I read that it's supposed to finally come out this year. Is this true? I'm dying to hear it!

dancerella said:

kravitz?... LOL ole romeo blue wouldnt know funk if it kicked him in his ballz

Isn't he doing the soundtrack for Barbeques & Bar Mitvahs? If I hear one more of his songs in a commercial I'll scream. Bad enough they used Lady for the Gap ads but did they have to use it for Alias promos too?

TheRealFiness said:

Well 5 was pretty funky in spots. I want to hear Lenny dive head first into a funk/soul album. I think he has the tools to get the job done based on the the soulful stuff he has done in the past (It Ain't Over Til It's Over is a great soul song)

JackieBlue said:

i know how you feel about hearing his songs in those ads. i can't listen to some of his songs now because of that. it's hard to take them seriously now. i can't listen to them without thinking of him and sara jessica parker parading around like a couple of clowns in heat!

The first time I heard 5 I hated it. The second time I loved it and became one of my favs by him but it’d be nice if ventured out a bit. He seems to be caught in some type of recycle thing that’s getting a bit tired. What’s up with Cindy Blackman by the way? Heard she broke her wrist blading in Central Park but that was a while ago. Wonder if she’s still on the mend.
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There was a recent mention of Lenny in Vibe magazine.He's gonna fianlly release the "Funk" album later this year.He's also doing an independent film that co-stars John Leguizamo.

DavidEye said:

FINALLY!!!

He did have sum good funk/soul on 5. He owes it 2 himself. Especially trax like "Super Soul Fighter" "Fly" "Black Velveteen" and "I Belong To You"

paisleypark4 said:

You forgot "Stone Cold Player". Funky track, all the way!

I've been waiting for that album for years. I'd love to hear it.

JediMaster said:

That album was awesome. I'm sick of Lenny's rock and could totally use an album full of "Supersoulfighter" and "Straight Cold Player!"

I mean,

TheRealFiness said:

The FUNK ALBUM will come out at the end of 2005. Lenny has been working on it for 10 years. But everytime he wanted to release it he had to put it aside because he had something else to do.
Now it seems he'll really release it.
It will be released after The BAPTISM TOUR PART 2 which will start in South America in March and will end in the USA in September-October.
The cd will include:
- a cover of SHINING STAR by Earth, Wind and fire, part of which was included no the LENNY LIVE DVD
- a cover of DEAR PRUDENCE by THE BEATLES, In his rendition, Kravitz transforms the song into a rhythmically charged psychedelic soul anthem. Instead of exploring transcendental meditation in India, his Prudence gets transported to a rollicking gospel church down South.
- HOLY GHOST INJECTION, its slow swampy feel and sultry female background vocals channel a soulful energy that Kravitz believes has too long been missing from the contemporary music scene.
- BEING WITH YOU, which, despite being a ballad, is powered by an irresistible bass line. For Kravitz, a slow tempos doesn't mean that a song's bottom shouldn't swing.

Lenny fans are incredibly excited at the idea. we all hope it will better than Lenny and Baptism.The last 2 albums had great songs on them, but also had some uncharacteristic melodies and lacked hooks and feeling. i think a cd of 9-10 songs with the best of the last albums would have been really huge and powerful.

hope I have been helpful to you and stimulated your curiosity.

Maybe you''l find this interesting too:

Lenny Kravitz is sitting on the couch in the control room of a studio tucked away in the Edison Hotel in midtown Manhattan. On his lap is a platter of Chinese takeout and, as he carefully balances his plate and starts eating, he listens to playbacks of tracks from what he hopes will be his next album, which he's tentatively calling "The Funk Album".
The song pumping out of the speakers right now is called "Holy Ghost Injection," and its slow swampy feel and sultry female background vocals channel a soulful energy that Kravitz believes has too long been missing from the contemporary music scene. Putting down his chopsticks, he says, "This is the antithesis of what's going on right now."
Next he plays "Being With You," which, despite being a ballad, is powered by an irresistible bass line. For Kravitz, a slow tempos doesn't mean that a song's bottom shouldn't swing. Finally, he puts on a surprising departure: his version of the Beatles' "Dear Prudence." On 'The Beatles,' the 1968 classic disc best known as 'The White Album,' John Lennon delivers the song as a delicate, dreamy invitation to actress Mia Farrow's sister Prudence, who had joined the Beatles at a meditation retreat. In his rendition, Kravitz transforms the song into a rhythmically charged psychedelic soul anthem. Instead of exploring transcendental meditation in India, his Prudence gets transported to a rollicking gospel church down South. The spiritual energy is still there, but the terrain is entirely different.
"The Beatles' songs are so amazing, and their vesion of 'Dear Prudence' is gorgeous," Kravitz says when the speakers go quiet. "I always loved it when I heard a soul singer - Aretha Franklin, or whoever - do one of their songs, or Aretha doing a Simon & Garfunkel song like 'Bridge Over Troubled Water.' They would just flip it. That's what I wanted to do with 'Dear Prudence."
Mission accomplished. "Holy Ghost Injection," "Being With You," and "Dear Prudence" are all candidates for a funk album that Kravitz has been working on for 10 years. Like so much of that music, if found its origins in the fertile soil of New Orleans, where Kravitz had gone to enjoy the Crescent City's annual Jazz & Heritage Festival. He took the trip, in part, to escape the depressioin that gripped him around the time of his aptly titled 1995 album, 'Circus,' on which he delcared, "Rock and Roll Is Dead."
"When I was making 'Circus' I was very fed up with where is was, and I left the sessioins to go to New Orleans for the weekend, just to get away," Kravitz recalls, pulling up a chair in the studio's main room. "I went down there to see Aretha play Jazz Fest - I'd never seen her live - and I didn't come back for three months! I was staying at this great hotel called Maison Dupuy, and I was with is girl who was amazing." He laughs at the memory.
Surrounded by amplifiers, microphones, guitars, and keyboards, Kravitz- who played just about all the instruments on his seven studio albums to date - seems as comfortable as he's ever likely to be. "I ended up buying a house down there, and booking Allen Toussaint's place," he continues, referring to the studio run by the legendary New Orleans piano player. "I began working on an album, but I never finished it. I just put it away. Then I pulled it out and started working on it again in 2003. But in the middle of that, all the songs that ended up on 'Baptism' started coming to me.