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Today's Shelf Pull: D'Angelo, Voodoo

Letting the Room Find the Pocket

D'Angelo is on the shelf today with Voodoo, a 2000 2LP where soul, funk, gospel, jazz and hip-hop move together by listening harder than the clock.

Some records arrive on the counter and immediately ask the room to stop counting in straight lines.

Voodoo has that effect before the needle is anywhere near the groove. The sleeve is grey, red and watchful, with D'Angelo looking directly out from a design that feels both stark and densely marked. It does not advertise comfort. It suggests a room where every small sound will matter.

D'Angelo is on the shelf today, and the catalogue facts place Voodoo exactly where it should be: a 2000 2LP in the Soul / Funk section. The useful part, though, begins when those tidy facts meet a record famous for making time feel wonderfully untidy.

The verified catalogue notes describe an album built at Electric Lady Studios through study, collaboration and immersion. The Soulquarians circle helped shape a musical language that was loose, learned and physically exact. Those qualities are not opposites here. They are the whole method.

On the shelf today

D'Angelo - Voodoo

2LP / Soul / Funk / 2000

EUR39.95 / Available now

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