"Voodoo" – D'Angelo

**Adam Maness** (0:00)
Hey there, folks, Adam here.

**Peter Martin** (0:01)
And Peter.

**Adam Maness** (0:02)
And in lieu of our regularly scheduled episode today, we are going to pay tribute to one of our favorite artists that we lost last week.

**Peter Martin** (0:12)
Yes, as I'm sure most of you know by now, D'Angelo, Mr. Michael Archer, passed along just a few days ago. I guess it'll be about a week by the time, depending on when you hear this. And we've been at a little bit of a loss. It's been kind of overwhelming to see the music community, fellow musicians that work with D'Angelo, the fans and really just sort of the cultural zeitgeist of this country sort of rallying around this hole that's there now. So we were a little bit, we've been talking, Adam and I just a little bit unsure of what to do. And so we've decided that we're just going to play an episode that we did relatively recently on his D'Angelo's masterpiece, Voodoo, where we go in depth. And it was one of the most joyous musical experiences I remember from this year.

**Adam Maness** (1:05)
For sure.

**Peter Martin** (1:05)
Getting to experience it with you, Adam, in real time as we, did we dissect the record? We just enjoyed the record. We did a little bit of dissecting.

**Adam Maness** (1:14)
It's one of the most influential albums and D'Angelo, for all of his albums, is one of the most influential artists of both of our lifetimes. And yeah, like you said, there's this big hole in the community now, and I think everybody's kind of scrambling to find the right words, and there really are no right words.

**Peter Martin** (1:29)
No, no.

**Adam Maness** (1:29)
There's an artist so incredible at such a young age, way too young. And we thought the best way to do that was just to replay our joy.

**Peter Martin** (1:39)
Right, right. And so of course, at the time that we recorded the episode you're about to hear now, we had no idea that D'Angelo was even ill and that he wasn't gonna be with us. But I remember from just the comments and the feedback we got from this episode already, even before this tragedy of this last week, it was some of the most like emotionally connected communications I felt from the listeners. Like there's a bond that we all have. And of course, it's now even more prescient that he isn't with us anymore, but his music, his output was small in terms of numbers records, but his impact was massive.

**Adam Maness** (2:15)
Yeah, please enjoy this episode and also just go listen to some D'Angelo as I'm sure you already are. Go listen to Brown Sugar, listen to Black Messiah, listen to the live album and enjoy Voodoo. Oh yeah. Okay.
I'm Adam Maness.

**Peter Martin** (3:18)
And I'm Peter Martin.

**Adam Maness** (3:19)
And you're listening to The Youll Hear It Podcast.

**Peter Martin** (3:21)
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**Adam Maness** (3:22)
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**Peter Martin** (3:32)
Did you say brand new?

**Adam Maness** (3:33)
Brand new bespoke.
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**Peter Martin** (3:50)
We're not actually posting performances. We're actually, dare I say, posting dope performances, or at least some of them.

**Adam Maness** (3:58)
Wow, really go out on a limb there. Dare you may.

**Peter Martin** (4:02)
No, there's a couple of them that I actually have been enjoying listening to. A little bit of a soundtrack of my current life, which I don't usually do with stuff that I am a part of. So that's been fun. There's some nice stuff.

**Adam Maness** (4:13)
We're having a great time over there. So go check that out. That's Open Studio Music on YouTube.

**Peter Martin** (4:18)
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**Adam Maness** (4:22)
No. Peter, big day.

**Peter Martin** (4:23)
Yes, this is a big day.

**Adam Maness** (4:24)
Very big day. And I know we always say that.

**Peter Martin** (4:27)
These are big albums. No, I think there's been a couple of times we didn't say anything. I know now people are going to be like, oh, how come you didn't say it for that album? But this is a big album.

**Adam Maness** (4:36)
Yeah, this is a big album.