Articles by Ryan B. Patrick

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  Sheela Bringi

  Incantations

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2014

  Sheela Bringi's latest is vibrant in its lyricism, spiritual in its composition and meditative in its presentation. Bringi's grounding in e...

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  Neneh Cherry

  Blank Project

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2014

  Blank Project: On which we welcome Neneh Cherry back with a cup of tea rather than a party. The album is the artist's latest solo project,...

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  Angelique Kidjo

  Rewriting Her Story

  PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2014

  Angélique Kidjo's voice over the phone transmits a distinctly radiant timbre. The music icon punctuates her answers with a throaty laugh, a...

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  JRDN

  JRDN

  PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2014

  JRDN is perhaps the scarcest type of Canadian musician: a label-signed R&B/soul recording artist. But with a recent Juno nomination under h...

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  Sharon Jones

  Soul Thriver

  PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2014

  Sharon Jones is soul; soul is Sharon Jones. It's a tautologically valid statement revolving around a 58-year-old woman who was told she was...

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  Angelique Kidjo

  EVE

  PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2014

  Angélique Kidjo's energy is communicable, so much so that there could be a temptation to praise "African's Premier Diva" based on bygone su...

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  Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

  Give the People What They Want

  PUBLISHED Jan 14, 2014

  The very issue of reviewing the latest record from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings becomes subjectively thorny by virtue of the fact that Jone...

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  Exclaim!'s 2013 in Lists:

  Top 5 Moments of Pharrell's Comeback Year

  PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2013

  After seemingly being written off — after all, he hadn't had a major hit since Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" in 2006 — Pharre...