Weather

this woman's work makes me believe in art and artists again when my own heart is broken and makes me wonder what was this choice all about really when so few are ever really at your back. you're alone. no distractions at the end of the day. but i suppose that's us all. even you who've got kids traipsing off to college. anyhow, this woman's work is like a subscription to... to what? i don't know. i don't even know how i once made a living as a writer because i can never come up with words when i'm forced out of my retarded, self-absorbed preverbal reveries. but "weather," oy. after loving her work so long this work makes me reconsider falling in love with a woman again for that kind of cellular depth, but i don't know if i'd make it back this time. her love songs, and me'shell also has loved everybody, i think, "how did she do it all? pay the bills and be so available and naked, and have the stamina to keep showing back up as more of herself?" i don't know. but the song "feeling for the wall" has you bypass condescendingly patting her on the head to slithering all over her in some kind of "it'll be okay" thing that love is always about when it's best and you get to forget the expanse of the universe, etcetera etcetera.(hey, we ALL end up slithering all over Me'Shell at some point or another if you're really listening)but then you realize SHE'S really slithering all over YOU with her work, and that's why her work is a subscription to a love affair that's no safer because it's aural or emotional.and then you also realize this is WHY she has so many heart-tearing and expansive love songs: because people play with her and think they're up for the intensity but it's like staring too long at the sun.see, THEY can't even pay the bills, do their art, and have the love affair with Me'Shell.she's a SUPERHERO. she swaggers in the kind of emotional nudity that leaves others gelatinous.plus she makes pretty out of it all. that abyss thang. yeah.i got this whole album (or whatever they're called these new fangled days. i feel like i come from wax cylinders now that i've quit living so digitally and returned to a much more analogue life) anyhow, i got this when it first came out, but i have to set aside time in my life to commit to listening to it and letting every molecule in my being inhale it. she's intense, even for me and i'm used to people running out on me in bed. yup. middle of everything and all.this is the sad tragedy of her and all who're so intense and alive in this world. they see and live between the atoms. they don't want the callouses everyone else wants so they can be charming at a party once in awhile.(i can't do it. i'm at level one where i'm still having tantrums and they're worse now that i'm 45 and see the reality of behaving like dead people)anyhow,yeah, me'shell's work is like a subscription to the earth. the ground. but a subscription yourself as well as others: you're not alone. and you smile. and you're in that "bhuddistian" here-and-now thing and forget to be immortal, because only then are you connected and truly immortal anyway, right?words all contradict themselves, that's why me'shell's daring to even dance with them.i'm the kind of artist who doesn't understand it when others here say prior works were lacking but this is IT because she's not that kind of "hitter." she's operating on a whole other level than some easy listening work. her work is like the sweat of all she's endured, a carbon dated sample of the history of slavery and being a dark woman in a world that calls that "evil" in a million different ways and black people are still burning their hair straight and blonde and i'm giving 5 stars for the relief that she's still killer. her entire OUEVRE if you will. i always get afraid because i don't know where she'll take me next because her works are like sermons. you can't pull apart a sermon, a scream!and when i listen to her works in their entireties (for she's still an old-fashioned "album artist"), it feels like all the music that we grew up with never went away. the fight and the groove's still there in her. it didn't get washed away by that corporate sponsorship our "revolutions" have been recently based on.i'm not a person who thinks "accessibility" equals "success." oh, lort no. in fact i didn't find out about her until long after her initial stints in the light of popular culture. i discovered her when she choked up on a live radio show about the intense love of her daughter and the intensity of life. the british interviewer couldn't take the emotions and cut to "commercial."i laughed and thought, "poor Me'Shell. what else have you done that makes everyone cut to commercial?"and ever since, i check her out when i'm not too tormented/blissed out in my own work, and love that she's always True. and fighting. for that i don't feel alone and useless in my own struggles to honor the fights and lessons that come down from my ancestors, through my parents, and now for to me to honor for all those who come after me like a mother. i didn't have my own biological children, but i'm at that part of an artist's life when i realize we all belong to each other already.--erika lopez(former writer and i don't know what next because i'm already art now but music and dancing are how i pray these days)

being from D.C., where the artist grew up , i can relate to the music she was raised in as I, us both being musicians an all. What i continually hear whenever I listen to Meshell's music is a growth in the space inside the music. Not to say it is as simple as less is more, even tho in this case, it is. But to grow up and honed in the go-go atmosphere where it is heavy percussion , pure emotional mahem, funk all over the place from the bass..and so on to a transition to a total other place in quiet and sereneness, where ever note counts for something and the emptiness is heard. It speaks volumes for her rebellion against humans being programmed how and what to think, it shows her inner struggle to be more than just another XXXX...and she continues to grow even though it may seems like shes doing less and less musically. I have'nt listened to all of it yet, but man it fells good to listen and appreciate walking down MLK avenue over by St E's and being taken to another place that represents those very same footsteps in a different light. 6 stars for me.

Among the best of her RECENT work... Don't bother buying her VINYL as it sounds horrible compared to the CDs and pressings are so-so. This on CD was pretty good sounding and musically fulfilling. Her other recent work seems very "simple" or "dumbed down" compared to her early work.

okay, am only 8 songs thru, first listen. but...had to say something.this is a GORGEOUS album; it's 'pop' music in the best sense of the word; great songs, great sound.the cover image captures it well: lush, defined, dreamy; full of depth, contrast...all of those things. and the singing is near-magical.i don't rave like this often, but the album, and the artist, deserve the praise.BUY IT.

The CD arrived as expected, on time and in good condition. I buy very little music. I do love all sorts of music, I just never enjoyed buying music. I purchased this and a couple other CD by this lady. i enjoyed them all, but was not blown away by them. Unfortunately this review may not be helpful. I am sorry for that.

I'm being somewhat sarcastic, but when listening to this offering I kept thinking, wow, this would be a great soundtrack for the Twilight Movies. Depressing, devoid of musical interest (with almost no exception), monotone. I kept waiting to get the "point" of the project, but by song #9 I was ready to run the bathwater and look for a straight razor to slit my wrists! I am a big fan of Meshell and am ready to take many musical leaps and twists with her as she grows as a musician/artist/woman/human, but this one left me cold. Song #10 was passable, #12 had some interesting musicality, and finally #13 was something I could finally say, OK I like it...Not sure if I can suffer through another listening session to see if I missed something, or maybe I'll just give it to my Pop music driven daughter? I was so excited when it came in the mail too, DAMN!

"Weather" is moody, smooth, blue and beautiful.Cohesive and whole.There are flavorings of earlier albums (Bitter, in particular, but something of Peace Beyond Passion and Devil's Halo here and there), but it's no clone of anything she's done before.It's remarkably beautiful, actually.I admire Me'Shell's work, in all it's manifestations, but this may be her masterpiece.

this cd is classic meshell. saw her at hiro last year. have seen her live 14 times. get this cd. she is an incredibly imaginative artist in constant change :)

I think I'll always be appreciative of her abilities--even when I don't like every piece--Comfort Woman will always be my number 1.

was für eine Scheibe!So wie auf "bitter" aus dem Jahr 1999 gelingt es Meshell Ndegeocello abermals, eine warme, intime und ehrliche Atmosphäre, ja eine Nähe zu schaffen, in der der geneigte Hörer sich und seine Sehnsüchte wiederfindet, oder zumindest zu schönen und weniger schönen Erinnerungen verleitet wird.Die Musik geht unter die Haut, sie ist sowas von authentisch und analog und grovvt (vielleicht deshalb) mehr den je - zumindest für jene, die sich einlassen auf "weather"!Anspieltipps:(5) oysters klingt wie die frühe Joan Armatrading. M'shell schafft nur mit Piano und ihrem Gesang eine anspruchsvolle, letztlich tröstende Stimmung(10) crazy and wild besticht durch das Vokal-Arrangement und das feine Piano von Keefus Ciancia(12) dead end goovt ja wohl wie Sau, wer hier stille sitzen kann, sollte sich mal untersuchen lassen...

Come sempre la polistrumentista Meshell quel che tocca fa brillare.Album intimista, a tratti complesso ma sempre lineare e leggero, la punta di diamante si esaurisce in meno di tre minuti, intensi, come il titolo: Oysters. Canzone disarmante, pianoforte, voce e pochi altri interventi all'apparenza "buttati li". Testo geniale.Invece, parole esemplari le troviamo nella canzone che chiude l'album: Don't take my kindness for weakness.

eine wunderbare Kooperation zwischen 2 Künstlern mit unterschiedlichem musikalischen hintergrund. joe henry, spezialist für low speed kompositionen und produktionen und meshell ndegeocello haben ein melancholisches werk eingespielt. die grundstimmung ist dunkel, die texte nah am herzen. da gabs offenbar einiges zu verarbeiten und überwinden. über den tiefen tönen finden sich leichte instrumentelle arrangements, die das verhalten klingende konzept aufbrechen. im übrigen: nicht auf das wetter schieben.

Brava la nostra Me'Shell: non si smentisce mai. Questo cd è molto gradevole e facile da ascoltare. Il suono è caldo e, in generale, risulta meno "ruvido" rispetto ad altri dischi precedenti. Comunque, per me è una sicurezza.