So even if you didn’t own a nice couch or a large bathtub, you could turn on the radio and settle into the swoon of the music itself, and find yourself drawn into a desire deep enough to seem closer to unconscious dreaming than physical reality. The format particularly excelled at simulating the slow-motion atmosphere of romance, a physical and mental connection so strong it could make the molecules in the air around it lag. This is the lifestyle of comfort and intimacy that the genre implicitly sold to its listeners, soul music one could sink into after a long day of work, like a couch or a bath or a steady long-term relationship. There is a haze of steam in the air, the sound of bathwater running in another room. Indoors, sealed away from the weather, someone sheds their coat and it forms a soft vortex on a bare wood floor. Play “ Choosey Lover” by the Isley Brothers or even Smokey Robinson’s original “ Quiet Storm.” Notice how the skies in those songs are bruised with dark purple clouds, thunder brewing inside them. Her last two albums, My Everything (2004) and Christmas Fantasy (2005), were released on Blue Note.Quiet storm, a Black radio format that developed in the late-’70s around pebble-smooth R&B balladry, is one of the rare subgenre names that suggests the ideal context for itself. Elektra is owned by Warner Music Group in 1996, Baker signed a deal to Atlantic - another label under Warner - after being unhappy with how Elektra promoted Rhythm of Love. The label also re-released her debut album, The Songstress, in 1991, after Elektra purchased the rights for the album from Beverly Glen Music, the label that originally released Baker’s debut album in 1983. The majority of her studio albums were released through Elektra, including her four platinum albums Rapture, Giving You the Best That I Got, Compositions, and Rhythm of Love. As Yahoo! News noted, Baker is referencing copyright reversion which, according to the Future of Music Coalition, allows the author of the composition copyright and the sounnd recording copyright to “reclaim the copyrights to their original creations after a period of 35 years.” The website for the Coalition also breaks down how arduous of a process getting one’s masters back can be, showing how Baker’s fight won’t probably end immediately.īaker has eight albums: seven are studio albums, and one is a live album.
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