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Music
D’angelo from page 5
beginnings o f self-taught skills on a
variety o f vintage keyboard & piano
playing at the age o f five are
complemented on Voodoo with
Charlie Hunter (whose guitar forms
the crux o f the winding grooves o f
“The Root”, jazz trumpeter Roy
H arg ro v e, A h m ir (? u e stlo v e )
Thompson, Method Man & Redman
(who can be heard on the off-kilter
bounce “ Left and Right”) and
Gram m y A w ard winning artist
Lauryn Hill. “Lauryn is a beautiful
spirit,” D ’Angelo says. “Very warm.
W hen w e did ‘N othing Even
M atters’ (which appears on Hill’s
Miseducation O f...) it was just a
natural thing.”
If you wondered why D ’s project
has a seemingly rough-cut studio
sound to it, is because, D ’ says
“Voodoo was recorded live with no
overdubs, and often what is on the
finished project is how it unfolded
artist, a very long time.
On the five-year hiatus as well as
the concept o f Voodoo, D stated
“The main thing is that I really just
wanted to make the best album that
I could make. I basically wanted to
be able to sit down and write some
nice songs and it takes time to do
something like that. You just can’t
throw sniff together. 1 know it has
been a while but I need the time to
get it together as to what I was going
to do and how I was going to do it.
I felt some o f the pressure to follow
up Brown Sugar and I tried not to
think about that. I w anted to
concentrate on what I was doing,
and to get it back on the love o f
music and writing that I had even
before 1 signed a contract. So if
in the studio.”
From 1995’sBrow nSugarto2000’s
Voodoo, lyrical souls o f artist like
James Brown, Sly and The Family
Stone, Hendrix and the Ohio Players
are creatively crafted throughout
D ’s personal style. As well as, from
day one, com pared to Stevie
Wonder and the late Marvin Gaye,
D ’Angelo’s natural talent to stray
away from the norm o f over-doing
a project will last him, like this
Art Museum from page 4
Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.
Other galleries, eight in all, will
present the art o f other Native
American cultural groups and pre-
Columbian art from Central and
South America. Two additional
galleries, featuring work from our
own region. Western Oregon and
the Columbia Plateau, are located
on the third floor. The Museum is
pleased to dedicate this new center
o f le a rn in g in h o n o r o f T he
C onfederated Tribes o f Grand
Ronde.
The C enter for N orthw est Art
celebrates the history and culture of
the Northwest by featuring both
permanent andchanging exhibitions
that focus on the regions’ visual
history, and draw s from the
A m e ric a n ,
C o n te m p o ra ry ,
Photography, and Prints and
Drawings collections. Together,
th ese v a rie d h isto ric a l and
contemporary works provide a
visual narrative o f the region and
help foster a sense ofplace and an
u n d e rsta n d in g o f w hat is
distinctive about art created in the
N o rth w e st.
T h ro u g h
the
generosity o f Arlene and Harold
Schnitzer, who have committed
their significant collection o f
regional art to the Museum, we
are able to bring these collections
to the forefront.
Commissioned specifically for the
C e n te r is a tw o -sto ry -ta ll
installation piece by Northwest
glass artist William Morris, funded
by a gift from Leonard and Lois
Schnitzer. This major acquisition,
consistin g o f 400 individual
blown-glass pieces, will illuminate
the art on view in the surrounding
g a lle rie s. T he g a lle rie s are
arranged chronologically with
earlier work being presented on
the third floor. The fourth floor,
with its skylights and expansive
space, offers a dramatic setting
for large-scale contem porary
paintings and sculpture.
Inaugural W eekend will begin on
Saturday, August 19. Enjoy artist
dem onstrations, gallery tours,
hands-on art activities and other
special events. D on’t miss the
wizardry o f Michael Curry’s giant
puppets. Watch the magic o f a 14-
fo o t prim a b a lle rin a d ancing
through the air accompanied by a
towering Kenyan warrior. Enjoy the
d az z lin g beau ty o f m am m oth
butterflies.
The Lions o f Batucada, a highly
e n e rg iz e d
B ra z ilia n -sty le d
marching samba ensemble will also
perform. Put your name on the
Signature Project - an exciting new
multi-media show presented by Irish
a rtis t P a tric k D unning. An
enormous painting, 76’ X 36’, is
being created by joining together
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the signatures o f over one million
people form different cultures and
backgrounds, and yours can be
included!
Sunday, August 20 is Oregonian
Day. On Sunday, enjoy a special
performance by the Oregon
Trail Band at 2 pm. Voices
fro m the O regon Trail is
comprised o f popular songs,
fiddle tunes, hymns, humorous
tales and marches from the mid-
1800’s. Throughout the day,
enjoy artist demonstrations,
gallery tours, D an’l B ’ loon the
balloon artist, the Signature
Project, Lions o f Batucada, art
activities, and more.
there’s one reason why I took such
a long time in between records is
because I wanted to keep that purity,
to keep my motivation for why I
make music pure.”
So here D ’ is, with his sophomore
release titled Voodoo. And for a
working definition o f voodoo,
voodoo is: a charm, spelt, orfetish
re g a rd e d by th o se as having
magical powers.
Is it a coincidence that this artist
ev o k es m usical and p h y sic a l
emotions, lyrically ? It could be a
coincidence.
But who says that it has to be a bad
thing for an artist to know that he
has it and knows how to, and I must
say, hum bly, but oh so w ell,
confidently, flaunts it.
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