Kelis - Kelis Live From Metropolis Studios - 180g LP

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Kelis - Kelis Live From Metropolis Studios - 180g LP
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Metropolis Studio A was built to a £1M acoustic spec, so not only was this up close and personal with one of the most exciting artists of recent years, guests heard Kelis’ new album in stunning live detail.

Kelis is a Grammy nominated American singer-songwriter who has won countless Brit, Q and NME Awards outside the United States. Kelis has 10 top ten singles in the United Kingdom to her name and has toured extensively across the globe and supported numerous other international popstars including Moby, U2, and Britney Spears.

On March 3rd 2014, Grammy nominated singer-songwriter Kelis performed an exclusive and intimate one-off show at London's Metropolis Studios, supporting her new studio-album Food.

The special show was recorded for this limited edition vinyl release. With a capacity of only 100 people, every ticket holder got to see Kelis live in her most intimate show of the year at this unique performance.

There's intimate, and there's being able to see individual beads of sweat on a singer's face as she performs under studio lights in a 100-capacity sweatbox. "I need ice-cold water," pants Kelis during the call-and-response climax of Friday Fish Fry, one of the highlights of her latest album, Food. A flash of amusement passes across her face as she realises the line has never sounded more real than now.

The atmosphere matches the music, anyway. Food, which Kelis performs in full, is a steamy heatwave of an album that places her firmly in the lineage of classic soul while possessing enough personality to avoid being in thrall to the past. Tonight, its magnificently detailed arrangements are brought to life by her superb 11-piece band: from backing vocalists and a vigorous horn section to the Gandalf-haired drummer, each plays a starring role. Kelis herself demonstrates an instinctive, symbiotic relationship with them that's reminiscent of another R&B great, Erykah Badu, as she ebbs and flows with the music, drawing out hypnotic mantras on Runner, breaking the tension of Biscuits'n'Gravy's circular keyboard motif with impeccable timing, interrupting the cowbell-propelled, loose-limbed groove of Cobbler with Minnie Ripertonesque high notes.

Kelis rarely receives the credit she deserves for being one of pop's superlative shapeshifters over the last 15 years. Perhaps this is less because her various incarnations – loose-cannon Neptunes' muse in the late 90s, dance diva on 2010's Flesh Tone – have rarely involved reinventing her persona. Kelis's character is a constant, but she possesses a rare gift for inhabiting whichever aesthetic she is committed to at any given time. Tonight, she performs Food as though welcoming the audience into her home; she is unafraid to let the cracks show in her signature husk, conveying a calming intimacy on Floyd and an awe-inspiring grandeur on the mariachi-tinged Change. An encore acts as a victory lap. The unlikely recasting of motherhood-powered house euphoria anthems 4th of July (Fireworks) and Acapella as organic, horn-led soul-struts is a revelation that confirms her total command over her new style. In challenging conditions, Kelis is thriving.

180 gram audiophile vinyl
Gatefold sleeve

SIDE A
1.    FOREVER BE
2.    FLOYD
3.    RUNNIN'
4.    HOOCH
5.    COBBLER
6.    BLESS THE TELEPHONE    
SIDE B
1.    FRIDAY FISH FRY
2.    CHANGE
3.    RUMBLE
4.    BISCUITS N' GRAVY
5.    DREAMER

 

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