N'Dambi - Tunin' Up & Cosignin' [Passion]

Little Lost Girl Blues was one of the most exciting (albeit slept-on) albums to hit soul music in the second half of the '90s, a debut better than dozens of efforts put out by peers the artistic inferior of N'dambi, yet one that barely recorded a blip on the radar screen of mainstream urban radio. That album's successor leaves no doubt, however, that its creator is among the most stimulating and adventurous voices -- acknowledged or not, indie or established -- on the urban soul scene at the outset of the millennium. Read More