Lenny Kravitz’s greatest gift is that he’s a master synthesist, pulling together different sounds and styles from eras past to create a sound that isn’t necessarily blazingly original, but fresh due to his craft and sheer mastery of the studio. Label: Universal Music Hong Kong | Japan | Cat#: 5396092 | Genre: Pop Rock
This album is a deeply intimate and personal offering, expressing happiness, anxiety, joy, sensuality and fear through a vivid sound palette and an experimental sense of rhythm.Lenny Kravitz – Greatest Hits (2000) Most of my life has been there and in so many years time this area will no longer exist.” “I started making music in those flats, news of my Dad and Uncle passing away happened in that flat, I came out to my mum crying in that flat. The artwork, which features a photo of James holding a photo of her estate from ten years ago is a tribute to her upbringing. She also says “The other half of the album is about me, and I wanted it to be about only me.” On three tracks, guest vocals from rapper Le3 bLACK and singer Theo brilliantly articulate Loraine's emotional feelings. It feels like a live jam session with a jazz mentality, contrasting the delicate and abrasive. For You and I is rhythmically free flowing and sprawling, with melodies that evolve into rippling keys.
Reflected in the song titles and mood of songs like So Scared and Hand Drops she says "A lot of the time I’m really scared in displaying any kind of affection in public…This album is more about feeling than about using certain production skills.” Of her process, James says she aimed to make something that wasn’t overthought. I wanted to make songs that reflect layers of my relationship. “I’m in love and wanted to share that in some way. Part of For You and I explores the complexities of being in a queer relationship in London, and the ups and downs that come with that. Having grown up in Enfield, London, she credits the multiculturalism in the city for “broadening my mind and ears”, having listened to jazz, electronica, uk drill and grime, and the results of this exposure can be heard on the mix-up of For You And I.
Loraine James was enticed into the world of music making through her mother, who would go from playing the steel pans to blaring out music from Metallica to Calypso.
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