AG

There are 2 artists named AG. 1) Andre the Giant Making his debut on Lord Finesse's debut album "Funky Technician", Andre the Giant was introduced to Showbiz, a deejay/producer looking for an emcee. Together, Showbiz & AG dropped their first EP "Party Groove/Soul Clap" in 1991, formally introducing the world to the Diggin' In The Crates crew. In late 1999, AG released his first solo album called "The Dirty Version" on Silvadom Records.

There are 2 artists named AG. 1) Andre the Giant Making his debut on Lord Finesse's debut album "Funky Technician", Andre the Giant was introduced to Showbiz, a deejay/producer looking for an emcee. Together, Showbiz & AG dropped their first EP "Party Groove/Soul Clap" in 1991, formally introducing the world to the Diggin' In The Crates crew. In late 1999, AG released his first solo album called "The Dirty Version" on Silvadom Records. This album featured DITC members and spotlighted his Get Dirty 74 crew (Ghetto Dwellas). In the last few years, AG has appeared on albums by Casual and Handsome Boy Modeling School. 2) Adrianne (also a member of The Rescues), a lifelong painter, fills each canvas with a single lyric; one exquisite and magnified particle of a love song.

It’s a perfect fate for such words, to hang above the places where love and loneliness actually occur, bearing acrylic witness and reassurance: “you’re not alone yet, I’m still here.” It is the same of her music: Adrianne picks the one line that dares to be everything, and then she picks another, arranging them until they’re a full flipbook narrative— every layer breathing in unison and changing the air around you. Talking to Adrianne about her new album Me After You, it’s clear that the concept of “need” is central to the discussion, as this is a collective work that needed to be made, and needed to be grown exactly as it was; developing from a hope and solo commitment to a project that, through a three month Pledge Campaign, all of her fans helped woo. It’s no secret that as a fan, there’s simultaneous bliss, curiosity and apprehension at the announcement of a new solo album from one’s favorite artist; perhaps even more so when said artist has spent the past few years as one quarter of the internationally-acclaimed Indie Rock super-group The Rescues. It’s like seeing a loved one after she’s undergone a glamorous makeover; the fickle conundrum of wanting her to look better but still, well, “like herself.” What’s remarkable about Me After You, as fans of Adrianne’s previous six records will see, is that somehow Adrianne appears the most “like herself” as she has at any point in her distinguished career. Working with Los Angeles-based co-producer, writer, multi-instrumentalist and now friend Justin Glasco, Adrianne took a collaborative role in all playing, recording, production, mixing and engineering.

However, even not knowing this about the project, one can hear the confidence, cohesion and evolved creative identity that bone it. It’s an identity that’s special in today’s music industry— not at all the strange life-form that emerges after a dozen or so tracks are aimlessly bound; instead, a pre-formed entity, a heartful mediator asking the tough questions and measuring patiently. Lyrically an album about love, “the ultimate balance of tension and release,” Adrianne renders said balance in each vocal and instrumental composition by alternately giving the ear what it most wants and least expects. She understands that every note and silence is part of this conversation, from the fearless opening snare to the final pulsing reverberation. It is all a purposeful rapture: an attack of the stars, a drowning flame and a mad, scattering choir; the squinting of eyes through a boarded window that one’s lover used to live behind; a call into the darkness and the silence that answers; a physical, wrecking ball devastation, followed by the aural equivalent. http://www.musicbyag.com/ User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL..