AVAILABLE NOW: "Sunlight feat. Lady Blackbird" by Subjective | Goldie & James Davidson

Lady Blackbird Releases New Single

with SUBJECTIVE, made up of

Legendary Drum & Bass Pioneer Goldie

and Revered Engineer/Producer James Davidson

“SUNLIGHT feat. LADY BLACKBIRD”

LISTEN NOW

Available Now via Three Six Zero Recordings/Sony Music

Lady Blackbird’s Interview with Data Transmission

READ HERE

‘Sunlight’, the second track to be taken from Subjective’s forthcoming album, The Start of No Regret. Featuring the widely lauded jazz-soul vocalist Lady Blackbird, they take her sweeping vocal and lay it across delicate piano melodies and distorted drum & bass loops, creating a soundscape that feels ethereal as much as it does fast-paced and frenetic – watch the visualiser here.

Lady Blackbird’s Debut Album, Black Acid Soul

is Available Now via BMG

Credit: Christine Solomon

“One of the most unique voices of the year…” — NPR Music

“With a voice that conjures up the deep soul of Aretha mixed with

hints of Mavis Staples, Billie Holiday, Gladys Knight and Al Green,

LadyBlackbird sings with the authority of genuine love.” — American Songwriter

“…one of the most stunning voices we’ve heard in awhile…”

— NPR #NowPlaying

“…throaty, emotional vocals conveying a lifetime’s worth of

tears and joys, stretching over a selection of 1960s and 1970s

covers obscure and familiar.” — The Times

Lady Blackbird didn’t mean to soundtrack a revolution. But last spring, that’s exactly what she did. On May 27th, 2020 Los Angeles-based singer Marley Munroe released her debut single. Now, “the Grace Jones of Jazz,” as dubbed by BBC’s Gilles Peterson, presents her debut album, Black Acid Soul.

Minimal yet rich, classic yet timely, the album connects backwards to Miles Davis (his pianist, Deron Johnson, plays Steinway Baby Grand, Mellotron and Casio Synth throughout) and forwards to Pete Tong (he made the Bruise mix of ‘Collage’ his Number Two Essential Selection tune of 2020) and, yes, Victoria Beckham – Matthew Herbert’s remix of second single ‘Beware The Stranger’ soundtracked the designer’s Spring/Summer 2020 Fashion show.

Its 11 tracks have a sound, feeling and attitude that speak of Lady Blackbird’s deep experiences in music, stretching all the way back to infancy. “I don’t ever remember not singing,” she says, recalling performances in church and at fairs from the age of five. “It’s what I knew how to do, and I don’t want to do anything else.”

By her early teens, Lady Blackbird was traveling to and from Nashville. She was signed to a Christian label but the only music that resulted was some work with rock/rap group DC Talk. After they split, she worked with former member TobyMac, appearing on his first four solo albums. “But I realized that that whole Christian world, which my parents tried to place me in, was so goddamn far from who I was. I did not want to do Christian music, I didn’t believe anything of what they did, and I quit the tour.”

A wise young soul already at the age of 16, she then found herself “in limbo, because I was in this contract ‘til I was 18.” Once legally an adult and free, she based herself out of New York while flying to and from sessions in LA. She was working with Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Sam Watters, Louis Biancaniello, Tricky Stewart and The Heavyweights. A production deal led to a record deal with LA Reid’s Epic. But creative differences led to her parting ways with the label. So, the deal ended “and it was back to the drawing board and working with different people.”

One of those was artist- turned-writer-and-producer Chris Seefried, who’d been GRAMMY® Award-nominated for his work on the debut album by Andra Day (seen as Billie Holiday in biopic The United States Vs. Billie Holiday). On meeting Lady Blackbird, he recalls thinking: “Wow, I’m working with the best new vocalists there are – Andra and Lady Blackbird are two of the greatest singers on the planet.”

From Lady Blackbird’s point-of-view, “I fucking loved his shit!” she hoots, relieved to have finally found a musical partner who got her. “Chris listened to me, asking, was I feeling this vibe, or that vibe? He was able to dig inside what I was feeling. Next thing you know, he had some amazing sounds worked out. We really just connected.” They took their time, working in Seefried’s LA studio, feeling out the bespoke musical path that would work with the fiercely individual performer. Finally, in hitting on the idea of stripping everything back, “we cracked the code.”

This is Black Acid Soul, and this is the first crucial album of 2021. Are you ready to fly with Lady Blackbird?

Lady Blackbird | Black Acid Soul

BMG | Release Date: September 3, 2021

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