Jose James - No Beginning No End 2

180-gram double LP

Back with his beguiling mix of jazz, R&B, pop and soul, singer-songwriter and producer José James returns with a brand-new soul album, No Beginning No End 2. Coming out March 6, 2020 on his own label Rainbow Blonde Records, he's just shared smooth first single "I Need Your Love," featuring Grammy nominees Ledisi and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah.

Also featuring Laura Mvula, Aloe Blacc, Lizz Wright, Erik Truffaz, Hindi Zahra, Taali and more, this new album is a sequel to James' revered No Beginning No End.

The satin-voiced songwriter's No Beginning No End 2, is a sequel to his 2013 album that resurrects the bold eclecticism audiences first fell in love with. After the Bill Withers tour, James recalls: "I wrote a thing on Instagram saying I was thinking about No Beginning No End 2 and people went insane. They wrote thousands of comments about how the first one changed their life. I don't sit around and think 'my work is so important' so that was kinda nice."

Things are a little different this time around. For one, while the prequel was James' Blue Note debut, this is his first set of new music for his own label/collective Rainbow Blonde Records. Secondly, the album is full of collaborators who are auteurs in their own right: Laura Mvula, Aloe Blacc, Ledisi, Lizz Wright, Erik Truffaz, and Hindi Zahra, to name a few. Thirdly, with the backing of a wildly talented band held down by rhythm sections in Los Angeles and Brooklyn (befitting Rainbow Blonde's bicoastal status), the songs are warmer and more defined than ever.

 

1. I Need Your Love (feat. Ledisi and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah)

2. You Know What it Do

3. Feels So Good (feat. Cecily)

4. Turn Me Up (feat. Aloe Blacc)

5. Just The Way You Are

6. Baby Don't Cry (feat. J. Hoard)

7. Nobody Knows My Name (feat. Laura Mvula and Kris Bowers)

8. Take Me Home (feat. Lizz Wright)

9. I Found a Love (feat. Taali)

10. Saint James

11. Miss Me When I'm Gone (feat. Marcus Machado)

12. Oracle (???) (feat. Hindi Zahra and Erik Truffaz)

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