http://www.okayplayer.com/news/kevin-liles-insists-dangelos-album-will-drop-in-2014.html

For some reason, I can't copy the text of the article, but follow the link.

From Billboard:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6121659/dangelo-album-release-2014-touring-october-manager

t's been so long, with so many false alarms, you start to lose track. D'Angelo's long-awaited follow-up to his classic 2000 album "Voodoo" was supposed to come out in 2007. Then 2009. Then 2010. Then he started touring, for the first time in 10 years, in 2011 and into 2012, airing four solid new songs: "Ain't That Easy," "The Charade," "In Another Life," and "Sugar Daddy."

Last year, he played some shows as a duo with longtime friend and collaborator ?uestlove as "Brothers in Arms." He performed the electrifying encore at Michael Dorf's "Music of Prince" tribute at Carnegie Hall, along with ?uestlove and members of the Roots and the Revolution, around the same time. He turned up at Bonnaroo last weekend, playing covers. He even gave an underwhelming 75-minute-long talk, moderated by veteran journalist (and Billboard alum) Nelson George, last month at the Brooklyn Museum as part of the Red Bull Music Academy, which provided some entertaining anecdotes but not much in the way of actual news. The album was clearly a taboo topic: ?uestlove, called onstage to join in the talk a couple of times, was the only one who dared to bring it up, and the chat ended immediately afterward.

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Yet D'Angelo's manager, Kevin Liles of KWL Management and a longtime label and branding exec, told Billboard last week that the wait for the world's most long-awaited album apart from Dr. Dre's "Detox" is almost over. Now, that's nothing we haven't heard before: ?uestlove said in December of 2011 that the album was "pretty much 97 percent done," and in January of 2013, he told Billboard that it was "99 percent done."

In March of 2013, Liles told Billboard, "We're trying to finish the album. Right now we have 13 songs done, trying to think about the sequence of the album, mastering and mixing within the next two weeks, and release the thing. Ain't no question it's coming."

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Judging by that tectonic pace, the album actually should be just about approximately almost 100 percent done right about now. Here's what Liles said:

"Here's the thing: with D'Angelo it was a process. He didn't perform for 10 years and he's been working on an album for the past 12 years. I actually got him to go out and do 30 shows [in 2011-2012], and then we did some 'Brothers in Arms' shows. I said, 'We have to get motivated around what people want to hear from you, and what does it mean to come back to that space?' He very bluntly put it, 'Kev, the studio and the stage: that's my lifeblood. Now that I've touched it again, now that I see it again, I wanna be sure that the baby I'm about to have -- the album -- that I take it to the point where it's all it can be.'

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"There'll be an album this year: there's 14 records so far, we might have a couple of bonus records, but all the recording is basically done and we're mixing and mastering now. Definitely, he'll be back.

"We'll probably start an international tour in October, we'll come back [to the States]. We're doing a James Brown tribute in August [at the Hollywood Bowl] and some one-off things. But the touring will probably start in October and 2015."

Billboard: What's the album like?

Liles: "To limit it to soul is not the case, because there is a rock influence. But at the same time, it's very melodic and there's an influence of all the things he loves: there's James Brown, there's Prince, and everything people grew up loving D'Angelo for, from 'Brown Sugar' to 'Voodoo.' It's a mixture and an evolution of where he is right now. And you have to think that when you have the opportunity to work 10 years on an album, that album's truly gonna be what you want it to be. Is it limited to the kind of sound that he did with the earlier records? No, it's not."

BB: Does it have a name yet?

KL: "There is a potential name, but I don't wanna give you a potential name and then change it."

BB: And it's definitely coming in 2014?

KL: "Yep. Sooner than later!"

[Edited 6/19/14 11:40am]

The collective Org refuses to hold its breath .

I won't believe it until I have it in my hands.

yeahh, plectrumvoodooelectrum .... together with Detox in a 2CD set

I will be interested to see who he is and is not touring with.

scriptgirl said:

BB: And it's definitely coming in 2014?

KL: "Yep. Sooner than later!"

If this were true, it would have a tentative release date, since we're already halfway through the year.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's coming out. Heard THAT before.

"Sooner than later!"

The replies on Okayplayer's post on Facebook are a riot.

If you want something to happen badly enough it will, with one exception -- a new album from D'Angelo.

what will come out first ....this or Plectrum?

It will drop, have faith (crossing my fingers behind my back).

What an autumn it can be if it it drops, and then Lenny releases a new album in September and Prince drops a new album in November accompanied with the Purple Rain remaster...

Here's to hoping!

luvsexy4all said:

what will come out first ....this or Plectrum?

We're likely to see Axl Rose's Chinese Democracy II before either of them come out.

[Edited 6/21/14 12:15pm]

Script, your devotion to D'Angelo certainly is impressive, if not utterly annoying.

Ducci, am I sensing snark? Just love his music. He is one of the best to me.

scriptgirl said:

Ducci, am I sensing snark? Just love his music. He is one of the best to me.

Nevermind Ducci, d'Angelo rules and so will his new record (if it ever comes out). The Charade alone will make it worth the wait...

scriptgirl said:

Ducci, am I sensing snark? Just love his music. He is one of the best to me.

Yes, you aptly sensed snark.

Who else do you love as much as you obviously love D'Angelo?

funkaholic1972 said:

scriptgirl said:

Ducci, am I sensing snark? Just love his music. He is one of the best to me.

Nevermind Ducci, d'Angelo rules and so will his new record (if it ever comes out). The Charade alone will make it worth the wait...

A ninja with two records, one of which is completely overrated, does not rule anything.

As much as I don't care whether or not D'Angelo releases a new album or not, if he does,

I will buy it. I buy into his tragic mystique.

Who do I love as much as D? Lewis Taylor.

scriptgirl said:

Who do I love as much as D? Lewis Taylor.

Where are the Lewis Taylor threads, then? Musically, he's much more interesting than D'Angelo

and his mystique is just as intriguing.

I have made Lewis threads, but not a lot. Just discovered him. You are welcome to make threads on lewis and if you hate my D threads, you don't have to read them.

scriptgirl said:

I have made Lewis threads, but not a lot. Just discovered him. You are welcome to make threads on lewis and if you hate my D threads, you don't have to read them.

I don't hate your untiring devotion to D'Angelo threads. You are also welcomed to stop making

threads on D'Angelo but I'm not telling you how to live your life!

Ultimately, do you, script; even if that means you bomb this forum with D'Angelo threads that

don't add anything new to the conversation about him!

Identity said:

luvsexy4all said:

what will come out first ....this or Plectrum?

We're likely to see Axl Rose's Chinese Democracy II before either of them come out.

[Edited 6/21/14 12:15pm]

plectrum needs to come out ..those other 2- who cares..

When I am in the "Wrecka Stow" gettin' My change back from buying that sh*t, THEN I will believe it's actually coming out!!!!!

'Til then????? This is what it sounds like......when Cricks (Crickets) Chirp!!!!!

I saw a couple of tweets on Russell Elevado's twitter the other day saying that the album was not entirely finished yet, some songs were still being mixed. He hoped for a 2014 release but could not gurantee anything - he also let it be known he was not permitted to say anything further.

He also said that D is aiming for 14 tracks on the album, and that the finished studio versions of 'Another life' and '1000 deaths' would blow our minds I believe that, easily, so I am waiting with a smile )))

While we wait maybe D could release audios of the shows in 2012? The boots I have do not have very good sound, though there is no hiding the shows were amazing...

woogiebear said:

When I am in the "Wrecka Stow" gettin' My change back from buying that sh*t, THEN I will believe it's actually coming out!!!!!

'Til then????? This is what it sounds like......when Cricks (Crickets) Chirp!!!!!