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In Let Yourself Be Loved, Joy Denalane presents her definitive soul statement. The album is in equal parts an act of self-assertion, genealogical research and homage to the great classics of the genre. A musical masterpiece in which she deftly brings together all the strands of her earlier work.
In the beginning was the idea. And if everything was always as seductively simple and easy as the best soul songs sound, then the execution of this idea would probably have been nothing more than child’s play: “I wanted to make a classic soul album,” says Joy Denalane. “Stylistically I was looking for inspiration from the period around the end of the 1960s to 1973.”
In that statement lies hidden one of the reasons why we must first rewind a few years if we want to tell the full story of Let Yourself Be Loved, Joy Denalane’s terrific new soul album. The record features the shimmering arrangements, the sumptuousness and the ethereal melodies we associate with this musical genre. But without the long back story, without the problems encountered during the search for the perfect sound and mode of expression, it would have turned out to be a completely different album. One without lightness possibly.
It’s a matter of identity – musical, political and personal. The biographical aspect, the desire for belonging, has always been a central theme in Denalane’s work. With her debut album Mamani, which went gold, Joy Denalane set off in search of her father’s South African roots, travelled around his homeland and worked with local musicians. With Born & Raised, which reached number 2 in the German charts, the longing for a clear identity is expressed in the title, and the album is mainly dedicated to her great passion for R&B. On the top-10 albums Maureen and Gleisdreieck, Denalane looked back at her own life and revisited the places of her childhood and youth through music.
Let Yourself Be Loved is permeated by Joy Denalane’s experiences as a black woman in Germany’s diaspora. When she was a child and a teenager there were very few black people in Germany, and there was no sound that addressed their day-to-day experience of racism and marginalisation.
“All those years I was coming up against brick walls,” says Joy, “even in enlightened, cosmopolitan Berlin. The music gave me strength and helped me to become aware of the situation. As a child it’s a strange feeling when you’re excluded – you’re too young to understand. Our mother would do up our hair perfectly every morning. Our parents impressed on us that ‘You must always be better than the others. If you’re lacking in some way, you have to make up for it.’ By now I understand something I wasn’t able to see when I was 20 or 25: you never get used to these hurts and rejections, it never gets better. The incessant categorising makes you crazy and increasingly sensitive.”
However, that has not made the great Berlin-born artist any less fierce: sometimes when you sing about love, it’s about the absence of love. That is just part of how Let Yourself Be Loved represents the essence of Joy Denalane.
曲目:
1 Wounded Love
2 Be Here In The Morning
3 I Believe
4 The Ride
5 I Gotta Know
6 Hey Dreamer
7 Stand
8 Love Your Love
9 Top Of My Love
10 Let Yourself Be Loved
11 Put In Work
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