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PaviElle
Fear Not, a new independently produced record, presents the captivating work of innovative, potent and dynamic neo-soul singer PaviElle French, and represents her much anticipated return to performing after a five year hiatus.
In the past, PaviElle has taken the stage professionally as a vocalist, singer songwriter and spoken word artist, working with Khalil Queen, Everyday People, and as an early member of EduPoetic Enterbrainment, a group integrating spoken word, R&B, jazz, reggae and hip-hop. Her new endeavor is a musical collaboration with bassist, producer and composer Casey OBrien and presents ten years of her songwriting, all of it deeply personal and autobiographical.
Its like youre opening up and reading my diary, PaviElle says. These songs are my life, the ups and downs of it all.
In the new recording PaviElle says shes committed to honoring the black aesthetic in soul music, something she fears her generation (shes 29) has abandoned.
With the millennials, that black soul music appreciation seems to be gone, PaviElle says. And that bothers me. I grew up wanting to be Chaka Khan. Thats the sound and style I loved. I want to hold up that lineage that she carried, and that Aretha carried and also groups like Parliament.
Indeed, PaviElles sound often has the faint flavor of Sly and the Family Stone, or seems to draw on the influences of little Jose James, and Rufuswith the soulful feel of Bill Withers occasionally evident in the groove.
It definitely has the 70s R&B feel, says OBrien. Its a close album, it draws you in and keeps you in that space. Youre taken into the room. Theres no excess baggage. Youre hearing real musicians actually playing together.
PaviElle hails from St Pauls Rondo neighborhood, growing up in a family steeped in music. As a devoted music connoisseur, her father introduced her to a wide variety of sounds, her uncle, George Young, played saxophone for Purple Haze, her mother played saxophone as well and her actor/playwright brother Ahanti Young is an accomplished percussionist and performs with her on the new record.
For Fear Not, she strayed only a couple miles from her old neighborhood, recording at St Pauls Bellows studio with OBrien on bass and guitar, Ted Godbout on keys, Nick Dodd on drums, Bryan Highhill on trumpet and Tony Beaderstadt on trombone.
While the sound the group captured was vintage, PaviElle brings her own personal style and passionate energy to her singing, making for a fresh sound thats uniquely her own. She says she always has a way she wants her songs to swing, and its this free-style emotion, in the scatting and vocalizing, that brings a millennials heart-born, contemporary vision to a classic soul music sound.
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LocationIcehouse (View)
2528 Nicollet Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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