwele
6.Trust featuring
Marsha Ambrosius
7.Yet To Find
featuring Anthony Hamilton
8.You Own Me
featuring Faith Evans
9.Let It Ride
featuring Norah Jones
10.Persevere
featuring Snoop Dogg, Lupe Fiasco and Luke James
11.Somebody Else
featuring Emeli Sandé
12.Jesus Children
of America featuring Lalah Hathaway and Malcolm-Jamal Warner
[BONUS TRACKS]
1.Big Girl Body
featuring Eric Roberson
2.You’re My
Everything featuring Bilal and Jazmine Sullivan
3.I Don’t Even Care
featuring Jean Grae and Macy
Gray4.Lovely Day (Intro by Bill Withers)
~ Blue Note Records
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