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Another Planet Entertainment
11/18/2009 7:30 PM at Raphael Saadiq @ Fox Theater
1807 Telegraph, Oakland, California 94610
Cost: $39.50
Raphael Saadiq’s newest album, ‘The Way I See It,’ is immediately obvious that it could have been recorded thirty years ago. Musically cohesive in the same way that soul music albums were recorded back in the day, Raphael’s third solo album and first for Sony BMG is not merely a throwback: it is as close to the kind of record made in Detroit, Chicago, Memphis, Miami or New York by any number of super R&B hit makers to anything recorded since. While other contemporary artists may attempt to emulate the sound and flavor of ‘70s soul music, Raphael Saadiq brings real emotion, real feeling and production values that are simply (to borrow a popular phrase from back then), right on.
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